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HANEY KILLED NEAR TRYON BY CHARLES SCHERINGER</div> <div> NO DEFINITE CAUSE FOR THE CRIME HAS YET BEEN ASCERTAINED</div> <div> From Staurday Daily</div> <div>    With his skull crushed from a blow to the head with a heavy instrument in the hands of a neighbor, H.F. Haney, a ranchman of the Stapleton vicinity, died at his home Friday. The coroner's verdict was to the effect that he came to his death as a result of being struck on the head with a heavy instrument in the hands on Charles Schn\eringer.</div> <div>    News of the murder was received here today. A local business man who was in Tryon soon after the murder gave the details to a representative of the Telegraph this morning.</div> <div>    It seems that H.F. Haney and a neighbor named Harris had been to Tryon Thursday on business and were riding home when they met Charles Scheringer walking in the road. Scheringer asked that he might ride and was given permission. He climbed up in the wagon and stood back off the seat in which Mr. Haney and Mr. Harris were riding.</div> <div>    Suddenly, while the men were riding in this position, Scheringer picked up a heavy instrument and struck Haney a terrific blow on the head. He then esceped after making a strong gunplay, although he did not shoot Harris.</div> <div>    The only thing that is thought could have been a cause for the murder was the fact that Haney owed Scheringer $20 and they are said to have had some altercation over it while they were in Tryon. Some of the residents of that vicinity are of the opinion that Scheringer was demented when he struck Haney.</div> <div>    Harris took Haney home and found he was probably fatally injured. A doctor was called from Tryon and arrived several hours after Haney's death.</div> <div>    A posse searched the country around and sheriffs of Lincoln, Logan, Custer and Hall counties were warned to keep a lookout for the fugitive.</div> <div>    Scheringer leaves a widow and small family, but they know nothing of his whereabouts. He has heretofor bore a good reputation. The victim is an old man and a highly respected citizen of McPherson County. Threats of summary punishment for the assailant are freely made.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Lincoln Star - May 4, 1913</U></div> <div> FORMER LINCOLN MAN VICTIM OF MURDER</div> <div> H.F. Haney Slain With Gaspipe - Motive Thought to be Robbery</div> <div>    According to word received in the city Saturday night, Heber F. Haney, formerly of Lincoln, but who took up a homestead near Tryon, Neb., was murdered in the backyard of his home Thursday night by being struck across the head with a section of gas pipe, which was found near the body. Mr. Haney lived only four hours after being found by neighbors and did not regain conciousness sufficient to tell of the crime. When found Mr. Haney had a badly fractured skull and a dent on the side of his head showed the impression left by the gas pipe in the hands of an unknown assailant.</div> <div>    No motive, except that of robbery, can be assigned for the crime. Thursday he sold a bunch of cattle to a local cattle dealer and was paid in currency for his cattle. It is believed the murderer knew of the money in his possession and had taken this means of recovering it from him.</div> <div>    One suspect is being followed by a posse of farmers and ranchers, hastily gathered together, after the crime was discovered. The neighbor, who is being pursued, returned to his home adjacent to the Haney homestead, shortly after the body was found, and arming himself with a shotgun, and taking a garden spade with him, left his home and when last seen was making his way into the sand hills. The posse quickly took up the pursuit immediately afterward and up to a late hour Saturday night, nothing concerning his whereabouts has been learned. The reports that reached Lincoln were sent in hurriedly by E.L. Troyer, who was sent to bring the body back to Lincoln. Until he had reached the himestead he had heard nothing of the murder, the message recieved by him merely stating that Mr. Haney was dead and asking him to come and care for the body. The homestead is forty miles from the nearest railroad station and no wire connections with the home could be established. Mr. Haney was a resident of Lincoln up until five years ago. He left Lincoln to take up his present homestead and would have received clear title to the section of land in a few months. Since moving to Tryon he has made many friends among the people in that district and according to neighbors and friends, no ill feeling existed against him. For this reason the robbery motive for the crime was taken as conclusive.</div> <div>    His wife died a number of years ago and his five children are grown, none of them living with him recently. He resided alone on his farm, raising cattle and farming. The body is expected to arrive in the city this afternoon, when more definite accounts of the murder can be had.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Lincoln Star - May 5, 1913</U></div> <div> Funeral of Heber F. Haney is Held</div> <div>    The body of Heber F. Haney, who was murdered on his ranch north of North Platte Friday, arrived in Lincoln, accompanied by E.L. Troyer, Sunday afternoon.  The funeral was held at Troyer's chapel this afternoon, with Rev. H.H. Harmon in charge. Interment was in Wyuka Cemetery.</div> <div>    Mr. Haney was riding in a wagon with two other men, when one of them struck him over the head with a section of gas pipe, fracturing his skull, from which he died within a few hours. The man suspected of striking the blow is a neighbor by the name of Schneringer, with whom it is alleged Haney had trouble over money matters. At the time Mr. Haney had several hundred dollars in his pocket, the proceeds of a sale of cattle, but this was not touched.</div> <div>    Schneringer is hiding in the sand hills and a posse of farmers is pursuing him. He visited his home Friday night and left shortly afterward with a shotgun and a spade. Mr. Haney formerly lived in Lincoln and leaves three sons living in the city at present. He left here five years ago to take up a homestead in McPherson County.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Loup Valley Queen - Callaway, Nebraska - May 8, 1813</U></div> <div> CHAS. SCHNERINGER MURDERS H.F. HANEY</div> <div> Strikes his Victim over the Head With Some Blunt Instrument and Death Results a Few Hours Later word was recieved here last Saturday morning to the effect that Chas. Schneringer, a former resident of this locality, had murdered a man near Tryon, in McPherson county. The report proved to be true, but particulars of the case are hard to obtain. It would appear, however, that Schneringer claimed that a Mr. Haney owed him $20. Haney held a public sale the day before and was in town settling his affairs. Schneringer had accosted him for the money he claimed was due him, and Haney had refused, saying he did not owe it. The attack came as the men were on their road home.</div> <div>    Schneringer, after the murder, went home, kissed his wife goodbye, and taking four loaves of  bread, departed, and at last accounts was still at large, although a vigorous hunt is being made for him. He had no money when he left and nothing to go on except the four loaves of bread. The following dispatch to the World-Herald from Stapleton gives about all the information obtainable at this writing:</div> <div>    Charles Schneringer attacked attacked H.F. Haney in a wagon not far from Tryon today and beat the latter with some deadly weapon to such an extant that his victim died before medical aid reached him.</div> <div>    Haney and a neighbor named Harris were driving home from Tryon, the county seat, and passing Schneringer on foot going in the same direction, asked him to ride. The three had not gone far when Schneringer, without apparent reason, made a murderous attack on Haney, beating him over the head and making gun play. He did not shoot, however. Harris belabored Schneringer with the buggy whip, and the latter jumped from the wagon and tried to drag Haney with him. He finally desisted and made his escape.</div> <div>    Harris took Haney to his own home and summoned a doctor from Tryon, the medical man arriving several hours after Haney's death.</div> <div>    Schneringer left his wife and family, byt they know nothing of his whereabouts. He has heretofore borne a good reputation. His victim was an old and highly respected citizen of McPherson County. Excitement in Tryon was intense, and threats of summary punishment were heard at times. The whole country is wrought up.</div> <bR> <div> <U>North Platte Telegraph - May 8, 1913</U></div> <div> MURDER MAY CAUSE ILLEGAL HANGING</div> <div> RELATIVES OF H.F. HANEY ARE SEARCHING FOR HIS MURDERER</div> <div> MOB VIOLENCE IS FEARED ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM TRYON</div> <div>    Charles Schneringer, the mand who is accused of murdering H.F. Haney near Tryon, still defies the officers and possies of men that are searching for him. The hills and canyons in the vicinity of the crime are thought to be his hiding place and because of this rough country the search is made very difficult.</div> <div>    News reaches here from many sources to the effect that the accused murderer is still in the vicinity of Tryon. A number of persons tell of seeing him and one was heard to state that the fugitive spent the night within two miles of the sheriff's residence. There is, however, nothing to affirm this statement.</div> <div>    The murdered man was at least 65 years of age and would have been pratically helpless in a fair fight. This, tegether with the fact that he was brutally assaulted from behind, has arroused feeling in the vicinty of Tryon to fever heat.</div> <div>    A great many relatives of the murdered man reside in the country near the scene of the crime and they are out in force with every man armed for the hunt according to reports. A resident of that vicinity who was in North Platte yesterday was overheard to remark that in his opinion the case will never be tried if the parties who are searching for the fugitive are able to capture him. From the nature of the remarks made by those who come from that neighborhood it is feared that there will be mob violence id Schneringer is taken in the lonely country where he is thought to be hiding.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Nebraska State Journal - May 4, 1913</U></div> <div> HEBER F. HANEY MURDERED</div> <div> Former Lincoln Man Killed by Neighbor at Tryon</div> <div>    E.L. Troyer who went to Tryon, Neb., Friday to bring the body of Heber F. Haney to Lincoln, telephoned last night from Grand Island, saying that Haney had been murdered near his home. His skull was fractured by a blow with a gas pipe which was lying near the scene of the attack and he died within four hours. Haney had sold a large number of cattle on Thursday afternoon and as he was returning home in the evening the murder was committed. A neighbor who was suspected because of circumstantial evidence has fled to the sandhills, pursued by a posse of ranchmen. He is armed with a shotgun and the posse is expecting a fight if he is overtaken. The suspected man left his wife and three small children at his ranch house when he fled. Mr. Haney lived in Lincoln until four years ago when he moved to Tryon. He was veteran of the civil war and at one time lived at the soldiers' home at Grand Island. Mr. Troyer will arrive in Lincoln at 1:15p.m. today with the body. It will be held at the Troyer parlors until relatives are heard from and funeral arrangements can be made. Mr. Haney was fifty-five years old.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Stapleton Enterprise - May 8, 1913</U></div> <div> MURDER IN MC-PHERSON</div> <div>    A Mr. Haney, an old and highly respected resident of McPherson County died at his home in that county last Thursday evening at about ten o'clock, as a result of a blow upon the head by some blunt instrument in the hands of Chas. Schneringer, a neighbor.</div> <div>    Schneringer made good his escape to the hills, it is presumed, and is still at large.</div> <div>    Hall Schneringer, father of the fugintive, M.E. Schneringer, his uncle, and H.M. Brabham, all of Callaway, came up last Saturday and Sunday drove to Tryon, to assist in the search but returned in the evening without having accomplished anything definite in the way of locating the missing man.</div> <div>    It is said that the attack on Mr. Haney was the outgrowth of a discussion with Schneringer as to an account of a few dollars.</div> <bR> <div> <U>The Nebraska State Journal - May 5, 1913  Lincoln, Nebraska</U></div> <div>    Funeral services for Heber F. Haney, who was murdered last week near his ranch north of North Platte, will be held this afternoon at Troyer's undertaking rooms. Rev. H.H. Harmon will have charge of the service. Mr. Haney is survived by four sons and one daughter. Three of his sons live in Lincoln.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Heber Francis Haney Probate Record</U></B><B><U> <A NAME="heber_haney_probate"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B></div> <div> Probate Court, McPherson County, Nebraska</div> <div> In Matter of the Estate of Heber F Haney Deceased} SS</div> <div> Final Decree</div> <div> Now on this 8th day of September 1917 this cause came on for hearing upon the final report and petition for discharge of S.W. Warren administrator of said estate and upon the record files, vouchers and the evidence and the same was duly submitted to the court whereupon the court finds upon consideration whereof that all debts claims and demands against said estate have been fully paid that no fund were available for any allowance for the support of the minor children and heirs of said deceased that no residue remains in the hands of the administrator or for distribution or money or personal property  that the only real estate remaining indisposed of and as a part of the estate of Heber F Haney deceased is the following tract of land to wit: the W1/2 of the SW1/4 and the E1/2 of the SE1/4 of Sec 34 township 19 north range 33 west of the CUPM in McPherson Co Neb  that all the children and heirs of Heber F Haney deceased and all the persons entitled to share in the said estate and residue thereof are Roy Chester Haney  Frank Dallas Haney   William McKinley Haney a minor now 20 yrs old  and one Jennie May Harvey formerly Jennie May Haney now of full age   George Washington Ryan formerly George Washington Haney a minor under the age of 18 years   that each of said children and heirs is entitled to an undivided one fifth interest in and to said real estate and that said real estate should be assigned to said children and heirs and each and every one of them in the same proportion to be held of them in common, that said Heber F Haney at the time of his death was a widower.  It is therfore ordered adjudged and decreed that said land to wit:  the west half of the south west quarter and the east half of the south west quarter of Sec 34 Township 19 Range 33 West of CPM in McPherson County Neb constituted all the residue of said estate to be assigned to said Roy Charles Haney  Frank Dallas Haney  William McKinley Haney   Jennie May Harvey formerly Jennie May Haney  and George Washington Ryan formerly George Washington Haney in equal proportions as tenants in common and it is hereby found and declared that the children and heirs at law above named are all and the only heirs of said estate of Heber F Haney deceased. The final reports and accounts of SW Warren administrator of estate is hereby approved and allowed and said estate is declared settled and said administrator is fully released and acquitted on his bond and the cost taxed at 36.00 are hereby acknowledged as fully paid.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court at Tryon Nebraska the day and date first above written.  RJ Stoeh Co Judge</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>