Milford chronicle., 1931-07-24
Police Think Earl Still
we'll Planned To Slay
H. w. Johnson
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ed him photograph of a young
woman with the remark, Don't you
think she's a good looking girl"
Johnson said he answered in the af-
firmative and as he did he heard a
shot and Immediately felt a pain in
the back of his head. Realizing he
had been shot, Johnson told police
he leaped from the car.
Stillwell, he said, Immediately
jumped from the back of the car
and grappled with him, attempting
to force him into the rear of the
car. Stillwell had thrown the gun
into Haven Lake at the outskirts of
Milford, meanwhile, Johnson said.
Johnson, already weak from the
loss of blood and his struggle with
the other youth, hailed a passing
mOtorist, telling him that he had
been shot The wounded youth was
brought to the Emergency Hospital,
and Stillwell fed.
Whether StillwelPs motive could
also have been based ON jealousy
could not be learned. Johnson main
tanning that he did not know the
girl but that it was possible he had
served her in the store where he is
employed. At the hospital it was
said that Johnson, although he suf-
fered from a bullet wound at the
base of the brain, was not in a SER
ious condition.
The wounded store worker said
that Stillwell, whom he knew but
slightly, came into the store l9te
Monday evening. He told Johnson
that he intended to buy a used car
at Milford and asked him whether
he would accompany him to that
city in another car so that he could
drive one of the automobiles back to
Georgetown.
Johnson says that nothing occur
red until they reached Haven Lake
on the outskirts of Milford. Here
Stillwell remarked, 81 want you to
see a picture of my girl" and reach
ing for box in the back of the car
took out the photograph of a beauti-
full young woman and showed it to
Johnson. Johnson stopped the car
and looked at the picture with the
aid of the cOwl light.
The victim declares that while he
was examining the picture he heard
shot and felt something strike him
in the back of the head. Turning, Nhe
says he saw Stillwell with a revolv-
er in his hand. He grabbed Stillwell
and finally got the revolver from
him.
He cried for help, and Frank Pos
ties, of Lincoln, and Henry LOfland
of Milford, who were passing, turned
their car and went back, but before
they reached the car, Jesse Legar
and his family, who were coming in
the opposite direction, reached /,
Johnson and placing him in their /
car went to the Marshall Hospital !
They said they saw Johnson with |
what looked like a revolver in his
hand with Stillwell following him, /
but when all stopped Stillwell dis
At the Marshall Hospital the ply
sician who operates the X-ray ap- !
paratus was out and DR.. Marshall !
took the man to the Milford Emerg- +
ency Hospital, where Dr. w. R. |
Pierce took photograph and found
that the bullet had lodged at the
base of the brain. DR.. o. V. James
later performed an operation and
removed the bullet.
Johnson says that after Stillwell
lad shot him he said: 81 did not in
end to do that" He denies that
hey had a quarrel or there was any
,ause for the shooting. Johnson is
| son of Mrs. Maggie Johnson, of
and has been in George
own for about a year. Stillwell
worked on a farm near Georgetown
or a Mrs. Messick.