Chronicles the killing of Deputy Constable Erwin Mondeau in 1898 and the subsequent nation-wide manhunt for Adam Weaver.
Sources:
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), April 14, 1896, Page 1, “Can’t Stand Liberty”
The Semi-Weekly New Era (Lancaster, PA), January 6, 1897, Page 4, “A Stabbing Affair Near Mount Joy”
Harrisburg Daily Independent (Harrisburg, PA), February 24, 1898, Page 1, “Horrible Murder”
Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA), February 24, 1898, Page 1, “Double Murder in Bucks”
The Reading Times (Reading, PA), February 25, 1898, Page 1, “Two Officers Murdered”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), February 25, 1898, Page 1, “After a Murderer”
The Tribune (Scranton, PA), February 25, 1898, Page 1, “Desperate Character”
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), February 26, 1898, Page 1 “Hot on Weaver’s Trail”
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), February 28, 1898, Page 2, “His Wife Arrested”
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), March 1, 1898, page 1, “Still looking for Weaver”
The Times (Philadelphia, PA), March 2, 1898, Page 2, “No Clue of Adam Weaver”
The Times (Philadelphia, PA), March 4, 1898, Page 1, “Adam Weaver Located”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), March 8, 1898, Page 4, “Another Weaver Scare”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), March 14, 1898, Page 1, “Held for Murder”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), March 16, 1898, Page 1, “The Weavers Indicted”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), May 27, 1898, Page 4, “Adam Weaver Again”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), June 8, 1898, Page 3, “Susan Weaver’s Trial”
The Times (Philadelphia, PA), September 23, 1898, Page 2, “Trial of Mrs. Weaver”
The Brooklyn Citizen (Brooklyn, NY), September 24, 1898, Page 10, “Woman Convicted of Murder, Second Degree”
The Evening Times (Washington, D.C.), September 24, 1898, Page 6, “Mrs. Weaver Found Guilty”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), September 26, 1898, Page 3, “Mrs. Weaver Gets a Stay of Sentence”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), November 17, 1898, Page 1, “Mrs. Weaver Unbalanced”
The Allentown Democrat (Allentown, PA), November 23, 1898, Page 2, “Mrs. Weaver Insane”
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), March 25, 1899, page 1, “Adam Weaver Caught Again”
The Allentown Democrat (Allentown, PA), May 3, 1899, Page 2, “The Wife of Murderer Adam L. Weaver Insane, and Removed to the Hospital at Norristown”
The Central News (Perkasie, PA), October 10, 1907, “County Seat”
The Allentown Leader (Allentown, PA), March 9, 1908, “Adam Weaver Again”
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), June 24, 1908, Page 3, “Alleged Philadelphian a Suicide”
The Central News (Perkasie, PA), December 6, 1911, Page 7, “About Bucks County”
The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA), March 24, 1922, Page 6, “Wildman Caught, Think Him Slayer”
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA), March 24, 1922, Page 1, “Lure of Lemon Meringue Lands Him in Prison”
New York Herald (New York, NY), March 26, 1922, Page 18, “Declares Wild Man is Slayer Who Fled”
The Evening Kansas-Republican (Newton, KS), March 27, 1922, Page 1, “Fail to Identify Accused Wild Man”
The Reading Times (Reading, PA), March 30, 1922, Page 3, “The Identity of a ‘Wild Man’”
The Intelligencer (Doylestown, PA), August 3, 2020, “LaVO: Slain Officers Forgotten no Longer”
Bucks County Adventures (www.buckscountyadventures.org), "Two Forgotten Souls"
Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 583
Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 055801-059400
Officer Down Memorial Page: https://www.odmp.org/
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