The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-10-12
NEGRO ACCUSED or
NUMBERING AGED Man
BY Fatally Kicking Him Sew
eral Days Ago in a
Brickyard.
PERFORMED
Charles Hill is Jailed after
Victim Dies in a
Hospital.

Murder has been charged against
Charles Hill, a colored employe Of
the High Grade shale Brick Com
pany's yards in the East End, as the
result of the death Sunday morning
in St. Mary's hospital. of James
Buckhannon, white man about so
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
"a number of times last Wednesday
when the two had an encounter III
the brickyard.
Within few hours after Buck
lannon's death. Constable. William
Post, acting on information that had
been given him, swore out warrant
against Hill in Justice G, II. Gordon's
court charging him with murder and
the constable arrested Hill about
O'Clock the same afternoon at his
place of abode on Monticello ayenu6
and placed him In jail.
Will f. Morris, prosecuting at
torney, took charge of the case on be-
half Of the state and Monday morning
he took Hill to the Siers-Kearns NOR
que, where Buckhannon's body had
been taken to be prepared for burial!
On viewing the body, Hill admitted
to the prosecuting attorney that it
was the body of the man with whom
he had an encounter last Wednesday
in the brickyard,
DR.. S. NJ. Mason, coroner 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 tho
Ievidence 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
the men first had quarrel, then one
threw clod Of dirt at the other and
the other likewise threw a clod OF
dirt at his opponent. Then Hill struck
Buckhannon and knocked him over a
bench in which position the negro
kicked him a number of times, accord
ing to the witness:
Buckhannon was either carried to
4 barn in the rear of the White House
saloon that evening or crawled there
as early the next morning the man
lwho rents the barn found him lying
there in a hay NOV. This was re.
ported 10 the police and the police
reported the case to James A. Moore,
loverseer of the poor, who asked DR.
A. T. Post to take care Of the man
The doctor visited him in the barn.
saw that he was in a serious condi-
ton and,acting on instructions from
Mr. Moore, had him taken to St.
Mary's hospital for treatment. A SUI
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 HolyoTa,
Mass sent telegraphic instructions
here Monday asking that the body be
sent to that city and 1t will be sent
on train No. 4 Monday evening.