The Washington times., 1895-03-22
Brutal Deed of Two Drunken Ma
rines from the Barracks.
SERGEANT HILL rs ARRESTED
He and Private Patrick Keely Broke Into
the Ohio Avenue Stock Yard and Seized a
Calf Whose Cries Had Attracted Them
They Beat in Its Head and Slit its Throat
Policemen Prevent Further Brutality.

An arrest (which promises to develop
an undiiuted mixture of cr.me and cruelty,
was made by Precinct Detective Helan, of
the First. and Headquarters Detective
Lacey yesterday afternoon. The man
taken into custody is Harry Hill, twenty
six years of age, and a sergeant OF United
States marines, stationed at the barracks
on Eighth street southeast.
The charge against Hill is housebreaking
in the night. and the complainantis is Edward
b. Crane, of Center Market. Behind this
serious charge is a story that for brutality
and human deviltry smacks somewhat of
the Jack, the Ripper or the Jekyl and
Hyde order.
At 3 o'clock on the morning OF November
Is. while Policemen Sears and Nelson,
of the First precinct, were patroling their
beat in the vicinity of the stock or drove
yards, corner of Twelfth street and Ohio
avenue northwest, they noticed man
dessed in uniform prowling about the yards,
and supposing that he had been drinking
and was belated, they ordered him to move
on, which he did, and soon disappeared in
the darkness.
DEAD CALF WAS FOUND.
A few minutes later the officers found
on tho sidewalk. near where the blue-clad
individual had been standing, a calf lying
dead, with its head beaten in, and its
throat cut. Upon further search they
discovered that the drove yard had been
broken into and the calf killed, and dragged
out TO the street. A search was then made
for the man in blue, but he could not be
found.
At that time it was not known whether
the suspicious stranger was an artillery
man from the arsenal, cavalryman from
Fort Myer, marine or member OF the
District National Guard, and as there are
several thousand of men in the District and
vicinity who wear uniforms of blue, the
police had but slender clue to work
upon
Detective Helan was assigned to the
case. He found long piece of blood
despatched gas pipe in the drove yard
with which the calf had been beaten, and
another calf, which, no doubt, was to
have been tortured in a similar manner, had
not Policemen Sears and Nelson appeared
as soon as they did.
ARRESTED SERGT. HILL.
This thread OF evidence was followed
until sergt. Hills arrest followed yesterday.
station and finally admitted that he COM
Knitted the act. He was i'll company at the
time with another marine named Patrick
Keely, who had gone back into the drove
yard to kill the second calf, when he
heard the police order Hill away. Keely
then concealed himself until an opportunity
for his escape from the yards was offered.
Hill could offer no other explanation why
he entered the place and killed the animal
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whisky, and that the deed was suggested
by their hearing the calves crying as they
passed by the place.
Detectives Helan and Lacey went to the
marine barracks last evening to arrest
Patrick Keeiy, but found that he was
awaiting sentence OF a general court
martial for a serious offense committed
against the United States naval statutes.
Hill viii be given a hearing in Judge
Mller's court this morning.
II is also understood that dishonorable
discharge from the Navy awaits him.