Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-24
Freemau's Mad Love.


LETTERS THE MURDERER LEFT BEHIND.
Special 10 the Baltimore American.
Snow HILL, June 21.-The funeral OF Miss
Virginia Hill, the girl killed by Freeman on
Chincoteague Island, took place Saturday af
ternOon at two O'Clock, Rev. J. ID. Reese reading
the burial service. The funeral was attended
by large number OF people. The body was
inferred in the family burying ground on the
land attached to the house. Freeman. who
was buried Friday morning at ten O'Clock,
was inferred in the public cemetery. y letter
was left by Freeman in Mr.. Hills vest pocket.
Freeman mentioned this letter To the cOlored
servant girl, and told her to tell Mr.. Hill where
To find 1t, but she thought no more of it until
after the tragedy. The letter is as follows:
D-ar 81: Tell all the people in the world will
self of jimmie Hill We have been court
and viii XII my on e So se to Mi and to-
everybody; ms IS my only request, that Snail be
tsignedl az. FREEMAN"
On the other side of the note. as a postscript,
appears
Ms Nh: Iou are the canse of my doing this, as
told you the oil her night
Another letter is addressed to q friend on the
lightship stationed in the ocean opposite Chin
colleague island where Freeman had remained
al work for several months as he said, to- cure
him of his iniatustiion for the young girl,
AFTER he found her mother was so bitterly OPP
posed TO their being engaged. This reads as
follows:
JUNE IL 1885.
NJ Dear Friend; will tell you of my great
BILE, my friend Frank. / am in love with girI-Jinnie
I'M Frank think too much fer heer. will die fer
this. Do not set yor whole soul upon girl this is
my ia rIit l95seT so will die for her
To Mr.. james F. Mason, a frien' on the lightship
In regard TO the character and disposition of
freeman, there was not a man the island,
among possibly 3 score who were approached
who'knew anything against him. All concurred
in saying that he was a Woodworking and hon
est young man, with no bad habits and much
thought of by those who knew him. and it
seems that the hostility that the murdered
rIr1 /,
shared BY other members of the family. In
fact, 1T seems that all the family, except the
mother, were ignorant OF the true state of the
case Freeman. who was born near the island,
and has lived the greater part of his life in Mr..
Hills family, in his demands to be recognized
as a sutton of the daughter, always besOuoht
the mother for her permission, or at least that
she should allow Miss jimmie to promise to
marry him at the end of two or three years.
Her reply to this, which was that she did not
intend for her daughter to marry poor man,
but one who could take care of her, mention
ing son of a certain weil-to-dO islander, had
probably more to do with exasperatin% him
than anything else. To influence her daugh-
ter against Freeman, her mother had prom
ised her new silk dress in case she would
daughter had III just started to ' the dreHs @
makers to have it fitted when the tragedy
occurred. 1t was the dress she was buried in
The young lady father and brothers. it is said,
express no resentment against Freeman but,
strange to say, on the other hand, pity him. and
look upon the whole affair horrible mis-
take. The mother also, who now lies danger
I OuSIN Ill ana likely To Qle-ll not from tno
wound, from blood-pOisoning-in her intervals
OF Consciousness, expresses great cOntritiOn for
the unlocked for result her shOrt-Sightedn6s
has caused. The islanders, who at the first
news of the affair were deeply eXasperated
against Freeman. now almost. with one
exception, disposed to look with sincere pity
upon him. and to mOraliZc sOrrowfuily over the
terrible ordeal that his mind must have passed
through before he fully determined to carry his
CHASTITY plans into execution. Such is subStan-
TALLY the history OF the most horrible tragedy
that ever happened in this section of the cOun-
try. The home where Mr.. Hill resides is
comfortable and beautiful place, indeed. 1t is
considered one of the most desirable residences
on the island, and Mr.. HILL who is well to do,
is man who always took great pleasure in his
family