Smyrna times., 1892-04-27
HUNTING FOR CLUES.

hONAANd FOk CLUES.
Parties started out early in the morn.
Ing to hunt for clues. The track of
the cart was recognized, and near
FOrd's Hill, half mile from Milling.
ton, 1t was seen v here the vehicle had
oeen run up on an embaukment almost
far enough to Overrun IL. A short dis.
tance beyond stands an old near traa
and around this seemed to be signs of
scutne. Near this place DR.. Hilrs
nat was found. Further on was found
the heel OF his shoe; still further the
shoe itself, and little further his
stocking. At Addison Huey's granary
at Massey's Station, where a stock of
agricultural implements is kept, were
iound pools of blood. The tracks
showed the cart went up to the gran
ary' around it, through wagons and
implements and back over the same
road to MillingtOn,
One of the mysteries in the case is
The whereabouts of DR.. Hill's cart after
ne left MillingtOn. Half an hour after
he left town William Darrell went
over the same road to IA point near
Massey's, and saw nothing Of him.
shortly after this Watson Spear,
clerk in DIR. Hills drug store, drove
along the same way to Massey's and
saw no trace of him. A cOlOred boy
riding along the road said a rOadcart
passed him near Massey's, the horse
going at rapid trOt, the occupant of
the cart lying down in the foot, appar-
emily drunk. Both Darrell and Spear
passed crowds of cOlOred men along
the road.
The drive to Massey's and back
under ordinary circumstances would
not take more than an hour and the
remaining five hours cannot be ac.
counted for except by the supposition
that the Doctor was assaulted and
taken into the bushes along the road
near Massey's and kept until Sunday
morning, the horse then being led |
around and started hOmeward. 1t is |
said that it would be next to impossi- |
ble for the position in which he was |
found to result from an accident. The |
general impression is that he was given |
the blow that killed him and then was |
fixed in the position.
The cut, the physicians agree, was
caused by his jaw-bone striking some
part of the cart cutting through the
flesh.
THREATS AGAINST HIM.
On Saturday night the colored peo-
pie of the peighborhood held party
at Steve CoOper's house, on the farm
Of A. Hendrickson, near Massey's.
Wit1esses testified that Fletcher Cooper
had attended the party. This Cooper
denies, He could not give q setistae,,
tory account of bis whereabouts and |
for this reason was held.
The only motive for murder ~ pr.
Hills case lies in the fact that threats
are said to have been made by oolored
men that some white man would have
10 pay for the failure TO arrest any one
for the killing of colored man at Mil {
Iington on Christmas Eve. A eolored c
man was killed in q saloon. He had
Deen given a blow on the head, il is a
,aid by white man.
Drs. Hill and Todd made the autopsy
IN that occasion and testified that the
blow was not sufficient to cause death. y
md that the death might have resulted u
rom fright or heart disease. Then. IL :
3 said that some of the eOlOred peoDle h
wore that some white man snonld q
uHer for the negro's death. Il
DR.. Hill was u well. known man and r.
'as the physician fog the Queen Anne u
nd Kent kailroad.'' He was raised AZ ~