News: Adams County Independent, November 19, 1920, Adams County, PA

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YOUNG MAN ADMITS HE SHOT AND KILLED BOY

Mysterious York County Shooting Is Cleared Up by Confession

WAS KILLED IN TUSSEL

Spring Grove, Nov. 18 – In a confession Tuesday to District Attorney Rochow, 
Raymond Stambaugh, 17 years old, of this place, admitted that he had killed 
Charles Wise, 12 years old, while the two boys were wrestling in Harshey’s 
Bottom, near the borough, on October 23.  After Wise was shot and almost 
instantly killed, Stambaugh and two companions, Jack Wise and Elmer Glatfelter, 
told the story that Charles Wise was killed by a shot fired from somewhere in 
the bushes by an unknown person.

This story the boys insisted was true until late Sunday when Jack Wise, 15 years 
old, brother of the slain boy, told his mother just how the killing occurred.  
District Attorney Rochow then started an investigation.

Clear Dale Items – 

Littlestown, R. D., Nov. 18 – Mr. Kessler Wollet, daughters Dorothy and Meta, 
and son Richard, of Hanover, and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Reaver, daughters, Edith, 
Rose and Charlotte and son Lewis, of near Littlestown, spent Sunday with Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank Blizzard.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hesson, daughters Ruth and Gladys; Messrs. Clarence Hesson and 
Charles Lowe, of Westminster; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Heiser and sons Edwin, Roy and 
Malcom, and William Lemmon, spent Sunday at the home of Oliver Hesson.

Mr. and Mrs. John Wisler, of Littlestown, spent Sunday with A. E. Heiser and 
family.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crouse entertained at their home on Sunday, Mrs. Alice 
Motter, son George and daughter Mary, of Yukon, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence 
Crouse and Maynard Crouse, of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. George Hull, Mr. and Mrs. 
Irvin Hull, daughter Elizabeth and son Robert, of Hanover; Mr. and Mrs. William 
Rodkey, daughters Ruth and Fern and sons George, Maryland and Isaac, of near 
Littlestown.  

Mrs. Charles Crouse and son Lawrence spent Wednesday at Hanover.

Miscellaneous Items –

S. J. Diehl, who has been ill the past two weeks, is slowly improving.

Mrs. Peter Rohrbaugh, of Paradise township, while working about the house one 
day last week, slipped and fell, breaking a bone in her right leg near the 
ankle.

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Berkheimer and daughters Pauline and Loise, Harrisburg, 
spent Saturday and Sunday as guests of Mr. Berkheimer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. 
N. Berkheimer.

Miss Laura Alwine, a student nurse at the York hospital, visited her mother, 
Mrs. Catherine Alwine, Sunday.

William Emlet is slowly improving from an attack of heart trouble with which he 
is frequently afflicted and Mrs. Emlet is convalescing from an attack of blood 
poisoning caused by a slight scratch on her hand.

Littlestown Items – 

Mrs. Jesse Eppleman, of East King street, spent several days this week with 
relatives and friends in Harrisburg.

The Loyal Girls of Redeemer’s Reformed church, will hold a food sale Saturday, 
Nov. 27, at Ira Crouse’s.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kratzart and daughter Thelma, of M. street, spent the week-end 
in Philadelphia and Lancaster.

Mrs. J. C. Newman, of Keymar, Md., spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. 
Chas. W. Newman, of North Queen street.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Snyder and children, of York, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mr. 
Abraham Keagy, of East King street.

Miss Margaret Mehring, of South Queen street, is spending a week at the home of 
her uncle, H. J. Formwalt, at Harrisburg.

Born, Wednesday, to Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Jacobi, of Baltimore, a daughter.  Mrs. 
Jacobi was formerly Miss Mae Livers, of this place.

Mrs. Barbara Harman and daughter Miss Blanche, of East King street, spent the 
week-end with relatives and friends in Harrisburg.

Mr. John Moudy, of West King street, has purchased the Richard Stonesifer 
property, East King street, and will remodel it next Spring.

Mrs. Mary McCall, formerly of this place is seriously ill from a complication of 
diseases at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jules Eck, in York.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sauerhammer, of Baltimore, spent Saturday and Sunday with 
the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Sauerhammer, of near town.

Mrs. Charles Pfeffer, of Cemetery avenue, Wednesday was taken to the West Side 
Sanitorium, York, where this Friday she will undergo an operation for internal 
trouble.

Mr. and Mrs. Addison Stair and son Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harner, of New 
Oxford, and Mrs. Albert Reinhart, of Middleburg, spent Sunday with Mrs. Stair’s 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Wilson, of West King street.

Miss Brenda Badders, of Lumber street, who was severely injured in an automobile 
accident near Abbottstown about eight weeks ago, and has been confined in the 
York Hosptial since that time, is getting along nicely and is expected home 
shortly.