The daily gazette., 1879-12-23
WILMINGTON DEL. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1875
Btack-Jacked and Robbed.

DeSSn-cACMcU UftU 1tVOVcNs
49,
ALBERT M. MILIER's TERRIBLE ExPE-
RIENCE AT THIRD AND sHIPLEY
STREETS SATURDAY NIGHT-BLACK-
LACKED FOR BOOTY AND LEFT FOR
DEAD.
Albert NJ. Miller, the man who, as
duly stated III all extra edition OF the
GAZETTE, last night, was desperately
assaulted at Third and Sbipley streets,
ON Saturday night, and whose blood,
split on that occasion caused so much
wonderment over town, lives with his
family at No. 2 Tindalfs court. Tin
dalPs court is a sort OF alley-way that
opens into a yard-lke space, around
which the houses are built, and extends
northward from Taylor street a short
which Miller lives is humble two
story brick dwelling, and as reporter
knocked at the door yesterday after
noon he noticed drops of blood upon
the stoop, and bloody finger marks upon
the door itself. These came there,
when, half-dead from his terrible expe-
rience, the unfortunate man dragged
himself to his door and begged for ad-
mittance, that he might die in his own
home.
Sitting with his head tied up, and his
mind half-dazed from the effects Of his
hurts, Miller told this story: son Sat
w day night about IL o'clock, as near as
| can tell, was coming down Ship'ey
stle leet near Third, and saw three men
| coming up the street, meeting one. j
can't remember very eli arly about
things but when they met me they stop.
ped me. | didn't say anything and
neither did they, but one of them hit
me on the temple with something heavy
and knocked me down. l guess they
hit me several times after vas down
| for | have three wounds ON my head,
but l can't remember it if they did. l
lost all consciousness and must have
laid there in the street three hours
When came too hardly knew where
was and my handkerchief, tobacco
and about two dollars in money were
gone. Just where l went after that
don't know, but may have gone down
Market street, thinking l was going
home. Perhaps l went over Market
street bridge, but / don't remember, and
AN only ret all when | reached my own
10 r. 1t was. 6 O'Clock in the morning
then, and thought was dying. The
men who assaulted me were all of me-
dium size and wore dark clothes. !
don't think could recognize any OF
them"
Miller is 81 years old and has a wife
and several children. He is a miller by
rrade, as well as by name, but of late has
been working as a laborer AT Harlan Il
Holhngsworth's ship yard. He is o
drinking man and his story shows that
he must have been somewhat under the
| influence of liquor when the assault Oc-
Cured. That he had been drinking, he
| admits.
His wife says that she was awakened
by his knocking, tnd when he got IN the
house she thought he was dying. He was
very pale and covered with cIotted
blood. He moaned with pain aid plead
ed with them TO let him get warm as he
thought he was freezing. The woman
thinks her husband would have soor
been dead II he had remained out o
doors much longer. Miller's wife is {
very Intelligent and thrifty woman il
appearance.
was lying hleeding at Tbird and Shipley
streets for three hours, and as the assault
took place near midnight, it must have
been three o'clock when he staggered
| away on his roundabout ramble home
leaving a gerry track behind him as b,
went. Ii was five o'clock when he reach
ed home and, therefore, it must be takei
that for two hours he tottered blindly
along the streets. He says that he GO
INTO no alteration with any one tina
evening and knows of no possible caus'
for the assault except that OF robbery. 1
Is reasonable to suppose that this con
clusion is correct, and that the highway
men, fearful of identification, conclude
TO finish their work and profit by TIN
ruth of the old maxim, "dead men tel
no tales" As soon as he reached hom
DIR. Brown was sent for and dressed tn
, mans wounds all of which were deel
and painful. The wounds showed evi
dences of the work of both a club and
, oily. The wounds themselves were nc
necessarily fatal and after Miller &c
home where he could be cared for, a
= danger was in measure dispelled. Tn
injuries consist of two cuts above tn
; left eye, a deep cut in the lip and col
. fused wound back of the right ear. TIL
wounds above the eye and on the lip BILE
a very freely.
The fact that Mil.er's identity as th
man figuring iu the mystery OF the bloc
was secret SO long is not at all surpris
|, ing. He is q man In the humble wall
: of life he has not large circle
; friends who communicate with the worl
|. at large, and he lives back from III
public street. Last evening there wei
many people living quite close to hil
who had not heard OF the affair. Sci
geant of Poll 90 Jones brought the matte
:, to light while continuing the long an
e untir,ng search which the whole polio
" force inaagurated on Sunday. Yesterda
a about 80 O'Clock he happened to be
4 the court and noticed the bloody fipgt
/ maras on the door. He knocked to IL
vestigate and found that he had cor