Luzerne County PA Archives OBIT: John BALDES, 1903, Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA

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  Two men were shot, one fatally by footpads in Wilkesbarre, Pa., on 
Tuesday.  John Baldes, of that city, and Benedict Kessler and John 
Weidman, of Altoona, delegates to the state convention of German 
Catholic Societies, were returning from a banquet when they were 
stopped by two highwaymen and ordered to throw up their hands.  All 
complied with their demands and the footpads started to go through 
their pocket.  The robbers secured Weidman's money and railroad ticket 
and had taken $6 from Baldes, when the latter made an outcry.  This 
enraged the robbers and they backed away and began firing at the men.  
Baldes was shot three times in the stomach and cannot recover.  Kessler 
was shot in the knee but Weidman was uninjured.  The footpads escaped.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, June 12, 1903