Evening journal., 1892-10-18
FOR DR.. HILLS MURDER.
The Sensational Trial Practi-
cally Begun.
GREAT INTEREST IN KENT COUNTY.


with the Murder Of DR.. J. Heighe
Hill, of Mnington.
Special Dispatch to the Evening Journal.
CHEsTERTowN, Md, Oct 1S.-This
morning the grand jury of Kent county
retired to hear testimony in the Hill
murder case, which promises to be
one of the most sensational in
the annals of crime in this county. The
jury will probably report to the court be-
fore adjournment this evening. The prison
ers charged with the foul murder of Dr.
j. Heighe Hill, the prominent young Kent
county physician on the Millington
road are Fletcher Williams, Charles
Brooks, Henry Hurtt, Moses Brown,
Steve Cooper Lewis Benson, Fris5y
Comegys, Perry Bradshaw, Charles
Emory, John Potts, Philip Mauder,
! Joshua Baynard, Henry Hynson
! Walter Roe, John Harrison and Frank
Baynard. Some of these are only held as
1 witnesses, and until the grand jury
brings in indictments it will not be posi-
lively known how many of the sixteen
will be implicated directly in the murder.
It is said that greater interest is centered
in the coming trial of the negroes now in
Jail in Chestertown than in any case that
has been tried in that judicial circuit
within the past twenty years. It is the
opinion held by many here that before
the close of the trial others. whose names
have not yet been mentioned, will be
drawn into the case, involving, possibly,
many persons in the Millington district,
where DR. Hill was murdered on the
night of Saturday, April % last.
The opinion holds that motive
for the crime is traceable to
the certificate Of death given by
DIR. Hill that Thomas Campbell, a cOlored
man, who died five minutes after being
hit in a scufile that occurred between
some white and colored men in a saloon
in Millington on Christmas eve last,
might have died of heart disease. No
arrests were made in that case. DR.. Hill
made the post-mortem examination on
Campbell After that, it is claimed, the
colored people in the vicinity were fire.
quently heard to make threats that
unless something was done with some
white men for the death OF Campbell
some white man should be made TO suffer
by way OF vengeance. Others hold that
the murder was not premeditated, but
was done on the impulse of the moment.
Strong Efforts to Prevent Lynching
At the time of the murder. and when
the prisoners were arrested and lodged in
iail. SO intense was the excitement and
Indignation that threats of lynching
we're openly expressed. Public anger
was especially directed against Perry
Bradshaw. Frisby Comegys, Fletcher
Williams and Charles Brooks, who were
charged by the coroner's jury with tn,
murder To protect the prisoners from
lynching Sheriff Plummer took them to
Baltimore This was done on Friday,
April 29 The four were brought bach
to Chestertown on June 1 and now oc
cupy four cells on the first floor of the
Jail. The other twelve are in cells up
stairs Sheriff Plummer is guarding his
prisoners very carefully, both against
possible lynchers OF a jail-break. Th'
sheriff and his brother are on guard all
the time powerful and savage Sibe
: rian bloodhound is chained up in the YarC
! in the daytime, but at night is turned
loose.
, 1t is not thought that lynching will b.
ATTEMPTED, the disposition seeming to b.
to let the law take its course.
a Mrs. Hill at the Trial.
Last Friday Mr. Hill, the father of
Dr. Hill. and his wife went to Baltimore
to bring his sons widow over in readi
ness for the trial He says he is hope
full that she will be able to go through
with the ordeal of being in court with
! out breaking down entirely, although
her husbands death in such a horribl
: way was an awful shock to her nervou
system Mrs. Hill has her baby will
her. 1t is a bright, pretty, chubby lit
tie girl, eight months old, having beei
5 born about six weeks before the death o
it's father. the doctor. The baby
named Ethel Heighe, the middle nam
being the same as the fathers. Mrs
5 Hill and all at the hous
call the baby Heighe. Mrs Hill
the widow is a very pretty woman
!, She is small in stature, but well nodded
Her eyes and hair are very dark and sh
= has pure white complexion Just no'
her expression is very sad and the loo
$ from her eyes reveals the fact that
Z. heavy sorrow is weighing her down.
y Mrs. Hills maiden name was Arrele
y Bond and she is the oldest daughter {
u BENJAMIN +. Bond, farmer Of Patapsc
Neck, in the twelfth district of BaltimOl
county. Mrs Hill was born on her fail
er farm, which rs near the smell rOal
y, about five miles from Baltimore. Sh
q lived there until her marriage to ID
ls Hill. in the fall of 1889 Mrs Hill sal
u y she met the Doctor at the head Of Sass
u fras, where she visited and where /
u practiced for year before removing
lSS Millington.
n A Review of the Tragic Story.
s. The full story of the murder of d
" Hill was first told to the world by IL
" EVENING JOURNAL on the day followiI
Dr. Hills death The tragedy occurre
on the night of Saturday. April 23, 1S9
The Doctor had been to a meeting in Il
Office Of Justice johnson, opposite h
10 home. in Milington, where a ClevelaT
>. Democratic club was organized and u
doctor was made president. He lie
'I there shortly after 10 o'clock to visit Il
" sick child of James Shaw, who live
n about five miles from Millington. Tn
u was the last seen Of DIR. Hill in Il
~ strength and vigor of manhood. AS su
- sequent events proved he never reach'
90 Mr.. Shaw's. but instead in the ear
W dawn of Sunday morning following, Il
"A doctors bruised and bleeding body w