Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-25
MYSTERY UNSOLV ED
INQUEST FAILS TO DISCLOSE
CLUE TO CONSTABLE MURDER.
Story Told by Co1ored Man Who Heard
Three Shots Fired-Funeral
Services Today.

Testimony given at the inquest held in
Baltimore last night failed to solve the
mystery of the murder and robbery of At.
torney Albert Constable near Elkton. q
| week ago. Coroners Iglehardt and Rein
hardt held the inquest and States Attorney
Wilson of Elkton and former StateS Attor-
ney Crothers examined the witnesses
John Holland, one of the colored suspects
In the case, was the most important wit
| ness examined. He WAS questioned by Mr.
Crothers After giving his name and say
ing he lived about 100 yards from where
the shooting occurred, he was asked to tell
the story of the shooting.
Well said the witness, sit was little
after O'clock when 1 came home las,
Thursday driving from fishing, where
had been all day. Bill Hops was with
me. and when l got home my stepdaughter
told me that Mr. Busby had been there a
ter his road cart, which bought from him
l owed him So on it and l couldn't pay him
so Mr.. Busby said he would have to take
the cart.
Hops Was Helping.
well, I got out iron tire and began
to fix it up SO 1 could put it on the cart
Hops was helping me, as 1 was cutting the
iron bolts out of it. We were working on
an old stump in the yard when we heard
three shots. They We're loud, and l said to
Bill; They sound like .3S-calber shots
"A few minutes later a young man walked
up the road at a lively rate and yelled
Hey, jack!
Il answered. Well, what do you want?'
You had better go down the road
there's sick man down there he said.
hat color, white or black" l asked.
White man. he said; you better take
your wife: he told me to tell you to come
down to him
II remarked that I didn't intend to go
but my mother told me 1 had better go, as
| 1t might be Mr.. Constable took sick. so
went along with my wife, only ran ahead
When 1 got about thirty yards from him
l thought it was an old yellow dog 1 used
had on light suit, and l thought. as he
lay all huddled UP there in the road. that
somebody might have shot my dog to play
a joke on me.
got closer l saw that really was Mr.. Con-
stable.
lis that you Mr.. Constable? asked
YES he said; who is this?'
Its Jack Holland said as I went ul
to him. He told me he had been shot. and
then my wife came up We started to lift
| him up, but he told us not to do that, bu,
to go to his wife and tell her to send a
doctor, and that he loved her.
Informed Mrs. Constable.
81 ran to Elkton and told MRS. Constable
the message, and she sent me to DR.. ia
mar, and then / went back to Red Hill
again."
What did the man look like who told
you about the sick MANI
"He was young man, tall, slender. wore
black clothes no vest, black four-in- ham
| tie. black derby. black shoes and white
| shirt" he answered.
The witness stated that the man was &
| stranger to him, but he had seen him twice
| before the day the crime was committed
! Other witnesses including the physicians
| who attended the dying man. and the one
| who performed the autopsy were examined
and a verdict which did not fix the crime
upon any particular person was returned
! The funeral services over the remains oil
Mr. Constable will take place at his ia,e
home this afternoon at o'clock