Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-08-30

Tena stayed and slept the whole night
through in his fathers arms. But the
parting Yesterday morning was pitiful
Asbury strained him to his heart time
and again, and seemed to feel that his
little son was the one link that bound
him to this life, while the little one seem.
ed to feel the seriousness of the occasion
and failed to prattle in his usual man
ner but gazed with wondering eyes at
his father. whose twitching face, as
Tema, was borne away, gave evidence
that human love stilled filled his heart
and swayed his soul.
Sheriff Whaley's special deputies
were:
Thomas j. Herman, Geo. w. Truitt,
N. J. Mock, George w. Purnell. Joshua
Carey, Ex-Sheriff William +. Landlord,
William Hill, William Hillman, Sidney
w. Adkins. Samuel NJ. Atkinson, Geo.
A. Harrison. George l.. Williams, Ed
ward Herman. X. Q. Ryan. George Will
liams. @. w. Purnell. Philip Timmons.
Jerome Herman, Edward II. Powell.
STORY OF THE CRIME.
Asbury Dixon and Lizzie Borden lived
together as man and wife about six
miles from Snow Hill. Dixon had
a son about nine years old by for
mer wife and Lizzie had sou about
the same age by former husband. They
all got along very peaceably when Dixon
was sober but when he was drinking.
as was frequently the case, he and the
woman often had violent quarrels. The
murder was committed Sunday night.
December LIST. 1901 Elijah J. Shockley.
"a prosperous farmer and lumber man
for whom Dixon worked, met him in
Snow Hill Saturday afternoon. Nov. 80.
Mr.. Shockley noticed that he had been
drinking aud when Dixon asked to be
taken out home by him he warned
him not to drink any more under penal
ty of being left in town to get home as
he could. Apparently he did not drink
any more, but when he got i'll the car
riage, Mr.. Shockley found he had a
pint bottle in his pocket. On the way
home he started to take drink but Mr..
Shockley stopped him. When they got
to Mr.. Shockley's house. however, Dix
on took another drink while he was in
the barn yard So far as the evidence
showed he was not seen again until the
next morning when two colored men
We're hailed by him in passing his house
and requested To bring him some wills
key from town. Another witness testi-
fled that about four clock in the after
noon he was seen lying in a drunken
stupor along the county road half a
mile from his house.
One of the men who had been asked
to get the whiskey for him testified that
about dark Sunday night he took him
pint; that Dixon came to the door. took
the bottle and drank nearly all the
whiskey right away. All the evidence
about the whiskey was introduced by
the defence To show that the prisoner
must have been too drunk to form the
criminal intent necessary to murder in
the first degree. He was next seen by
Burton Phillips and his wife. Phil
lips testified that about eight o'clock
Sunday night Dixon came to his Phil
lips, house which was about one half
mile from Dixon's and raped ON the
door. Mrs. Phillips went To the door
aud let Dixon in. He brought with him
his young SON. Dixon said To Phillips
that he was going To kill the Borden
s,S4,man aud her son. They have got
-
Il want yoa To take care of my boy
while 20 over there" Ashe went out
the door Phillips saw him stagger and
as he went ont the yard in the light
from the door he saw a gun in his hand
The Borden woman and her boy had
gone tn the home of the woman's moth
or half a mile further ON. In about
fifteen minutes Phillips heard the re-.
e - of
wards Dixon returned aud said To Phil
lips, II have killed them and left them
living ON the floor. I want to kiss INV
boy good bye, and want you 10 take
care ga him. | am going away IL
they catch me my neck will stretch for
it," He then rushed out i'm the dark.
ness The murdered woman's son tes-
titled that Dixon had been drinking
when he came home Saturday night;
that no and his mother quarreled that
night over some money, and that she
became frightened and took him (the
boy and went over tn her mothers:
that Sunday night he came in with his
gun and cursed them both and said he
was going tn kill them; that he then
shot the woman and shot at him but
that he ran out doors and escaped. Dix
ON eluded the officers for week or two
but was finally captured after sharp
fight at his brother's house only few
miles from the scene of the murder He
was shot in the shoulder by one of the
officers before they succeeded in taking
him.
Since the trial ne has said that his
lawyers tried to show that he was
drunk at the time he shot the woman
but that he was as sober as any body;
that they had his money and he intend