Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

son, Charles s. Emory and Hem
Hnrtt-are about seventeen yeals I
age.
Before April % Brooks, William
and probably Brown formed conspir
acy TO kill DR.. Hill rs he passed alon
road from Millington TO Massey
Station. They went to Ford's Hill q
this road, waited for him, seized hi
horse's bride as he drove along in hi
road-cart and said they were about Il
kill him. He begged for mercy, Offered
them money and said he never injure'
them, but had befriended them.
Cemegys held the horse, Brook
struck the doctor twice in the heat
with stone, Williams and Brown
plunged their knives into his necl
and body. The others assisted
it is said 10 fasten the DOCTORS bod
in his cart so as to make u look as if i
Was All accident.
The horse was then started home
ward, and u: dawn the next morning
Mrs. Hill found the cart with her hus
bands body at the front door. Sht
was awakened at 4 O'Clock by the sounC
of wheels, waited for the Doctor tt
s. able his horse, and becoming alarmed
descended to the yard and made the
discovery. A groan escaped him wheI
she arrived. He was carr led into The
house and died at $3.50 p. m. that day.
The Coroner's jury brought in YER
dict of accidental death, but Ex-PrOse'
cutor Vickers at once pronounced it d
Two Thousand dollars was
placed al his disposal To- ferret out the
crime, and through the agency of ex-
pert detectives is Nas fastened upon
the NEIL who paid the penalty with
their lives yesterday, and the others
whose lives will be passed within the
prison walls.
SKETCH OF DIR. HILL.
DR.. James Heighe Hill was son of
Samuel f. Hill, who went to Kent
county from Odessa, Del, in 1857,
with his wife, who was Miss Hester
of Philadelphia. Mr.. Hill
went to live on the Polk farm, near
Locust Grove, and il WAS there DIR.
Hill was born ahd raised. The Doctor
VAS named after DR.. James Heighe,
Sho, in his time. Was one of the most
prominent physicians in the upper Part
If Kent county. Young Hill Was tdu.
,ateu at the public school at Locust
irove, and while still schooll,ny
ipent his spare moments in the drug
store of his bruther-in-Iaw, George M.
.easlen. He afIerward went to Phila-
lelphia with the intention of making
pharmacy his business. After being
n drug store for awhile he cOnclud-
ID to study medicine and entered the
University of Pennsy lvania at PIila-
Ielphia. He was graduated in 1885 at
he age of twenty-three and practiced
or awhile near his hume, at he head
f Sassafras river. 1t WAS There he
net his wife. After year at this
lace DIR. Hill bought Evans drug
toe. at Millington, which he conduct
d in connection with h $ practice as Il
MUSICIAN. He had lived at Millington
bout two years and a-lialf before he
Ot married.
DR.. Hill was feet 6 inches tall and
weighed about 140 pounds. He had
aik hair and eyes, and wore a slight
nuStache AMI close-cut English side
yhiskers. He would have been thirty
ears of age on the 10th of last May.
His grave is in Shre~s sbury Cemetery,
Iear Galena, where the tall spire of
Protestant Episcopal
Jhureh, the oldest parish in Kent
ounty, can be s,.en from great dis
ancp. Mr.. Samuel Hill has five chill
Ireu living. They are Mrs. Geo. M.
}tilsteli, of Locust Grove; Charles 5.
I'LL, who is livin on DR.. Blacks
arm, near Locust Grove; Henry F.
Hill, who resides on Dudley's farm,
ear Lynch's station; Waller S. Hill,
ho is in the commission business in
lew York, and Miss Maggie Hill.
!, hu lives al home with her parents.
since the death of her husband Mrs
Dr.. Hill has Spent most of her time
ith her falher-in-law, but has made
everal visits to her father, at Pataps' o
Seck, Baltimore county.
Mrs. Hill's maiden name Mas Arlelee
3ond, and she is he eldest daughter
# Mr.. Benjamin f. Bond, farmer.
drs. Hill was born on her fathers
arm. which is near the shell road,
bout five miles from Baltimore. She
ived there until her marriage to DR..
Hill, in the fall of 1890. Mrs. Hill
IA id she met the Doctor at the head of
where she visited, and where
le practiced for a year before remov-
ng to Millington. Mrs. dill's baby is
little girl, nine months old, having
,een born about six weeks before the
Ieatl of the father. The baby is named
ethel Heighe, the middle name
,eing the same as the fathers. Mrs.
Hill and all the family call the baby
Ieighe. 1t has pretty dark blue eyes
nd light hair. Mis-. Hill, the widow,
5 very pretty.
To Beautify the Parsonage.