Evening journal., 1893-01-12

themselves on board the Latrobe. They |
were told to dress as quickly as possible, |
and In few minutes were on their way |
TO the steamer, which they reached just |
twenty-three minutes after she had
touched her wharf. No time was lost.
The ropes were cast off and the Latrobe
started on her return to Bal alsimore. She
reached the entrance of the harbor
about o'clock in the afternoon. and at
l. 45 was tied up at pier z, Light street
harf. The central district patrol
wagon was summoned, and the four
boys. accompanied by Captain Cadwalla-
der. Detective Pumphrey, Hagan and
Seibold and Sergeant Gilbert, were
driven to the penitentiary, where they
arrived at 215. and, by direction of
Warden Weyler, were taken at once to
the bath room. They afterward had their
hair cut close and their clothing was
exchanged for suits of the regulation
striped clothing. Today the boys will
be photogra phed and measured by the
Bertillon system. They will also under
go physical examination and then be
assigned to work.
Governor Brown Gives His Reasons.
The governor then for the first time
announced his decision by saying:
II have commuted to Imprisonment for
life at hard labor in the state penitentiary
Henry Hutt, Charles S. Emory, Joshua
Barnard and Lewis Benson, who were to
have been hanged with the other four
on Friday next for the murder of DR.. J.
H. Hill.
my reasons for this action are many
have been troubled more over this case
than over all other things that have
come before me since / became governor.
Protecting nIaryiand's Fair Fame.
''I came to the conclusion that the
ends Of Justice, the ends of right, should
in this case be tempered with mercy.
had also to protect the fair fame of
Maryland.
Such a wholesale execution as this
would have been has never been heard of
before in the criminal annals of the whole
country. The whole country was aroused
over it, The murdered man will be
amply avenged, the outraged law of the
state will be carried out by the execution
of the four whose sentences have not
been commuted and the fair name of
Maryland will be preserved from the
stain that would have been inflicted on
it by the execution of those ignorant
boys. who were, in all probability, the
unwilling witness of a crime they were
powerless TO prevent.
Angry Threats of Lynchisg.
Dispatches from Chestertown and
other points on the Eastern Shore to-
night state that the indignation over
the governors action is intense, some of
the angry citizens going so far as to
make threats against the life of the
governor The four condemned men will
be hanged on Friday, if they are not
ly nched before.
Some citizens of Chestertown this
after noon were threatening to lynch the
negroes to night. They said they were
not going to give a weak kneed governor
an opportunity to do any more repriev-
| ing. The sheriff has placed an extra
guard about the jail and does not think
the wild talk will result in any serious
trouble.
Opposition and Approval of the Action
The people of Chestertown were taken
completely by surprise by the governors
action. The official order which Sheriff
Plummer received was as follows: "Sir
I send by the bearer, Captain Lewis w
Cadwallader, Communication of sentence Of
Joshua Baynard, Henry Hurtt, Louis
Benson and Charles s. Emory, and
herewith request you to deliver the
prisoners named to the Maryland peni-
tentiary If you think it best you are to
remain in Chestertown. You. of course,
will be somewhat surprised at the sudden
appearance of Captain Cadwallader, but
the necessities of the case demand it. !
charge you to be careful that secrecy is
preserved and that these men are de-
livered instantly aboard the vessel which
goes for them and safely conducted TO
the Maryland penitentiary. Caution
your deputies that secrecy must be
observed, and that nothing must inter
fere with this order If you prefer to
come with the prisoners yourself, then
deputize the men send as a posse
comitatus and bring the prisoners as
above directed. / send by the captain
blank papers with the names OF the
deputies filled in so you can simply
sign"
When it became known that the lives
of four of the prisoners had been saved by
executive clemency indignation was ex-
pressed by many Of the residents of Ches.
tertown, while others, who had been in.
strumental in working such an end, were
well pleased. The indignant ones
loudly proclaimed that the four remain
ing murderers would be lynched, and IL
was even asserted that a large body oil
armed men from the vicinity Of Kennedy
vile and the upper districts of the
county would come to town tonight fol
, the avowed purpose of lynching Fletcher
Williams, Charles Brooks, Moses Brown
, and Frisby Comegys. A careful canvass
of those sections, however, failed t
verify this report.
DIR. Hills Family.
Samuel Hill, father of the murdered
man, was seen at Kennedyville, which il
near his home. He was surrounded b,
a number Of intimate friends Whil'
displeased at the governors action, Mr.
Hill and his friends stated that the,
: would not join any movement towar'
lynching the other prisoners, but voull
let the law take its course. Mr. Hill
I said his wife was very much prostratel
at the escape from hanging of the fou
prisoners. The doctors widow and bah,
| girl are in Baltimore county with Mrs