Evening journal., 1893-01-14
CLAMORED OYER IT.
Seemed TO Eevel iu- the Execution OF
Dr. Hill's Murderors.


seemed TO EeveI iu- the Execution OF
Dr. Hnl's murderors.
When the EVENING JOURNALS staff
correspondent left Chestertown last
evening order was gradually being re.
stored out of chaos and the hundreds Of
farmers and negroes, who had come from
all parts Of Kent and Queen Anne's
counties TO witness the execution of the
Hill murderers, were slowly leaving
town These people had come in every
imaginable sort Of a vehicle. from the old
green basket sleighs and the high and
rusty looking buggies, 70 the fashionable
cutter and the most pretentious sleighs.
During the execution of the four
negroes chaos and turbulence reigned in
the neighborhood Of tho jail such as had
never been seen in the county exciting as
similar events always are. The hundreds
of strong men outside the jail enclosure,
like the 250 deputy sheriifs, had shivered
with the cold until they could stand It no
longer and bottles passed around freely.
Then posse and morbidly curious spec
tators shook hands and the fence went
up in the air in splinters. Captains
attempted TO prevent the storm on the
Jail yard but they were only laughed at
and their weapons were qeietly taken
from them.
In the inviting little Court House,
where the deputies warmed themselves,
three prominent citizens who had taken
too much hot scotch went TO sleep In the
judges chairs. Occasionally they would
awake and, impersonating the presiding
| Judge, would call the court to order
Policeman Amos Kelly arrested one man
for drunkenness and the intoxicated
death watch who had made the
doomed men sing and dance, was chased
up stairs and placed In cell.
Before Brooks and Brown were hand.
cutfed, they each wrote a letter, reporters
helping them with their spelling Brown
wrote TO his mother and Brooks wrote
his letter for the United Press men. The
letter was literally as follows:
81 know nothing about the murder of
DR.. Hill / die an incent man.
CHARLES w. Brooks"
more barbarous looking set of men
than this quartet never stood on the
gallows. Their faces had the combined
expressions of idiots and brutes.
Then, too, the state had not provided
them with sufficient clothing to wear on
the gallows Nose Brown had no shoes
ON and wore pair of trousers that
looked us though they had been made
from quilt Frisby Comegys had one
shoe on and a soiled calico shirt and pair
of trousers. Brooks evidently attempted
to appear respectable for he had an old
blue necktie one end of which was care
fully tucked in his shirt. Williams
looked like tramp.
After the execution the four coifin'
were placed on two sleds and thus drawr
through the streets.
Colored men and women crowded int
the iailyard to see the much talked-of gal
lows during the afternoon. The rough
looking colored men stood In little knot
about town but seemed peaceably in
clined.
The whites were particularly angr
with Governor Frank Brown and If tina
official had struck town yesterday h
would have been roughly handled. "He'
committed political suicide, Lets shi
the other collins TO his home," 'Ilel
never have a chance 20 do it again. wer
some of the incendiary remarks hear
during the morning.
An Interesting feature of the day wa
the collection of arms brought there b
the sheriffs posse. Some had hintlOc
muskets, hammerless old rifles, Revolu
tionary War sabres and swords On
fellow had his sabre tied around his nee
and another had leftAis sword at HON
and brought the hilt.
The posse, however, prevented an
interference in the execution Of the fou
miserable negroes, although they coul
not prevent the mob from rushing i
upon them.
The murder of DR.. Hill was avenge
: and three of the hanged men died a
horrible a death as their victim, althoug
not without moments warning, as di
he.