The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-07-29
Maid at Barnett House Makes Startling Discovery Saturday Morning.
Vincent Hill Of Cairo Found With His Skull Crushed as With
Blunt Instrument and Face Badly Cut
Authorities Very Slow to Accept Theory of Murder,
Which is the Only Plausible Explanation of the
DEATH Coroner Postpones Inquest.


was intoxicated and started with him
to the fourth floor. Hill was groaning
as II in pan and wanted to sit down
several times. He talked nationally,
however. After he had reached the
fourth icor he sat down in the hall
before reaching his room. The boy in
sisted on his getting up. and he finally
did with such assistance as the boy
was able to give him. When he got hI-
to the room, he asked the boy to op n
the windows, as he want-d air. This
he hoy did and, say ng good night to
the man, closed the door and went out.
Hill had told the bell boy after reach
ing the room that he was sick and dia
not feel good.
When Hill was found his holy was
warm aud mad not become rigid. Dr.
Post thought he had been dead Pc.
haps an hour or a little more He was
lying uron his face, apparently just as
he had fallen out of bed. He had un-
dressed aud hung his clothes up aid
put on night sh TT showing tnat If
intoxicated he was not 50 much so that
ne knew what he was doing. On his
pillow was IL little dried b'ood that gave
the impression that he had been bleed
ing before he attempted to get up. The
blood on the bed was not in such
quaint tes as upon the floor.
BLOOD ON THE DOOR.
Upon the door where he had fallen
was large dash of blood, but thcre
was nothing anywhere near the body
that could have made even the sharp
cuts upon his nose and face. The
room is a narrow one and the bed
comes close to the door, there not be-
ing over four feet of space between the
he'd and the wall.
When Coroner Schuffell arrived he
TOOK charge of the mans effects. in
.cluding a number of letters.
There was a theory advanced that
perhaps Hill had been waylaid but
this is not thought to have been the
case. He was not man who had
large sums of money. He had owned a
farm near Cairo. but some time ago
he turned it over to his creditors,
who had claims upon 1t.
The dead man is we'll known in
Canton, as he has been here almo-t
every day for several months back.
lie had trouble with his wife and she
had left him, so reports say. because
Of his dissipation. He has been hang
ing about the city ever since, except
occasionally he went home or away en-
DuSlnSsS trlpS.
Vincent Hill was the son of John
Hill, formerly a well known merchant
at Middlebranch. After the death of
his father he moved to the farm. In
earlier life he taught school and was
man of some education. 1t is said
that his mother lives in New Berlin.
He was a man about As years of age,
Of medium height, light complexion,
weigh'ng nearly 200 pounds.
HAD BEEN ARRESTED.
On the second day of July he was In
Canton and became intoxicated. The
police gathered him in and kept him
until he had sobered up. He then had
with him a little over SIG. He was
fined nominal sum and Mayor Rob-
ertson advised him to remain sober
1t is said that when intoxicated his
manner was sometimes calculated to
give offense, but those who knew him
oesa seldom became angry with him
for the reason that they knew that he
did not mean to offend anyone.
HIS BROTHER HERE.
Coroner Schuffell telephoned to the
home of John S. Hill. the brother OF
The dead man. at Cuyahoga Falls, and
his wife telephoned back that her hus-
band was working on the Mckinley
hotel, being a painter. About o'cloct
the coroner went Ito the hotel ant
found the man and notified him of his
brothers death.