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Wunderler’s Market robbed Owner’s wife threatened with gun
PEGGY MOSER related history of people buried in Horner’s Cemetery to the visitors who came to see the historical gravesite on Saturday. – Home News photo
285th anniversary of Horner Cemetery marked
By BILL HALBFOERSTER The Home News
Jane Horner, wife of a farmer in Craig’s Scotch-Irish Settlement (now known as East Allen Township), died at the hands of Indians in the French and Indian War on October 8, 1763. Horner’s Cemetery, located about 200 yards behind God’s Missionary Church along the BathNorthampton Highway, is where she is buried. This past Saturday afternoon, the 285th anniversary of that cemetery was marked by Peggy Moser with an open house attended by more than 50 people interested in history. Mrs. Moser, a retired secretary, along with many volunteers including her father,
Dallas Spengler, founded the Horner’s Cemetery Historical Society. Attired in a black Colonialstyle dress, she led the group from gravestone to gravestone, where more than 215 bodies are buried. They include that of General Robert Brown, friend of General George Washington, who gave him a chestnut sapling that became the Friendship Tree in East Allen Township. (A part of the tree is in the Gov. Wolf Historical Society museum.) Another grave is that of George Palmer, surveyor for William Penn, and for whom Palmer Township was named. Another grave holds the reContinued on page 17
Wunderler’s Market at 429 E. Main & Broad Sts., Bath, was robbed at gunpoint by a Bath man on Friday afternoon, Oct. 18 at 2:14 p.m. He was identified as Daniel Joseph Preziosi, 24, of 104 E. Main St., Bath, Apt. 14, The Fox, after the store owners, Donald and Joyce Wunderler, picked him out from a police photo lineup. Preziosi was arrested Saturday morning when Colonial Regional Police found the vehicle used in the robbery outside the strip club and Preziosi came to his car around 1:30 a.m. Mrs. Wunderler said Detective Michael Melinsky called her at 4 a.m. Saturday to come to CRPD headquarters and look over 10 mug shots. She said, “That’s him!” when pointing to Preziosi’s picture. The detective had downloaded the store’s videotape of the robbery taking place. It showed him coming into the store, wearing a hoodie. Mrs. Wunderler said he approached the counter, and told her, “Open the drawer. Gimme the money!” as he pointed a handgun at her husband. He took $100 and ran outside the store toward his car parked in a back alley. “It happened so fast, I didn’t know what to think. He was shaking the whole time,” Joyce Wunderler said, “He looked more nervous than me.” Donald Wunderler tried to chase after the robber, but couldn’t catch up. Luckily, a neighbor, Mike Flyte, had seen Preziosi’s car parked in the alley and thought it seemed out of place. He saw the robber running to the car and take off and go through a stop sign. As he backed up, he almost hit Flyte’s truck. The vehicle Flyte saw was a fourdoor beige car, with a hearts sticker on the back and a pink outline around it. The car had
STORE’S co-owners, Joyce and Donald Wunderler, stand at the counter and cash register where the robbery occurred this past Friday afternoon. – Home News photo a missing right front headlight. Preziosi was arraigned before District Judge Robert Hawke of Cherryville on charges of robbery, simple assault, possessing instruments of crime, theft by un-
Plane makes emergency Landing in Allen Township A malfunction in the engine of a plane forced the pilot to make an emergency landing Thursday night in an Allen Township field near Valley Rd. & Farm Hill Rd. The incident happened around 7 p.m. According to Gene McCoy, manager of the Allentown flight standards district of the Federal Aviation Administration, the pilot had no choice
INDEX: HEADSTONES of Gen. Robert Brown, a friend of Gen. George Washington, and James Kerr, a founder of Craig’s Scotch-Irish Settlement. – Home News photo
lawful taking, and receiving stolen property and sent to Northampton County Prison with bail set at $75,000 cash. Court records show the suspect spent a year in prison for dealing drugs in 2001 and was only recently released.
but to make the landing after the engine malfunctioned. He commended him for making the landing at night in selecting a place to land. The pilot and a student pilot took off from Lehigh Valley International Airport, heading to Cherry Ridge Airport near Honesdale, Pa. They were not injured and the plane can be saved, but needs a new motor.
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Opinion..........................2
Seniors ..........................8
Gab Over the Fence.........3
Obituaries ...................14
Bath ..............................7
Classifieds ........... 15 & 16
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