The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-01

HORRIBLE AND GoLp-BLcoDED MURDER
IN ~MARyLAND.--A most horrible and cold
olooded murder was perpetraied in Queen
Anne's county, Md, early on Friday morn!
ing last, the particulars Of which are thus
given in the Gentrevillc Citizen of Satur-
day ~ sl5i4 ]
A man named Reamy Gilmore, al, indns-
trious, honest, and inoffensiye farmer. aged
about forty years, residing on farm he
longing to the heirs of the late Judge Cham
bers, on the road from Church Hill to Ches-
iertown, about four miles from the former
and two miles from the latter place, was
found dead at an early hour on Friday
morning, and his wife lying in an insensi-
BILE condition, but still alive, by a negro
man and woman who had been engaged by
Mr.. Gilmore to "save fodder" for. him.
They immediately gave the alarm to one of
Mr.. Gilmore's neighbors, whe made the fact
Of the murder known to the officers Of
the law, and Justice Tarbutton, of Crump-
ton, summoned q jury of inquest, ysnd
among the witnesses was negro woman.
Martha Barwick, Mr.. Gilmore's cook--who
at first denied I'll knowledge Of the murder,
but finally confessed that certain negro
man in the neighborhood who WAS in the
habit of visiting her, named Michael Bell,
and herself, had formed plot to murder
and rob Mr.. Gilmore which plot was in
tended to be put into execution on Friday
night, but from some cause on Thursday
eight the time was changed, and the deed
perpetrated on Friday morning between
daybreak and sunrise.
Bell, she states, remained in the kitchen
all night, and early in the morning went
up stairs and effected an entrance into Mrs.
Gilmore's room without awakening her,
when he dealt her two blows with the blade
of On axe as she lay sleeping, and then sent
the woman--the partner in his crime-to
tell Mr.. Gilmore (who, it appears, for some
cause, slept in another house some distance
| from the dwelling) that his wife was very
sick and wanted him. Mr.. Gilmore imme-
| iiately repaired to his wife's room, and as
| he entered the door Bell dealt him heavy
blow with the eye of the axe, knocking him
| senseless to the floor, after which he struck
him two more blows upon the head, and
then left him. The woman Martha says
Bell then commenced rifing the bureau
drawers, but drove her from the room, and
| she does not know what amount of money,
| if any, Bell obtained. After completing
his search for booty he left the premises,
| and that was the last she saw of him.
Information was afterwards obtained that
Bell made his way to the river, just below
Chestertown, and procuring small boat,
| boarded the steamer Chester as she passed,
and it is supposed went to Baltimore. On
obtaining this information, parties were
sent to intercept the steamer Trumpeter, IN
the Sassafras river, who went in pursuit of
the murderer, and as the Trumpeter has
| much shorter route than the steamer Ches-
ter she generally arrives in Baltimore in
| advance of that boat, and it is confidently
| hoped that the murderer was arrested upon
his arrival in Baltimore.
The jury of inquest rendered verdict in
accordance with the above facts, when the
woman was committed to Jail by Justice
Tarbutton as an accessory to the murder,
and was handed over to the jailor by Con-
stable Gatford. ~
The object appears to have been both
robbery and malice, and it is said there
had been some difficulty between Mr.. Gil
more and Bell short time previously. Mr..
G. raised q great deal of garden produce,
which he had been selling in Baltimore,
and it is believed that he had considerable
sum of money about the house, and 1t was
with the double object of gratifying his
malice and obtaining the money that Bell
perpetrated the horrible deed. The muir
dered man was childless.