Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-07-29

The Surgeon General Of Ohio
Murdered for His Money
BIS BODY FOUND IN A NAN HOLE

Col. Jones Disappeared from HIs Home
ON waInat HiIIs. Cincinnati. Last
Thnrsslay--sl slain ia Hls own stable BY
HIS colsred csachman-The Murderer
Confeases.
CINCINNATI, july 29.-The body OF
Col. A. +. Jones, surgeon general Of
Ohio, OF 2Ol Park avenue, Walnut hills,
who nysteriously disappeared Thursday
afternoon, has been found tied up in
sack In man hole at Park avenue and
Francis lane, about two squares from
the residence. The body was badly
bruised and he had evidently been killed
with club.
On Thursday last Col. Jones walked
out of the back door Of his residence IN
his slippers, without coat and wearing
black soft felt hat. From that moment
he vanished from the sight of men as
absolutely as il the earth itself had
opened and engulfed him. The circum-
stances surrounding the disappearance
made it one of the most inexplicable
mysteries. The police were notitiedand
search was begun.
The Horrible Discovery.
A newspaper reporter and a police
man went 10 the man hole at the juno
tion of Park avenue and Francis lane
and dropped lighted paper into it. As
its Pickering light descended slowly in
the darkness and reached the water,
twenty feet below the level of the street,
they had Just time to see long coffe Q
sack lying in the water.
The sack was struck and it's contents
gave forth a hollow suggestive sound.
An effort was made 20 lift 1t, but only a
corner of the covering could be torn
away. A man was finally lowered into
the hole by means Of q rope, who united
the rope from his own body and fastened
il to the mass below. Then it was lifted
until 1t lay all wet and Shiny in the
street. When the bag was cut open the
bruised and battered body of Col. Jones
was revealed to sight.
NIardered in His Own Stable.
The body was without coat and the
gold studs were still In the shirt 'front.'
Charles Bligh, the dead mans colored
coachman, was arrested on suspicion.
He had been under surveillance and it is
believed that he Is the murderer. It APP
pears that Col. Jones was murdered IN
his own stable. When he stepped from
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children he stepped into the presence of
| the murderer. That he was killed for
his watch and the few dollars he had ON
his person there is little doubt. How the
murderer managed to conceal the body
is not as yet known.
The police have made thorough
seach of the stable ON the premises, and
found concealed in the west stable a
matlock and spade covered with blood
spots and also club similar to that
found broken In two near the man hole.
The Coachman Confesses.
The matlock was found by the officers
to fit the fracture in the skull of the
murdered man. and was probably the
| first weapon used by the murderer.
Charles Bligh, the colored cOachman,
was caught In Madisonville. He has
made confession Of the crime.
During the war Col. Jones held the
post of provost marshal, and was the
| leading spirit in all plans for public de.
| fense. After the war closed he entered
i political life as a Republican and was
elected to numerous county Offices,
which he acceptably filed. For many
years he occupied positions of trust and
responsibility and was widely esteemed
by people Of al parties. AT the time Of
| his murder he held the position of sur.
| geOn general OF the state. being doctor
| Of good professional standing. The col.
Onel was nearly 40 years old and com.
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