Show THE PIKE 00 TRAGEDY baral ilar al of hie the victim ETi evidence dence rol litin oona of hie ile green ing family K X Y bun sun MILFORD HIL ronD pa nov I 1 1 l the body of ammie greever who was murdered in the rattlesnake creek re region gion on saturday last W was as buried this morning in tho the cemetery on the hillside in the edge of the village the funeral took place at the grissman house where the body lias has been laiu lying since the coroner removed it tol to Milford lilford ou on sun day mrs cheever arrived here last night having read of the murder in the morning papers none of the tele telegrams rams sent reached her the inquest is progressing slowly but enough has been developed to anable enable the coroner to fasten suspicion ion on one person andas soon aa as the nce necessary emary witnesses es es can bo be procured t the ne suspected party will be arrested ho ile is now being closely wat clied from the evidence introduced thus far it is believed that cheever was murdered on saturday morning and the body laid out in the rain on sunday morning joe benjamin testified to seeing i tl the io body lying there and to telling jerry greening and his son john and all three went and saw sav the body on sunday jerry admitted that he lie saw eau the body on n sunday cheever had a dog 10 which bothered green ings inga children on their way to school and peter helms testified that john greening loaded a gun with the kind of shot found in Oli cevers boby to kill cheevers dog the theory is thac they got into an altercation over tho the dog and cheever was shot A will was found among cheevers cheerers effects yesterday it was dated in 1881 and leaves all of hia his property to liis his wife it was executed in new york and witnessed byma by woolfe and blake new york lawyers the property consists of the farm and utensils the account in t the lie bowery bank is nearly all drawn the scene of the cheever Clice ver murder in lie the rattle rattlesnake nake creek region dingoian Ding nian rijan township pike county gunty is one of the most isolated spots in the country it is ten miles from froin milford lilford and a mile or so from froni the old milford and anti owego turnpike there are but few inhabitants in the region and they live a long distance apart the jerry greening farm cheever cheevers i and the furni of louisi well known achre ac tre aro are the nearest together madame lives on her place wild her family during t e summer months only john viti vincent cent aage manager of tho tile twenty third street TI theater eater new york owns a tract of wild i ild land adjoining in n greening s and harvey B D dodsworth d g rth tho the famous bandmaster was formerly interested in property there the greeni greening 9 family have run things in in the neighborhood for years they own a small farm which is well tilled and occupy a small log house which old jerry built when he lie settled there nearly half a century ago the greening in family consists ot old jerry and his wife and their three sons youn jerry case and lon tharis tharo is not a neighbor for milea miles around with whom whon they have it ave not at soine time quarreled qu arre led and probably n not ot a male in inhabitant habitant of that part of the township or of the adjoining townships that has not been licked to his hearts content by either old jerry or some one of boys any time these tj twenty euty years past tho the father of odthe the family is nearly 75 years old but as straight an as strong and active as any forty yeal old man mail in the county he ile will hunt all day tramping through snow afoot a foot deep deap if need be an and badiu wading icebound ice b bound streams and frozen swamps swamps with his feet AS bare as when ho lie was as born and his trousers tro troa sers rolled to his knees he 11 thinks no more of tackling a wounded bear with a liand hanato to hand contest than he lie would of thrashing a bushel of buckwheat and if I 1 he 1 e had his choice he would choose th the e deer or bear rather than the buckwheat every E very onlo ono of his three sons is a eb chip ip off of the old block none of the family fears anything tho the law least cfall of all hunting and fishing out of season is tho the same to them as sport in season tho the of the groenings Green ings is well known the country over and there arc are few in their region who do not stand in fear of them thein it is a baying that lias has passed into P proverb proverb among among hunters that isyou if you re going hunting up in rattlesnake keep on the tile right sio side odthe of the groenings Green ings thera there have been few terms of the pike county court for tho the past years at which some of the fam il fl have not been in criminal suits old jerry and his boys have acted as guides to city sportsmen visiting aig the region which ia is a hunting bunting and fishing country for ninny mally years and their house is a favorite stopping place I 1 ace fur for hunters for fur the family are t hospitable os bitable to their fuents in III this way and by hunt ing and fisan ingon ngon their rown own atteo account and by selling timber railroad ties hoop polca poles and tan bark the admi ly have accumulated a fair competency it is said that none of them can read or write except the youngest sou so aj loo who can write his name during the first draft made for i A yi r i sap v soldiers in the war of the rebellion old jerry greening waa was drafted the notice of the fact was served upon him and upla e pla ined hh reply was that if the government wanted bini it would have to come and take him he ile barraca ded his house and prepared to defend himself soldiers were sent to arrest him and ho lie opened fire upon them thew he ile held the fort fore for several day days but waa was finally surprised by a corporals guard and taken prisoner he was taken to philadelphia and would have suffered the full penalty I 1 alty of military law but for the interference ference of an influential citizen of philadelphia alien allen cuthbert Cui hbert esq he ile was a strong R republican ican who had bad en enjoyed red tile hospitality vitality of G re 1 heue le on visits to pike connie count and hn ing gri great 1 nt influence fluence iu with ith ae it id i he secured greening i pard ain i an ika may ls be had of the character fit old jerry greening from a ston story which bich lie relaxes himself with great guto A few eai rs ago he be and young jern ere rc hunting bunting shingle tre trees les along aloud the rattlesnake creek and the latter came to a hollow tree which he lie thought was inhabited by a coon ho began tapping it with his axe and suddenly a largo large bear crawled out of the hollow place and showed fight young jerry raised his bis axe to strike the bear and old berrt jerry interfered on behalf of the bear because because it bad a valuable skin ond find if the axe was used the skin might be ruined but young jerry botin got in one blow with the back of the axe on the bears head which felled the animal to the ground old jerry then took the axe and stood by while the boy fought the bear on tho the ground with hia bis bisti and heavy boots his cries for the axe were of no avail for the old man said lie risk the spoiling of the skin the bear and young jerry finally rolled down a steep hill and the bear struck against a tree at the bottom and was so stunned that young jerry soon finished it this story asi ai told by old jerry in hid his peculiar dialect wa wai included in the collection of the suns mili ford sketches recently published under the title of pike county folks some one read it to the groenings Green ings caise greening came to milford at once for tho the purpose as he expressed it of affixing fixing the ter of the story the latter was not in town but greening attacked a young oung man wan of tho the same name and und M but fur for the interference ot of bystanders who succeeded in convincing greening that he had the wron wrong man he lie would undoubtedly hae bae added another to im his acts pf af vii vio lence he ile left milford vowing lie would kill the writer of the on sight eight |