OBIT: Jacob G. GLESSNER, 1942, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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JACOB G. GLESSNER

Glessner's Death Puzzles Officers
Dead Body of Berlin Man Is Found Near Spot Where His Dad Was Murdered Many Years 
Ago

  Funeral services for Jacob G. Glessner, 63-year-old itinerant Berlin 
stonemason, whose body was found in a shallow creek at Macdonaldton last 
Thursday afternoon, were held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Mt. Zion 
Church.  Rev. H. M. Petrea officiated.  The body was interred in the Mt. Zion 
Cemetery, under the direction of the Johnson Funeral Home of Berlin.
  State Motor Police and county officials made an exhaustive investigation which 
took on added interest when it was learned that Glessner's body was found near 
the spot where his father, Augustus Glessner, was murdered in 1899 by Milton 
Sheetz, a 19-year-old youth, who was hanged for the crime in the Somerset County 
jail, March 11, 1902.  The motive of the murder was robbery.
  At first officers reported that Jacob Glessner's body was badly beaten and 
battered but later revised their story and declared the man's body contained 
only minor bruises on the face and neck and a laceration of one leg below the 
knee.
  An autopsy Thursday night determined that Glessner did not die from the wounds 
which were on his body at the time of discovery, nor was he drowned in the small 
stream in which he lay. The autopsy determined that there was no water in his 
lungs.

Meyersdale Republican, August 27, 1942