The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
Cylde Hill COnfesses and
 Tells GruesOme Story
 of the Murder of Truitt
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(Continued from Page One) 1 Ed Hill on Monday morning, but met 1 him there on Tuesday morning and | was seen for the last time at Drum 1 monds switch where he met Ed Hill. 1 When Truitt failed to show up be- i fore the grand jury on Tuesday, the | day he was summoned to be there on ! the Hill cases for operating still. the sheriff called some of the men over at l Empire, and they reported to the sheriff that he was on his way, or at l least started to the grand jury on | Tuesday morning He failed to show 1 up Tuesday and also failed to show up on Wednesday, and it was then feared | that the Hills had killed him, and it | was later found out that they had l killed and buried him.
 Soon after that Bodeker's Detective | Agency was employed on this case. | They had two or three men out on the case for several weeks, but they failed
 to find anything al all and failed to i get any evidence whatsoever. They then abandoned the case ~and were
 never connected with 1t again In any | way. They did have several men ar
 rested and put in jail. but these men ! had to be released, as there was no
 evidence against them and no evidence
 that Truitt had been murdered.
 HILLS WIFE LEAVES HIM "Some two or three weeks after Truitt
 was missing, Monroe Hll's wife left him. | That thing within itself was the undo i ing of the Hills Monroe Hill got John tC. Hilton go over and see if he could
 not get his wife to come back and live with him. Mir. Hilton went over and /, talked to his wife, and Mrs. Hill told
 him that something had gone wrong on
 that Tuesday morning. that all the boys
 were there on Monday afternoon, and early Tuesday morning they were there I and left, some of them with guns. some with picks and shovels, and that soon after they had left she heard a gun fire. and the gun was brought back and also
 a pistol, and one of the boys got Hard's Sunday clothes and left. Mir Hill brought in some papers and threw them | in the fire She went tbs look at them and Hill told her that if she didn't want | to have to go to court she had better
 attend to her own business. One Of | those papers was court Subpoena.
 "she also told John T. Hilton that If she were going to hunt for that man, she would hunt in the soy bean patch Information to Mir. John T. Hil- ton caused him to search the soy bean patch. He got him mining auger, ana whenever he could he would bore down into the ground, and this would nave to be done of course. at night
 "A "One night in September at F o'clock he discovered the place where Truitts | body had been. He reported this to the solicitor and sheriff's officers of Walker | county, and they dug this place up ana I found where the body had been ana found the hat which had not been car ried away.
 "up to this time MT. Hilton's name was not isclosed to anyone and has been disclosed only to few parties dur inc this work on the case However, to John C. Hilton belongs the credit | for the relevation of the assassination of Earl w. Truitt and the discovery or his body and the arrest of the parties | ir this case
 Some few weeks ago John T. Hill ion. the same man, notified the solici- l tors office and the sheriff's office that | the young Hill boys were in Georgla.
 Mrs. Truitt, who had already placed
 reward of s25O in the First Nationai
 Bank at Jasper for the discovery of her
 husbands body, gave MT. Hilton Sloo II
 he would arrest or cause to be arrested
 these two boys. He immediately went
 to Georgia, located young Clyde Hill'
 notified the officers there and had him
 arrested The sheriff of Walker county
 was notified of the arrest of Clyde Hiii | and that he was being held at pal | las Ga.
 | '''The SOllCltOr ana SnciiAl uSSiNSN eAi'sS | if was a better plan to place Clyde in 1 the Birmingham jail so as to keep him away fnpm the other Hill boys in the 1 Jasner iail. Before Sheriff Cutlery left to get Clyde Hill he was armed l with an order from the court to leave | the young Hill in Jefferson county jail. He went after Clyde Hill and on ms way back, Clyde Hill informed him | that he was going to tell the truth
 about it. He told him that if he would l take him to the solicitor that he would l tell him the truth. The sheriff decided I first that he would bring him on, but 1 finally decided that he would carry out the original plan had with the so- ] licitor and leave him over in the Jeff
 ferson county tail. to whicN place the l solicitor would later go
 l ''The sheriff of Jefferson county was notified to place him by himself. He notified us that his jail was full and 1 it was impossible to put Clyde by him self
 WANTED TO TELL TRUTH During Thursday he notified some of the officers at Birmingham that ha was going to tell the truth about the matter; that Hills had killed Truitt; they buried him and took him up and reburied him. He told him that if he could see the solicitor of Walker coun- ty and the sheriff that he would tell them all the details connected with the case.
 This information was given to the solicitors office and sheriff of Walker county. and they would meet him at | that place Thursday night at l o'clock. l This was done. Then it was at or near l Summit, in the presence of several | deputies and the solicitor and George l Ross, that Clyde Hill told all the details l connected with the assassination of | Earl w. Truitt.
 1 KILLED FOR TELLING "He stated that he was killed be. cause he had turned up one of the stills operated by the Hills. He said the l agreement was made on Monday after l noon how the killing could be done. the I place selected where his body could be l llaced and the grave was partly dug On Tuesday morning he said his father Monroe Hill completed the grave while Ed and Hand Hill went for Truitt near Drummone's switch and while he
 watched to see that no one was pres ent or near. Clyde Hill said that E. w l Truitt was shot by Hard Hill near the | place where the grave was dug. that hs and Hard and Ed and Truitt were al
 talking at the time, and that they had | Truitt there under the pretext of show ing him where a wildcat still was To-
 cated; that Ed Hill was in front ana
 be and Hard on each side of Truitt al
 the time he shot him; that at the tim.
 he was shot Ed said: What about tho place over here? motioning to the righ
 and away from the direction of Harc Hill; that as Truitt turned to look ir
 that direction Hard Hill shot him; tina
 he never spoke a word that he, Clyde ran up to where the grave was am