Smyrna times., 1878-11-27

THE NEW CASTLE WHIPPING PosT.-About 200 per
sons witnessed the public whppings III New '"slie'
At 10 o'clock Phillip Dollard the shoe burglar and
Henry Mcintyre, who robbed Woodcocks cigar store
were brought out and pilloried after which the :
Whitley Mccall was then placed in position, and re,
marked to the sheriffthat he would like TO be dusGd
off right smart" The Sheriff busted him Off right
well, and Whitley remarked that it helped crcu-
The other prisoners whipped were; Samuel Caull
10 lashes; Sewell Starkey 20 lashes Frank Johnson
20 lashes; John Brton, 20 lashes and George WARREN
Sheriff Pyle was consdcrate and of the prison
has any cause to complain of undue rough treat
ment.-uOTniRg LerGid
A SKELETON AND MURDER sToRY.-Onc Of the re-
suits of the of October % was the undermining
| Works on the Delaware two miles north of Whining
| ton. The company theTeupon moved the building ii
cceded build wall along the river front at that
point While engaged i'll this work on last saturday
afternoon the wOrkmen uncaTthcd the skeleton OF Il
young man. little more than two feet below the sur /
! face lying on its back. with both arms extended !
The house referred to formerly known as the Oid
Shore House. and in days gone by the rendezvous
of a pretty rough crowd. About thrty-tve years ago
Grove one night stopped this house. and never
heard of afcrward Old residents in the heghbor,
hood think that the skeleton strangely reSurTcced
| accounts for his disappearance, and that he was
murdered and hurredly inferred upon the spot
| FATAL CASE OF HYDROPHoBIA.-Mr Vim. H. Dobb,
well-known citizen of Newcastle was seized on
saturday morning, as he sat at breakfast, with every
of hydrODhObla. lie BAD Dccn Dtcll Dy MS
own dog about eight weeks since, which at the
time exhibited signs of the disease, and was at once
killed. Mr. Dobb, alter beng bilten Gn49menge4 9 9
taking elecampane and milk, which he had learned
was antdOte to the poison but had discontinued
its use and on saturday morning ne was sclze9 WIN
the first symptom; physician was mineulatcI!
summoned, but the patient grew rapidly woT'c.
About noon Sunday last he began to be delrious:
| his cOnvulsve Shudders and trcmOrS increased i'll
in frequency and strength until they became terrible
and it required several men iS 70 hoid MN AZ At one one
time he funded up out OF the ped ana reaching the
window broke the sash before he could be restrained
, The convulsons went on from bad to worse until
about 2i5 o'clock Monday morning when death
terminated his SuteringS. Mr. Dobb was for ten years
I superintendent of the New Castle Locomotive Com
pany and during the late war served as second en-
ginecr i'll the navy.
TIE CoLD-wEIL REGIoN.-Thc scene whore the
ATTEMPTED murder of James Jones occurred was in the
! rcrion of the Cold Well famous for bloody deeds
as far back as memory extends. Attorney General
e Pennington in company with Constable Rose of
Townsend went to the spot where Jones said he was
murdered as Vincent and Newcomb thought and the
evidences OF struggle were cverywhcreaah he desclIb-
1 correspondent Of the Ppu5linla called attention
+ to the dismal ppcarancC Of the spot
Yes" replied Mr. Rose it is dismal; back there in
the forest are scores of cabins inhabited by both white
:, and black who have lived for years without doing a
all of them; but il is almost impossible to come up
IS lit was here" said Mr.. Rose, that the famous
= Cosdcn murder planned" The following cir
q cumStanccS which being on par with those Of the
most horrible tragedies of the annals of crime speak
.r story of lcndish inhumanity
In these woods some 18th years ago assembled five
|
p Murphy. one of them was clock mend"r. During
i his travels in the day he had stopped III the house o
o and while fixing clock there learned from cOnvcrSa
% ton among members of the family that there wa,
e 10 scheme plan by which lie might recover posses
is sion of this property Upon finishing his work upon
~ the clock he was mending he went direct toCod Wei
IL Forest and there in its dismal solitude with his boon
10 companions proceeded to put his plan into execution
"a They went to the house in the evening The family
, consisted of father, mother daughter, son. hephe"
u and a sister who was lying i'll.
,e The men who were all armed, fired through the
= window while the family at supper. Mr. CoSder
Va was shot dead i'll his chair Mrs Co>lcn was kle'
s. as She started to escape. The sick woman was mex
k visited The poor woman lIcad 6ut al TO no aEal
~ The iendS fairly rddlcd her with bullets. The lah
al in the cradle and daughter were left untouched
is The nephew shot and left for dead but revived
~ and gave the ALARM The iicnds after all this set tn
=" house on fire.
ty Those who remember the details of the horribl
an affair Tccuect the trial which followed. The cloc
maker Roberts. 10y about twenty witnesses n0twtl
4d stand the dying testimony oone of the victims prove
az. Gb-that he was AZ place remote from the SpC
= singing and jcSting to n company in bar room. ON
III of the other murlerers turned states evidence an
he the others were hung.
Lo As we were riding shown spot in tn
forest where woman driven to despair by suhrrin
at and trouble committed suicide by hanging hersel
he This was about fifty years ago.
" 1t was in this locality that the unprovokcd muriC
10 Of Hopkins by man named Harris occurred HaTr
il will be remembered is the man who capture
- at Chester few weeks ago and IS now in New Cast
: Jail awaiting his trial.
Delaware and Maryland, and affords protection
X criminals of either side and to this is attributed Il
why il should be selected special lOCall
a" for the transaction of deeds of crime.
TRAGIC ATTEMPT TO HIDE HORRIBLE CRIME
his (olored Mdn Carried into the Hoods and Shot-Let
Dedd bH Lires to Ecrcdi Terrible St0ry.-Early We
;u neslay morning last colored man bleeding al
i"6 covered with mud and with two bullet holes in
head and neck dragged himself to house near Va
ice dykes Station the Queen Anne and Kent Railron
near the Maryland line and told horrible story, q
substance of which is as follows
tro- Near CheStertOwn Md. lives woman named N
John +. DodSon, who is in good circumstances al
, has two attractive daughters who have received co
n
the daughters became the mothers of illegitima
olo children The latter were killed and the co0red mi
mentioned above, James Jones. hired TO bu
them and threatened with death if he ever reveal
Is the story 10 a cOOred woman. On Tuesday 18th in
two men, named Philip Vincent and VIM. Newcon
10 the ALLEGED seducers of the girls caught Jones a
J, i;,s u locked him up on Dodsons premises promising to
ing him no harm if he would leave the State forev
This he agreed to do, and on Tuesday night the I
,ant men after beating him nearly to death aCcOmpani
of by Mrs. DOdsOn started with the negro in carria
for Delaware About midnight in dense woo
near NandykcS Station, a short distance this side
nta the Maryland line the two men took Jones and
the pared to kill him. lie begged hard for life, a
promised never to return to Maryland again. Tl
, shot him and left him for dead but he revived su
@ @Cm ciently afterwards to drag himself house
'n"" 1t SO happcnencd that the house to which he
tanned admission the residence of his SIS
nsti- lCaulk) whom he had FOR years and did
4th and Parvs, of Blackbird, were summoned and "a
him medical assistance but after probing could
find the bullets. 1t is thought the bullet that app
ourt entity entered the head passed around the skull b0
mQr coming out at the back of the neck Constable Il
then being that he would live but few hours VIII
A. was as follows:
me me have been living with John F. Doison four yc
anJ next Christmas. My name is James Jones. star
anu from Dodson's in carriage with Philip Vinc'
William Newcomh and Mrs. DOdSon, about Sc
has o'clock Tuesday night. Mr.. Dodson came to me
igest asked me if they carried me up i'll Delaware woul
rs of ever come back? lie said he wanted me 10 le
"'- Maryland because | had been lying ON them I
said said his daughters had had babies and |
+ the buried them. had told black woman the pl
Head that the girls each had baby, and it the tr
rated about the babies. buried the babies in the bra
below the house one in the spring of 1877 and one
r next fall. When We got in Delaware the men 81
went s,id NJ RlIff ,,, rrn,nis! mo- ,Eat ,,o wa
late bring me up here and let me go" lie said can
eA'- nothing hut what the madam says" Mrs. Dodson
Cono DO rs you choose said = Mr. RiIv Won ough
Get let me GO" but he said No jim brought you
ence to kill you and must do as am told" He pu
liable out his pistol and shot. William Newcomb shot
time l remember Philip Vincent shot twice. 7
Mrs DOdSOn told them to make clean job of II
'ton not let get back any more They then united
par and one of them called me to see If was dead
bbott had me tied all the way up here with rope aro
colts my body. They did not put the rope around
neck until they got up here Mrs. Dods1n told I'll
-, to gag me to keep me from hallOOing. They ran a
n ii; nu shooting then managed to get TO some ger
lol man house, who sent me to some other house
t going to these houses came here to Andrew eau
tne Since Joness deposition he has made many st
oucs ments, all of which agree with his deposition
4 tho Vincent and Newcomb were arrested and conn
tions in the Chcstertown ai awaiting reguiSitiou ni ,
atiye rested she went on visit the latter part of last
IN which gave rise to the supposton that she had
W from Justice. Mrs. DOdsOn denies the whole st
ment, and the men say they can prove an Gtt6t
pbell The place where Jones says he buried the inf
Light was dug over but no traces Of them were for
the statements relation to Mrs DOdsOn and the yO
4, and ladies which have been published & IN some Of
corrObOrating the attempted murder cannot be
lover, pained away The whole thing seems like cha
10Th from a highly wrought novel where dark plots
They desperate deeds were the creation of the magnat
TINS rather than the work OF persons moving in the so
ats to From certain demonstrations, there were fears