Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-19
/. GONE TO ETERNITY !!
The Four MurdefeIs Hanged
Promptly at 1890.
HILL SFATAERA WITNESS
OF the Laws Vengeance Friday
Morning,
IN THE JAIL AT GHESTERT0WN
ALarge Crowd of Visitors anc
Citizens Present.
GENERAL SATISFACTION EXPRESSE
IN THE JAIL AT GHESTERTOWN
ALarge Crowd of Visitors and
Citizens Present.
GENERAL SATISFACTION EXPRESSED

Frisbv Comecys, Moses Brown, Charles i
Brooks and Fletcher Williams, Four Of Z
the Colored Murderers of DIR. Hill Meet
the Full Penalty of the Law at 1850 !,
O'Clock Friday Afternoon in the Jail at I
Chestertown, MD. !.
Fpectal correspondence OF tiazette and Journal ,
CuEsTERTowN, Nh, Jan. LITTLE people !
of Chestertown were taken completely by
surprise by the governors action IN Sc
crety transferring four OF the I'M MUIR
derers from the Jail here to the state peni-
Tertiary at Baltimore. The official order |
which Sheriff Plummer received was as
follows:
stg: send by the bearer, Captain Lewis W;
Cadwallader, communication of sentence oil
Joshua Baynard, Henry Hurtt Louis Benson
and Charles $ Emory. and herewith REQUEST
you 10 deliver The prisoners Nance !" the
Maryland penitentiary. II YOU think " best
you to remain in Che7tertown. you, Of
course, will be somewhat surprised a. the SUD,
don appearance of Captain Cadwalildar. but
the necessities of the case demand II. charge
you to he careful that secrecy y preserved And
that the 70 men are delivered Instantly aboatd
the vessel which goes for them and safely con-
Quoted 10 the Maryland penitentiary. caution
your deputies that secrecy must De opSefyel,
and that nothing must Interfere Win Tins
order. If you prefer 10 come with the prisoners
yourself then deputze the men ! send as a
posse comitatus and bring tho prisoners as
above directed send by the captain BLANK |
papers with the names OF the deputies hlled III
so you can simply sign.
When il 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 remaining MUIR
derers would be lynched, and it was even
asserted that large body of armed men
from the vicinity OF kennedyYille and the
! upper districts of the county would come
tc, town tonight for the avowed purpose
( of lynching Fletcher Williams Charles
Brooks Moses Brown and Frisby ComeSys.
a careful canvass of those sections how
ever, fails to verify this report.
Mr.. Samuel Hill, father of the murdered
man, was seen at Kennedyville, which is
near his home. He was surrounded by
number of intimate friends. While dis,
pleased at the governors action, Mr.. Hill
and his friends stated that they would not
- ioin any movement toward lynching the
other prisoners, but would let the law take
its course. MIR. Hill said his wife was very
much Frustrated at the escape from hang,
ing Of the four prisoners. The doctor
widow and baby girl are in Baltimore
county with Mrs. Hills father.
Moses Brown, the Oldest Of the con-
demned men, said to day: II am not
guilty of this crime and now when see
n DEATH staring me in the face know will
not die with lie on my lips In Heaven
shall not have this crime to answer for
got myself in this hole by talking toe
much. can only speak for myself anc
to come and say goodbye, but guess tn
cold weather has caused her to give up thu
" trip did not know that the other boy
had been taken away until | awoke thi
morning"
While Brown was talking Frisb,
X Conveys, the smallest of the four prison
ers, was laughing and talking at the Gel
door. He seemed nnconCerned about hi
( fate. He denies that he had anything L
do with the crime He was IN the ce
with the boys who were taken away, an
was frightened when the police went int
the Jail He said he would rather ban
+, than go TO the penitentiary for NE, Vine
not talking Comegys would read a verse ]
his Bible He completed letter TO \
mother late this afternoon, in which
expresses his regrets that his body Will NJ
be taken in charge by his family. lie alS
gives instructions as 10 the disposal
several books which are now IN MS 20
session. These are to be distributed amor
his brothers and sisters.
Fletcher Williams and Charles Brook
the other two men, had little to say, 30
deny any knowledge of the crime.
i Charles Relch colored prisoner, VI
occupies an adjoining cell 70 the 60
denied men, was in q great state ut g
element when the posse arrived. Bel
I! thought it was a lynching party, and
y gan to explain that he was charged vi
'chicken stealing, not 'murder
has begged TO be put in another part Of t
TAIL for fear that By some mistake he
banged as one OF the prisoners.
F A dispatch from Miltington Kent coun
kf Saws: "GovernOr Brown was hung
w affigy in the streets uf Wilmington Z
tAk lyening."
ew THE WORK WAS MANAGEp--GovEES
"a BROWNS E%PLANATloN,
BALTIMORE, Nh, Jan. l2.-l'lans for
A \ moval of the four prisoners from Oh
IL srtown to Baltimore were secrcJ4H nj
& ~ 4 as secretly carried out lhe COVER
Al dEbrmed the police commissioners %
a ~ ~. l.te
~ asked the assistance of their Aeparmt
~ Nv The details were retrrredtu Police Mars
AAl Frey, who selected Captain Lewis I
,MI wallader Of the western district TO exec
NV hig orders. Governor Brown, Mars
% Frey and Captain ladwallader had i
ference Tuesday afternoon A tile 90
: Ag nor's office. The Communication ami IL
Ia necessary papers were prepared ana sli
by the governor and given to Captain :
NA wa!lader.
Marshal Frey then arranged with Nj
Hutton TO have the icebJat l.atr1b,
readiness of the upper quarantine s'4
W. Tuesday night to 50 TO Chestefto"n, NJ
~ they arrived at $50 O'Clock Nestei
morning Three detectives and ~ 3
more policemen We're taken along.
soon as the boat touched the wharfCap
Cadwallader and TIRES detectives c,
ashore and, alter instruCting Sers
Gilbert to follow with the patrnlnl
minutes later, hurried through the dese
-A streets of the town to the jail.
Before leaving Baltimore Captain
wallader had been given blank
missions, winch only needed the sigma
of Sheriff Plummer to make the q
party deputy sneriifs of Kent county.
commissions were only to lie II 5ued il
event OF trouble, but 50 luie, we're
movements of the party thai the Iact
they had been in ChesteFtowu Was
generally known until the Latr1De ";
her way back to Baltimore.
Arriving at the jail the guards
aroused and Sheriff rlummer was
for. The sheriff was in bed Sick 's'l
sent his vile to learn what was waite
hurried explanation from Captain
wallader served 20 convince Mrs. T
mer Of the peaceful intentions Of The
morning visitors When Sheriff Plan
came down stairs the Communication p
were given to him aud similar papers
left with the sheriff for the clerk d
circuit court sheriff Plummer soon
WINGED himself of the asnriness a