The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-15
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Mysterious Murder ID Has "a q!
Connection Here.
CLOTHES sGAvE CLUE. {.
Said that He Was From Kentucky
and North Carolina.
ALIVE SATURDAY. MORNING. /
The Thcorle. :, 10 the Po..,ble My,-
der Implicate Negroes and
Supposed partner" Of the
Dead Man, VINO
Has Dlsap.
| peared.
ALIVE SATURDAY. MORNING.

peared. 30
Developments Of yesterday D41vU 60
clustvely that the white man npsuza mur-
dered In an empty freight car. MsuA
Central. No.. 66'13. at Mineral Caky. Va..
Saturday evening. as told. epcinsaye1U n &
The Times OF Sunday morning. did no&
meet his death in this city. II. indeed MS
had ever been here, that the bundle OF
Clothes found in the branch at Oak
Creek. this city. were not his proua9ty.
and. further it was learned from the
statement made by the murdered man
prior to his death. that his name Was
HixIey; that he was a SCHOOL teacner
originally from Kentucky, and more ~
Gently from North Carolina. At tbs same
time another mystery IS added to ths
list of murder mysteries OF the State
In Mineral three men. supposed TO ha
tramps, who reported the finding OF tho
body to the authorities OF that town. and 4
who disappeared Immediately afterwards
are being sought for. and two negroes
who were seen in the freight car few
hours before the finding OF the body
of the murdered man, are suspected The
three supposed tramps gave their names
as James King. Warren Joice and John
Shea, and said, at fte time OF reporting
the finding OF the body on Saturday af-sT
ternoon, that they had walked from this
city to Mineral, leaving here on Tues
day. There is no police record which
shows that they were in custody hsre.
WAS ALIVE SaTURDAf.s
The fact that the man supposed to be-
Hixley was not murdered here Or en- route
between this city and Mineral Is demon-'
strated by the fact that on last Saturday.
morning he called az the home OF a sciti.s
zen OF Mineral and received his !hreakfast
The freight car IN which the body waSs
found left this city on Thursday anehe
| reached Mineral on Thursday night. Hix-s
ley is supposed to have been murdered
| about 12 or 1 o'clock on Saturday ! wo
negroes were seen in the car where he:
was found about or 10 o'clock on Sat-
urday morning and they have disappear
ed. No one in Mineral seems to know
who they were. s q
In connection with the fact that the
body found at Mineral was almost nude
and the finding Of q bundle OF clothes In
this city with letters on it ind.catirS
that they had belonged u to Guersdorf
Taylor, of F1annagan's Mills, Columbia
county, there were conclusions drawn
which would indicate that the murder
| might have been committed here. A tel
egram from Baltimore to The Times last
| night, however. stated that the woman
who signed herself mother and who
wrote the letters which were found IN. the
clothing here. is negro. The murdered
man was white. 4E u;
- WANT MYSTERY CLEARED.
Now, the mystery seems to be q Mineral
affair entirely. The authorities there it.
would seem from special adivces received
by this paper, have not yet taken radical
| steps to find the murtie-ers, but they Will
probably do so at once. as there Is an
earnest desire in Mineral to have the
mystery cleared up. The murdered man
is described as having been five feet Sic:
inches tail, slender, weighing possibly
to6 or 1sO pounds: thlrty-hve years DID,
with hair slightly gray and wearing q
small. dark moustacha Further. he wa.
evidently man OF refinement. and his
hands showed no traces of ever having
been actively employed In labor. This
would seem to bear out the statement
that he had been a scool teacher. all
though it is not known from what por-s
ton OF Kentucky and North Carolina he
came. -
About 8 o'clock Saturday evening tbs
three supposed tranps-king. Joice and
| Shea-reported the finding OF the body In.
a box car to Dr. w. j. Coleman and the
Chesapeake ard Ohio Railroad agent. Mr.
| Keller. a Mineral. It seems from their.
statements. made at the time. that they
were seeking temporary lodging place
| in the car when they came upon the
body. The car was standing at West
| Spur tracks, some little distance from
Mineral After reporting this md the
three men went away and from that tins
to this have not been seem. -
HOW BODY WAS FOUND.
Investigation was Immediately made ~
the men to whom the find had been re-
# ported The BODY was found towarH one
s end of the car. face downward and with
the arms folded underneath and almost
nude lcns wound In the back of the
skull showed the cause OF death. The
skull had been fractured An iron Tar
lying near was evfdantrv the weapon
which had been used for the murder b1e
strangely enough there were no b,ood
spots on il. Blood which had mn frern
the nose showed that there hal ben an 4
internal hemorrhage after the a~ss. .1t.s
here were no napers or anyti,..e OF th-.
& kind to give the slightest clue tn tt1r deaif
mans identity.
coroner's Jury: was Immediately I'M
panel1ed consisting OF Mr. Thomas En-
mis-. Mr.. Kean. Mr. Nassfe. ME- w. MI
s ahsde. DIV Z. Coleman. Chart ara
6 L.. A. Keller. and after everything nos
asible had been learned q verdict of m,irz
{ der at the hands OF persons unknovn
& was rendered. After the three mon had
IS gone awav. CAPTAIN r. r. Buruham re-
8Eorted having seen two negross. Il, the CO
& a short while before sthe rr1ytier q 80.
posed to have b@enx Committee
PARTNER IS MISSING.
Still another theory which u bean1
worked by those sinterseted Sfns the case.
: Is that some one whom iHixieyskneM.s shad
& something to do with the crime whea
he called at the homo OF Mr, Jack Hicks
e aud had sbreakfastson TIE NOR rnfYe hASoro