The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-27
Confessed To Murder
And Holdup
Perry Point Pair Threatened
With Violence Governor
Calls Out State Troops

Kendall Hill ana marry JoHeS'
former attendants at Perry Point,
were apprehended at pistol point
while sleeping in a parked car at
Ernest Pierces roadside diner near
Richards Oak, four miles west of
Rising Sun, on last Friday night,
charged with holdup and the murder
Ct Baltimore taxi driver. The ar
tests were made by Sergt. Brubaker
and officers Anderson and Minnick
Of the Maryland State Police.
They were being taken to Bel Air
Jail when word was received that
mob of Baltimore taxi drivers was
enroute there, and the prisoners were
detoured to Baltimore jail for safe
keeping.
Il is alleged that Kendall Hill has
confessed to the brutal murder of
Albert Atwell, by choking after hold
ing him up and tying his hands be-
lind him. He then left the body
near a byroad near Havre de Grace,
took the taxi and later picked up
Harry Jones.
After travelling to Baltimore, then
back to Havre de Grace, Perryville,
where they held up and robbed
load stand, on to North East, Elkton
and stayed over night at Egg Hill.
IRON there they were driven to Rich
ards Oak, having become acquainted
with Ernest Pierce in former years.
Pierce gave them permission 20 sleep
in his car parked in front of his diner
at this point.
Since the confessions of both men,
Jones is being held in Elkton Jail on
the charges of assault and robbery
and Hill is now lodged in Bel Air
iail charged with murder and
robbery.
On Monday Company D, First In
fantry, Maryland National Guard,
was called out by Maj.-Gen. Milton
A. Record, adjutant general of Mary
land, at the request of Governor Nice
who had been asked to have them
modified by Circuit Judge Walter W.
Preston, Of Hartford couh4y. Judge'
Preston said rumors had been heard
that cab drivers, angry over the
murder of Albert Atwell, near Havre
de Grace, last Tuesday, were gath
ering in the vicinity of Bel Air.
Twenty State policemen, armed
with pistols and tear-gas bombs, were
inside the wooden, two-story jail,
while twenty-five others, according to
Capt. Edward Nick. Johnson, were
stationed at strategic" points along
the Hartford and Belair roads.
HILL according to State police,
confessed to strangling Atwell in
lonely lane near Havre de Grace last
Tuesday for the 81 he found in the
cab drivers pockets. Atwell's body
was not found until last Friday and,
within four hours, Hill and COM
panion, Harry Jones, had been
arrested.
Hill confessed within twenty-four
hours that he had killed Atwell, but
said that Jones was not implicated.
Jones, however, admitted that he and
Hill had robbed David Unger, anoth-
er cab driver, and held up lunch
room at Perryville.
Jones has been lodged in Cecil
county Jail to face robbery and
larceny charges. Although muir
der warrant has been served on him,
he will not be prosecuted for the
killing of Atwell, authorities said.
In his confession Hill said he was
drunk and only intended to choke
Atwell into insensibility 20 allow him
a few minutes to- escape.
Atwell's body was buried in Park
wood Cemetery, Baltimore, on Mon
day, after funeral services at his
home, 1900 block Poplar Grove
street. and St. Edwards Catholic
Church, FRESHMAN and Poplar Grove
streets, which were attended by near
ly 400 fellow cab drivers.
Representatives of every taxicab
company in the city were in the line
of $50 cabs which followed the body
to the church and to the cemetery.
The cab in which he met his death
followed the hearse and was driven
by Charles Earl.