The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-17
TnE MAeIsrnATEs.
Squire Fleming.


NOTED NEGRO ARRESTED OF POUR Gil ARGEs.
Yesterday, sina Hill appeared in this
court and swore out four warrants for the
arrest OF her husband, Butler Hill. Here
toiore they have lived together out on the
Ensey farm, but recently the wife has
become jealous over the frequent reports
OF her husbands inHdclity, and there has
been war in the household. The warrants
charge assault and battery with a stick,
carrying concealed weapons, threats TO
murder and having in possession gaming
devices The woman claims TO have been
severely beaten with the stick, and being
in delicate condition. blow received in
the abdomen, she fears, viii cost her her
life. Hill is desperate negro, and has
history written in blood. II Is no small
undertaking 10 arrest him, and Deputy
Shcrihs Burke and Alexander narrowly
escaped, and only by their alertness, in
having 10 deal summarily with him. They
came up with the negro in a saloon, and
rs they walked In the door Hill reached
for his pistol, but before lac pulled IL from
his hip pocket Alexander seized his arm,
and Burke held his pistol in the desper-
ADDS face until he was disarmcd. lie was
taken before the court aud Ia default OF
bond was committed 10 jail.
] Hill has the distinction Of having killed
! his man. Woman seems 10 have been the
/ Had Of all his woes. About six years ago
he and Thornton Cole had a quarrel about
some woman out nj Bartlett station, and
Cole made at him with an AK, and was in
the act Of splitting Hills head open, when
la.s 81 al L..
adversary instantly. Hill was arrested
and laid In jail for u long time. Finally
he WIS tried for bis life. but the jury were
convinced that he had acted Ia self-de.
Tense and acquitted him.
Hill Is n onc-armcd man, and the history
OF the loss Of the member il also an inter
esting story. When he married his pres
ent vile she was then aud had been for
some time the pammour Of negro named
James l,aine. She faithfully promised TO
abjup Rainc aud lived up 10 her promise
ior q while. but her attachment for Raine
could not be- banished, and Il was but
short while before their illcgitimate init.
macy was NJ ilagrnnt as ever. Hill pro-
tested, and his wife again promised 10 re-
form, but did not. A few days aiterward
Hill nnd Rainc met; both were armed,
AAAAt WIN ~ HAANtFhA hiifl ANNlt WIN n flA~
shooter. There were no preliminary re.
marks. and both began 10 shoot instanta-
ncously. llill received bullet above the
elbow In the right arm, and, In
turn, poured charge OF bird
shot into the face and breast Of
| his antagonist. II was plucky
! duel and tho men we're all alone. Raino,
almost blinded by the blood which spouted
in his eyes from the small shot wounds,
did not attempt 10 fire agiin, but turned
aud ran. ~ llill fell bleeding aud scream.
ing with pain 10 the ground. Rainc ~
crc,cd himself In the ncighborhood tot
several days and then ilcd the country. II,
has not been heard Of since. llill man
aged to get 10 his house, aud after suffering
with broken arm for some time, IL had I,
be amputalcd To avert the gnngcnc which
had ~, In. lie Is still young man abou
: thirty ycar old, q very shrcwd and intelli
{ gent ncgro, who has none Of the appear
, nncc of the desperate aud gambler that h,
las shown himself tn be.