The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-09
BY Fatally Kicking Him Sey-
eral Days Ago in q
Brick yard
AUTOPSY PERFORMED
Charles Hill is jailed after
Victim Dies in a
Hospital.

Murder has been Charged against
Charles HILL colored empIoye OF
the high Grade sha!e Brick Com
lpany's yards In the East End, as the
result of the death sunday morning
lin st Mary,s hospital, Of James
IBuckhannon, a white man about 30
years old, whose home is believed to
be in massachusetts,. Hill is ac-
cused OF causing the mans death by
knocking him down and kicking him
number Of times last Wednesday
when the two had an encounter III
the briekyard.
Within few hours after Buck
lannon's death, Constable WIlliau'
Post, acting on information that had
been given him, swore out a warrant
against Hill in Justice G. H. Gordon's
court charging him with murder and
the. constable arrested Hill about 5
O'Clock the same afternoon at his
place of abode on Monticello avenue.
and placed him in jail.
viii E. Morris, prosecuting at
torney, took charge of the case on be-
half of the state and Monday morning
he took Hill to the Sfers=Kearns NOR
que, where Bucl1hannon's body had
been taken to be prepared for burial
On viewing the body, Hill admitted
to the prosecuting attorney that 1t
was the body of the man with whom
he had an encounter last Wednesday
in the brickyard.
Or. S. NJ. Mason, CONQUER and DR..
A. T. Post performed an autopsy on
the body Sunday afternoon at the
morgue and ascertained that the.
mans death had been caused by in
juries and ruptures about the lower
part OF the abdomen and the pelvis.
A formal inquest Will not be held as
the prosecuting attorney believes the
evidence thus far obtained is sufficient
without that proceeding.
1t is charged by the state that Hill
knocked Buckhannon down and
then kicked him several times with
heavy shoes This is in part based on
testimony Of John Riley, an eye wit
ness of the encounter, who is en-
ployed at the brickyard: He says
tho men first had a quarrel. then one
threw a clod of dirt ut the other and
the other likewise threw clod OF
dirt at his opponent. Then Hill struck
Buckhannon and knocked him over
bench in which position the negro
kicked him number OF times, accord
ing to the witness.
Buckhannon was either carried tc
a barn in tho, rear OF the White House
saloon that evening or crawled there
as early the next morning the maE
who rents the barn found him lying
there in a hay NOV. This was re-
ported to the police and the polics
reported the case to James n. Moore
oversee- OF the poor, who asked DR.
A. r. Post to take care of the man
The doctor visited him in the barn
saw that he was in serious condi-
ton and,acting on Instructions from
Mr.. Moore, had him taken to st.
Mary's hospital for treatment. A sur-
gical operation was performed on the
patient there Saturday AFTERNOON In
efforts to save his. life but these eff
forts were Of no avail and the man
became worse until Sunday morning
when. death came,
Mrs. Jessie Craigg, sister of the
dead man residing at HoIyoKe,
Mass, sent telegraphic Instructions
here Monday asking that the body be
sent to that city and it Will be sent
on train No Monday evening.
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