The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-04-30
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
A Maryland Physician Found Dead in his
Carriage.

A Maryland Physician Found Dead in his
Carriage.
WELLINGTON. Md, April 2J.-Dr. John
NJ. Hill, died at his home at 3 u o'clock
Sunday afternoon of Injuries received in an
assault committed upon him after 1880
o'clock Saturday night.
On Saturday night John Reese, brother
| in-llw OF James Shaw, an overseer for Clar-
euce Huriock, came to DR.. HIli's office
about 10 o'clock and summoned him TO at.
tend Mrs. Shaw. DE-. Hill, at once left for
his patients home near Massey's. ShLw's
farm is the first on the left below Massey's.
and about three miles from Milling5on.
Dr.. Hill never reached the bedsid of the
sick woman. About o'clock Sunday
IN orning Mrs. Hill awoke and heard the
sound OF the dogCart coming up the lane to-
wards the house. She waited II few minutes
expecting her husband to come into the
house. He did not come, SO she dressed
and went down stairs and INTO the yard.
Tho horse attached to tue dogcart was III the
lane ready 10 he unhiIched. Gong to the
cart, Mrs. Hill found her us0Lnd lying face
downward III the cart. y grJan came from
his lips. Mrs. Hill! was just able to call tor
help.
j p. Ahern, the agent of the Miliugton
RAILROAD station, heard her call, and helped
to carry the unconscious physician into the
house. L. was found that he was wounded
upon the mead, apparently with CLUB that
his throat WAS cut upon the right side, eX-
posing the tongue, and that his left heel was
ground off
His body had been lying across the dog
cart, his head being under one OF the seat
llAr
had been struck by spokes of the wheel al
every revolution, grinding of the flesh aud
exposing the bone.
He regaIued consciousness, and died at
3 10 o'clock yesterday afternoon, without
leaving one word that might lead to the ap
prehensIOu of his ASSISTANTS.
luyeStig which were made go to
show the nature of he assault and false a
clue which may result in the capture OF the
assassius. About one.third OF the distance
between NlIlhugton and Massey's is hill
called Furd's Hill, which slopes into a
"boLtom." a run crosses the road il this
valley, aud it was III this bottom" that
DR.. I'LL. received the injuries which caused
his death. This is shown cOnciusively by
the marks made by The wheels If the cart
and the horses hoots. 1t looks as if the
horse had been stopped there while the
assault was committed. DR.. Hill was PRO-
baby first struck i'll the head with a
club and thereby knocked senseless. He
was struck i'll the head several times, and
then his throat was cut. 1t is believed thai
he was assaulted in the cart and was not
taken from II, but that after he had been
beaten insensible the assassins had placed
him across the cart so that he would not
fall out, and turned the horse loose.
A colored boy from Stonewall JOhusOu's
farm, two and one half miles from Milling
ton, was riding horseback tow ards Massey :
late Saturday night, when he passed several
colored men i'll the 70 al, and, after passing
them, he met a road-cart. He heard a groau
from the cart and supposed the man in il
was drunk aud did not stop to investig Ite
Two pools of blood were found in Ad ID
Huey's agricultural yard
The theory of the murder is that it was
committed by negroes who had been dis
pleased at DR.. HIPS testimony before IA
Corners jury in the case of one of their
companions who died in fight in John Nc
Whorter's restaurant on Christmas Eve.
There had been a fight between colored and
white men, aud the former were wOrsted
They lett the restaurant, and mere warned
not to come back. They were reinforced by
George Campbell and went back II the |
second fight Campbell was struck and died. |
At the inquest DIR. Hill testified that Camp
bell died of palIiJation Of the heart, brought
on by fright. DIR. Latimer, differed with |
Dr. Hill and testified that the negro's skull |
was fractured. The body was dsinterred, |
and it was found by careful examination |
that the skull was not fractured. The jury
rendered n verdict in accordance with DR. |
Hills evidence. Since then the negroes |
have often spoken OF the testi mOny, and II |
is believed that they determined that some
one should suffer for Campbeli'S death.
Corner DOdd summoned jury this after |
noon, and many witnesses we're examined. !
IL a III IL
post norton examination ofthe body, swure |
that death resulted from conclusion of the |
brain produced by a blow. The railroad agent
j. =. Ahern, was leading witness. SuS |
piclon has been aroused towards certain col |
Ored men, but no names have been made |
public. The colored people had party ON
Saturday night, in house to the right of
the road, in the bottom where the trag-
edy occurred and it is believed that some OF
them know great deal about 1t. No ar
rests have yet been made.
DR.. Hill, was the son of Samuel Hill, "A
farmer of kennedyville, Kent cOunty, Md.
He married Mis- Uric Bond, of near BAlt-
more, between one and two years ago Their
child is about one month old. DIR. Hill has
il brother, Walter 5 Hill, who is promi
nent commission merchant in New York.
DIR. HILLS SLAYERS CONFESS.
Since The above was put in type Charles
Brooks, Joshua B Iynard, Perry Bradshaw,
Henry HURT, Fletcher Williams, and Fris
Comegys, have been arrested as implicated
in the murder. Joshua Baynard having
III ade the following confession.
"We left Millington about 10. 80 O'Clock.
In the crowd were Charles Brooks, Fletcher
Williams, Perry Bradshaw, Henry HURT,
Charles Emory, Moses Brown. Fris COmegys
and myself When We had gotten about one
mile from town, beyond William Ford's
gate a dog cart caught up with H..
Fletcher Williams aud Charles Brooks
grabbed the horse by the bride and brought
the team to standstiIl In the cart WAS DR..
Hill. He didg'G know what sort of men he
had to deal with, aud said hardly word.
Without any provocatiOn William and
Brooks began swearing and uttertug threats
They then let go the bride and Fris Comegys
caught hold OF it. Williams stepped to the
back of the cart and stabbed the doctor
with a barlow pen-knife
Don't hurt me-" pleaded the doctor, and
| Just then Brooks struck him on the head
with a stone The injured man cried out
"Oh!'' and dropped to the bottom of the dog
| cart. Perry Bradshaw then took hold of
the doctor and placed his head in the posi-
| tion as found.
In the scuifls that was going on the team
must have been turned toward home, as
! Baynard positively asserts that the team
| WAS then headed toward MaSsey's, and
| running upon the side Ct bank, the horse
started otfat a RAPID rate with the uucon
scious man hall hanging from his cart.
| Blynard stated til ~ when the team came
| upon them he was Il little in advance OF the
| rest, but that when the blows were struck
| he WAS not more than five yards distant
The news that Baynafd had confessed
| spread like wild fire, ard it did not take il
very long to reach Chestertowu. The pris
oners were confronted 1T 11o'clOck to night