Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-18
DISAPPEARANCE OF DILL
A MYSTERY STILL.
Fell CT the Florence Belle
Eleven Days Ago and Has
Not Been Found.

His hat picked mp on sh0re--River
Dragged and ynamlited for more
than weekday have become de.
mented Was au expert swimmer
Carried Il roll II MONEY Statements
OF the Passengers.
The sudden disappearance of G. w.
Dill of Finleyyille, who is supposed
to have fallen off the Morgantown
packet Florence Belle at Gibsontown
Saturday night, November 5, is still
causing his family and friends deep
distress says the Pittsburg Post.
According to statements of persons
who were on board at the time, Mr..
DIPS disappearance occurred about
7:15 p. m. There were only five other
passengers on the boat among them
Thomas Binford and wife, of Du-
quesne. Mr.. Binford and Mr.. Dill
had been walking up and down the
deck engaged in conversation. 1t
had grown dark, and Mr.. Binford re-
tired to the cabin and joined his wife,
He says he remembers that Mr.. Dill
walked toward the stern Of the boat.
Just after he had got inside the cabin
he heard splash and called his wife's
attention to it. He reported the oc-
i curence TO Captain Hudson. A search
was made for Mr.. Dill, but he could
not be found. The Beat was just
swinging out from Gibson's landing
when the incident occurred. The
mans overcoat was hanging where he
had left it, but there was no other
trace of him.
Captain Hudson decided not to re-
port the case to the mans family I'M
] til his death had been made certain.
1t was Tuesday before Mrs. Dill heard
about it. Sunday morning couple
of boys found hat lying on the river
shore, about 200 yards below Gibson's
landing. The hat was identified as
Mr.. Dill's. And here is the strangest
fact in the matter. The boys say the
hat was not wet, and did not look as
if it had been in the river. Mrs.
Dill'S says her husband was an expert
Sswimmer. She also says he received
a bad injury to his head about year
ago which left a deep scar over his
left eye. Since that accident he had
shown disposition to be forgetful.
The doctor who attended him also
noticed this effect upon his mind.
From these facts the theory has been
advanced that the man jumped over
| board in a fit of dementia, swan
/ ashore aud cut into the country.
| The river has been dragged and
4 dynamited for more than mile be-
t low the scene of the disappearance,
4 and the search was given up only
/ yesterday. Gibsontown is about q
The wife came to Pittsburg yesterday
and visited all the hospitals in the
/ hope of finding her husband She
clings to the belief that he is alive
and cannot give an intelligent &C
count of himself She also laid the
! case before the police.
| Mr.. Dill was the owner of butcher
shop at Morgantown. At the time
Of his disappearance he was on his
way home to vote. The clerk on the
boat says he displayed big roll of
money when he was paying for his
| passage, He was six feet six inches
tall, and man of pleasing appearance.
Besides the scar on his forehead he
! had another on the right side OF his
face, the mark of a broken jaw He
had black hair and small brown
smustache. He wore dark gray suit,
and carried gold watch and chain.
For tine prior TO three years ago
Mr.. Dill and his family lived at 376
Lehigh avenue, East End, He was
then employed by the Carnegie Steel
Company as a rig builder. He had
been in the oil business, and is wide
ly known among oil men.
UNKNOWN KILLED AT coNNELLsv1LLE.
8 CoNNELLsvILLE, PA, Nov. ia t
1.-THE morgue of Morris q Co., this
fplace, there lies the body of an un-
known man who was killed on Sat
urday by passenger train. The
I publication this morning in The
4 Post" of picture Of G. w. Dill, who
so mysteriously disappeared from
Finleyville, arouses the suspicion
I that the unknown man here is Dill.
The unknown is about six feet tall,
Z has dark hair and short, brown
y mustache, and is about 25 or 80 yrs.
of age Above the eye is a scar, but
Nwhether this was inflicted when he
was killed or before it is difficult to
!, distinguish. When he was hit by
! the train the top of his head was