Lycoming County PA Archives News.....Yeagle Family Murdered November 1899
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The Fulton County News. (McConnellsburg, Pa.): November 30, 1899 November 1899
The murder of a woman and her three children was revealed on a farm near Montgomery
Borough, Lycoming county. The bodies of two children were first found hidden beneath
a straw stack. Thereupon, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Abram Hummel, a
stepfather of the murdered children, who is missing. Three weeks ago Hummel married
Mrs. Yeagle, a widow, who bad three children. A few days later the neighbors noticed
that the eldest two children were missing, and on Tuesday the Hummel premises were
deserted. A party of neighbors made a search. They found a blood-smeared piece of
burlap near the barn. Disarranged straw attracted their attention to the stack, and
under this the bodies of the two children with their heads crushed were found. The
bodies look as though the children had been dead for two weeks, A telegram to
District Attorney O. G. Kaupp states that the bodies of Mrs. Hummel and her other
child were found in an outbuilding. The dead were horribly mutilated, the murderer
evidently having used a club in carrying out his fiendish crime. Montgomery and
vicinity was in a state of utmost excitement as a result of the ghastly discoveries.
It is believed that Hummel has made good his escape. No motive for the quadruple
murder has yet been found. The crime is without a parallel in the history of
Lycoming county.

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