Evening journal., 1901-03-14
HEARN WAS SHOT DOWN NEAR
HOME And CLUBBED TO DEATH
That Bluut Weapon Furnished FiendiSh Work Of The
Murderer After Revolver BuDgIed, Was Re-
Voaed by the PoSt-mMtcm

DelGiag was talking to Harrington
when q girl came up and said that Mr..
Hearn was dead. Belding started of
in a different direction when he wheel
Cd about ana asked If Mr. Hearn was
found dead? He then accompanied
Mr.. Harrington to where the body
laid. He said upon looking at the
body. ITS tco badl" He helped to
carry the body into the house Of his
brother. The doctogs agree that the
man was killed between 10 and II
o'clock in the morning.
WAS SHOT AND CLUBBED.
A post-mortem was held on the body
of Hearn last night in Franklin
Harringtons undertaking rooms. Dr.
b. l.. Lewis, Dr.. p. NJ Money and Dr..
T. G. Riley doing the work After the
pcst-mcrtem Dr. Lewis, as spokesmen
for the physicians. gave out the state
ment that a conclusion had been
reached. He said that Hearn was shot
by heavy calibre revolver and his
skull fractured by a blunt instrument.
Although the shooting was done at
close range and there were powder
marks on the face, the shot would not
necessarily have caused death. The
ball entered the left side Of the face
near the chin, splintering the bones
and coming out again on the right side
of the face. The blow with some blunt
weapon made a fracture of the skull at
the base of the brain and caused death.
I ONE EYE WITNESS TO DEED.
It was reported last evening that
there was but one person who saw Mr.
Hearn killed, and that could net be
verified. 1t was said that Miss Annie
Fleming. daughter of Ezekiel Fleming,
was looking out the kitchen window Of
her fathers residence when she saw
Hearn fall. She is said to be Of ner-
vcus disposition and turned faint at
the sight, although she was about two
squares away from the scene. The
Fleming family do not seem inclined
TO talk about the matter. but 1t is said
that the distance was tcO great for
Miss Fleming to recognize either the
assassin or his victim.
Another report is that Mr.. Fleming
saw Bedding walking about in the vi-
cin.ty Of ths murder with an axe on
his shoulder about the tim2 that the
murder is supposed TO have been COM
mitted.
Mr.. Fleming and William Needham
both heard the report of the revolver
th9t shot MIR. Hearn.
The theory now is that Mr.. Heara
was shot and afterwards dubbed to
death with a piece Of shingling lath
as there was a piece of lath on which
there was blood found near the scene.
DOG GUARDED DEAD MAN
When the body Of Hoam was dis.
covered small black dog owned by
Daniel Belding was lying az the feet
of the corpse and disputed the right of
anyone 70 touch the body The dog
was attached to the man in life and
had TO be driven away before the body
could be picked up.
WE'RE MANY WITNESSES.
At the inquest yesterday there war
about SO witnesses called and almost
all Of them had seen B6lding around
the scene of the murder during Tues
day morning and il locks bad for the
prisoner.
WIFE LIVES IN WILMINGTON
The prisoner is about 4S or 80 years
old, is marr ed but his wife has nOI
lived with him for several years. She
ard their granddaughter 1.-Two IN Pom
lar street in Wilmington. Beld ng has
been engaged In buying up old iron
and selling il, thereby making his liv-
ing. He was nervous yesterday morn
! ing, and though not a drinking man
asked one Of Mr.. Flem ng's sons to get
him half pint of brandy He Is some
what addicted to the use of morphine
and many persons think that the drug
has affected his brain.
THERE MAY BE OTHER ARRESTS
IT is reported that there are two
either persons under suspicion and
there may be one or more arrests be.
fore the day is over.