Evening journal., 1912-04-12
KILLED AT
BEDROOM DOOR
Young Man Shot Down While
Trying to Enter
Apartment
CORONER'S JURY
EXONERATES SLAYER

WELLINGTON. Md, April farm
ed with a revolver, Irving c. Hurlock,
son of J. e. HIrlock, a retired and
wealthy landowner Of this town, was
shot and instantly killed in the hall
way of the house on his fathers farm,
about six and half miles from Mill
ington, Wednesday night, by Joseph
Hessey. the man whom he had de-
clared he would kill
A jury of inquest held here yester-
day exonerated Hessey from all blame
and rendered a verdict of justifiable
homicide.
The inquest showed that Hurlock
broke in the front door of the Hessey
home and went directly to the bed
room Of the farmer. He threatened
Hessey's life unless he was given i'm
mediate admittance and upon opening
the door faced Hessey with a revolver.
Mr.. Hessey. who had picked up his
shotgun. fired, the shot taking effect
i'm Hurlocks right shoulder. Death
was instantaneous, according to Dr..
Merritt Brice, Of MillingtOn, who was
ouuulohcu SHoitly dlAti Aht oAoot-
ing.
Hurlock, who was 81 years old, left
Millington for the farm tenanted by
Mr.. Hessey and owned by Hurlock's :
father early Wednesday morning. He
was at the Hessey home for dinner
and also for supper and seemed ia
the best of spirits. After supper he
disappeared. When the hour came
ed at his continued absence and
sought him in the barns and nearby
buildings Their seatch was without
avail. Finally they retired, suppos-
ing that he had either gone to the
home of a nefghbor or had returned
TO Milington.
AT about 1890 o'clock Mr.. Hessey
was aroused by loud rapping at the
side door of the house. He asked who
il was, but was refused an answer.
The noise continued and he demand
. ed 10 know who the stranger was.
lt was then that he learned it was
Young HurlOck. Before he could
descend and open the door, however,
Hurlock. smashed it in with a large
sledge hammer. which he had pre-
sumably brought with him from the
stables
fastening upstairs, Hurlock de-
manded admittance into the bedroom
Of Hessey and his wife, and when the
latter demonstrated with him Hur-
lock declared that he would kill him
il he could get to him.
Hessey's wife in fright hastened
TO another room, leaving the bed
room door open. and Hurlock stepped
through il, at the same time ex-
hibiting a pistol which he pointed ai
Hessey's head, declaring that he
would show him how to die. Hessey
during the noise, had armed himself
with the shotgun and as HurlocI
stepped through the doorway he shot
point-blank at the intruder. Hurlock
fell to the floor bleeding
Mr.. Hessey drove to Millington
where he notified Hurlock's father
of what he had done and a physician
was hurried TO the home. Undertaken
]. L. Smith was shortly afterward
notified and the body is now resting
I'm the undertaking establishment al
MillingtOn, awaiting burial next
Saturday morning.
The mother and father of the dead
man are both prostrated at their
home in Millington, the action OF
their son and the accompanying re-
suit came as great shock. Mr.
Hessey is also completely unnerved
over the incident and is unconsol-
able over the fact that he found il
necessary to take human life.