BROCKWAY, Pa. – One of the most notorious crimes ever to have occurred in the Brockway area of Jefferson County was the homicide of peddler Lewis Helman in 1896. The events can be reconstructed from the newspapers of the time. Both the Altoona Tribune and The Gazette in York described the Helman murder in their issues of September 3. More […]
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