The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-08
Selett Stprp,
Hunted Down.

OF Elmore II. Horton. They ar,
Monroe Martin and Hop Martin, an,
were to have been tried yesterday be.
fore Il committing court.
The facts Of this rather extraordi
nary case are, that Mr.. Horton, .wh,
lived about If mifcs below Winches
Ter, and near the mountain, was sho
from his horse by some person from
concealed place in the fence corner
Several persons heard the guns, an6
the dead body was found few min.
utes afterward. Upon examination il
was found that two men had been con-
cealed III corner of the fence just
where the road made sudden turn
into a little branch, and from the
horses tracks, and the place where
the body was found, it was clear that
1t was shot when the horse was drink
ing. The cracks of the fence had all
been stopped with weeds except the
one which the guns were put. This
was just before shutdown last Friday
evening. Horton was returning from
town and was within q mile from home,
in a thickly settled neighborhood,
there being several houses in sight.
The coroner's jury made no discov-
cry except that the killing was done
by two unknown persons, entering a
neighboring cornfeld, where they had
evidently lain concealed until after
dark, and had then come out into the
road. The tracks were carefully
measured at the instance of the jury.
The death of Mr.. Horton was tele-
graphed to Col. A. S. Colyar, of this
city, who was his brother-in-law, and
on Sunday nights train Col. Colyar
left Nashville, reaching Winchester
Monday morning. He took three
young men, Mr.. Curtis, Mr.. G. @.
Estill and his son, together with Mr..
B. F. McGee, and hurried on to the
neighborhood of the murder Find
ing no collected facts sufficient to jns-
tify the arrest of any particular per-
son, Col. Colyar ut once commenced
to make inquiries throughout the en-
tire neighborhood, but found that no
one had left the settlement. Taking
two or three reliable men with him,
Colonel Colyar, before it was known
that he was in the neighborhood, was
moving rapidly from house to house,
to hear the story of every man and
his family, interrogating each separ-
rately, as to his whereabouts on the
the day of the murder. Colonel Col
var made known his purpose to ferret !
put the murderer. The plan was to |
have, before night, every mans own
account of his own and his neighbours |
on the day of his murder,
Is he could find them, and then put |
Ill tos ether and see What could be de- !
reloped.
At school house, where the chill
1ren were all examined separately,
one boy stated that boy named Bill
Martin told him that Monroe and
Hop Martin were out in the mountain
hat day, Friday last, hunting sheep.
This Bill denied upon examination.
Monroe MAS then first seen and his
ale heard He was not allowed to
lee Hop until his story was fully Civ
IN. They agreed that they left the
house of one of them about one mile
rom where the murder was commit
ed, and that they went up the noun
ain and stayed together until they re-
urned. But one, however, said they
anne back before sundown, and the
'ther that they returned one hour af-
er dark. One said they went half
yay up the mountain, followed bench
# the mountain and went three miles
md then went on top. The other
aid they kept the road until they got
,ut on top. One said they saw no,
,ame of any sort the other, that they
ound Il gang of turkeys, got after
hem, and were kept until late. Both
insisted that they saw nobody from
he time they left home until they got
,ack. While one of them said they
we're hunting sheep, the other claim
d, they were hunting cattlo.
Without being formally arrested,
hese men were kept until the next
lay, but not allowed to talk to each
ther. Soon in The morning Colonel
Jolyar started with one of them to
how his trip through the mountain,
'fIich he did, climbing and Chamber
ng until he reached a point at the
op of the mountain, between three
nd 70 ur miles from home, then re-
urning by different route. Imme- :
lately afterward the other was taken (
nd directed to travel over the route
7hich they both agreed they had
raveled together on last Friday even {
lg, and he reached the mountain by T:
road at least two miles from the '
oint the other reached it. The two 4;
0utes, going and returning, were to- {
lily different, and no man ever took r
walk with more trepidation than lie {
id the last one, knowing the other {
ad first been over the ground. These |
Fo men were born and bred at the
,ot of the mountain and knew every
ath.
This was the strongest sort of evi- /
ence, but on examining their shoes it t
as found they exactly eonformed to {
lie measures. The tracks in the field S
lowed one shoe 10 be about a num- i
er nine, broad heel, and the right
Zoe run down. The other was a t
nall shoe and quite genteel in shape !
rather fashionable shoe or boot I
nd the shoes of both parties suited l
lie tracks precisely. v
Both of these men lived on an ad- q
lining farm to Mr.. Horton, in sight 6
his house; had long been hostile to |
i'm, and had threatened his life. Mr.. a
.orton was the owner of one of the \
nest farms in the county, and one of L
re men accused is the owner of which v
, was ut in the morning and near r
yo adjoining farms, the lower one of I