Milford chronicle., 1913-11-28
TAX COLLECTOR
SLAIN AND BURIED
MUrd9reTS Confess and Lead
Way to His Body.
VICTIM KISSING TWO WEEKS
Was Found Buried in Lonely Woods
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S. Lewis Pinkerton, the missing Del
aware county tax collector. and farm
superintendent, was found murdered
and buried in a strip OF lonely wood.
land half way between Wawa and
Darlington near Media, Pa. His
head had been beaten until his fea-
lures were almost unrecognizable and
his arms and body were cut and
bruised.
The body which had been buried
by the murderers. lay in a shallow
crave. where it had rested since the
night of Novmber Z. when Pinkerton
had been slain. On top of it was a
bloody blackjack which had been used
10 beat PinkertOn to death in a stable
on the Brick House Farms" of G
Soaring Wilson, at Glen Mills, twelve
miles away. Pinkerton was superin-
tendent of four farms belonging to
Wilson.
District Attorney Hannum, of Della
ware county, and O'Toole, a detective
we're led to the place where the body
had been hid by the confessed mura
derers. They are Roland S. Penn'ng-
ton. a twenty-year-old farm hand on
the Wilson place and George H. March
thiry-two years old, employed by vii.
son as a dairyman. Both are now
confined in the Media iail.
The arrest of Pennington and March
occurred after the former had con.
fessed and implicated March. At first
the latter denied the crime. but when
he was confronted by the mutilated
body at the grave, broke down and
admitted the murder
After the District Attorney and
OToole had wormed the narrative of
the murder ont of Pennington he
agreed to lead the men to the body.
Both Pennington and March had been
"sweated" in the stable where the
murder had taken place, and from
there the four, in a motor car, started
on their CHASTITY search.
Pennington did the directing, and
llle party SAdllCu " AOAAON NV Ac'AsS
traversed by Pennington and March
with the body on the night of the
murder.
Pennington's eyes were almost
bursting from his head and he scanned
the roadway ahead. revealed in the
glare Of the motors search lights.
About a mile and a half from Wawa
he turned to O'Toole.
We're getting near it now" he
muttered. "StOp here"
The motor halted, and the four men
got out Pennington led the way
with a lantern held high over his
head District Attorney Hannum,
O'Toole and March followed, the first
two carrying lanterns and spades.
They crossed the old Darlington es-
tate. covering about half a mile OF
field meadow and woodland, scramb-
ling over fences and stumbling
through the darkness, coming to a
wood-covered hill on the farm of Mrs.
Mary Crosby
Entering one strip of lonely woods
Pennington stopped, swung his lantern
around and finally kicked at some
loose earth
dig here" he said to O'Toole.
The district attorney stood guard
over the two prisoners, but there was
no need. Pennington and March stood |
limp and trembling, incapable of NOV
ing, while the detective dug into the
moist earth. He had penetrated about
two feet when he began to go more
carefully. He was digging around
long. still object. Then he called to
Hannum. Together they lifted the
thing out of the hole. Pinkerton's
body lay before them.
District Attorney Hannum still be-
lieves that March has not told all the
truth. The man still maintains that
robbery was not the motive for the
crime. Pennington declares it was
motive and that the money found on