Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-01-07
Farmer Slain With AK.

William F. Brown, young farmer near
Silver Run, Carroll county. Nd. was muir
dered last Saturday night at his farm, his
skull being crushed with an ak. Solomon
Sudler, negro farmland. is suspected of
the crime.
Mr., Brown went to the barn about 6
O'Clock to milk, when Sudler, it is believed,
slipped up behind him and struck him over
the right ear with the blunt end of the ak,
causing wound as large as a mans fist
and exposing the brain. Death is believed
to have been instantaneous.
Sudler then procured a rope, it is al
legged, and tied it around the body, hitched
a horse to the rope and dragged the body
three-quarters of mile to a woods. where
he left it, He afterward returned the
horse to the barn and then made his
escape
The husband not returning to the house
by midnight. Mrs. Brown became alarmed
and went to the barn to look for him.
When she opened the door she found blood
spattered over the straw and stall and Mr.
Brown missing. She Immediately notified
neighbor. who summoned several men
to aid in the search They took up the
trail of blood and the marks made by the
body in the soft ground and found the
body in the woods with the rope tied
around it,
Sudler, who is IS years old, was in the
employ of Mr.. Brown for the last two years.
He was taken from the Cheltenham School
for Negroes, in Prince Georges county, and
seemed to be satisfied with his place.
When Sudler left he was dressed in a
light suit of clothes, tan shoes and spotted
cap and with his hair cropped short. He
is 5 feet II inches tall and weighs 1877
pounds He was seen taking the bus run
ming from Littletown to Westminster after
the murder and was accompanied by Tru-
man Williams, who was from the same
school and was employed by Denton Ying-
ling, neighbor. Arriving at Westminster
at $3.50 O'Clock, Sudler and Williams took
the Resterstown bus and on arrival at
Reisterstown were seen by bus employees
to board an Emory Grove electric car.
Mr. Brown was evidently murdered for
his money, as $25 was taken from his
pocketbook.
Talk OF lynching was revived in Carroll
county Monday night when news reached
there that Truman Williams, alias Wilkens,
colored youth, sought, with Solomon
Sudler, in connection with the brutal muir
der of William F. Brown, had been arrested
and locked up in the Catonville Police Sta
ton.
Williams denied any knowledge of the
crime. He said he was seated in the par
Tor of the home of Denton Yineling, a
neighbor of Mr. Brown, where he was en-
ployed, about 7 o'clock Saturday night,
being the sole occupant of the house at the
time. Suddenly there came a knock, he
said, whereupon he put on his shoes and
opened the door. finding the visitor to be
Sudler. The two boys were friends, both
being on parole from the Cheltenham Re-
formatory, Prince Georges county.
After talk, he said, he and Sudler de-
cided to escape from the neiehborhood,
and they came to Baltimore. They spent
the night under hedge on the roadside
near Gainesville. said Williams, and when
he awoke Sunday morning Sudler was
gone. Williams said Sudler gave him so
cents. but was emphatic in his assertion
that his companion told him nothing about
the murder.