The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-03
PERRINVILLE'S MYSTERY.
A Well Known Physician Spirited
Away-A Farmers Story.
Special 10 the Jersey city Ne,gs.

PERRINvILLE, Nov. 8, 1891 The people
of this village are intensely excited over
the strange disappearance of DR.. William
I. Mcmillan. Three days ago he drove
to Hightstown, seven miles distant.
While there he deposited some money in
the bank and collected several bills. He
started for home few minutes before
seven o'clock that evening. Since then
he has not been seen, nor can any trace of
him be found.
drove out OF Hightstown Frederick
Vaughn, who lives at Milford, one mile
from Hightstown, and was driving
towards the former place, was over
taken by runaway horse without
carriage or drive. One rein had been cut
as If by knife and the traces were
dragging. The animal was stopped and
| recognized rs that of DR.. McMillan's. 1t
was sent home with message to the
| doctors wife that the roadcart had
been found wrecked by the road and
| NO traces of the doctor had been discov-
cred.
| Searchers Immediately set out to look
| for the man, but up to this time without
| success. A hundred men and boys have
| secured the country for two miles on
each sioe Of the road for distance of five
miles; Mrs. Mcmillan herself was with
| party of searcners for forty-eight hours,
at the expiration OF which time she
broke down, and has remained since
| FRUSTRATED with grief.
The missing mans hat was discovered
on Saturday near Milford. A streak Of
red paint on the Doctors wrecked wagon
led his brother to believe that it had
| come in collision with another vehicle.
A search revealed this wagon, and the
| owner tells a strange story.
| HIGHLY IMPROBABLE.
The farmer, whose name is not given,
with his colored workman, says he was
going towards Perrineville with two
| loaded wagons, when they saw Dr. McMii-
Ian in a road cart driving rapidly. The
colored man was in advance, and the
doctor gave him the road, but turned
| back again soon enough to collide with
| the wagon of the narrator, who says the
doctor was thrown from his cart, but
| that he (the farmer) continued on his
| way without inquiring whether the ply
scian was injured or Offering any assist
ance. This man says he and his servant
turned off the turnpike mile further on,
previously having met four men In two
! buggies.
| II was twenty minutes later that Fred
-eriek Vaughn found the doctors wrecked
roadcart Elm the road. The shaft was
broken. the sends of the whiffletree
snapped off. an axel-arm bent and a
wheel smashed. The horse had already
| been caught and tied. The cut rein
and the mysterious disappearance indi-
| cate foul play. The.road is very lonely
| one and not much used at this time of the
evening. Milford pond has been drained
without revealing the body. 1t is be-
| lieved that the doctor was attacked by
| highwaymen. who wounded him more
than they intended aud then murdered
him and hid his body, but this theory
does not take into account the farmers
story as to the collision, unless it be as
sumed that he and his negro helper were
| the highway men.
| DR.. Mcmillan was a tall man. with
black hair and heavy sidewhiskers. He
| is about thirty years of age and gradu-
ate of the medical department of John
! Hopkins University. He is son of the
Rev. George Mcmillan. president of the
| Steubenville, O., Presbyterian College.