The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01

tric power unit at the Warrior river station of the Alabama Power Com pany.
 The corporation under whose direction 1 up the grave packing the dirt very | tight.
 "The agreement was that MT. Hill | that is Monroe Hill would cut that rlace over with the disc blow that morning and SOW soy beans. He gave l some excuse for not doing it, but stat 1 ed that he would do it that afternoon. 1 Clyde Hill does not know whether he | ever did this or not, as he left pon after this was done. He said there was 1 good deal of blood on the leaves 1 at the place where he was shot and | also between that place and the grave
 BLOODY LEAVES IN OVERALLS "He said that Hard Hill took off his Ioveralls, tied strings around the bottom | of the leg and the bloody leaves were picked up and put into the legs Of ms loveralls; that he, Clyde, went to the house land got Hard's Sunday clothes and car Tried them back to him and he and Hard immediately left and went to Dora, anu | have been on the scout ever since 1 Some months after this, while he and l Hard were in Georgia, he said his father | Monroe Hill, came over there to see them | and took them out one night, and near 1 the barn of one MT. Baker, at the place
 where they were staying, and told them 1 that his wife had told several people i that if she were going to hunt for Truitt, she would hunt in the soy bean patch.
 He said that the only safe thing to do was to take his body up and put 1t in a safe place. They all stayed all night with
 the man, Baker, but left there early mat
 morning, and came back to Monroe Hliis | that night On the next night, the new grave was dug in the road about 100 yards from the house and also from the place
 where Truitts body was first placed ana
 on that night Monroe. Hard, Ed ana young Clyde dug up the body and moved It over to the new place, from which It was
 taken on last Thursday night. He stated 1 that two poles with sacks nailed across | from one to the other were made on which the body of Truitt was carrie" | from the first place he was buried to the second place. He stated that he was not
 well and the body was carried by Mon- roe, Ed and Hard, two of them toting II l a piece and then one dropping out anu the other taking his place until they reached the new grave
 PULLED HIS GOLD TEETH "At the new grave he said they de cided that it would be best to take out ms two gold teeth, that some person with 4 mineral rod. might be able to locate the body. He said this was done by Haru Hill. who hit the teeth, and that Monroe Hill went to the house and got par
 of plyers and the two gold teeth were lnulled out of the dead mans head anu put on piece of paper or cloth near the
 grave. He states he does not know what
 became of these teeth. He said the grave
 was dug about Az or feet deep ana packed as tight as it could De pacMeu, Ithat after the grave was filled up they | pot tons of bushes and drug lip ann down the road, so as to cover up all
 signs. x
 "He said that next morning he and 1 Hard and his father went out ana lookeu at the place and decided that 1t was all 1 right He told us there at Summit that he could show us where the grave was and that he would show us where II was It was then that the party ana the officers from Walker county and the solicitor, Jim Pennington ana Depu-
 ties McDuff and Lee White and George
 Ross started with the boy from summit to the grave where Truitt's body was later located. m | we drove in an automobile until we got within a mile and half of Monroe Hills place. There 1t is 1mposslple to go in car. and with flashlights the party went through the by-ways ana woods and reached the spot where young Hill led the party about O'CLOCK. The body was placed in a road down in Monroe Hills field and where the wagon tracks would constantly run over the grave. There was absolutely no sign that there was any grave there, put after the party had dug some four rect Ia shoe was struck. At this place the sheriff went and brought Monroe Hill to the grave He remained there until the body of F.. w. Truitt was taken from where it had been n'aced
 FOUND MASONIC BUTTONS
 several in the party identified his corduroy pants and his blue serge coat and also his shoes. A pair or cur put, tons were also found which his wife had given him two years, ago and on which | was the Masonic emblem His clothes were almost intact, except all or the pockets of his coat had been turned wrong side out.
 There was not hat in the grave 1 from which his body was taken. his hat having been left in the grave where he was first placed Clyde Hill did not l want to see his father and did not want l his father to see him there at that time and he was carried back into the woods and Monroe Hill did not know at that time that his young son Clyde had lea the officers to the new grave.
 'Truitt's body was brought to Jasper l and turned over to Undertaken Legg. Clyde Hill was carried back to the Jef- ferson county jail. where he now IS. | Monroe Hill was again put Tn 1ail ana his bondsmen gave him up on the $fou bond which he was under at the time the
 body was discovered.
 "The details of how the first grave was
 located cannot be given at thls time. as
 there are several items which led MT. Hilton to finally locate it. Those pres
 ent in the party with young Clyde Hill
 when he pointed out the grave and when the body was removed from the grave
 were Sheriff Claude Cutlery, Solicitor J. T N. Pennington, United States Deputy
 Marshall Dick Bates. Deputy Sheriffs
 Mooney and Bennett. These names are the ones who went from Walker county. This party was met by the party from , Jefferson county led by Chief Deputy
 Fred McDuff and associated with him
 were Deputy Lee White, Attorney George Ross and one Eubanks All these were : from the grave.
 Several others came there before it was started on its way to Jasper and
 several from Empire identified the clothes and shoes and other parapher- nalia the corpse. The statement which Clyde Hill made to the solicitor at Summit on Thursday night. just be- foreuhe led the party to the grave, was
 not taken down in writing, but Friday afternoon J. M. Pennington went to Bir- . mingham and had stenographic de- tailed statement of the confession taken from the lips of Clyde ISesi as he retold the story in the office of the solicitor of Jefferson county. which statement is being transcribed and which shows a full and complete confession by young Hill"
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