The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-02-07
A DASTARDLY ASSAULT.
An Aged Couple Murdarously Assaulted al
their Home Near Chesapeake City.

| All fAStu SOuptt ANsiuittu
| their Home Near Chesapeake City.
TIE unwelcome doctrine OF mans to, al
depcavity has just received Il signal Illus.
tration in the wan Oh and murderOus as
sault on Sunday night upon Mr.. George
Dsttmar and his wife an aged German
couple who live on B rEemia NJ lnor about
two and a half miles below Chesapeake
City in this county. About niue o'clock
on the night in question Mr.. Dettmar and
his wife who are respectable and molten
sive people, and both of whom have
passed the scriptural limit of three score
and ten years, were the sole occupants of
their comfortable but unpreten home
which is a two story frame building Mr..
Dattmar had gone up stairs to bed, his
vie Christine remaining behind to look
after some domestic concern. But lit
tie time bad elapsed, when she still sit
tirg before the fire down stairs. was
startled by the cries Of her husband
shouting murder" Hurricdly seizing a
lamp she started up tina narrow stairway.
Scarcely had she reached the top of it,
when she was feled 10y the blow of
club, her head being severely cut and the
lamp she clrricd shattered. Sac retrelted
down the stairs taking refuge from fear
in the cellar, from which in lew mo
ments she emerged aud running 10 a
neIghb0rs gave the alarm. Returning
with her neishbOrs they found Mr.. Dett.
mar in the sitting room INTO which he had
dragged himself after being muiderously
assaulted aud beaten about the face by
the same weapon used upon his wife, ard
which the miScreaut had dropped On the
premises and proved to be piece of pine
flooring about thre3 feet long, and shaved
down at one end to form Il handle. Sub
sequent investigation showed that the as
sallAut had gained admission TO the house
by breaking pane of 3 lass in window
sash and raising the latter ard being in-
tent on pinnder on tho upper floor of The
house, had come suddenly upon Mr..
Dettmar in bed y heie the assault was
Committed.
When Doctors Wallace and KarSner
were summoned they considered Mr.. Dett-
mar y case so critical, that that they de-
cidei to send him to the Pennsylvania
Hospital at Philadelphia. MIR. Dettmar
reached the Hospital early on Tuesday
morning by the steamer FL rbetL of the
Ericsson line, VIII Re he WAS examined by
the physici Us there AID prepared for an
operation, which took place ter in the
| day.
Dr. John Ashhurst, Chief Surgeon of tie
hospital, assisted by DR.. Gillian, performed
the operation, which was Il complete Sue
cess. Every boue in the PATIENTS face was
crushed. The two superior maXillary bones,
the two molar bones, and all the bones Of
his nose were separated from his head,
leaving a triangular space between the
eyes and the point of his nose hich would
all nit of an ordinary hand. The physicians
at the hospital, in speaking of the case,
said ''Ll at it was one of the worst that ever
came in;o the place"
In the III eantime the ,tiicers engaged In
| investigating the case, traced plainly
IN lrked footsteps from Mr.. Dattmar's
house to one occupied by colored man
| named Alfred Stout about three miles dis
tant, and on whose clothing worn by him
the day before stains Of blood were found.
Stout upon being trreS ed while fishing on
| Monday made no resistance aud was quiet
| ly lodged in Jail here. He denies all
knowledge of the ASSAULT, and claims that
| he can prove an alabi. He is stout man
about % years OF age With a wife and one
child Although fearfully injured the
physicians at the hospital think Mr.. Dett-
mar will recover He has a son living in
Philadelphia, aud u daughter who is the
wife of George SIP .th residing in Whining
ton, Del The motive of the assault was
undoubtedly plumber, no money however
having been secured by him, white man
in the neighborhood being also suspected
of being implicated in the projected rob