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CRIME

During the next several weeks, Ne-
groes held memorial meetings in several
of the larger cities, with a silent parade
and large meeting staged in New York
City, in commemoration of the share-
cropper’s death.

In a report issued shorlty afterward by
the Workers’ Defense League, it was
stated that $30,000 had been spent on the
case during the two years it was pending,
although no lawyer had charged more
than $15 a-week for his services.

Camp Claiborne (La.) Rape Case

On August 10, 1942, three soldiers sta-
tioned at Camp Claiborne, near Alexandria,
La., were convicted and sentenced to death
by the Federal district court in Shreveport,
La., for the alleged rape of Hattie Rose
Mason, a young white woman. The at-
tack was reported to have taken place on
the camp grounds. The soldiers were
Richard Adams, 26, of Columbus, Ohio;
Lawrence Mitchell, 21, of Baldwin, Mich.;
and John Walter Bordenave, 30, of New
Orleans, La.

Immediately following the convicton, the
National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People took over the case.
Counsel of the NAACP said that the trial
had been rushed through without notifying
the soldiers’ relatives. Attorneys, for the
NAACP appealed the decision to the U.S.
Supreme Court on the grounds that the
Federal court which convicted the soldiers
had no criminal jurisdiction over the of-
fenses committed on the camp grounds.

The United States Solicitor General filed
a brief with the Supreme Court the first
week in May, conceding that the Federal
court had no criminal jurisdiction over of-
fenses committed on the land upon which
the camp was located, since it was originally
purchased for a national forgst and was
turned over tc the Army without any
notice of acceptance of exclusive or con-
current jurisdiction by the United States
ever having been filed with the Louisiana
authorities, as Federal law requires. On
May 24, 1943, the Supreme Court ruled in
favor of the defendants and Federal civil
authorities were compelled to release the
soldiers.

They were returned to the Army and
sent to Texas, where they were tried by
a military court in Camp Maxey on July
28, 1943. Following a two-day hearing,
they were again convicted and sentenced
to death by hanging. However, the sentence
could not be carried out until higher
military authorities had reviewed the trial
and decision.

At the court martial proceedings, the
defendants testified that the woman was a
prostitute and had voluntarily submitted to

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them after they had paid her $2 in ad-
vance. The woman testified that the attack
had been forced upon her without her con-
sent.

Major McGuffin of the U.S. Army Medi-
cal Corps testified that he had examined
the woman thirty hours after the alleged
attack and had found no evidence that she
had made any resistance. He found also
that she was suffering from a_ venereal
disease of long standing. A medical
officer who examined the soldiers stated
that they were free of any venereal disease.

The soldiers testified that earlier ‘“con-
fessions” signed by them had been forced
by beatings and threats of mob violence.

Review of the decision was pending be-
fore the board of review of the ofhce of
the Judge Advocate General of the Army
at the end of the year.

Baltimore Youths’ Murder Case

A murder case was carried to the U.S.
Supreme Court on the contention that the
trial of the defendants before a Baltimore
jury was illegal because of the dispro-
portionate number of Negroes selected for
jury service in the city.

The defendants, Arthur Jackson, Frank
Williams and Freeman Holton, were con-
victed in August, 1942, of the murder of
a white theatre manager, Louis Pertnoy, in
Baltimore, and were sentenced to die. Rob-
bery was given as the motive for the
crime.

The attorneys for the men, C. Arthur
Eby, white, and his associates, appealed
the decision of the lower court on the
ground that the men had not been tried
by a jury of their peers because the per-
centage of Negroes serving on Baltimore
juries was not consonant with the percentage
of Negroes in the population of the city.

The State Court of Appeals and U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourt Dis-
trict both upheld the conviction.

In their petition for a re-trial, the at-
torneys pointed out that there were only
2 colored jurors out of 52 on the panel ot
the Baltimore criminal court which heard
the case;
constituted 19 per cent of Baltimore’s popu-
lation, colored jurors were impaneled for
jury service at the rate of 3.34 per cent;
that Baltimore grand juries of 23 mem-
bers had an average of 1 colored juror;
that of every 750 petit jurors summoned,
only 25 were colored; that the names of
colored prospective jurors were written on
cards of a different color from those of
white; and that in making up the jury
panel, the court clerk selected names of
725 white and 25 colored, mixing the
ballots for drawing so that it was always

that although colored persons -

HOLTON and Williams blacks , Sxeay hanged mn 6-l-19]:3.
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possible to have only 1 or 2 names of
Negroes drawn.

The Circuit Court, in handing down its
opinion upholding the conviction, stated that
the issue of discrimination against Ne-
groes on juries had not been proved; that
colored people were particularly difficult
to secure for jury service, often pleading
that serving forced them to sacrifice in-
come from their jobs or professions; that
of the Baltimore residents 25 years old and
older, 60 per cent of the whites had finished
the eighth grade of school, while only 29
per cent of the colored had done so; that
22 per cent of the whites of this group
had finished high school, and only 8 per
cent of the colored.

The appeal was taken to the U.S. Su-
preme Court, which, in May, 1943, re-
fused to review the decision of the lower
courts.

Hill Case, Dallas, Texas

In the fall of 1940 Henry Allen Hill was
arrested, charged with the rape of a white
woman in Dallas, Tex.

When the case was called for trial, the
defendant’s attorneys moved to have the in-
dictment quashed because colored persons
were excluded from serving on the grand
jury which indicted him, and on all grand
juries in the county.

The lower court refused to quash the
indictment and Hill was tried and con-
victed and given the death penalty. The
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld
the conviction and the case was carried to
the U.S. Supreme Court.

On June 1, 1942, the U.S. Supreme
Court reversed the Texas courts’ ruling
on the grounds of the systematic exclusion
of Negroes from jury service.

Chiet Justice Harlan Stone, delivering
the opinion, stated in part:

We think petitioner made out a prima
facie case, which the State failed to meet,
of racial discrimination in the selection of
grand jurors which the equal protec-
tion clause forbids. . Chance or ac-
cident could hardly have acted for the
continuous omission of colored persons
from the grand jury lists for so long
a period as sixteen years or more. .

Thus they (the jury commissioners)
failed to perform their constitutional duty
—recognized by Section + of the Civil
Rights Act of March 1, 1875, . . . not
to pursue a course of conduct in the
administration of their office which would
operate to discriminate in the selection
of jurors on racial grounds.

The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People conducted the
case,

HANDBOOK
William Ward Case, Mt. Pleasant,

Texas

William, Ward was indicted in Septem-
ber, 1939, for the murder of Levi Brown,
white, who was found strangled to death
in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. When Brown’s
body was discovered in June, Ward was
arrested on suspicion, because he had been
seen talking to Brown the day before his
death.

Ward was subsequently convicted of the
crime. Following his conviction the Na-
tional Association for the Advancement of
Colored People took charge of the case,
taking it through the Texas courts, on ap-
peal, and to the U.S. Supreme Court,
which, on June 1, 1942, reversed the de-
cision of the lower courts on the grounds
that the confession on which Ward was
convicted was obtained through force and
torture.

Ward had been carried from county jail
to county jail, without a warrant, accord-
ing to the defendant’s testimony, and ques-
tioned, beaten, burned and otherwise abused
and threatened. After going through this
ordeal in six different counties, he was
alleged to have confessed the murder.

In reading the opinion of the court, Jus-
tice James F. Byrnes (formerly a Senator
from South Carolina, whose appointment
to the bench had been protested by the
NAACP) stated in part:

We must conclude that this confession
was not free and voluntary. . .. The
court has set aside convictions based on
confessions extorted from ignorant per-
‘sons who have been subjected to per-
sistent and protracted questioning, or
who have been threatened with mob
violence, or who have been unlawfully
held incommunicado without advice of
friends or counsel, or who have becn
taken at night to lonely and_ isolated
places for questioning. Any one of these
grounds would be sufficient for reversal.
All of them are found in this case.

_ When Ward’s case came up for re-trial
in Texas in July, 1943, it was dismisscc
on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

L. C. Aikens Case, Dallas, Texas

On September 15, 1941, L. C. Aikens
of Dallas, Texas, was convicted of the
murder of a white policeman, Leon Morris,
by an all-white jury in the Ellis County
criminal court. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment.

According to testimony, the policeman
had attempted to prevent Aikens from
boarding a street car ahead of his (the
policeman’s) wife and in the scuffle which
ensued, the policeman shot Aikens in the
leg. The man then seized the policeman’s
pistol and shot him to death.


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HORN, Adam .
f ( A a 7 Th fa pionnds woman, fully applied ee erga 2
, ndrew HELLMAN) A ; Life, Misadventures and E 4 eee a ies a personal violets
: x Now. equentiy felt : * ‘
whit Cy hanged ndrew Hellman alias Ad ecution of ber children, 9 to deuert Vi es IAS TERS ©
f Balti & death at Baltimore on tae Horn who suffered | Tn the snring of 1924, he vented a small site
a imore . MD, anuary 12th 1844 etl about a mile te her father’:
a |. ere tuey siveu arly eight years durit
i Webs 18h) ‘ By which time, Weune, tRR, Jobn tain, :
i held tee was born, at ae time he upenl
Reported in The Baltimore 3 Hill hers Tis, heweve bad anouer HMO
page 1 i un issu Oarenareceasion: .« ver, was tleir last ott
g SAA taaua of 1ufSebs e of 12-2-43 Be tet ahh sivn. whilst living on this ae
page 1 aceiet *o yaa a fit of passion, and went Fa Bal i
Seintee vehves both wife: and children ain :
, Where he remained about 3 Ae |
and returned with promis about 3 month:
In the mean ene her se of reformation.
me sons grown around hi ather, having severa |
{ J’ some et Ad wigs num, began to cast about fo |
i : world, and § hel} them all a startin th -
fi aralbiahes and bon Moat? sold a portion of his’ f.
; ‘ T H E S U N en - ~ Saernt section of land for each of then
; ; ads ied a “helpmeet for man,” in i acorke at “gate of Ohio. John Abel a
ANDR EW H J M AN cial Siviletes abl he would deny her al its and Pataan eetaat to Stark County, ee
aM oh. Nie s sts. WT ats eiv een o |
ALIAS ; his opinion ay he ee thus this is still land in Carroll Cece ta cae en SCTE O
y versatio ; ptly illustrat remained i is ve same state. T '
ADAM HORN his ee with hin a few sain ha sea in Loudoun, however, oa ody |
| te ih Ce cu knhcrGh ia he tor recchipacte sat a eecena who att Taye he ref Perot pram County, oes
| aac Barons. -arsieal’ én/ abhi Aibi ca ener sistaiga sis ait oecine te hasartel eoacseutlc of ground be |
country—his ps congnemniiaate in (this | Henry if ee Ile replied ven, teil aiden Wien ielen through all ee
racter—his courtshi of women—good sha- ligious woman.” The er mary At marry ar ty he disposed ofp si he lett Loudoun Cour °
ousy—charged Pa and marriage—jea 0 thought he ought eh pager: replie that (eee B50. Howto hat to the amount of 2 |
: ged with uttempting t Oe race religio hie soto advise him ‘in the short accumulated so ;
wife—sudden death of g to poison his | the p gion himselt, as it was as toem-} ¢ i space of ten years, wh mue. |
; hn of his t part of the man $ as necessary o ame there pennile ei , when he ha
charged with Pao wo childrext— | secure as the won : JN basa ss, was, and still i
; poisoning ther re permanent happiness an in order to a mystery. Although Ss regarde |
wife—is : ‘i n—murderé hig | Passionately exclai ppiress. “No! no! miserly dispositi gh possessed of a close an |
Sy “hae oa tevpriton—breake jolt ne must ‘Bede einey the old safer, mas: all the ne ren his ra: es
ise pursuit—changes his na obey, she has no‘hi to hold her tongue food, of which b ife, wath the exception «
“in Horn, Se. Sc. re to TTT ting to do with man.” » and | out suffering nfl snes not deprive them witt |
ae Bie ; » arrived in I, ite bad self, its ; ; '
e have obtained from the most } _ | the fall pragrut a ons county, Virginia, in the truits of his coidie Migraine impossidle, frot |
| sources the particulars of the f authehtic | house of M ibe 1, and sto, »ped at the fa have been accumulated argean amount cou!
I yf the life of Andrew Hell the following’ sketch | four miles sae Hillsh sh hae tituated pric The five years he go
’ man. which wi +1: orous . as i s |
less prove satisfactory to th sven hited re ag Ferry” "Sie uted toe nd an m8 es seme ak: gmat ee |
be relied on as correct, It will ay wi doe! had pia da Be aes German aad the nrg the iot cf the poor are ¢ |
correct the many unfounded a0 “serve 10 | jirevious, “eta: had is country a number of ye 10 Ff untappiness whitet rhea” wis ane ol-contidus |
vonneeted hi ae which have | 'mily of son reared around him ag ars H him with fea ilst the children also r Sache
Wash cted his name with so many d “wate ane tool a sim daughters. he old ¢ arbe § Henry, wh h ane hee: Sacdtarty cor
‘okt the suppdsition of in y deeds or g's | iv, a the = liking to Hellman, and, unforuuat ment on the e wholly disuwned. “This theal
I that have not yet come t eee others § OF board with oy, E eein allowed him ta entwined teat woah peed nin
tonnd ty be bad enough i o light. He will be he soon succeeded han being a good warinnee, ry’s, who was then in bi closely to that of Her
When called on tof “ft in all conscience, even do from the farmers hing plenty of work to knowledge of this inc is twellth year, and th
Eich swith the at oy only his own misdeeds ad remained through slat country. 8 id: ag Dey kad ashe oes Seen pas
&{ 2 one of which he deeds, | spring of 1821 sti : inter, abd deaths Lore ee -” When he left Carro! |
ed, places him o h he stands convic f A started for Balti ’ 1 in the Be S in possessio sbi eth
: cs WN the ver wi onvict- 4 ever, remained in Balti imore. He,h which he sold fo siow of two fine farms |
Atidenweal ' y pinnacle of guilt and in 4 altimore forbuta show: f Jocated withi ra large amount. ms |
on the 24th ulin Emo Horn, was barn a Atal, Shara ike bul bis old quarter cco. seeahees, |
? eae e, in the vear 1792 ceeded in ’ re ec ad so effect isr > ‘ }
“eat hue Ae year, at the eas Set np: sisknis fee hat i oto of tees ar his wile with palma x th was hailed b
: ISs0n the ri ‘ . t town e i4 ri : e rom i Jee da ; ap eligh . 5
place Pies eb er Khine, renowned as ne ity nye es of happiness, Reseach Dos se By rind pelea Gen. whe bee, pate fon |
Bene 1630 before ee. Diet assembled in the 4 ‘Pe alin adits the digeeentsdauee F eight are Thevie had emigrated ees aoe.
ty answer to the ch . Luther was summoned | tiong that he was pt arias old Loudoun tah by large and Seer halen now surrounde: |
ae 8 ae of heresy, and is a por ss of one of his oleae engage the affec ee have it, he Bees sf a good fortun
$ > Se ey iy a . te 2 a |
He is, therefor on of Hesse Darmstad i ary Abel was at this time i me G got which was within al i he dwel |
‘of Hessi e, a Hessian by birti t. year ot her age, a blithe, b nthe twentieth eneral Abel’s, and b nundred yards o |
of Hessian parents. We | ) rt, and the son | €4 country girl, a. e, buxom and light heart- her brother George ery: a short distance frou |
ficate, signed by a priest rae paver, ott ~~ Deteydaticed sie ci sparkling be te occasionally eel sce Mary expect
of SVorms in the st, and dated at th of the world, and ed with the deceitful eamed on her with affecti countenance tha |
; in the year 1792, givi etown ff count » and looking to the | ness | couldth ith affection and kind |
his parents ar 1792, giving the erpart of th ; ) the future to be there, when a ; indness. Shi |
ts, and certify in: x the namesot 4 tu her on the past, which had t a] ed at the hospi n opportunity afforded
birth and bapti ying to the da ey e continued round of i ruly been ospitable hearth of rded, seat |
ptism under tu ay of his | 224 happiness. : of innocent pl thers, go over ti 1 of one of her bro |
Hellman, there ca r the name of Andrew disposition, and With a kind and suena piness that. th he scenes of enjoyment and ot
tu this being hi he therefore, be no doubt as | ledge of all the cia and practical mye Loudoun, fleets Hage passed together in al
, iy truename.: Hi ibt as # sh ; varied duti ows | kind e memory of cj
him a guod e. His pare she was just ‘ ies of housewif od hearted fatl y of her good
education, and parents gave ff ted, if uni such an one as would b ifery, | since de ner and mother, wh an |
eae bounia nia + and at the age of 16 he Ht » if united to a kind and affecti e czicula: | ey parted, would often » Who were lon; |
und rentide ti mas & he if to pass through ectionate husb ye of the aillicted calla tear to th: |
heun, in Pet ppr oa tailorat Wi Ul gh the chequered sband Thev arri ed mother. oth
ersheim ¢ cn isupen- all the sweet quered scenes of life wi w hey arrived i & '
er EE leat county, Germany, baie thc bittele pat contentment, and but ; with | of 1836, at aha Logan county in the sprin;
desire to rvam ind = > a of age, when a lot. Deceived ty he «a ouch was orgs arth at an age gmc amb children. hac |
; uced hi ag mises of : rofession of | e far °. ey became }
his thimble and hi Min tostartci! w s of unceasir; of love and m. Louisa A uselulabou |
his scis x Ywith only proval of ag constancy, and wi pro- | Henry w A was in her fourt vid
the aid of whi scissors in his pock j . of her father and » apd with the a 'y was thirteen, and J rteenth year |
ich, accordi tis pocket, with fj December, 192 and family, in the P- | years of age : ohn was about nin»
ehteai he vont » according to his own r Hell ) 1821, she became the wi month of | child ge. They were three tine, i ut nin
toiah ed his w . ‘epresen: Iman. They conti e wife of Andre bildren, such as a e fine, intellige
man States, as well as. vi throuyh all the G family of M 7 continued for two years in the of, still the SHAM RGIAE have heen pou.
: a3 WATIOUA. 7 2¢ Ger- & whi y. Abel, durin years in the | father’ y appeared to hav een prow
Europe, returni us other parts of ich time the ’ 4 only a ‘ er’s affectio e no share in the:
‘ : : = presence of relati portion of | th ns. Money and ei
fall of ISIG fea againto W isupenheiin i were sufficient OF Fe ations and fri e god he worshi y and propert i
: ter : enheim in tl ; me to restrai ; riends | h shipped, and verty wa: |
aha He could Bitlet cna wi nearly tern maar ge Neg the rete pb pay emt of his be was tas better of than Singer ee Pp eet |
owever, and hearing of t sontent himself th o gradual w months bh neighbors, still he kepi rae urround ;
f the gold ere, fal for ber, th ually loosin be | ed ia the meane pi all his famil
was to be reaped in in of the golden harvest that » though for the g all affecti eanest mann ily dress |
s a f the ex : first sixtee on | were compel er, $0 much so tha H
sire to see a count hate Nig and having a d e exception of thisa ey n months, with | si hide, led to remain at hom o that they
vf, he took ry that he had heard in thing passed off qui pparent ind: fference ions. The childr ome on all ocza
Be ges passage for Balti so much amet o guietly. On the y every the very en were, howev Cra |
rivedinthe year 1317 altimore, where h - SSS n the Sih of Augu ery heart of th b ever, knit int: |
es 317, bei } ehe ar § 1522, Lou i ugust, | them wi le mother, and
years of » being then is ’ 43a Heilman esis 2 with all the ed she looked o: |
his arrival, be warhead fe nao ty erect ater ule ors ieresat he insiedonaee ta ane a ugually re act pay to ee eee mo
this city, fo or a mercha : sfortune, ar¢, bad th asa serious | ,./s00ut a yee “pring. :
for nearly three ye: ant tailor of J parent i ey not been Aira! year alter thei
UNE Dictate abel bel gee an wade [au Halon eatin al ure
. cit ge bs ug pea v 5 Fare. " 0 i % aie AY |
Podican bibs roti iene Mieka Satpal on FE a month of April, 1$23, about nt but ne fi fick aye Lect
dt » Virginia. - hs after marri $23, about sixtee at the ts : o her li f |
his ae be proper here to ren __ Plent jealousy t iage, an unfounded and vi ya quan ep of it was completel ipo sks founc |
i stay in Baltimore he so Joa) Sredhicysi, aha SILAKS Duets possession of his very s “t oo be of white powder, ve arp witt |
| secure many friend ucted himself as | tion to up feroviousness of his di Rind) vent been cast upo , Which had 4t tha’ |
| man of good perso te He was then a young | viol towards her sex, brcke forth nae disposi- pecting it to be wiles n it. Immediately su
and industrious Bee dy Poth Nad sober, steady, bin ence. He accused her withsi aa riser ae testing it, she thre n, and having no mod
Saukan bie kad well-behaved and r, steady, | Dasest kind, and on the 27 sintidelity of the | om subs rew it out, and und SO. |
nd withall i : mild in his | temb e 27th of the ensui T equent event, ndoubtedly ,
formed. He all intelligent and well i mber, when Henr nsuing Sep. | There was 8, thus preserved p
. d. Sead Whataiieac ha E nd well in- | child, who i y Hellman, thei : h no one at the time i ved her life |
a lasting dislike t » however, to have imbi » Who is now hiying i 3? r second | her husband e time in the h i
i o the whol imbibed wholly dis * gain Ohio, was bor: Sb ? and he denied ouse bu |
ing upon them as e female rave, look y disowned it, and deno ’ born, he e was under the i ied all knowledge of it |
| annerdcred smere slaves toman > -}asaharlot. From thi unced ats mother | Re had att the impression at th ige of it |
| ta man, inthe fullest » whilst he | peace or happi is moment all ho ° empted to pois ne time tha
| : 1e “lord of all ullest sense of the ter M ppiness were banished ons generally believed on her, and it is
ding to his opi | creation.” Woma m, | Malinda Horn, she elu hed, but like poor J _ For the that such was th eae
sae? opinion, was n, accor- | her God to ot ng tohim and prayed rent] year followin j e case.
‘ convenience for the ? s only created e convert and refi : Pinye to ntly became g this-event b
pte e ther ° as a} his eyes would id reform him, hoping th fami more moros je appa
capacity of a hew other sex, to serve in the | and Suld betul imately vobEnt ping that mily had become e and sullen, b :
Bw . 3 used to i » but hi: |
water, to: cook his er of wood and draw as common sense. But, al pened to reason | thing better. I © it, and ex
i. : victuals d ti er of | Vain. In ret » atas. it was alli thr. ° n the month ‘ pected no
never to speak but » darn his stockings nati eturn for every attenti all in ee of the childre of April, 1839 |
Ccuik in aervil ut when spoken to 8.) , | ness, she received nothing b ion and kind. § 24 laid in great n were suddenly tals yal |
He’ la on feat wiileloini lis ores to} prevations. Ins ing but threats and im: hours suffering fo en sick |
e regarded the scriptural i his preeanne wife; she eae of Sar endearing ores and beige: Louisa, the co forty-eigh’
se applied to | his ideas cf the dexialie yr Peon woman,” and | Were both So youngest, aged 12 apes 17 years |
g duties and dishonora. | ther indoneohanie in one grave * A died, anc
e for her loss. H ing the mo
er whole at |
t


‘ neet for man,” in. its

would deny her all so-

; cits.” That this is still

: tly illustrated by a con-

| 1a few days ago, since

; tleman who was’starting

aif he had any message

‘ y. He replied “yes, tell

er marry to marry a re-

gentleman replied that

\so to advise him to em-

| as it Was as necessary on

' + the woiman in order to

piress. “No! no! no!”

. | the old reprobate, “‘wo-

' tuhold her tongue, and
, odo with man,”

un county, Virginia, in
), and stoped at the farm
| M. Abel, situated about
| rough, and about seven
jerry. Mr. Abel was an
ed German farmer, who
ountry a number of years
red aryund him a large
ghters) he old gentle
| ellman, and, unfortuuate-
| rove, alloted him to stop
| | being a good workman,
iaving plenty of work to

| the surrounding country.
the winter, and in the

| tor Baltimore. He, how:
| nore forbut a few months,
rned to his old quarters at
| e had so effectually suc-
‘inion of the sex, or

m its expression b
tentment and equal-
ng the diferent sexes of
aspected old Loudoun far-

| owed to engage the affec

ghters. .

' ais time in the twentieth
ve, buxom and light heart-
, rosy cheek and sparkling
| ted with the deceitfulness
| cing to the future to bea
it, which had truly been
’ ound of innocent pleasure
a kind and affectionate
ough and practical know-
| d duties of housewifery,
; one as would be celcula-
and affectionate husband,
; equered scenes of life with
tentmeat, and but few of
But such was nut her
profession of love and pro-
istancy, and with the ap-
id family, in the month of
ecame the wife of Andrew
| inued for two years in the
during only a portion of
| ce of relations and friends
| rain the fiendishness of his
| : lapse of a few months he
| \ally loosing all affection
first sixteen months, with
aparent ind: fference, every
| y. On the Sih of August,

, their first daughter was
, be looked on as a serious
they not been under the
nuld doubtless have been

pril, 1523, about sixteen
, an unfounded and vio.
session of his very soul,
oviousness of his disposi-
orcke forth with renewed
her with-infidelity of the
» 27th of the ensuing Sep-
man, their second
Ohio, was born, he
nounced its mother

| is moment all hopes of
‘e banished, but like poor
ing tohim and prayed to

| l reform him, hoping that
' mately opened to reason
; But, alas! it was allin
very attention and kind-
uing but threats and im:
1 the endearing name of
alled “ny woman,” and
i ing duties and dishonora-

<

ble station of woman, fully applied to her. He
had, however, never used apy personal violence,
a ~he consequentiy felt eine for the sake of
ati o desert Lim.

ber childrens ee 192.1, fe rented a small place
. Ju the ee out a mile from her father’s,
At Loud oan, * {or nearly eight years, during
where they tivea 1327, John Hellman, @
which time, in June, - “ich time he openly
third child, was born, at wa. st he woul

declared that if she ever had anotum. “wild
kill her. This, however, was their last G. ~"
Oa one oceasiva. whilst living on this place,
he leit her, ina fit of passion, and went to Bal.
timore, leaving both wife and children aimost
destitu’e, where he remained about 3 months,
and returned with promises of reformation.

In the mean time» her father, having several
sons grown around him, began to cast about for
some mode of giving them all a start in the
‘world, and finally sold a portion of his’ farm,
and bonght a section of land for each of them
in different counties of Ohio. John Abel and
George Abel, went to Stark County, Ohio,
and Hellman received for his wife a section of
land in Cgrroll County in the same state. They
remained in Loudoun, however, until 1331,
when fhey removed to Carroll County, though
he ref(fed to live on the section of ground be-
longing to his wite. apparently through ill feel-
ing towdrds her. When he lett Loudoun Coun-
ty he disposed of property to the amount of at
least $3,000. How he had accumulated so much
‘in the short space of ten years, when he had
came there penniless, was, and still is regarded
asamystery. Although possessed of a close and
miserly disposition, denying bis family nearly
all the comforts of Jife, wath the exception of
food, of which he could not deprive them with-
out suffering himself, it seemed impossible, from
the truits of his needle, su largean amount could
have been accumulated.

The tive years he passed in Carroll county
we pass over in silence, with the exception of

i the remark that the jot cf the poor wife during

the whole of this time, was one of continual
unhappiness, whilst the children also regarded
him with fear and trembling, particularly poor
Henry, who he wholly disowned. This treat.
ment on the part of her brutal husband of course
entwined her heart more closely to that of Hen
ry’s, who was then in his twelfth vear, and the
knowledge of this increased his growing enmi-
ty towards her and him.’ When he left Carroll
county he was in possession of two fine farms,
which he sold tor a large amount. They were
located within a half a mile of the now thriving
va hn Carrallton.
is removal to Logan county was hailed by
his wife with joy and delight, for there rest.
ded her two brothers, Gen. Juhn Abel and Mr.
George Abel, who had emigrated there some
eight years pievious, and were now surrounded
by large and happy families. As good fortune
would have it, he bought a fine farm, the dwel.
ling of which was within a hundred yards of
General Abel’s, and but a short distance from
her brother George, and now poor Mary expect.
ed and did occasionally meet a countenance that
beamed on her with affection and kindness. She
could there, when an opportunity afforded, seat-
ed at the hospitable hearth of one of her bro.
thers, go over the scenes of enjoyment and hap.
piness that they had passed together in a
Loudoun, and the memory of her good an
kiod hearted father and mother, who were long
since departed, would often call a_ tear to the
eye of the aillicted mother. ‘
They arrived in Logan county in the spring
of 1836, at which time the three children had
arrived at an age when they became uselul about
the farm. Louisa was in her fourteenth year,
Henry was thirteen, and John was about nine
years of age. They were three fine, intelligent
children, such as a man should have been proud
of, still they appeared to have no share in their
father’s affections. Money and property was
the god he worshipped, and although in reality
he was tar better off than many of his surround.
ing neighbors, still be kept all his family dress.

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TRIAL OF ADAM HORN,
FOR MURDER. :

Ptention, however, was still required for poor }
Henry, who laid several davs in great suffering;
but he tinally recovered. This wasa sad stroke
to the heart of the already grief-stricken mother,
which was doubly heavy on her from the firm
belief she entertained that their death had re-
sulted from poison, and that that poison had been
administered to them by the hancof their father
—by that hand which should have brushed away
from their path every thorn that could barm
them. The belief is now general throughout the |
county that their blood is ‘also on the head. of
Andrew Hellman, but whether true or false |
remains to be decided between kim and his God. |
It would seem, if the charge be correct, to have
been a miraculous: intervention of Providence
that poor Henry, the child of misfortune, the
one alone above all others that bis father dis-
liked and ill-treated, was the one that outlived
the effects of the deadly potion. Happy would
he doubtless now be cou'd he disown such a |
father, and forever obliterate froera memory his

1@@e@ee@e3eee edged @

existence. He is, however, now loved and res-
or by all who are acquainted with bins,
aving fully inherited all the good qualities of

his unfortunate mother, and fully proving the
saying that a/bad man may be the father of a
Wortby son. Just entering on manhood he bids
fair to reclaim, by a just and honorable life a
name that bas been tarnished by the most detes-
table acts of crime and guilt. |

It may be here stated, 1n justice to Hellman,
that, since his conviction of the murder of Ma-
linda Horn, he bas been questioned with regard
to the death of his children, and although he
did not deny the murder of his first wife, he po-
sitively asserts that he had no hand in thee
death. He, however, will find it difficult to ea.
tisly those who witnessed the heart-rending
scene, and his utter callousness as to the result,
that he is not also their murderer—that the bluod
of his innocent offspring does not rest on his
head, equally with that of ‘the unborn child of
his second victim. The bodies, -we learn, were
not examined, to discover the cause of death,
the suspicion as to their being poisoned having
been kept a secret in the breasts of the members
of the family, for the sake of the poor muther,
whose hard lot might have been embittered in
case they should have been unable to sustain
the charge. As bad as they then thought him
to be, they could scarcely believe him guilty of
such a crime, but experience has since taught
them that he was capable of any thing, let it be
ever so henious and criminal, and not even a

ed ia the meanest manner, so much so that they
were compelled to remain at home on all occa
sions. The children were, however, kmit into
the very heart of the mother, and she looked oi
them with all the fund hope with which a mo
ther ujually regards her off«pring.

About a yearalter their arrival at Logan,
Mrs. Hellman on one occasion had poured out
a bowl of milk with the intention of drinking
it, but before she got it to her lips she found
that the top of it was completely covered with
a quantity of whae powder, which had @t that
moment been cast upon it. Immediately sus.
pecting it to be poison, and having no mode of
testing it, shethrew it out, and undoubtedly,
from eubsequent events, thus preserved her life.
There was no one at the time in the house but
her husband, and he denied all knowledge of it.
She was under the impression at the time that
he had attempted to poison her, and it is now
generally believed that such was the case, »

For the year following this event he appa-
Paps became more morose and sullen, but his
family had become used to it, and expected no-
thing better. In the month of April, 1839, all
three of the children were suddenly taken sick,
and laid in great suffering for about forty-eight
hours, whon Louisa, the uldest, aged 17 years,
and John, the youngest, aged 12 years died, and
were beth buried in one grave, leaving the mo:
ther inconsolable for her loss. Her whole at-

denial uader the solemnity of a confession, can
now clear him of the charge.

The two children, as has already been sthted,
died in the month of April, 1839, aod on the 26th
of September, 1839, five months after, the poor
mother met her terrible fate. The intervening
time had been passed 1n fear and trembling, and
she watched over and guarded: her ouly remain-
ing child with teti-fold care and anxiety. She
feared that the blow which she thought bad been
| aimed mainly at the head of the disowned Hen-

rv. was still reserved for him, and she therelure
| tllowed him witn sie sallecelpe. * eee
when evil or danger threatens) 9» betas ms
udparture, and longed for his return when abd-
3eut at bis daily labor, and folded him to ker
heart a3 its only svlace under the heavy weight
“ot sorrow and affliction she had been called on
to endure. Henry. loved his” mother equally
well, and done much to ease her heart of-its
heavy burden,

On the 26th of September, bearing that her
brother George was unwell, she gladly embra-
ved the opportunity of sending Henry tu assist
his uncle in the work of the farm for a lewdays,
knowing that there at least he would be vutwof
harm’s way. It was the first time that he had
ever been absent from her, and when she bid
him farewell, and admonished him to take care
of himself, little did she think that it was the
last time she would ever see him—that ere the

@ @


- Frank Jones

John Johnson

Executed at Ellicott City on June 20th 1902

pra “Bhittene: . ‘Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 6-21-02
pproanepesd § Feiene’ APrOr ere AEet , Peo ae - page 1 column 5

utter disrégara
1 cde foe
| the cell to the scaffold he puffed away at &
| hetiveen

j though apparentiy listening tntestiy,
i Died his time by looking s ;

i gazing at the Geath-watch “
| tere which attracted his atteation. N:
| of the prisoners slept daring the nig

) Inceesautly engaged those a

s. $e Shassmeé insanity. "
} the’ minister and-

to impress the penitentisry p@icials

j State of Kentucky, where he was

| @ 21-year sentence; and that this 29-5 Soe

, tiation was the means of the #:=

| o@icials that he wes really “He wae 8°

| Femoved to an eaylum, f whieh a

| Caped shortly afterward. : want you to # eae
tell elt the peopie.” said Johneon, thet SS ts rnd ict be p sing? Soveermenge
t hase only been feigning insanity since my | Mr Whe wes tet Snes dehy sit
comviet ie and re an begs herp 4 any- - Bet sane Serene st netfee

i body. thought . old | dodge 3 ‘ f :

| remains t young & the end of the Who had killed bis
} rege mpc Bacadye ssecia em pe io z old G brethor, He was koodrded a front place tn


3

BSiaie o1 +4jJ, BOEIC Be WARS @r' ing Bs:

a 2l-year nce; end that this s€if-ms-

tilation wil*the means of convinciig the

officials that he was rea!ly insane. He was

remored to an eaylum, from whichihe es-

caped shortly afterward. “I want you to

tell ell the people.” said Johneon, “that I

hase only been feigning insanity sigce my § ©

conviction, ané have as much sense $e any-

body: I thought maybe -(Be old! dodge

woy!d work.” Johnson theg exhibijed his

temaining hand to the minigter Fyoung |

Mr. Hobbs, which was covered. old

scars, Johneon said these were from wounds

be had [eficted on himself $y t tbe
hasdeufs while playing the tnaa ge. |

Rev, Mr, Randaii sald Johnson per-

ticularty anxious to have the pub know

he was not tneshe and nerer had b

ive Rreakfast And Cigars. |
About 5 o’viock AM. JoBnson
the Sheriff to wend fer Rje breakfaq, asy-
jog: “I suppose yuo are suing ta Nang us |!
wearily, and [ certainty don’t want (6 go on
the utber side withrot fref Raving bed a
gud quest.’ The breakfnet wae Ordered
from the hotel, and coustateg of B barge
spring chirhen an] a bouptecse eabply ef
ether food sf whick het} Johaseu- and |
| Jonea gle with greedy eppetite. Altee break-
frat Sstaaa quked for a cigar, which was
pgises iin, When thet sat fa be :
eeked the Mheriff for anothér ane, fle wae F after bis
eBjeying the third eigar whee the} Sherif 1 he Enew.
fietiGed tke on tha rhe bor tae had,
| airived for ¢

Sr meas ge gt, sor

“wart of port oi ogg ts crm we
tem through with. aes afoot tai:
; 7 Now, seesd Gite ne cab , wet)
} Wait to emcks os my way {6 the x 6" |
Whes li wae pat between his tips aad Heht |
Bo! fot him be gedAed (hat fie was
“fmoheé A Cigna? On The &
“The ptocession started from the
ty ev, Mr, Handall, whe wee fc
Johneos, 18 Ler ggnn with; Culef.
‘Vasenat. 1

se fh. tior ‘cae resp 3 the ibichiest |
fear Roth walked with Gem step and; ap. |
# faised bead. - At the tolts of the
Bi outed ie servion fee readhed the ears ed |
ad


oe Siaaiine =
ac ae
Sse oven 2 ac

, SOHNSON HANGED

ty (encanta
The Negro Whp Assaulted Little
. | &nnle Kerfoot.

. \ oeeennaenmeteeneal

HE GALLOWS 1N HAGERSTOWN

The Aseault By The Negvo Upon The
‘Little White Girl Took Place In

¥ , Washington County Last July,

[Spectal Dispatch to the, Baltimore Sun.)
Haowrstown, Mb. Dec. 8,—Bamuel
Johneon, colored, wae hartged today for the

| -erime of assaulting little Annie Kerfoot,
white, He sald he was fonocent of the
“ertme,.The word ‘innocent’ l¢-tho last he

ever uttered.
\ The execution took place this afternoon
Inside the high old walls which surround
the jall. The execution was witnessed by
about 100 people, who were admitted by,
cards signed by Sheriff Bruce 8. Zeller. A
great: crowd stood In front of the jail from
9 o'clock until] 4. Nothing from, the out-
side, however, could be seen. Johnson
passed a restlvss night, sleeping but little,
“and refused to vat any breakfast.
| Shortly before the execution Rev, J. C.
Neumwn, Rev. W. H. Dickerson, Rev. T.0.
Carroll and Rey. J. M, Arter, all colored,
and Jacob F,. Wheaton, colored, met Ip bis
oell‘and sang the hymn “Amazing Grace"
and prayed with him, Johnson told ther
reachers that he was ready to go to his
aster, He volunteered no confession to
his spiritual advisers. The party was still
singiug, when, about 1 P, M., the officers
rapped on the fron door of Johnson's cell
abd told him the time had come, Sheriff
Weller entered the. cell and read the death
warrant. Then Deputy Sherif gE. W.
McC.*Cost tled Johnson's bands securely
behind him. A procession was formed,

headed by the preachers. Jobnson walked |

up the 12 ateps with.a orm tread, preceded
by . T. O. Carroll, On the scattold

|

was also Deuty Sheriff Selby, of Montgom- |

ery county, who banged the'two negroes,
Taylor and Brown, at Rockville. He was
here by invitation of Sheriff Zeller.
Johnaon stood on ‘the trapdoor while
Deputy Cost strapped his. knees and an-
kies together, and then the Sheriff placed
the rope around his neck. Forwer Sheriff
M. Finley Seibert tied the knot. Carroll
Smade a short praser for the doomed man,
who trembled violently as his end ap
proached, Some one tn the crowd shyuted:
“ask him If be bas anything to say,””
and Carroll put: the question. Johnson,
between sobs, said he. stood all alone;

everybody had forsaken. him, but he was |

golng to his Lord, who was with him, and
to a place where there was ho suffering—
netther crying nor pain. He thanked those
-who bad been klod to him tn bis confine-
meut,-aud asked the Lord to have mercy.

upon his poor father and mother. He |

paused a few aeronds, and between gasps
which were almost shrieks, be sald: “I
am Iwnvcent.”” Sheriff Zeller then pulled
the. blackcap over bis head and started
dowa the steps, When he tred upon one

of the lower steps, which presded a wire |
connected with a spring bolding tbe trap |

in place, the trap fell to the ground, aud
Jobnaon fell through the opening tv the

platform. His. body was copvulsed as It |

* awang back and forth. The drop fell at
Y.21 o'clock. ‘About five minutes afterward

Drs. W. B. Morrison, J. E. Pitsnogle, C.
R. Scheller, C.-7%. Wiugerd, 8. 8. Davis, |

W. M. Sibiser, Wade and others felt his
heart, which still’ beat. Death ensued
‘about 11 minutes after the drop fell. The

body was then cut down by Deputy Sherif

Cost aud was buried In the paupers’ grave- |

yard. * ris ; :
After the burial Dr. W.-B. Morrison, jail |
M

hyasician, accompanied by Dra, .W. M,
‘ibiser'and C, KR. Scheller, went to Belle-
vue graveyard, Johnson's body was ex-
humed, and Dr.. Morrison performed a post-
mortem efaniination, finding a partial dia-
location, amounting almost to a fracture,

between the fourth and fifth cervical ver-

tebree, The body was then buried the sec-

ond, time.* as yt :
Johnson was utterly forsaken, even by

‘ble relatives, Neither his father, mother |
or brother, of Calvéer@ county, Maryland, |

or hie sister in Welcome alley, Baltimore,
came to ace him, as they promised. Rev.
Charles. Bourne, a colored man, went to
Calvert county to see his parents. They
expressed their intention of taking the
body back with them when they came
chere, but beyond one letter which John-
son received from bis brother reproving
htm, nothing bas been heard or seen of

em, yes
‘« Thomas F. Kerfoot, ‘father of thé-girl as- |

saulted, was amoug those who witnessed

the execution:. He said his daughter, had |

been very nervous this week, ava for t
Teason was not allowed to attend school.
The crime for which Johnson was banged
was committed July 27 last. His victim
was Annie Kerfoot, aged 12 years, daugh-.
ter of Thomas F. Kerfoot, tender of lock

: 40 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, .

near Mondel.: The story of the assault Is
here given in the little girl's own language
as stie told it on the witness stand at Oak-
land during the trial of Johnson:. |. |
. “I -wea golng to Mondel’s store, when I
‘was met by a negro, wha
_ Dearest farmhouse was, @
him. I first saw the man near the berm
‘wide of the canal going In the same direc-
tion, He overtqok me near the culvert of
“the canal, when he left me and ‘started op
) the ravine, going iu the direction of Pof-
j fenbernets. hayfield, and passed through
the field C6ward the road leading. to Mon-
gable 4 across the
i egro‘caught me; He then car-
(fied. me.ddwnh the. hillside, saying that if.
J made any ovtery he would kil) me. After
inakjng the asnault he climbed over a fence
to a cornfield, I went to Poffenberger's,
from there I went to Mondel's,' where
< bavese some goods, From,Mondel's. I>
Peturned home, in compasy with Mrs,
Marshall, when I, told my mother what had:
. foo po iy Sy deka ee bid’ im. April."
mé in its details was'of. a"
_ volting Sad oth ety ie brevet
++ "Johnson was captured 16’ q woods near

. Wilaméport on the night after the assault

by a posse of armed citizens: on the bunt.

: He was brought té Hagerstown at once

upon advice of Judge Stake and anuggied

into jail,’ The next ‘day ‘Johnson, was: re-

moved to Baitimote-for safety.

1 Before Johnson was taken away Annie

‘Kerfoot, his victim, was taken to the jail.
Five other negroes were placed in Apert
ttle ha

with Johnson; but ‘the,

Samuel Johnson

Executed at Hagerstown on December 8th 1899

Reported in: The Baltimore Sun issue of 12-9-99
page 8 column 1

Repoxted inAhe Zul. Sun ) 7-27-00
page 8 Ofdmn 4. Jfue of 7/2$ would have
reported Actual/exdcution

Judge Stake reassembled the
fetermining that Johnson Apould be Give
‘a apeedy trial, Johnson was indicted Av.

¢
{gust'l, and J. .A, Mason and A: ©, Strite
» were appointed hie counsel by tie te ad

‘The case was sent.to Garrett coanty, and

*“the trial began at ‘Oakiand September 21:
The evidence: agalont: hin, wan’ very con

jetusive, ‘The jury ‘was out only five

; les and brought in a verdict of guilty.

‘ JOHNSOON, Frank, black, hanged at Hegerstown, Maryland, 11-25-1895.

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the ekcention oh a nese pian, named Fie ane
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Court, beld mn this. ploces of the crime ef fut-
aistang arpenic, to Poison a ne rq itl, the
pic iperty. of Thomis 1. Hall yisq. Eis exes
cuueh is ta take place t this day al 126 "lent k.

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Vaeri Imorerceliy ay will be done
rt. Hbeur citize us Wise ex potts
af not. wholly coustst of thuse, tho
Upon these grounds T feehmiysetf
drineritisy + forward this Tesolution,
~“outgome ry moved theta |
‘ ipointed to inguire: whether.
har euimpensation cought TO he al-
‘ptain Vikey and his_ com)”: adions.
services in explon ibe ‘the ] isSis-
aud to report by hill or otherwise,
oa committee of five. ss
a weported a. bill to. authorise the.
‘ifdoth Houses of Congress to fur-
resident’s message and the docu-
ampanying itto all perts of the
Fe the teiritorics thereof, by nasil |
Read she first and, Second.

ndexter oeea a Pghat Hy select’

) lemen were clected without epposi ion. Col.
Spcnecr bya

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/TLECTION POR FLECTORS,

BAL: iryion d, Vlecte 5 Bh Edvard Jolinse n,
Jot: i Johnson, Tobias Be Stansbury, Richard
T. Varky Perr ff Spence ty Robert Hawic,
Joby Tyler, 3 Nathaniel Roches ey 33 UW atd
ii. Vesey ant pefublican: The fi est four gone

A majnrity, ‘Of. GO over “Robert
Golistoougé, and DroJobn Pyler and Gol.

S. Rochester by a majority of 466 over Jobh
k vornaid Roger Db. Taney,

ae follaws that M: arylatic has at least nine
re publican Llectors out of 11. Iris supposed
the remaining two will be federal. AML the
republican be ie clors stand pledged 19 vole for’
Mr. Madisun.” > fy ie tae ae

rt

ae
On Mondoy the bith instant, Thomas Ro
Dorsey, Esquire, was elected a member of |
the senate of this state, Vice Juia 7. Mascni
oe of Ww pebinsiog ous rentencd?

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be appointed to enquire into the
ef reptaling that law w hich ul- f.
werno.s of the several territories |
or dissolve s the general assenib ly
bef pholerred toa Aid a ed of

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oxrspe ¥y Nurember, 16,

Sedery | presented the Petition of,

® itizens an Catthsgena, whe ,

rida’ “expedition, : Referred to
« of hive.” tani eH y

dexter athed leave Fock the com-

fursumce of his FEsoitr~

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Aen resthhted « aby

Py tine, ‘He |

rs the tit be eogronsed for ve

sh batine ot
- tatising te feat ayitstion of the

ae at the whor fs

“Rebort ie rhs iy T'sq. is re- elected Gover: |
‘hor Be Maryland, without op posit sue .2

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facicdty, reading on Niegora Rivcr (othe
| Editor of the Ce manda gua de te Fy Ui. ted |

Weiter 18,188

On the night of ibe Pith) instunt. a arm:
ed force of from 15 to 20 men came across
the nver from Candda to Lewis-towne aod {

broke open the Warchouse belengipe to and 4

uceupicd by Porter Batton & Co, tock o min.

who lodged ip the store, bound, Rap ged tel.
placed a sentry over him; and also placed:

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by aincmnter of our state Leovislutere to
the editor of the | Kepublican. etal
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address—at the time. But I can’t find
the scrap of paper now.”

“Keep looking for it,” replied Deyle
sharply. “We'll be right out to see you.”

HALF-HOUR later, Deyle and

Baumiller were sweating with
nervous impatience in the living room
of the informant’s home. Rack his
brains as he might, the informant could
not recall where he had placed the
scrap of paper on which he had jotted
down the name of the job-seeker. “I
probably threw it out,” he said at last
with a helpless gesture. “I didn’t like
his looks, anyway.”

“What did he look like?” prompted
Deyle.

“He was young, about 26 or 27, I
should say. Medium build.” . .

“How was he dressed?”

“In a suit. He wasn’t wearing a hat.”

“Was it a brown suit with stripes?”

“Yes, now that you mention it, I
think that’s right. It must have been
recently cleaned for I have a distinct
recollection that it smelled strongly of
cleaning fluid, or something like that.”

“Could it have been mothballs?”

“Yes. That’s what it was. I’m sure.”

Deyle got to his feet and began to
pace the floor nervously. “I’ve got a
hunch that your job-seeker is the man
we want,” he said earnestly. “I want
you to search the house again for that
address, It’s important.”

“If my memory serves me rightly,
he lives somewhere in the Ashburton
section. Does that help?”

The officers exchanged swift glances.
Warren August lived in the Ashburton
section. “Would you recognize the man
again if you saw him?” Baumiller asked.

“I’m sure I would.”

“We've picked up a man,” Deyle
said. “We'll ask you to look at him
later. Meanwhile, keep searching for
that address.” . ‘

Calling headquarters, Deyle ordered
his men to concentrate their efforts on
the Ashburton section in their search

‘for the stolen car, then he and Bau-

miller proceeded to call on the Bopst
neighbors. .

Some of them had been solicited on
Sunday morning by the odd-jobs man
but none had bothered to take the ap-
plicant’s name and address. However,
the description given by the neighbors
matched the one given by the lawyer,
brown-striped suit and all,

At the end of the trail the two offi-
cers returned to the informant’s resi-
dence. Hardly had they been ushered
into the living room when Deyle was
summoned to the telephone. Headquar-
ters was on the wire with encouraging

news, Sergeants Norman Heim and

Bangert had found the Chrysler in the
3700 block of Grantley Road, in the
Ashburton section. It had been hauled
to headquarters and already a squad
of technicians were going over it in a
careful search for clues,

64

“Good,” Deyle said. “Let me know
at once if the boys turn up anything.”
He hung up, turned to Baumiller.
“They’ve found the car just a few blocks
away from where August lives.” Then,
to the informant: “Find the address
yet?”

The man shook his head “Sorry, no.”

“Then how about coming down to the
station and taking a look at the man
we have?”

“Tl be glad to.” :

An hour later, Warren August was
placed in a line-up of men and paraded.
But the witness failed to identify. him.
More to the point, he was positive that
none of the men in the line-up remotely
resembled the odd jobs man who had
applied to him for work. However, he

did settle one thing. Shown the brown-

striped coat, he was sure it was the one
worn by the job-seeker on the Sunday
before.

“Now relax,” urged Deyle. “Where
were you when you interviewed this
man? In what room?”

A dawning light spread across his face
at the question. “Why, that’s it!” he
exclaimed. “I wasn’t in any room! I was
working with the roses in the garden
and I jotted down his name on a scrap
of paper in the tool house, It’s in the
tool shed.”

Deyle waited for no more. “Come
on,” he urged. “Let’s go.”

Once his memory had been jogged, |

the man came through, Lying on the
work bench in the tool shed, held down
by a pair of pruning shears, was the
scrap of paper. Picking it up, he handed

BUY U. S. SAVING BONDS
AND INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE

it to Deyle with a smile. “This is it,”
he said.

The captain heaved a deep sigh of
relief, glanced at the paper. Written on
it in a bold hand was the name: “Carl
Kier.” Beneath was the address: “2905
Westwood Avenue.”

ACK at headquarters, Deyle was

informed that the time keeper at
the paper plant had called in a few
minutes before, stating that Warren
August had been on the job all that day.
Not only did his time card attest to this,
but a dozen fellow employees had been
contacted and they all agreed that he
had not quit the plant until the day shift
quitting time whistle blew at four
o’clock.

“Turn him loose with our apologies,”
ordered Deyle. “Then round up all
hands.”

A short time later a squad of officers
led by Deyle and Baumiller surrounded
the new suspect’s house on Westwood
Avenue, just south of Hanlon Park. In-
cluded in the group were Lieutenants
William Powers, Charles Rockenbaugh
and John Eurice, and Sergeants Bill
Gibson and Henry Kone.

' The building was old and dilapidated,
no more than a three-room shanty with

‘sagging shutters at the windows. No a q

lights showed anywhere. And as Deyle
and Baumiller cautiously approached the
front door with drawn guns, a hound
dog howled dismally in the next block.

At a signal from Deyle, Baumiller
crashed in the flimsy door. Leaping in-
side, Deyle swept the dingy interior with
the beam of his flashlight. Then the
probing circle of light focused on a nar-
row cot along the wall of the bedroom.
Seated bolt upright on the cot was a
man. His eyes were wide with alarm
and fear.

_ “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” he called
out.

“Are you Carl Kier?’ demanded
Deyle.

“That’s me.” :

“Okay. Get up. Get dressed.”

Kier climbed out of bed and reached
for a pair of brown-striped pants lying
crumpled on the floor.

“Not those,” snapped Deyle. “I want
those pants myself. Put on something
else.”

With the situation well under control,
the other officers crowded into the
house. A swift search of the premises
turned up a stack of greasy, dog-eared
“girlie” books, similar to the one found
earlier in the pocket of the coat. A
search of the brown-striped pants was
even more rewarding. In one of the
pockets were the keys to Mrs. Bopst’s
stolen car. >

Kier was first taken to the Parkville
police station where he was booked on
suspicion of murder, Then after a tho-
rough physical examination by Dr.
Charles F, O’Donnell, the medical ex-
aminer, he was rushed to the county
jail in Towson. Here with State’s At-
torney John F. Raine heading the pro-
ceedings, he was subjected to an all-
night grilling.

Officers who had worked to crack the
sensational murder case refused to re-
veal whether or not Kier had confessed.
They did say he had made several in-
criminating statements. And they sought
more. :

There was a confident smile on Cap-
tain Deyle’s face. “Let him try to ex-
plain away that brown-striped suit and
how he got the keys to Mrs. Bopst’s
car,” he told reporters.

The accused man appeared before
the Baltimore County Grand Jury on
June 23rd, following a hearing before
Magistrate John J. Caslin in Towson
Police Court. He was indicted for first
degree murder; and on September 18th
a jury found him guilty. He was sen-
tenced to death the following day.

The Court of Appeals upset the con-
viction, however. Kier was given a new

_trial and was found guilty .as charged

a second time. Defense lawyers em-
ployed every legal means to save their

client, but two governors refused ex- _»

ecutive clemency after reviewing the

case, On January 24th, 1959, Carl —
Daniel Kier became the second man to ~

die in the State of Maryland’s new gas -
chamber. *

Editor’s Note: The name Warren Au-—
gust is fictitious.

POLICE FILES —


RAPED AND MURDERED

¢

(Continued from page ‘57)

“It looks like we’re on the right
track.” Deyle told. Baumiller when
this information was relayed to him.
“Now we've got to find that missing
slip of paper with the name and ad-
dress of the odd-jobs man on it.”

It took a good deal of scratching,
but the police y came up with
the scrap of paper. Attorney Williams
had written, “Carl Kier, 2923 West-
wood Avenue.”

The missing automobile had been
found 15 minutes after midnight fol-
lowing the ‘discovery of the crime
shortly after 5 o’clock. The police had
a prime suspect’s name and address
by 1 o’clock. A quick check of police
records showed Carl Daniel Kier was
an ex-con out on parole. He was 21-
years-old and had been released from
Maryland State Reformatory for
Males on August 7, 1955 after serving
17 months on a burglary charge.

NO RESISTANCE

A squad of detectives led by Cap-
tains Deyle and Baumiller surrounded
the Westwood Avenue house just
south of Hanlon Park, shortly before
2 o’clock. They believed that any man
capable of committing such a beuiel
crime would be dangerous, perhaps
armed, and they took no chances.
More than a dozen city and county
officers covered front, side and back
entrances. They had their hands on
their guns when Deyle and Baumiller
crashed into the room where suspect
. Carl Kier was sleeping. The surprised

man offered no resistance. He was
taken to Towson Police Station and
turned over to Warden Joseph Butt.

The prisoner’s record showed he
was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in
1935. An illegitimate child, he was
brought to Baltimore when he was
eight. His first brush with the police
came when he was 12. Involved in a
minor burglary, the youth was placed

on probation. In 1954 he was con-
victed of a series of burglaries and
sentenced to not more than five years.

Free‘ on parole since August, 1955,

Kier had worked for a paint company
until he got into an argument with a
fellow employee. Both were fired. A
job with a fertilizer company followed
and he remained there until a sea-
sonal business slump made it neces-
sary for the boss to lay him off. His
record at the prison had been good.

CHARGED WITH MURDER

Police searching Kier’s living quar-
ters came up with a pair of blue pants
that Capt. Deyle thought would
match the coat Officer Zimmerman
had picked up outside the Bopst back
door, When the toilet in the suspect’s
place was dismantled police found a
set of car keys.

Kier insisted that he was innocent
of Mrs. Bopst’s assault and murder,
but police said he made an “incrimi-
nating” statement in the presence of

. County Medical Examiner Dr. Charles

F. O’Donnell and Sergeants Ross Gog-
liano and Hugh McCusker: These men
reported that Kier admitted having
been on the Bopst property the after-
noon of the crime and taking the
woman’s keys and car.

Dr. William V. Lovett, assistant
Baltimore medical examiner, reported
that the autopsy showed that Mrs.
Bopst died from a knife wound in the

. chest. He said she was stabbed four

times and had been beaten on the
head six times with a heavy object,
suffering multiple lacerations of the
scalp. The autopsy findings also
showed that she had been raped.
Kier was charged with the murder
on Wednesday morning and placed in
the police line-up for possible identi-
fication in connection with the cat
burglaries in the Towson section.
Several victims of these robberies

looked him over, but. none could
identify him. Subsequent question-
ing convinced police authorities that
Carl Kier was not the man they were

-looking for in those burglaries.

Captain Millard B. Horton, com-
mander of the Northwestern division,
questioned the prisoner about two
other unsolved cases. One was an as-
sault case in which a woman was
stabbed while she was sitting on the
porch of her Garrison street home.
The second, which took place less
than a week before the brutal attack
on Mrs. Bopst, was a robbery case in
which the criminal’ attempted to rape
his victim.

Residents of. the neighborhood
where this latest murder-rape case
had taken place identified Carl Kier
as the man who had been seen in that
section applying at several houses
for work as a handyman.

A 24-hour-guard was placed on the
prisoner, not because Warden Butt
was afraid he’d escape, but to thwart
any attempt at suicide.

State’s Attorney John E. Raine, Jr.
announced that a preliminary hearing
was scheduled for the following Mon-
day before Magistrate John J. Caslin
in Towson Police Court.

“Although certain evidence has yet
to ‘be processed,” Mr. Raine said,
“Captain Deyle and Captain Bau-
miller have reported that the inves-
tigation is substantially complete.”

MORE EVIDENCE

Among the evidence yet to be proc-
essed were specimens of Carl Kier’s
hair and skin. Police believe this will
match scrapings taken from beneath
Mrs. Myrtle Bopst’s fingernails. The
desperate fight she put up for her
life could clinch the case against the
killer. The fragments of hair and
skin can send him to the gallows.

The End

| DON'T WANNA HEAR NO BANG

(Continued from page 39)

and he asked politely to see Alonzo.
“He talked so nice that I reached out
and unhooked the screen door.

But once the door was unlatched,
the “nice, polite man” stepped inside,
and pushed her roughly, so hard that
Joyce stumbled and sank into a chair.
She was frightened.

~ Then the man went down the hall
and ran into the bedroom where
Alonzo was ‘sleeping, and _ presentl
Joyce heard four shots. .She watie,
terribly scared, but the man did not

_ come back through the living room—
he must have let himself out through
the rear door of the house.

Two children in the adjoining bed-
room woke up and began crying
Joyce said, and then she mustered
her courage and went in and found
her husband dying on the bed. And
she called the police. - ,

Detective Keefe took another look
at the room.:He found a screen un-

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latched; all the others were locked.

Did Mrs. Turner have any idea who
the nice, polite man could be? Had
she ever seen him before? _

Mrs. Turner couldn’t say as she
had, but she remembered that several
times last week a man had phoned
her to complain that Alonzo was
“running around” with his wife.
Joyce was pretty sure that the voice
of her husband’s killer was the same
as that of the man on the telephone.

NO NOISE

Detective Keefe thought maybe
some of the neighbors had heard the

shots, perhaps. seen the murderer, He’
went next door, to the house of Mrs.’

Audrey Roakes. Audrey, a frowzy-
looking brunette, hadn’t heard any-

‘thing, she said. Neither had any’ of

her kids—she had five of them. Aud-
rey’s husband was stationed at Ft.

Bragg, and the couple were separated.
While Keefe was talking to Mrs.
Roakes he noticed a buxom woman
asleep on the couch. She woke up and
asked what was going on, but she
hadn’t heard anything either.

This was a_ disappointment to
Keefe, although not terribly surpris-
ing, as a .22 pistol doesn’t make so
much noise that a whole neighbor-
hood would be awakened at three in
the morning.

“Mrs. Roakes kindly offered to take
care of Joyce’s children while she
went with Detective Keefe to the
police station and repeated her tragic
story to Captain G. L. Lackey. This
time around, Joyce remembered that
the man had worn thick horn-rimmed
glasses. She began to weep again, tell-
ing the story; her hands trembled and
her ample bosom quivered; she be-
came almost hysterical.

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By Goffrey Beal

HE luxurious, modernistic home where Mrs. Myrtle
Agnes Bopst was murdered on Tuesday afternoon;
June 12, 1956, nestles in the side of a heavily wooded
hill in the fashionable Towson residential section of Balti-
more, Maryland. Almost completely hidden from the high-
way by huge trees, the approach to the three-level dwell-
ing is by flagstone steps. It has a gray slate roof that
blends into the background and is flanked by a small fish

pond. A clear, cool brook runs beneath the house. The

nearest neighbor is 60 yards up the hill.

Mrs. Bopst lived there at 6520 Charles Street Avenue
with her husband, John. He is 55, vice president and a
partner of Mechanical Engineering, Inc., a Baltimore con-
tracting firm. Friends described the 48-year-old matron
as quiet, with the sweetest smile they had ever seen. Her
black hair showed traces of gray. She wore it combed
straight off her forehead with a knot in the back.

Mrs. Bopst had raised four children: two boys and two
girls. David, 19, lived at home with his parents. He had
just completed his first year at the University of Balti-
more and was attending a graduation outing of his girl
friend’s high school class the afternoon his mother died.
The other son, John, Jr., is a manufacturer’s agent. The
two daughters are happily married and live in Baltimore.

FOOTSTEPS AND PANIC

Mrs. Bopst left home about 1 o'clock that Tuesday
afternoon in her 1955 model Chrysler “300” hardtop coupe
and drove to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Guy Talbott,
Jr., on Winston Road. She visited there for about an hour
and then went to Towson to do some shopping. She stopped
at a supermarket and purchased ice cream, two small
cocoanut cakes and a woman’s magazine. By 3 p.m. Mrs.
Bopst was back home. .

She put the car in the garage at the foot of the hill and
went into the house. A screen door at the main entrance
was locked behind her, but the heavy front door, which is
equipped with three locks, was left ajar. Inside the house
Mrs. Bopst put her handbag on a chair in the kitchen and
her red topper coat and white gloves on a chair in the
dining room. Then she took the ice cream, cakes and
magazine to the den, located on a level a few steps above
the main floor of the house.

She was sitting on a sofa eating the ice cream and read-
ing the magazine when she heard a noise at the front
door. It was not the sound of someone slipping a key into
a lock to enter; and the doorbell did not ring. Mrs. Bopst
sat motionless, listening. Suddenly she realized what was
happening. Some one was trying to jimmy the lock! The
door was creaking open and footsteps were approaching!
The woman became aware of her peril at that moment.

Panic-stricken, Mrs. Bopst dropped the ice cream and

EX-CON Carl Kier (center). was nabbed when a lawyer re-
called that he had seen a man answering his description.

magazine. She screamed and ran from the den to the hall-
way in an effort to reach a wall telephone. But a menacing
figure barred her way. His eyes undressed her as he moved
threateningly toward her. Mrs. Bopst’s blood-curdling
screams pierced the ghastly stillness of the afternoon only
to be drowned in the traffic noises from the highway below.

The terrorized woman backed up slowly until the palms
of her rigid hands pressed tightly against the wall, “Wait!”
she gasped. “Please wait. If it’s money -you want . ...”

But the sinister figure in the (Continued on page 57)

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7 RAPED AND MURDERED —

Myrtle Bopst was alone in the house when she suddenly heard a |
noise. She saw the stranger staring with his lust-filled eyes. She ran
and screamed but when help finally came it-was much too late.


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RAPED AND MURDERED

(Continued from page 33)

hallway was after more than money.
Any woman would have known what
he wanted. He reached out his hands
and clutched her trembling body. Mrs.

, Bopst struggled desperately, managed
' to wriggle free. The attacker grabbed

her again. She fought back and the
un-even match raged through the hall,
back into the den, into the hall again
and down the two steps to the living
room. Mrs. Bopst kicked and scratched
desperately. Curtains were ripped
from windows, furniture smashed, and
blood smeared everywhere.

The assailant seized a 12-inch-high
brass figurine and brought it down
savagely on Mrs. Bopst’s face and
head until blood spurted to all corners
of the room. She struggled to her feet
and made one last desperate effort to
the front door but the fiend
dragged her limp body back to the
center of the living room. When she
summoned enough strength to fight
back he stabbed her viciously and re-
peatedly in the throat with a butcher
knife and the scabbard of a Japanese
ceremonial sword. Mrs, Bopst was ly-
ing helpless in a pool of blood when he
raped her.

His lust satisfied at last, the monster
Stood up and went to the bathroom on

.the second level and washed the blood

from his hands. Then he took the un-
conscious woman’s auto keys, regis-
tration card and money from her
handbag in the kitchen and left by the
front door, slamming it so hard one of
the locks caught. At the foot of the hill
he backed his victim’s car out of the
8arage and drove off.

FOUND BY HUSBAND

John Bopst returned home from
work at 5:30 p.m. After putting his
car away he walked up the flagstone
steps and found the front door locked.
Thinking his wife was away, the hus-
band went to a mat outside the patio
where a house key was kept hidden
for such emergencies,

On his way he glanced in a window

and saw his wife’s body on the living’

room floor. Thinking she had fainte :
Mr. Bopst ran to the back door and
kicked it in. He hurried to the living
room and found her dead. Shocked
beyond belief, the distraught husband
covered the body with a curtain and
called the police.

Dozens of police. officers were
swarming all over the place within a
matter of minutes. Captain Cyril Bau-
miller was there; so was Captain Gil-
bert Deyle, county detective com-
mander; Lieut. Gordon Holmes of the
detective bureau and Lieut. John Lau-
mann from Identification. Two men
made sketches of the interior of the
house. Fingerprint men and photog-
raphers were busy. :

Officers went from room to room in-
side the house searching for clues,
Evidence of the desperate and cour-
ageous struggle Mrs. Bopst had put
up for her life were everywhere. A
living room drape near the outside

doorway was ripped off. Half of a
curtain rod lay near the body. The
other half hung bent on the window
frame. Two butcher knives, a Japan-
ese saber still in its scabbard and a
solid brass figurine of a man on a
horse were found near the corpse. All
were bloodstained,

Capt. Deyle shook his head. “This is
the most brutal assault I have ever
seen,” he said. “It must have been
the work of a sex maniac,”

“Whoever did this must have stolen
her car,” the grief-stricken husband
told the police. Then -he described
it: a 1955 Chrysler two-door sports
coupe, solid beige hard top with
brown leather upholstery and black
leather dash. Imperial type _ grill,
tinted glass windshield, a radio an-
tenna on the left front fender and the
figures “300” on the hood.

Officers who had been working out-
side brought in a blue suit jacket of
medium size along with two beer bot-
tles. There was a beer bottle cap in
one of the suit pockets,

The bottles were rushed to the
FBI in Washington, D. C. for finger-
print investigation. A 13-state alarm
was broadcast for the fiendish killer.

Deyle and Baumiller re-constructed
the crime from bits of evidence they
picked up here and there. The ex-
amining doctor believed Mrs. Bopst
had died shortly after 3 o’clock that
afternoon. Her visit to her daughter’s
was known and also the trip to the

‘ super-market.

“She doubtless came straight home
after buying the ice cream and mag-
azine,” Capt. Deyle said. “The bowl
was broken on the floor in the den
and ice cream splattered all over. The
two cocoanut cakes she bought were
on a table nearby. The screen: door
was jimmied. That’s how the killer
got in. Mrs. Bopst battled for her life,
but didn’t have a chance. The odds
are that her attacker came here to
rob the place thinking nobody would
be home. When he saw Mrs. Bopst
he got other ideas. The traffic from
the highway below must have
drowned out her screams for help.”

John Bopst had just given the in-
vestigators the license number of the
missing automobile when his son,

David, returned home. The boy be-

came hysterical when he saw all of
the police officers around his home.
He was told what had happened to

his mother, and authorities refused

to let him enter the house.
House-to-house questioning of
neighbors hi-lighted a fact already
known to the police: a cat burglar
had been active in this same residen-
tial section during recent months,
- “Such thieves usually try to find
out if anybody is at home,” Captain
Deyle said. “If anybody is, they try
someplace else. But if they think no-
body’s there they jimmy a door or
window to gain entrance. Mrs, Bopst
was sitting in the den reading and
eating ice cream. That would mean
she was quiet. The afternoon was hot

and she had the shades down to
keep the sun out. Her attacker had
jimmied the screen door and was in-
side the house before he knew anyone
was home.”

The detective questioned Mr. Bopst
about repair or delivery men who
might have been expected. To the
best of the husband's knowledge, no
such persons were scheduled to come
to the house that Tuesday afternoon.

People living nearby told investi-
gating officers a handy-man had been
in the neighborhood that afternoon
looking for odd-job work. Some of
them furnished a description, but this
information was so general that it
could have applied to almost any man
looking for such work. .

i ea

/

BIG BREAK

More than 50 pieces of evidence
were collected by the police, many of
which were sent to the FBI labora-
tories for analysis. ;

While officers worked feverishly to

“break” the sensational murder case

Officer Ernest Zimmerman showed
up with a witness.

“This is Mr, T. Bayard Williams, Jr.,”
the policeman told Captain Deyle.
“He lives just two blocks from the
Bopst house. I think he can help us.”

Williams, an— attorney and = new
member of the Board of Education,
said he had been at home most of the
afternoon. “I was doing some work
in my _ study,” he said, “when the

_ doorbell rang around 2 o'clock. There

was a man outside who asked if I
had any odd jobs for him to do. I
told him I didn’t at present but that
things did come up once in a while
and I'd keep him in mind. I wrote
down his name and address.”

Captain Deyle knew this could be
the break he had been waiting for.
“Have you got it with you?” the de-
tective asked.

Williams shook his head. “No,” he
said, “after this
thinking about him. I didn’t like his
looks, so I threw away the piece of
paper on which I had written his
name and address,”

Deyle’s hopes faded. “Have you any
idea where you threw this slip of
paper?” he asked,

e attorney didn’t remember ex-
actly. “I do recall the street he lived
on, though,” he said. “It was West-

“wood Avenue.”

The detective captain felt better.
“That’s a help,” he told Williams, “but
we've got to go through all the
trash in your house and try to come
up with that scrap of paper. A lot of

' people live on Westwood Avenue. It

would probably take us several days
to question everybody.

While Deyle and his officers went
through trash baskets in the Williams
home, Captain Baumiller received
word that the missing Bopst Chrysler
had been located on Longwood Street,
That was in the same section as
Westwood Avenue.

man left I got to.

Aree

*
SAA yates


KITTY and PETER, Slaves, black, hanged Fredericktown, Frederick Co., March 2, 1821.

Kitty, 19, and Peter, 17, were brother and sister slaves owned by William Baker of Liberty
Town, Frederick County. In August, 1820, they murdered Mrs. Baker, who was pregnant, in the
barn where she was milking a cow. She was thrown on the ground upon her back and while one
held her down, the other plunged a pitchfork into her stomach. They smeared blood upon the
cow’s horns in an effort to make it appear that Mrs. Baker had been gored to death. They were
hanged before a crowd of several thousand persons “...of all ages, colours and conditions...”
The siblings were attnded by clergymen until the time of their execution at which they professed
penitence and a hope of forgiveness.-Enquirer, Richmond, VA, 9/12/1820 (4/3); Herald,
Fredericktown, MD, 3/3/1821.


KNOTI, Wilson, white, 33, hanged Maryland (4 a: .
1/10/1941. , ? : 8 yland (Anne Arundel County) on

“Stone walls do not a prison —
make, nor iron bars acage... .

The bloody saga of an elusive :

fiend whose diabolical wings | #

are clipped off on the scaffold

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CRIME DETECTIVE, July, 1941.


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SHE street was badly lit, and the hulks of ware-
houses loomed menacingly in the moonless, hazy
night as Patrolman Samuel J. Monkhouse swung
down his bailiwick on the night of May 31, 1931.
Pratt Street is Baltimore’s waterfront street, and

there are plenty of dark, shadow-ridden cor-
ners between its buildings and warehouses
where danger might lurk for a cop. Monk-

house kept his eyes on both sides of the BY

HELEN ©
FRANKEL

cobblestoned street as he walked.

At number 226, the Henry Brothers’
warehouse, a man was standing in the
darkness of the alley. His pose was tense,
peculiarly alert. He reminded Monk-
house of a waiting animal as he stood
there in the shadows, and that meant
just one thing. The man was a lookout.
A safe robbery must be going on inside the
building! :

The patrolman eased himself around the door to
investigate. A panel knocked off the door told him
his suspicions were correct. Squeezing through that
panel into the business office, he heard scurrying. ' He
could be spotted, but he couldn’t see a thing.

Holding his flash as far away from himself as pos-
sible, Monkhouse yelled, ‘“‘Come on out of there. And
make it fast!”

After a moment’s ominous silence, the burglar obeyed

in a manner on which the officer had calculated.
Suddenly the inky darkness was pierced by a
burst of flame from the safecracker’s gun.

He had come out from behind the door

shooting.
The first shot was headed for Monk-
house’s windpipe. By a miracle the but-
ton on his coat deflected the bullet
and turned it downward. But for the
grace of that button, Monhhouse’s life
would have been snuffed out in that
instant. - ,

Instead, ‘wounded and losing blood rapidly,

the patrolman emptied his own pistol at the

flashes that were still streaking from the bur-

glar’s gun—the only light in that small, pitch black

square of an office. And with his last shot, Monkhouse
made a bulls-eye. He hit the burglar’s gun hand.

Dropping his weapon, the thug raced past the police-
man to join his pal in the alley. Monkhouse struggled


SUBURBS AND COUNTY |

Wiley Kirk Yields His Life AeA |
/ Penalty For Hie Orie,

a nl

is HANGED AT TOWSON JAIL|

Ts em EP ETS wi,

Goon Te The Gallows Fearlocnty Ané |

Diese Without Making A Statement, | Executed at Towson on May 3lst 1901
|  Coloved Teachers’ Inatitute. .

. Wiey Kirk, colored, Wee hangpd in the
Jalivacd at Towoun yenterday mdraing for |
dxpnuitiog Mra. Harbara Green, of Bparrnwn
Point, on Mareh?, : ee é : .

_Bhetiff Todd aprung the trap. at 10.2004 | Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 6-1-01
Selock and Dr, Massenbueg, the (at) phyat

lak, premoupesd Hfe extinct G4 minntes page 7 column 6

| (ater. The fall physician weld teat Wirk's

th wed die to ahowk.- y,

ts The fh drone carly Youterdag morning

| AHO Ingalped of the deaihwateh about the

Senther:; He waa told If was ralping and |

| daked (f he Would liketohare hin hreakfoet,

fe feplied that he did sot care 16 eat any:

hing. About 6,30 o'sloek Deputy pete gh

Phim the clothibe iu whieh he waa td be

Waged~ dark coat and trauners, white vent,

| eek cravatiand a pair of ramet ellppers.
BE ife taetliy made his toler ahd began pactig |

| his coll, ie omemed to beaxtremely nerrotin,

Bh Soon sfter7o'ciors Revs, Matthew O'Keelp,
| Peter Katip and ¢ Vanderburg arrivedand |

| Were ahown tuto Kirk'a cell, wherh they ea,

Sged in geligious exercises with the negro,
uke which communtow was adialniaterdd
té him, ©: er ECome i

While the religions ceremonies ware baing
conducted within crowds began to yatberin
abd hrougd the jail, Sheriff Todd and bis
Gsputies, asslated by Chief of Police Streett,
handled the ¢rowd with great diplomacy, |
aod, notwithetending the unusually jarge
number of persona gathered, thefe was not
the slightest disorder, .

Deputy Sherif. Burke told Kirk that al!
wan ready for the execution. The negro
rane immediately, his arms were! tied and

, the binck gown wan. adjusted.: Father
| O'Keefe holding aloft the crucifix recited |
| prayers an-he moved out of the cel}. He wae |
| allowed by Father Kamp and Father Vag-
derburg.:: Next-came the prieoner! followed
bg Deputies Burke and: Anderagn. Kirk

f Walked unsupported andapparently without
fear until he reached the scaffold. :

Here the sight seemed to terrorize him
and acpensr one shiver passed over. Lis
frame, It wae over tn an Instant, however,
agd he followed the priest to the top of the
scaffold without hesitation, The nocse was
adjusted, his feet manacied. Dep sty Burke

| iuQquired ifthe had anything to sty before
putting on the black cap. Kirk made no

| aQswer, Father O'Keefe replied for him:

“He hag nothing to gay. He pays the
penalty of bis crime.” t 4

{t was here noticeable that Kirk's face,

| which natorally was of a Hgbt color, turned
perceptibly Mghter. The black cap was
drawn Ughtly over his face and the assist-
| agts left the scaffold.

Bheriff Todd, who wae stationed on the

lower steps of the galiows, pressed his foot |
| upon the trigger which held the trap tn
| place. There was a sudden crash and the ne |

Kto's body shor down through the opening.

| Por several ojinutes after the drop fell the |
p bady writhed and twisted, the Jegs were |
| dtewn up couvulsively, while he struggled
| w@ if to free hie arms, After 24 minutes
Dp, Massenburg ordered the body lowered, |
and, assisted by Dr.C.B. Farrar, Dr, Frank
/RARich, Dr. J. B. Schwatka, Dr. P.G. Dill
and Dr, J..& Green. made an examination |
‘ofthe may and pronounced him dead, The |
} body was placed inanest, plain coffin which :
had heen provided by Father O'Keefe and |
| wae Interred tn the cemetery of St. Francis’
| Catholle Church. j
Kirk wage North Carolinian and came to |
| Baltimere county. last December to work
fot the Maryland Steel Company. He met |

Mes. Green, who was returning to her home |
from a nearby estore, overpowered her after |
a desperate struggle and assaulted her, The |

| whole connty \was aroused over the assault
and the ceantry was scoured for the negro,
who wascaptured in theafternoon of March |
8 tt ia boxeaf on the Western Maryland |
itvad at Gwynn Brook Station. Patrot- |
nan Kleeman, of the Baltimore county |
forpe, made the arrest. Kirk confessed his
ctigie soon’after being Captured, He wae |
eh hgeey 8 Towson. hy; Jodges. Fowler,
Burke and Watters, wha triedAlm without |
a jury. I my


Knott and Minners are
returned to jail after
a short-lived getaway.

after him slowly, impeded by his ebbing strength.

The fleet-footed burglar was yards away, entirely
out of reach of the injured officer. But Monkhouse
persisted in dogged pursuit. The lookout, neither as
quick-witted nor as spry as the burgler, failed to escape
Monkhouse’s mounting wrath. Deprived of further use
of his gun, the officer persuaded his captive to be sub-
missive with his night stick. Walking all the way to
the Central police station, a distance of about six blocks,
the cop brought in his man, then collapsed. He was
rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

There, the examining surgeon found that fortunately
the bullet that had been deflected from Monkhouse’s
windpipe, had lodged itself in his body, so near his
heart that if it had been imbedded a fraction closer it
would have meant death. Removal of the missile was
held impossible, then or ever. Monkhouse would carry
the bullet near his heart as long as he lives.

The lookout did not sleep for the rest of that night.
Under the cold blue light of the police station he was
questioned cleverly and mercilessly, until finally he
broke down and told police that the man they wanted
was Wilson Knott.

Police knew Knott. He had been brought in on several
burglary charges before, and although the police were
satisfied of his guilt, inadequate evidence had saved him.
They were even aware of his connections with the
notorious and once powerful Jack Hart-Norris gang,
recently broken up.

i Gerace couldn’t locate Knott in any of his usual
haunts. It was clear that he was in hiding. Several
days passed, and a tip came in that his hole-up was in
a garage at Carey and Ramsey Streets. As a squad, led
by Lieutenant Thomas Hood, approached his lair, Knott

32

KIDNAPPED——

William Simms was bound
and robbed as the fiend
attacked his companion.


HEROIC——

efforts of Scheihing to
overpower his assailant
ended up in a tragedy.

fied, firing as he ran. Lieutenant Hood, the speediest
runner, was shot through the knee. Four other officers
took up the chase that wound through alleys and a
maze of back lots, until Knott was finally cornered by
Patrolman August Schroll.

Schroll brought in his man, and Knott was started off
on one of the most vicious, violent and cold blooded
series of crimes in the history of Maryland.

Knott became a man with a number: 28,317, on a
little white dossier in the files at the Maryland peni-
tentiary. The information contained on the white card
was brief:

January 15th, 1931, entered for 15 years. Through
this was drawn a red line, and above it, written “Re-
duced to ten years by Judge O’Dunne.” ;

Knott was 23 years old when he began his sentence;
five feet, seven and a half inches tall, 167% pounds,
stocky. He had been a plasterer before he switched to
lathering a patch of crimes. ;

Although in prison he managed to cultivate a pair
of special cronies. He was generally shunned as a close-
mouthed, cruel con. Normal contact with other human
beings was an impossibility for Knott. Expressionless,
fish-like eyes cast a forbidding atmosphere wherever
he moved.

In October, less than five months after his term had
started, Knott and a convict named Robert Minners
cut their way through a wooden ventilator, and dropped
to the ground outside. It was a technique that had been
employed by the notorious Jack Hart-Norris gang with
whom Knott had served his apprenticeship.

Under cover of night, Knott and’ Minners eluded the
guards and scaled the high walls of the House of Cor-
rection. It was turning cold, so (Continued on page 76)

THIS WAY OUT——.

Officers point to the
hole bored by Knott,
Minners in the break.


76

CRIME psn

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33

DETECTIVE

they decided to work their way south.
Riding the rails, walking, even hitch-
hiking when possible, the two beat a
frantic trail to Georgia. There they
found things pretty hot. Baltimore
authorities had picked up their scent.
It was increasingly dangerous to be
seen, with their pictutes on view at
every police station. ‘

Lieutenant Michael Cooney, of the
Baltimore igs was the spearhead
of the manhunt. Bit by bit, from in-
formation he received by question-
ing people en route, he traced the line
of flight. Finally, after a month’s
arduous pursuit, he cornered his
quarry in a swamp near Macon,
Georgia. Cold, hungry and filthy, the
prisoners were brought to the scene
of their escape. Encountered by the
guards on his return, Knott sneered,
“We know another way out of this
joint, and we’re taking it the first
chance we get.”

Knott was conscientiously living up
to his reputation for being bad medi-
cine. And his return did not augur
well for Frank Allers, a brilliant fel-
low prisoner, and a model one, who
was jubilant over his impending re-
lease because he had turned informer
on the Norris-Hart murder fang. He
had spent his time behind bars so
constructively that he even perfected
a valuable invention.

One day, shouts and wild screams
came from the shower bath while
Allers was in it. By the time guards
arrived, Allers was dead, his body
prone on the cement floor, his blood
mingling with the cascading water.
The knife that had stabbed him
through the heart was never found—
but Knott had been close by when
the murder occurred. Knott, as was
expected, denied seeing or hearing
anything. But the prison was alive
with significant allusions to his fealty
to the infamous gang which Allers,
wanting to go straight, had exposed.

T wasn’t long before the enfant ter-
rible was at it again. On March
25th, 1933, several months after the
Allers stabbing, the sirens of the peni-

. tentiary were becom J again. They

were waving good bye to Wilson
Knott, who had broken free once
more.

This time, he and William Huhn,
a crony, had executed their escape
in the most melodramatic and fan-
tastic fashion. Together, they cut
through a prison wall and brazenly
Stole the prison fire engine, standing
conveniently in the yard, and drove
away through the night. No Baltimore
prison break before or after ever
matched this escapade for sheer
bravado. A frantic manhunt by po-
lice, lashed by the hot tongue of
the Commissioner and the cold print
of the newspapers, was fruitless. It
retrieved nothing but the engine,
abandoned on Fort Meade Road.

Two days later, on a Sunday after-
noon, Brother Fidelis was strolling
the grounds of his institution, St.
Mary’s Industrial School. He saw
an unfamiliar car parked in a lane

CRIME DETECTIVE

at the_rear of the school’s grounds,
near Caton Avenue. Inside was a
Sunday newspaper turned to the story
of the prison escape. By the paper
were an opened, half eaten loaf of
bread and a big, ugly looking stick.
He decided to investigate in an out-
building nearby. There were two men
there, each peering from a different
window. Brother Fidelis recognized
them immediately as Knott and
Huhn.

“Are you the superintendent?”
Huhn queried.

“Yes,” replied the Brother. “Is that
your car?”

“Yeah,” broke in Knott. “We’re
out of gas. Could you get us some?”

“Why I think I could arrange that
for you,” the Brother smiled pleas-
antly. “If you’ll wait here, I’ll go
and see what I can do.”

In a desperate situation, they were
obliged to take the chance that the
Brother knew nothing of the prison
break. Walking at an ordinary pace
back to the grounds, Brother Fidelis
summoned a colleague and instructed
him to clear the recreation yard of
children, in case of shooting. Then he
put in a hurried call for police.

In less than six minutes three po-
lice cars dashed into the lane behind
St. Mary’s. Huhn was caught as he
rushed by the officers who had leaped
from the car. Knott hurdled a fence,
and landed in a pig pen. The pork-
ers ran squealing in all directions.
Patrolman Twerle jumped the fence
with drawn gun and roared at Knott,
“Come out or I'll drill you!” And
the youthful desperado, unarmed,
meekly capitulated.

From then on, Knott served his
time without incident, and in Decem-
ber, 1938, he was released. Confined
since 1931, he had served seven of his
15-year sentence.

Almost immediately after his re-
lease, Knott was in trouble again.
He was caught, with a companion,
practicing with a pistol on the target
range at Fort Meade—government
property. Not much later there was
a theft of Garand rifles. The Federal
authorities, after considerable investi-
gation, absolved Knott and his com-
panion on insufficient evidence.

By September, he was arguing his
way out of charges that he had been
a member of a gang that staged the
$1,073 Century Credit hold-up which
had taken place in February, even
before he had been arrested at Fort
Meade. He established a successful
alibi. The following May, however,
he was indicted and tried for the
$1,741.34 hold-up of the Maryland
Steel Products Company. Judge
Emery H. Niles, presiding justice in
the case, made the following cryptic
statement: ;

“Guspicion points strongly to the
defendant, but I am trying the

case not on what I suspect, but on
what I find proved. Therefore, I find
you, Wilson Knott, not guilty. ...
The real culprit has gotten away.”
By now endowed with unbeliev-

‘held this cou

MORE MONSTER

ably good luck and little respect for
the law, Knott grew more reckless,
more surly and more dangerous.
Knott had gotten away with too much.
He was convinced that he could match
his wits against the police any time,
in anything. His mind turned to new
thoughts of diabolical lechery. He
might as well drink to the dregs of
all the vice the world had to offer.
Life was something for him to turn
and twist as he liked, by his own
power, taking what he wanted as he
went.

The night of Wednesday, March
13th, 1940, had enone hint of spring
in it to make people glad the long
winter was over. John Waterbury
and Phyllis Taylor were driving by
one of Baltimore’s large wooded areas.
anxious to usher in the new season.
Théy decided to park for a while, and
turned into Woodland Avenue, a well
secluded lover’s lane. They were too
preoccupied to pay attention to
another car parked about 50 feet
away. They had been parked about
ten minutes, when two masked men
with pointed pistols suddenly ap-
peared on either side of the car.

Discovering the car locked the gun-
men. yelled, ‘Open up these doors or
we'll kill you!”

The bandits made short shrift of
relieving the couple of their money
and jewelry, when the blond man
on the girl’s side of the car reached
for her, saying, “I think I’ll have a
look.”

The man seized the girl roughly
from the car; his intentions were
plain. Waterbury jumped from his
side of the auto, grimly warning, “I
wouldn’t do that.” Whereupon he
erage out at his assailants with bare

sts.

It was an uneven fight. The three
struggling men crashed through the
undergrowth, leaving the girl stand-
ing alone, helpless and paralyzed with
fear. Suddenly, she heard a shot,
and in the dim light of a street lamp
she saw Waterbury fall:

The masked men started to flee,
but as she began screaming they
dashed back to the car. They both
seized her and struck her on the head
with a pistol butt. As they started
to make their getaway again, one
snarled at her, “If you don’t stop
screaming we'll come back and kill
you, too!”

The blow had not knocked her out
completely. Phyllis Taylor staggered
toward Greenspring Avenue to get
help for her companion, who she
knew was lying shot, perhaps dead,
because he had tried to save her.

She passed the car parked near
by, but. did not stop because she
thought it was the bandit machine.
She was partly right. For there had
been three bandits, not two, and in
that car one of them had sat with a
gun at the head of another young
man and his girl friend. They had

ple up first, and it was

in their car that the bandits had
waited for the 25-year-old engineer
and Miss Taylor. Waterbury never

regained
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regained consciousness. He had been
shot stone dead, at the very outset of
a brilliant career. .

Baltimore couples were too terri-
fied to park anywhere where it was
quiet and lonely. Just several months
before there had been an attack on
a young bride-to-be; and on Feb-
ruary 25th, a few weeks before this
incident, two couples in parked cars
had been held up in the same sec-
tion. Always, the assailants had been
reported by the victims as_ three
masked men—without a doubt, the
same trio.

Police’ duty in Baltimore was
lengthened by two hours. Officers
were working on a score of hot clues
when the terror triumvirate struck
again, causing pandemonium in the
city.

Anna Peterson and Frank Scheihing,
a young couple engaged to be mar-
ried, were on their way from the
man’s house at 53 Morley Street, to
the home of the girl, at 2711 West
Baltimore Street. - It was Sunday
night, May 26th, and they took the
long way home, under the Balti-
more Street Bridge that runs ‘over
Gwynn’s Falls.

At the east end of the bridge a
young man stepped out of the shad-
ows and commanded the couple to
walk in front of him, at pistol point,
to the taller shrubbery. Arriving at
a small clearing at the junction of
three paths, the bandit commanded
them to stop. While they waited, he
took two lengths of copper wire from
his pockets, bound them and then
gagged them with cotton. This done,
he commanded the girl to walk a
little distance away from her com-
panion. As the bandit started walk-
ing menacingly toward her, she
om “Frank! Frank! Don’t let
im!”

HE girl’s fiance was a powerful,

husky young man. Disregarding
his bindings, he fell on the bandit
with all his force. A terrific battle
ensued before her horrified eyes. It
ended when four shots rang out, and
she saw her fiance drop like a plum-
met.

The bandit returned to the girl, the
fear of being caught lending gorilla-
like strength to his fury. Again and
again, he beat the defenseless girl
on the face and head until she re-
sembled*a bloody pulp.

Shortly after the bandit had left
the unconscious Anna Peterson in that
quiet, dark knoll she was discovered
by a passerby. She woke up in a
hospital and she was not told until
days later, when she was better able
to withstand the -shock, that her
Frank was dead.

Even this was not to end the har-
rowing series of criminal assaults
that was putting Baltimore on the
front pages of the country. Ona
Sunday in August of last summer a
young girl of 16 was walking near
her home, on the outskirts of Balti-
more, near Anne Arundel County.
Suddenly, a man with a gun con-
fronted her, There was no one in
sight, the nearest home out of shout-
ing distance.

“Get off the road. Go where I tell
you, and you'll be all right,” the man
told her menacingly. Petrified, the
gun in the small of her back, the girl
walked into the bushes that lined
the road. Near a tree the man stopped
her, took copper wire—again_ that
wire!—out of his pockets, and bound

CRIME DETECTIVE

her hands. Then knowing that now he
‘could let go of it, he placed the pistol
on the ground. He advanced toward
the girl. Nearer, nearer, nearer, until,
even if she could have collected her-
self sufficiently to do so, it was too
late to scream.

Afterwards, the fiend removed the
girl’s bonds and left her in a semi-
conscious condition, lying on the
ground. Later, she was able to strug-
gle to the road and be taken home
by a passing motorist. .

The following Sunday, the second
one in August, the sex-maniac was
loose again, bold enough to prowl in
the same section.

Elaine Gleim, 16, and her sister,
Helen, 15, were walking with two
boys, Keith Walters and Woodrow
Vines on Jessups Road near Jessups,
about half a mile from the Gleim
residence. Suddenly a man emerged
from a driveway.

“Don’t make a fuss. I’ve got a gun
here,” the man told them, turning
the hat in his right hand so they
could see the weapon under it. The
boys looked at each other and in a
flash they took to their heels. The
terrorist shouted after them, “Stop,
or J’ll shoot these girls.” But the
boys, knowing they would be of more
use to the girls if they reached help,
only quickened their pace.

Still pointing the gun at the girls,
the gunman ordered them into the
road bordering the woods. After
walking 50 or 60 feet, each step like
a death march to the girls, to a small
clearing, the older sister recovered
her breath to say the first thing she
could think of.

“You'd better leave us alone. Our
uncle is a State Police lieutenant.”
She was not bluffing. Lieutenant
Andrew Conner was her uncle. The
admonition worked on this despoiler
of Baltimore women. He lost his
nerve. Abruptly, he ordered the
girls, “Get back on the road as fast
as you can. If you don’t shut up
and stay shut up, I’ll shoot.”

Meanwhile, the two boys had gone
in an automobile to the Waterloo sub-
station of the State Pclice. Police
cars roared out on the hunt. And
even while the police were search-
ing for him, the inhuman monster
struck again. ;

Near Carrol Park two high school
Chums, William Simims, 17, and his
15-year-old girl companion were sit-
ting in what their set called a jalopy.
Out of the darkness a man appeared
at the car, brandishing a gun.

“Give me your money, Bud.” The
boy acquiesced. He turned over his
worldly goods—seven cents and a
cheap watch. The meagerness of his
haul infuriated the bandit. Again
the copper wire came out of his
pockets; again, he did a hand-binding
job, Then, “Get into the back seat,
and keep quiet or you won’t live
long,” he commanded the two horri-
fied youngsters.

The man got behind the wheel of
the car and drove out to Elkridge, a
secluded section, woody and quiet.
There he gagged and blindfolded the
boy and pushed him out of the car,
into a ditch. The boy disposed of,
the fiend got into the back seat of the
car, where the terrified, helpless girl

‘was at the mercy of his unflinching

depravity.

Simms was picked up by a passing
motorist and relieved of his bonds
and gag. The motorist drove him to
a police station, where he told the

77

story of the kidnapping of himself
and the girl. The other unfortunate
girls told their stories to police, too.
And in each case, the description was
the same—a sandy haired man of
medium height. At the rogue’s gal-
lery, the picture they all picked out
without hesitation was Wilson Knott’s.

Apprehending Knott was a simple
matter. Police had kept track of
his whereabouts, and they knew
where to find him. Knott protested
his innocence. But when confronted
by his victims, his iceberg eyes fal-
tered. They identified him imme-
diately, and without question.

Knott was arrested without bail.
It was his neck this time, and he
knew it—unless he did somethin
more ingenious than anything he ha
contrived in ‘the ten years he had
been playing cat and mouse with the
police. Knott had a new number
now, and another white card in the
Maryland Pen files. His criminal
mind was working again, at a pace
made more diabolical by his des-
perateness.

Five days after he had been lodged
in the Annapolis jail, Knott was ready

to make a break. -He had already .

sawed through one bar of’ his cell,
and the entire top and half of the
bottom of another one. , He would
have made it again had not Sheriff
Turner caught him in the act.

On November 7th, Judge Melvin
sentenced Knott to the inevitable
penalty for his crimes—death. And
in Maryland, that is accomplished
by hanging.

N December, Friday the 13th, Gov-

ernor O’Connor affixed his signa-
ture on the death warrant—the most
luckless day in the life of Wilson
Knott. , Execution was set for four
weeks later, January 10th, 1941.

At exactly midnight, Knott’s cell
door opened for the last time. Offi-
cers held on to each of his arms,
but he needed no support. He swag-
gered with a rolling gait through the
narrow door and up the four steps
to the scaffold, through which his
body was to drop in a matter of mo-
ments. He stood erect on the trap,
before half a hundred witnesses, and
stared stonily at the whitewashed
walls around him.

Once he looked down into the abyss,
then he planted his feet squarely in
the center of the scaffold, his body
erect. One man strapped his arms,
another his legs. He never moved
his head as the noose was drawn
firm under his right ear, and the black
hood lowered over his head.

In the silent, bare-headed crowd be-
low, watching with solemn faces the
black form that dangled at the end
of a rope, was a man who had for
ten. years carried a bullet from
Knott’s gun in his body—only a frac-
tion, but a life’s breadth, away from
his heart. He was ex-Patrolman, now
Sergeant Samuel J. Monkhouse.

In that hushed crowd, too, was a
grieving, bereaved father—his wound
just nine months old, the tragedy fresh
in his memory. This was the parent
of 26-year-old Frank Scheihing.

Police during the last few days be-
fore his execution had sought to make
Knott confess to that murder. But
Knott sneered as he told them:
“You're wasting your breath. I'll take
what I know with me. You can tel]
’em all that!”

Knott died as he had lived; hard,
uncompromising.


ANNAPOLIS, LD.. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1006.

PRI

1B LAR SUPPER

| Bajoy Geod Things
: Oa Mr, Wat-
on’s Lawn.

ICE AND BEAUTIFUL
CORATIONS.

ime Was Given Every.

0 Was Fortunate
Be Present. y

Cinderella in Fairyland
1@ beautifal lawn of Mr.
mat Germantown, but
dy in Aanspolis was

id @ grove of trees with
ot lawn on all sides ia
afortable {country bome
| Wateon, who last night
18 ladies of the Preaby-
the use of his lawn for

sper.
4 tables dotted the lawn
od on the porch also,and
les was served a most
‘on supper. Men, women
— on fried chicken,
ire su corn, pick-
potato alas, ham, ton-
{, coffee, tea and choco-
aw 25 cents. It was a
toda, and everybody en-
jides the surroundings
tive that everything
inder the starry canopy
48 and surrounded by
lights and patriotic
d tanterns,
were bie: 7 or with fi
id beautiful flags fread
ch. Japanese lanterns
‘hted the lawn and bean-
parlor lamps lighted the
ion of the Naval Acad.
furnished music on the
on the lawn. Several
» were among the pa-
{ wembers of all charch-
he patrons were carried
bn in wagons, carriages,
d vehicles of every de-
» evening was such an
many preferred walk-
Mrs. Watson, who so
1 the use of their lawn
itertained charmingly,
ady feelat home, Tie
successful in every de-
wipts will net a tidy
charch. Some of the

’ No, 1-—Miss Naomi
Villiam H. Morria and
all, Jr., and Mrs, J.

| NO, 2.—Miss Margaret
(ra. Bagh,

@ No. 3—Misgses Cora
ora, Miss Emma Morris
y Basil. .

y Table—Mre. Joseph
a Westbrook and Mrs.

wle No. 1—Mixs Mollie
Ruth Wella and Mies

ible No. 2--Mise Grace
ta Oox, Miss Margaret

ble No. 8—Miss Maggie
idith Morria and Migs
oghauseo, *

Staud—Mr, J. Guest

ature of the lawn sup-
nonstration of fifty-seven
J. Heinz & Oo,'s pick-
eoby Mo EE I Painter

UG XU

Goes to Death Calmly

At exactly 10.10 o’clock- this morn-
ing William R. Leazer, the colored
murderer of Patrolman John G. Mc-
Namara, was dropped into eternity
when Sheriff Samuel B. Hardy sprung
the gallows trap jin the yard of the
Anne Arundel county jail ou the cor-
ner of Oalvert and Northwest streets,
Fifteen minutes thereafter Dre. J. J,
Murphy, R. H. Walton and J. O.
Parvia pronounced the man dead,
bat his body was left hanging until
10.40 o’clook. Death was due to
strangulation, the murderer's neck not
being broken by a fall of nearly six
feet.

“Although much effected by the meet-
ing with his brother, Walter, whom
he saw at the short service before the
execution, Leazer later regained hir
verve and died gamely. Although he
made no final stutement on tho gal-
lows to his guards this morning and
last night the murderer atill told the
same story of the shooting of McNa-
mara, saying that the policeman's
death had not been intended by him.
He spent a quiet night, retiring at 1
o'clock and sleeping until shortly be-
fore 5 o'clock this morning. He ate
only a light breakasft and spent the
reat of his time reading his Bible,

LEAZER'S LAST NIGHT IN JAIL.

Although witnessed by one of the
largest crowds ever present on a simi-
lar occasion, the exeoution was car-
ried out without a hitch and the 800

rsona inside the jail yard were well

andied. Last night at about 11
o’clook the jail officials failing to
find a barber, it was necesary for them
to shave the condemned man. This
was done by night watchman George
Taylor and Depaty Reaben Small-
wood. After reading his Bible for
an hour or so the man retired to his
couch at 1 o'clock and went to sleep
almost immediately. He slept well
without any apparent thought or
dream of the fateful morrow, and
woke this morning apparently refresh.
ed and in good spirits, .

His first words were to George Tay-
lor, night death watch, to whom ho

gaid, when hoe awoke at 4.53 a. m.:
“Qood mornings Mr. George. Ho

i)

Crowds Around the Jail and in Vicinity Wit-
ness the Hanging---His Last Hours in Jail.

IS HANGED FOR THE MURDER OF PA-
-TROLMAN. MCNAMARA.

K
ANT OC

ect

Saying Shooting Was

Accidental---Remains Given to His
: Brother for Burial.

HIS BODY DROPS AT 10.10 AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 10.25

80 he would goto heaven. ‘‘You be
there, and by the grace of God I'll be
there too and meet you,’' he said. As
he passed through the hallway leading
to the room where service was held,
he nodded his head and spoke to the
representatives of the press who were
present.
; ILELD SERVICES,

A room on the third floor of the jail
near the cell had been fitted with a
table,fand here there Swere in waiting
two membora of St. Anne's Guild of
Mercy and the condemned man’s
spiritnal advisor, the Rev. J. H.
Simmons, rector of St. Philip's Pro-
testant Episcopal chapel. Leazer's
brother, Walter, was also present
when the shortened communion ser-
vice of the Episcopal church was held,
bat he did not take the communion,

Following tho short service, which
was witnessed only by the ropresenta-
tives of the press and those already
mentioned in addition . to the jail offi-
cials, the wan who realized fally the
nearness of his end, teld his friends of
the Guild of Mercy and his brother
pony: Yo them all he said he had
heen forgiven and ‘‘by the grace of
God he would meet them in heaven. **
He merely shook hands with his
brother , Walter, who remained in the
game room where the service had beeo
held antil after the execution was
over.

MARCH TO SCAFFOLD

At six minutes past ten the maroh
to the gallows waa resamed. The pro-
cession was headed by the minister,
immediately behind whom came Chief
Deputy Sheriff N. W. Bryan and
Depnty Sherif? Smallwood, who wete
just in front of the murderer, who had
rallied after taking the communion
and walked with a firm tread between
his night and day death watchmen.

ae oo ccemeaee

patch with whioh the unpleasant duty
was discharged. %

Following the announcement that
the man was dead and the permission
of tae physicians to cut the body down,
the remains were turned over to Un-
dertaker J. Albert Adams for inter-
ment in the colored cemetery outside
of Annapolis, where it will rest. ?

In addition to the unusual crowd in
the jail yard, the houses in the neigh-
borhood overlooking the jail yard
were filled with curious persone, cran-
ing their necks to get a glimpse of the
gruceome aight. vert street, from
the cornor of Northwest street to a
point some yarda abore the jail im the
other direction, was packed with a
crowd, composed largely of members
of the murderer's own race.

Among those who witnessed the
hanging were a gee of ladies, friends
of one of the jail officials, who pane
to Annapolia from thei: county home
this morning for the purpose. They
were given a place of vantage, view-
ing the execution from a window in
the end of the second story corridor.
From here they had a good view aud
were only a few feet from the mur-
derer’ head as he stood on the trap of
the ecaffold. Detective James Arm-
strong, of Baltimore, who assisted in
the capture of Leazer, immediately
after the crime, was also present.

The hanging was also witnessed by
@ famous chara>ter and well known en-
thusiast on the sabject of executions,
who has witnessed every hanging in
this state and nearby ones for yoars.
This was Mr. George Mantz, of Bulti-
more, who after pong hanging, tal-
lied up to No. 48 on his list of execa-
tions wintessed. He has been attend-
ing hangiugs for years and -has wit-
nessed nearly every important execu-
tion in thia section of the country for
years, including the hanging of Guitean
the murderer of President Garfield,
From all of those he has gathered a
souvenir, and today he took a portion
of the gallows step to add to his col.
lection. So far as is known this was
the only act of this kind at the hang-
ing, Sheriff Hardy taking care that
the rope was not cat or any raid made
by souvenir seckers.

Some of the former execotions in
Anne Arundel county were:

Ernest Forbes,executed Aprils, 1svl

Robert Wyatt, executed. July
1900,

‘Froggy’ Johnson was to Lavoe been
executed January 138, 11, but was
reprieved at the last moment and sen-
tence commuted to life imprisonment.

Julius, alias ‘*Tots'’ Ovoper,execut-
ed Janaary 27, 1905,

Thia is the first time in the uistory
of Anvapolis that there have been two
havgings io leas than six months. It is
an ubusnal cuincidence.

HISTORY OF THE CRIME.

The murder of Patrolman John G.
McNamara, for which Leazer today

id the full penalty demanded by

w, waaa most bratal and entirely
unprovoked one, growing out of the
propevsity of members of the mur.
derer’a race for carrying concealed
weapons.

On tho night of March 21, last, Lea-
zer, who wan thea employed at the
plact of the Maryland Car Works at
Ourtis Bay, with a number of other
negroes, was stealing coal‘from cars on |
the Fairfield siding of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. Io company with
John Leazer, David Horah and Will-
jam Harrie, three colored men, Lea-
zer was returving to hia home, each
with a bag of stolen coal on his shoul-
der. McNamara, who was a mowher
of the Fairfleld police force, came up

with and nttomnted to arrest Leaver

AMOTHER |

The Democra
Calls‘
I

THE MOSS
TH

Supervisor W
New Ap}
Ele

A still fart!
this morning a
eal mudale in
connetecd wit!
in removing ti
who were cand

The Democr:
mittee met wir
bers present a:
the Democrati
mw to August
taben on the pr
bot it will m
anti-Wells fact
make an attem
waries tomorr
tickets in the {
the State Conv:
faction contest
tion of the Sta
on the Rround
change the dat.
ther, that all ¢
mitted) were 6

irttgs
Dr. Washing
of Annapolis
State Cental ©
stated that he +
Mr. Kobert 1.
pervisor,anid wi
proof that Mr.
didate for oflic:
preseut positior
The action of
mittee was ree
visors of Elects
understood, | is
and other nec
the election. 1
by the Moxs fac
has apnounced
the primaries a
no this determi,
out withont bal
The reason asx
ment of the pri
legod that some
Were appointe:
Revell had bee
by the Goveruc
it is said that oe
clerks have vot
and for thin res
sible to holdgth

Chemical Fa

Mr. W. HL
city, was here
of the new ol
plant which
poses to atart
Severn. Mr.
Arthur Kapper
ors of railway
machinery of
came here tod
those interexstec
ical plant, whi
the near future
his firm for the
machinery fo
Sewell,who ist
ly purchased th
on North Sever
upon Mr. Sewe
tails for hia tin

Met With

|
H

i iiicmes

pjzsioans

cramer]

j
d, -frédet
Sipe edary YOth

Frederick Lawrence

Executed at Easton, Talbot Co. on July 14th 1871

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 7-17-71
page 4 column 2.

married,

Governor

reached a
chudsen,

rangemen

the asme

cuntinued

nied blu,

Witnossed

Law on m

ive po a

he cut the

Anmlecaun,

_ torts
While: t

eeesed, |
cout ton

‘eeveral years. Lawrence's ow
murder, a8 gathered frum bis
pablished Iu Whe San about six W
| Ever since the death warr
7 29th of May, Lawrence ig
| Vuted must of iis ti
‘During tho time be
isters, both white a
Parker, colure

Yesterday murpiag.

Caution tO guard avninnt vi
. OF ao ipterruption of the padlic peace iu any
manner. Two -companies o
Milter and Koberte,

‘Lawrence was brought from hin ce

the last eix weeks,
cape and slouch bat,

and the naftam have boe

Tho sheriff dese

=—2-<2 © @- haere

silows in Maryliand—.
of Fred. Lawrence. (Coivred)
Ror the Murder of his W acre

frederick Lawrence, colored, Wisi
Easton, Talbot. county, on Friday last, for the
crime ‘of murder, committed Siu October Inst,
upon Emeiine Handy, thon in tho
G. Wright, isg., of Easton. They o

ife,

employ of &.

Pucca.

hanzed at

ever were

but lived together as maa aud wife for

n story of the
codfession, was

teks avo.

ant wae read, on the
reported to have de-
inv to sluging and praying,
Was visited by suveral min-
nd cvlored, but Revs W. J,
d, was hia principal Spfritual ad-
viser, The Easton. Journal of Saturday last
gives the following account of the exceution: }
the day desiquated by the’

of Maryiand for the execution, dawned

vous three thowsand men, W

amid heavy clouds and an occasionai eduwer of.

raiu, but the people poured in util tae buin der

vlmen aud

Sberitl Bonnett had taken every pre.’

{ militia,
a8 Well asa large namper of
citizens, were vammoued as £Ards, bewides ali
the places that eeli liquor were clowed. Atll
o’clock the sheriff proceeded to comp)

vlence, molestation

Captains

ete his ar-

'@, aud at ten minates past. eleven

il, de evinced

calm, Composed spirit he has shown

d man.

tte bad on a Jong back
In comioyg out of tne cell
ho furmounted the eleps wilaout - assistance,
‘with a firm, eteady nerve, Vite i Sain
Jie was conveyed to tno gallows in a wagon,
accoinpadied by. Rev. W. J. Parker, to w bich
wae also the coilly of the doome
itary furmed tn boli
were allowed excert the prisoner, hia
advieur, the sheriff’ and Otticers, hewepaper ro-
porters, physicians, &c. When the proceasion:
moved oif Lawrence commoiced to

L ‘The mii-
ow synare. in woich none

eplritual

sing, and
until, he reached the acatfy

Was donutwenty mMinates past eleven, Ov aligbt- |
ing trom the wagon be walked Up toes
43 inuch firmness as any of those who

ld, which 7)

tepawith
accuom):a--

showing that he was aman of vroat Ae

herve, After Lawrence had- arconded
Seated, Rov, Wid. Parker offered up a
Vent prayer forthe unfortunate being
abont to be launched into eter
that it night have a salutary efi

y way home, Thauk Goat t

rope tuat held tae piatform,

reuce*preeented the horridle epecttele of a mah
being suspended between h
‘The fail was sadder and ¢
but a short tune befure }j

Chan

old, where they wero (uterredsaia
he large crowd assembied att

showe
leave!
down, and ae Ww

nity. aud. prayed
vel Upon all wno
it, Lawrence then rove ine Cain,
H pcacelul Mauner, aud ea:d: Bere! int,
} . “Lam ou'the road to Canaan. Take warning,
O very kind tome, f
‘kind feetings in my neart a
one, Lora eave my euui, Lord eave my guui.””
ended, and as he came down

and was. |
most fer.
who was

he eheritt

ainst any

aod Luaw-

the gal.

A tt er weer


. NAME John Thomas Knowles ‘ PLACE — CITY OR COUNTY DOE 4 MEANS

‘2 ,

Fam |

RAMAXTHAKAGKKNAKE ; Md. State Prison (Baltimore City) H, 8-12-1919

es erase Wereh at Mayne Thess» Cyork- Crteg .

DATE OTHER

6-13-19),8

victim | AGE RACE METHOD

Girl friend, Ruby Davis 22 black Stabbed 25 times

MOTIVE

SYNOPSIS

",.e.John Thomas Knowles, who stabbed his girl friend to death

Ce eee iv wu 9

fourteen minutes later. Knowles was impassive.,...Had no rs on ec
OS . 1} > on “ a ne e a

Unf Ms a mer as>

park June :s 1948, Knewles stabbed the wo a total of 25 times, according to testimony at his

trial, but his plea that it was a 'crime of passion' was rejected because he had previously threate
ened to kill her,...

Au F 14-19 4G

APPEALS

4S. AthowLow,

LAST WORDS

_ SOURCE


EXECUTION OF |GEORGE | LAKE,
Mrs. Simmone’s An allant Hanged at.

Cambridge—H Last A
(Special Dispatoh to

timgre Sun.}

| CamBripor, Mp tre Lake,
colored, convicted a! rfl 9 of the

Circuit Court of D er County of crimfe

Clara Simmons, of
county,|

_ today, ring his’

ted little or no con-

imvending doom, seeming

8 and/| unconcerned up to
got the = week, when hig
Sere noticed that he ‘had at last

n to realize his gituation. He was re~ |

moved from his cell at thé de
residence to the court

this mornin

hour for

Fletcke
H

of fer by

ir was offered by

% Mr. Stur, while prayin
and ‘shouting ; R Attoe

'm
home.” At 11. spe The.
fall was about four fe slipped to
the f ’ k. producing death
- -Fhe convulsions of the.
fter hanging six andi
ronounced extinct by
J,H. Shepherd. Th

y obecure
ublic view and rendere
Ictl rivate, as pros

he aay ab was |
ur men Pres |
Fred. La

he assault on Mrs. immons' was commite |
ted on Sunday nignt, the 18th of April.’ ‘Her |
husband and daughter wereabsent at church,
She. was athome wi h her Jittle child, who
was asleep, Bhe wag in her bedroom ane
y Was asleep in @ chdir, when sbe becam
conscious of somethi f over her face. She
} Soke and felt a sha over her head. She
thought at first it washer husband, but in ate |
tempting to pull off the shaw! arourh hand |
caught hers and she knew it was not her hus. |}
nd. She madeanot ereffort to pull off the
shawl, and saw that the hand was that ApS
black man, She struggled harder and got) of |
the shawl, and saw it] George Lake. She |
called him by name and asked him what he
was doing tn her m. He got tho shaw} |
over her mouth and pyes again, and after_a |
Protracted struggle she was ove we
Lake was living ato t halfa mile
house, and was familiar with it, hav:
in the employ of her husband. : i
arrested and fully |dentified. The crime
Created universal ind tion. and threats of
lynching were made, but wiser counsels pre-
Vvailed. On the 2ith of April Ldke ait eco
convicted and <BR te in the Circuit Co
d

at this place. . , ae |
Lake, broke jail at |

After being senten

surrounding

f caught the t back to his
old quarters, | ’ uae

A Triple Hanging in ‘Arkansas,

at A condemned men, with their
i Spiritual advisers anil guards, proceeded’ to
j the scaffold. In rea onse to the oe |
| whether Seg A had anrthing to say, Tualista |
; replied that he had not, and putting his hand |
H On his breast, said his heart. was broken, |
| Martin Joseph re lied in the negative. Finch |
r then made a brief speech, in which he said: |
fp “I cannot find words |to explain the feelinzs
at Overpower me I stare ‘at the dreaded.
f 2 fate that awhits me. Ian perfectly reconctied
ee K S to my God, and itis ‘nothing more than just
Wh SMe we and right that I .{should. make things
: ae right with my fellow-men, I. killed those
: two’ men that I might escape, rather than

) my commanding ofli-
“ Bye to seen photogiaph of
a — kiss, say-
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LEE, William, black, hanged Smith Island, aryland, on July 26, 1906 |
"Cape Charles, Va., June 13, 1906-"illiam Lee, the negro who assaulted’ Mrs. Barnes
and Miss. Powell, two respected white- women in Somerset Co, (Md.) Sunday afternoon
las t, and who was arrested here Monday, was taken to Eastville, Va., jail Monday
night for safekeeping from a lynching party who came from Maryland, Every effort was
made by the Marylanders to get the prisoner from the authorities yesterday and for
the further proctection a detachment of the 71st, regiment of the state troops was
brought to Eastville last evening from Norfolk, Upon arrival of the troops the
Marylanders dispersed and most of them left on the train for their homes, The
excitement which has prevailed at Eastville, which is the county seat of Northampton
Cojnty, Virginia, yesterday has subsided considerably and arrangements are being made
for the prisoner to be taken to Norfolk last night accompanied by the state troops,
where he will be kept until the necessary papers are received for transfer to the
Maryland authorities, The crime for which Lee is held was committed on Mrs, Robert
Barnes and Miss Frances Powekl, her cousén, as they were returning from church,"
"Norfolk, Vae, June 13 = William Lee, the nefro charged with criminal assault on Mrs,
Robert Barnes and her cousih, Miss Frances Powell, of Kingston, Somerset County,
Maryland, was brought safely to Norfolk today by the Norfolk and Portsmouth troops
who were hurried to Eastville, Va., yesterday afternoon by order of Governor Swanson
of Virginia to protect the prisoner in the Eastville jail and prevent his being lyn-
ched by the angry Marylanders who had. come down the peninsula from ‘the scene of the
“crime, In a confession made at the jail today, the negro admitted the assault on
Mrs. Barnes and the attempt to assault Miss Powell, Lee said he was not from Ports-
mouth Vae, but that his home was in York County, Va. The time and manner of the pri-
soner's delivery to the Maryland authorities is yet to be determined, The following
message has been sent: 'Richmond, Vae, Jan. 13, 1906, Hon Edwin Warfield, Governor,
Annapolis, Md.: The negro Lee, arrested in this state for @*MM4Y criminal assault,
committed in your state, is held in the Norfolk jail subject to your order and I
will be glad to hear your wishes ‘in the matter. /s/ ELAUDE A. SWANSON, G vernor.'
The Marylanders have returned from Eastveille to their homes in Somerset. The ex-
citement in Somerset is XXXX still great. Immediately on the dekivery of the pri-
soners at the Norfolk jail, the militia was disbanded," JOURNAL, Atlanta, Gacy

6-13-1906 (7/lie)

"(AP) Baltimore, Md.,y July 5, 1906. = William Lee, a colored youth of seventeen
years, was tried in the Circuit Court of this city today before Judges Harlan,
Wright and Dobler, and sentenced to be hanged in Somerset county for criminal

. assault on two white women. He confessed his crime. The assault took place

~ gix weeks .ago, the culprit having been taken to Virginia and later brought to this

city to escape the vengeance of a mobywhich had assembled in Somerset county.
The feeling in that county continues to be such that it was deemed. unsafe by the
authorities to take him.there to be tried, and forthwith the trial took place in

- this city. He will have to be taken to Somerset county to be executed on a day to
be fixed by the Governor, and it is deemed certain that it will require a strong
militia force to protect him from the maddened populace," .

_ TIMES-DISPATCH, Rychmond, Virginia, July 6, 1906 (3/le)

"(Special to the Times-Dispatch.) Norfolk, Va., Juhe 19, 1906. - Sheriff Brown, of
r _ Somerset county, Md., arrived in Norfolk late tonight with requisition papers
from Governor Warfield, of Maryland, duly honored by Governor Swanson, for the ne-
gro, William Lee, otherwise George Scott, wanted in Somerset county for assault on
two women, The sheriff will leave for Baltimore with his. prisoner tomorrow night.
He desired to leave early tomorrow morning, but to do so he would have to take HMM
the prisoner by the way of Cape Charles, and near Eastville, where it required a
defachment of soldiers to prevent the lynching of the negro, and he discreetly re-
fused to do that." : ,
TIMES-DISPATCH, Richmond, Virginia, June 20, 1906 (2/7.) _

"The latest developments in the case of William Lee, the Maryland negro who is
charged with criminal assault upon two ladies in Kineatowm, M4... and who escaped to
Northampton County, Virginia, where he was arrested, are that he is under heavy

military gaard in the Norfolk, Va., jail and that he has confessed that he committed


the crime, Two things are eminent frdm present indications, One is that the brute
will be meted out exact and speedy justice, and that mob violence, if attempted, will
be preventedeeeA special from Baltimore last night stated that Governor Warfield was
ready to render any military assistance that might be needed, but:that, so far, no
call has been made upon him for troopSeeeThe following special came from Norfolk last
night concerning’ the:case? 'Secure in a murderer's cell in the Norfolk City Jail is the
negro William Lee, confessed to heinously assaulting Mrs. Gordon Barnes and Miss @
Frances Powell, at Kingston, Md. The negro, heavily guarded by a squadron of State
militia, was brought here at 3:5 o'clock this morning from the ham&et of Eastville,
Vase, for safe-keeping until he can be returned to Marylande He will be taken from
here to Baltimore, and Boubtless placed on trial for his crime there, as to take him
back to the scene of his crime or to any other small community in Maryland, would be
to invite certain lynching. There was no demonstration of any kind when the soldiers
and their culprit arrived here, although the soldiers evidently expected that there
might be trouble. “arching through the city to the jail with the prisoner, whose
life they had saved, they did not leave him until he had been placed in his cell and
the great iron door swung to and locked. There can be no further doubt as to the
guilt of the negro, Coming from Cape Charles to Norfolk, he made an extended and
signed confession of the crime, the details of which are too repulsive to the senses
and far too horrible to be published, He deliberately told how he, with a fiendish
grin on his face, had frightened his victims into a wood at the point of a revolver
and a huge knife. He ordered them on pain of death not the leave the wood or make
any outcry until he had escaped, Frightened almost into insensibility and exhausted,
his victims could do nothing but obey. Lee keeps himself as far from view in his
cell as is possible, and will have little to say. He admits that he has confessed

to the crime. It is not certain that he is from Portsmouth, No one has yet inden=
tified him in the jail. He himself says that he is from York county, although it is
said that he has also made the statement ‘that he is from Portsmouth, He says that

he is but 16 years old, but his agpearance beliés that statement. He ‘does not appear
to be less than 20, He is rather small of stature. Deputy Sheriff Lankford, of
Northampton, has the confession which he made." TIMES-DISPATCN, R,chmond, Virginia,

June ly, 1906 (1%6.) &

"(Special‘to the Times Dispatch.) Eastville, Vas, 11:20 P.M., June 12. - The Norfolk
troops have just boarded a train with the negro, William Lee, in charge, and will
return with him by boat from Cape Charles to Norfolk,"

"(Special to the Times Dispatch.) Cape Charles, Vase, June 12, ,- William Lee, the ne-
gro who was arrested here yesterday morning for house breaking and committing an
assault on two white women near Kingston, Somerset county, Md., last Sunday, when

they were returning from church, was, at a late hour last night, taken to Eastville,
the county seat of Northampton and lodged in jail there for safekeeping, the authorie-
ties of this city having had advanced information that a crowd of indignant citizens
would reach here from Somerset county for the purpose of lynching the prisoner, SAs#xiXX
Sheriff Brown, of Somerset county, and 25 blood-thirsty citizens of the neighborhood
where the crime was committed reached here this morning on an early train, accompa~
nied by Mrs, Barnes and Miss Frances Powell, the ladies upon whom the assault was
made, for the purpose of identifying the negro, and if the prisoner had been found
here and identified, there is no doubt.that he.would have been lynched on the spot,

as the party of 25 citizens from Maryland swore to have revenge the moment he was
identified. Mr. Harry J. Walters, «Commonwealth's -attorney of Somerset county,

arrived here from Princess Anne, Mde, at 11 o'clock and later-on went to Eastville,
accompanied by Sheriff Brown and the 2 ladies:for the purpose of identifying the
prisoner, but, up to 5 P.M, the authorities of Northampton county have not allowed
‘the ladies to see the prisoner, fearing that if the identification was complete,

that the indignant citizens would attempt to lynch the negro, Commonwealth's attorney
F, Tucker Wilkins and:Sheriff Jarvis, fearing mob violence, telegraphed Governor
Swanson, asking that the 7lst Virginia Regiment, one hundred fifty men strong, of
Norfolk, Vas, be sent to Eastville immediately, and they reached-Cape Charles at 6 eS
PeM, on a special train from here to protect the prisoner. The troops reached East-

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616 Md.

by negroes which fact is publicly announced
by placards and signs prominently posted in
said court room,” and “that in Baltimore
County negroes are excluded from hotels,
restaurants, theatres, moving picture houses,
ete., Visited and patronized by white people,
solely on account of their race and color,”
and that by reason of these facts and circum-
stances the defendant could not have a fair
and impartial trial until such practices and
regulations are discontinued.

[2,3] No authority for such a motion,
based on such reasons, was cited by defend-
ant’s counsel, the granting of a continuance,
in the absence of abuse, resting in the discre-
tion of the court. Downs y. State, 111 Md.
241, 73 A. 893, 18 Ann. Cas. 786; Newton v.
State, 147 Md. 71, 127 A. 123; Cumberland
& W. Transit Co. v. Metz, 158 Md. 425, 149
A. 565. In Aldridge v. U..S., 283 U. S. 308,
314, 51 S. Ct. 470, 475, 75 L. Ed. 1054, 1058,
73 A. L. R. 1203, a case relied on by the de-
fendant to support his exceptions taken on
the examination of jurors on their voir dire,
it is said: “The question is not as to the
civil privileges of the negro, or as to the dom-
inant sentiment of the community and the
general absence of any disqualifying preju-
dice, but as to the bias of the particular ju-
rors who are to try the accused.” White
and colored alike are entitled to the equal
protection of the laws, yet states have not
been denied the right to pass and enforce
many segregation statutes. Railways and
other means of transportation have been re-
quired by states and lawfully, to provide sep-
arate compartments for whites and colored.
Innkeepers, in, the conduct of their business,
are not required to throw their houses open
to whomsoever chooses to be their guests.
Hall v. De Cuir, 95 U. S. 485, 24 L. Ed. 547,
52: Chiles v. C. & O. R. Co., 218 U. S. 71,
30 S. Ct. 667, 54 L. Ed. 936, 20 Ann. Cas. 980.
If the defendant’s contention is sound or logi-
cal, then so long as this state has separate
schools for white and colored children, he
could not be brought to trial, for nowhere
is the separation more marked than there.
Yet it has been frequently held that sep-
arate schools do not violate the provisions
of the Fourteenth Amendment. Cumming
v. Board of Education of Richmond Coun-
ty, 175 U. 8S. 528, 20 S. Ct. 197, 44 L.
Ed. 262, and note. In all of the cases
the right to make such regulations in pub-
lie places and -institutions is recognized,
provided equal advantages and comforts are
afforded both races, and there is no sugges-
tion here that this has not been done. Un-
der these circumstances and in the light of
the decisions on the subject it cannot be said
that in refusing the motion for a continuance
the trial court abused its discretion.

The next question submitted was to the
vaiidity of the panel of two hundred from
which the petit jury for the September term,

165 ATLANTIC REPORTER

1932, was drawn. At the first trial of the
appellant, a challenge was made to the ar-
ray, because the names of twenty-five petit
jurors were drawn from a panel of two hun-
dred from which negroes had been excluded,
and it was held on the former appeal, 163
Md, 56, 161 A. 284, that this was prejudicial
to the rights of the appellant. At the Sep-
tember term, 1932, the names of six colored
men, qualified to sit as jurors, were includ-
ed in the panel of two hundred, so that there
can be no question about this panel meeting
the requirements necessary to eliminate prej-
udice from that drawing.

[4,5] When the names of two hundred per-
sons taken from the tax and registration lists
were placed in the jury box at the Septem-
ber term, 1932, the term at which the second
trial was held, it appears that the names of
all except forty-six had been in the panel of
two hundred at the December term, 1931,
when the first trial was had, and the conten-
tion of the appellant now is that the decision
in the former appeal, 163 Md. 56, 161 A. 284,
disqualified the entire list of two hundred,
and therefore disqualified the one hundred
and forty-four prospective jurors whose
names went back into the box at the Septem-
ber term, 1932. It was held in the former
appeal that the manner of selecting the jury
sufficiently met the requirements of the stat-
utes. Hollars v. State, 125 Md. 367, 938 A.
970; Code of Public General Laws, article 51,
§ 6;. Code of Public Local Laws, article 3,
§ 387 et seq. There was no suggestion in
the opinon that any of those whose names
were in the panel for the December term,
1931, were not legally qualified to act as
jurors. 'The decision was that the panel, as
a whole, was defective because, in the selec-
tion of the two hundred persons whose names
went into the box, negroes were excluded,
and that this exclusion had been so persistent
as to amount to discrimination, and therefore
prejudice.

If the names of negroes, legally qualified,
had been placed in the list from which the
jury at that term had been drawn, the de-
cision in the last appeal would have been an
affirmance instead of a reversal. The panel
was held to be bad, but the individuals whose
names were in the list from which the jury
was drawn were not, merely because their
names were in that list, thereafter disquali-
fied to be drawn so long as they individual-
ly possessed the necessary qualifications.
Two terms of court with two jury drawings,
March and May, 1932, had intervened be-
tween the first and second trials, so that
there were in the box the names of those
who had not been drawn the two, and many
of them more, terms before. The names in
the box at the September term, 1932, which
had also been there, and not drawn at the
December term, 1931, were those of qualified
jurors, wlose qualifications had been consid-

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LEE vy. STATE rd
165 A, Ma. 617

ered and determined by the court, and their
inclusion in the new list was simply using
the names of qualified jurors for a new and
different list and because again considered
and selected, was a fresh and new selection
for the panel in question. If there had been
an attempt at the December term, 1931, aft-
er the drawing of the petit jury for that
term, to correct the mistakes made in the
composition of the panel, there might have
been. some point to the contention. When the
drawing oceurs at a subsequent term, the
objections to the list of a former term avail
nothing if the names of those in the box at
the subsequent term are of persons qualified
individually and collectively to serve as ju-
rors. 35 C. J. 267, 268; State v. Welch, 36
W. Va. 690, 15 S. E. 419.

The second point raised in the challenge to
the array was as to the identity of Edgar
Keifer, one of the jurors accepted, but this
was abandoned at the argument.

The third question argued was on the ex-
ceptions to the refusal of the court to allow
certain questions to be asked jurors on their
voir dire.

[6] The question “Do you regard negroes
as your social equal,” was not permitted to
be asked Henry H. Grimes, John G. Mays,
Gordon H. Pearce, and Daniel J. Edell, and
Substantially the same of Joseph F. Nee, all
of whom were challenged by the defense, ex-
cept Grimes. It has been held that a white
juror is not disqualified to sit in a case
against a negro because he thinks his race
superior to another, or does not believe in
the social equality of white and colored races.
State v. Casey, 44 La. Ann. 969, 11 So. 583;
State v. Green, 229 Mo. 642, 129 S. W. 700.

[7-9] The question was asked William A.
Freeman: “Do you have any feeling against
colored people?” which he answered, “No.”
He was then asked: “Would you believe a
colored man’s story just as quickly as a white
man’s?” which was objected to by the state,
Objection sustained and exception noted.
The same question and same ruling as to
Daniel J, Edell, J. Howard Anderson, and
Joseph F, Nee. This question was refused
by the trial court as being “too general,”
and in that we concur. The question held
proper in Hill v. State, 112 Miss. 260, 72 So.
1003, quoted in Aldridge v. U. S., 288 U. §S.
308, 312, 51 S. Ct. 470, 75 L. Ed. 1054, 73 A.
1. R. 1203, was: “Have you got any preju-
dice against the negro, as a negro, that would
induce you to return a verdict on less or
Slighter evidence than you would return a
verdict of guilty against a white man under
the same circumstances?” Practically the
Same question, with the qualifications “other
things being equal” and “under the same
circumstances,” was held proper in People vy,
Car Soy, 57 Cal. 102. There is a vast dif-
ference between this and the question:

165 A.— 3914

“Would you believe a colored man’s story
just as quickly as a white man’s.” Credi-
bility does not depend on the color of the
witness, and a juror may dishclieve a wit-
ness no matter what his race. Credibility
depends on circumstances, which may arise
at the trial, and the question here as in the
Hill Case should have been So qualified, es-
pecially after all four jurors had stated they
had no “feeling against colored people.” The
question as asked has been held to be an im-
proper test. Jenkins vy. State, 31 Fla. 196,
12 So. 677: State y. Dyer, 154 La. 379, 97
So. 563; State v. Buford, 158 Iowa, 173, 135
N. W. 464; State vy. Bethune, 98 S. C. 195,
75 §. EB. 281; Cavitt v. State, 15 Tex. App.
190. See note, 73 A. L. R. 1209. Compare the
question here asked with the one ruled on
in the Pinder Case, 27 Fla: 370, 8 So. 837,
888, 26 Am. St. Rep. 75: “Could you give
the defendant, who is a negro, as fair and
impartial a trial as you could a white man,
and give him the same advantage and pro-
tection as you would a white man upon the
Same evidence?” and, this is all the travers-
.er, white or colored, is entitled to receive, a
jury, legally qualified, without bias or prej-
udice. The purpose of the examination is
to ascertain, as nearly as may be learned
from a juror’s answers, whether he is so free
of bias or prejudice as to give the one to be
tried a fair trial, and it is the duty of the
court to furnish him such jurors. “The ex-
amination which the party is thus entitled
to have made is only a means to the end of
ascertaining the existence of cause for dis-
qualification, and is not permitted for any
other purpose.” State y. Welsh, 160 Ma.
542, 154 A. 51; Whittemore y. State, 151
Md. 309, 315, 134 A. 322. So far as this ree-
ord discloses the appellant was furnished a
jury ascertained from their examination to
be qualified to give him a fair trial which
was all he had a right to ask.

[10] The court refused to allow one juror
to be asked whether he had noticed the lay-
atory signs, one, if he knew of the exclusion
of negroes from moving picture houses, and
one, if he knew of the “Jim Crow practices in
Baltimore County?’ We have already said
enough on this subject to indicate that such
questions are not a test of fitness of a juror.

Exceptions twenty-three to thirty-three,
both inclusive, to rulings on the evidence
were abandoned at the argument, and are,
therefore, not considered.

Finding no error in the rulings of the trial
court on the challenge to the panel of. two
hundred from which the petit jury was
drawn, on the motion for a continuance, and
on the examination of the jurors on their
voir dire, the judgment appealed from should
be affirmed.

Judgment affirmed with costs,


614 Md.

The test, therefore, is whether the contract
of service regarded as a whole was a contract
substantially to act as a salesman without the
establishment, or a contract substantially to
act as salesman within the establishment.
Notwithstanding that at times, and that fora
while daily, no outside solicitation of orders
was involved, the service of the salesman was
substantially that of a salesman to solicit or-
ders from prospective customers outside of
the establishment because of two decisive fac-
tors of the problem. The first is that the
salesman’s time in the service of his master
Was preponderantly used outside of: the es-
tablishment in the ratio of seven hours to
three; and the second is that the statute pre-
Scribes that a salesman of the type here pre-
sented is entitled to compensation independ-
ently of the place where the accident inflict-
ing the injury happened, since the words of
the statute provide compensation for the out-
Side salesman “whether the injury for which
compensation is asked was sustained within
this State or elsewhere.”

So, considering the contract asa whole and
looking to the main duty of the workman and
the general nature of his employment, the
Sounder and better view of the undisputed
facts of this record is that the solicitation
of sales outside of the master’s establishment
was the predominant, primary, and substan-
tial service of the salesman rendered within
the category of enumerated statutory haz-
ardous employments; and that his injury is
compensable because it was the result of an
accident to which the salesman was exposed
on the inside of the establishment while he
was engaged in the performance for the bene-
fit of the master of that which was, although
agreed, incidental and accessary to what was
basic in his contract of employment. Supra.
See Jacques v. The Alexandria (1921) LL R. 2
A. C. 339; Reid v. British.& Irish Steam
Packet Co. (1921) L. R. 2 K. B. 319; Bagnall
v. Levinstein, Ltd. (1907), 1 K. B. 531; Leech
v. Gartside & Co. (1885) 1 T. L. R. 391; Cam-
eron y. Pillsbury (1916) 173 Cal. 83, 159 P,
149; Crockett v. Indus. Ace. Com., 190 Cal.
583, 213 P. 969; So. P. Go. v. Pillsbury, 170
Cal. 782, 151. P. 277, 281) Te RB. A: 19161, 916;
Schneider’s Workmen’s Compensation Law
(2d Ed.) § 50; Chase v. Emery Mfg. Co., 271
Pa. 265, 113 A. 840; Young v. Goldsmit-Black,
Inc., 102 Pa. Super. Ct. 291, 156° A. 571;
Beaver v. George W. Boyd Co., 106 Pa. Super,
Ct. 24, 161 A. 900, 901; Clark vy. Lord Advo-
eate (1922) 15 B. W. C. GC. 320; McIntyre y.
Rodger & Co. (1904) 6 F. 176; Pelletier’s Case,
269 Mass. 490, 169 N. B. 434; Mannix’ Case,
264 Mass. 584, 163 N. EB. 171; Wickham vy.
Glenside Woolen Mills, 252 N. Y. 11, 168 N. FE.
446; Krinsky v. Ward & Gow, 193 App. Div.
557, 184 N. Y. S. 443, affirmed 231 N. yY, 525,
182 N. FE. 873; Ward & Gow v. Krinsky, 259
U. S. 503, 42 S. Ct. 529, 66 L. Ed. 1033, 28 A.
L. R. 1207.

165 ATLANTIC REPORTER

It follows that there was reversible error in
the action of the lower court in granting the
employer’s prayer instructing the jury to
bring in a directed verdict that there was no
legally sufficient evidence that the servant
was engaged in a hazardous occupation at
the time of the accident.

[5] The claimant’s first prayer did not sub-
mit the necessary facts for the jury to find be-
fore the claimant would be entitled to com-
pensation, and was properly rejected. The
Second prayer of the claimant was open to the
criticism that it omitted to submit to the jury
to find the citizenship or residence of the serv-
ant in the state, and the location of a place of
business of the master within the state. Lig-
gett & Meyers Tobacco Co. y. Goslin, filed
June 3, 1932, 163 Md. 74, 160 A. 804. This de-
fect was not prejudicial, however, as the rec-
ord shows there is no question that these
facts were not controverted. For error in
granting the master’s first prayer, the judg-
ment of the superior court of Baltimore city
must be reversed, and the decision of the com-
mission affirmed.

Judgment of the superior court of Balti-
more city reversed, with costs to the appel-
lant, and the award of the State Industrial
Accident Commission made on March 29,
1932, allowing the claim of G. Alan Boteler,
claimant, affirmed and entered to the use of
Agnes V. Boteler, his administratrix; the
said claimant having died intestate since the
award by said commission and the appeal of
the master therefrom.

LEE v. STATE.
No. 46.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.
April 6, 1933.

1. Criminal law €>122,
Right to have case removed to another
county can only be exercised once.

2. Criminal law ©=586.
Granting of continuance rests in trial
court’s discretion, in absence of abuse.

3. Constitutional law @=268.

Refusing motion for continuance on
ground that regulations segregating races ex-
isted in county where negro was being tried
held not abuse of trial court’s discretion
(Const. U. S. Amend. 14).

4. Jury G94,

Individuals whose names were in list
from which jury was drawn were not, merely
because their names were in list which ex-
cluded negroes, thereafter disqualified to be

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LEE y. STATE
165 A.

drawn in trial of negro, so long as they in-
dividually possessed necessary qualifications
(Code Pub. Gen. Laws 1924, art. 51, § 6;
Code Pub. Loc. Laws 1930, art. 3, § 387 et
seq.).

5. Jury 94,

When drawing occurs at subsequent
term, objections to list of former term are
unavailable if names of those in box at sub-
sequent term are of persons qualified indi-
vidually and collectively to serve as jurors
(Code Pub. Gen. Laws 1924, art. Dt, -$:65
Code Pub. Loc. Laws 1930, art. 8, § 387 et
seq.).

6. Jury €=131(8).

On voir dire examination of jurors in tri-
al of negro, question whether juror regarded
negroes as his social equals held properly ex-
cluded.

7. Jury €131(15).

On voir dire examination of jurors in
trial of negro, question whether juror would
believe colored man’s story just as quickly as
white man’s story held properly excluded as
too general.

8. Jury G131(1).

Purpose of voir dire examination is to
ascertain whether juror is so free of preju-
dice as to give accused fair trial.

9. Jury €31(1).
Trial court must furnish accused such
jurors as will give him fair trial.

10. Jury €=131(15).

Questions whether juror noticed lavatory
signs in court room directing negroes to use
toilets not used by whites, whether juror
knew of exclusion of negroes from moving
picture houses in county of trial, and wheth-
er juror knew of Jim Crow practices in coun-
ty held properly excluded, on voir dire exam-
ination in trial of negro,

Appeal from Circuit Court, Baltimore
County; T. Scott Offutt, Walter W. Preston,
and C. Gus Grason, Judges,

Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was convict-
ed of murder in the first degree, and he ap-
peals.

Affirmed.

Argued before BOND, O. J., and URNER,
ADKINS, PARKHE, and SLOAN, JJ.

Bernard Ades, of Baltimore, and David
Levinson, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Wm. L. Henderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and
Godfrey Child, State’s Atty., of Snow Hill,
for Worcester County (Wm. Preston Lane,
Jr., Atty. Gen., James C. L. Anderson, State’s
Atty., of Towson, for Baltimore County, and
James A, McAllister, State’s Atty., of Cam-

bridge, for Dorchester County, on the brief),
for the State,

SLOAN, Judge.

On September 29, 1932, Euel Lee, the ap-
pellant, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree, by a jury in Baltimore county,
whence the case had been removed at the
instance of the appellant from Worcester
county. On October 22, 1932, he was sen-
tenced to death, and from this Sentence he
appeals. The offense for which he was in-
dicted was the murder, on or about the 11th
day of October, 1931, of Green Davis at
Worcester county. A suggestion for remoy-
al was made in the circuit court for Worces-
ter county, by the appellant, and that court
removed the case to Dorchester county, an
order which was later stricken out and an
order passed removing the case to Baltimore
county (Lee vy. State, 161 Md. 430, 157 A.
723) where he was tried, on January 20, 1952,
found guilty, and on January 28, 1932, sen-
tenced to death. From this sentence he ap-
pealed on the ground that his rights had been
prejudiced because no one of his race had
been considered in the selection of the panel
from which the petit jury at the December
term, 1931, was drawn, an exclusion which
was held to show prejudice in the opinion
by Chief Judge Bond in Lee y. State, 163 Md.
56, 161 A. 284, and the case was remanded to
the circuit court for Baltimore county for a
Second trial, with a repetition of the first re-
sult. The appellant offered no evidence, All
of his resistance was to a trial of the case at
the September term, 1932.

The appellant reserved thirty-three excep-
tions to adverse rulings which are appropri-
ately grouped under the three questions here
urged by him as cause for reversal,

{1] The appellant, before proceeding with
the trial, first filed a formal motion for a
removal to a county “where there are no
Jim Crow or segregation regulations against
negroes,” which was overruled, and aban-
doned at the argument on appeal. The right
had been and can only be exercised once.
Cooke vy. Cooke, 41 Md. 362; Price v. State,
8 Gill, 296; Fountain y, State, 135 Md. 87,
108 A. 473.

The defendant then moyed in writing for
a continuance on the ground that certain
“Jim Crow” regulations of the county ecom-
nissioners of Baltimore county were preju-
dicial to his rights, that the, court bailiffs or
other authorities segregated negro spectators
and witnesses into a portion of the court
room, and that they “are excluded from the
lavatories and toilets, open for use by white
people, and are forced to refrain from using
such toilets, but on the contrary, are direct-
ed, ordered and compelled to use only such
toilets as are specifically set aside for use.

€ >For other cases see same topic and KEY NUMBER in all Key Number Digests and Indexes

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fifty thousand dollars. Moreover, he

an ahbi, He had spent the entire
ning of Octcber 11th with his family
‘there were seven of his children to
r out his statement.

‘pon learning these things Baker pur-
d another tack. “Tell me.” he said to
dealer, “who knew of this machinery
1, other than yourself and Poffen-
ger?”

Why. no one. Peffenberger called me
that morning. told me he was willing
sell the machinery. I drove over.
d him and took the equipment with
. Earl Loveless was there when the
il was made.”

‘And you menticned it to no one?”
The dealer shook his head. The sher-
sighed, shook his head and returned
his car. He went back to the Poffen-
‘ger place and spoke to Loveless.
‘Did you mention that farm equip-
nt deal to anycne at all?”
‘Nope.” said Loveless. “It wasn't a
ret. But I never said anything to
yone.”” .
Baker drove back to Hagerstown fer
. lunch. He ate with a preoccupied
. He had a corpse on his hands—the
‘pse, a prominent member of the
mmunity, and not a single clue to the
ntity of the killer.
Baker was half way thrcugh his pie
1en deputy Bender came into the

use.

Bender said, “Chief, this is probably
, good at all but I thought ycu'd bet-
r hear about it.”

Baker finished his pie, pushed the
ate away and tamped tobacco into his

pe. ‘

“If it's about Poffenberger.” he said.
‘Il listen to anything.”

“It might be about Poffenberger. I
n't know. Anyway, there was a fellow
imed Miller—James Miller. on the
cse in town late on the night of the
lling. He toured the taverns, flashed
roll and insisted on treating everyone
» drinks. Now, I admit that's not a
irticularly suspicicus circumstance, but
looked into it and as far as I could
nd cut Miller never before had that
iuch money to thrcw away. He's got a
»b in Hagerstown that only pays him
venty-three bucks a week.”

Baker puffed meditatively at his pipe
nd considered this infcrmation. “It’s
oct the sort of thing that we can ask
n indictment on,” he said ruefully,
but, I suppose, it’s worth investigating.
sring this Miller cver to my office and
‘ll ask him a few questions.”

N hour later James Lee Miller, a
medium height man of about twen-
y six years old, stood before the sher-
{’s desk. Baker regarded him sternly.

“Miller,” he said, “‘you've doubtless
eard of the murder cf Roleigh Poff-
nberger?”

Miller ncdded and his sunburned face
vas suddenly pale. “Sure,” he said,
sure, I've heard of it. But for heaven’s
ake, you don’t think I did it, do you?”

Baker did not answer the question.
de said, instead, “On the night of Oc-
ober the 11th, you were painting the
own. You had money and ycu were
vuying everyone drinks. Now have you
t bank account?”

“No, sir.” ‘

“Then how did you suddenly get
“ncugh mcney to throw away in the
ceal saloons?”

“I got it in a crap game at a pool-
room in Williamsport.”

“How much did you win?”

“About a hundred dollars.”

“All right,” said Baker. “I’m going to
held you here this afterncon while I
check that story. If it's true you'll be
released tonight.”

Leaving “Miller in deputy Bender's

48

State Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, unlocks chains from feet of one patient in
nursing home house of horror, operated by Margaret Colvin who watches.

custody, Baker drove over to Williams-
rt. There, he learned that Miller had
nm gambling on the night of the
killing and that he had won some mon-
ey. No one was sure how much it had
been.

Baker ordered Miller released via the
telephone, then turned his car once more
in the direction of the Poffenberger
hame. ai

) Bb ygecng Clingan and Robert Mil-
ler were still combing the Poffen-
berger estate seeking the weapon that
had hammered the life out of the dead

man.

As Baker got out of the car and walk-
ed across the fields, he was hailed by
an excited shout from Clingan.

“Hey, Chief! Come here. I’ve got it!”

Clingan was standing in the doorway
of: the cld chicken-roost. He was hold-
ing a fourteen inch pipe wrench in his
right hand.

There were several dark stains on it
and a few grey hairs clung to the sharp
edge of the steel bite. - ;

Baker stared at it and his pulse picked
up a beat. :

“Where did you find it?”

“In the chicken-roost.”

“I thought you looked in there yester-

y.

“] did,” said the deputy. “And it
wasn’t there yesterday. I'm absolutely
certain of that. I searched the place
thcroughly.”

Baker took his pipe from his pocket
and tapped it thoughtfully against the
heel of his hand. After a full minute he
said. “You know what that means?”

Clingan . nodded. “I know what it .

means,” he said soberly. “The killer
waited until we'd searched this place
then planted it in here, feeling sure we
wouldn't look in the chicken-roost again.

And I wouldn’t’ve except I was hot and
tired and came in here out of the sun
for a smoke.”

“You're right,” said Baker, “and it
means more than that. It means that
the murderer has been here since yes-
terday. He must have planted this
wrench in here right under our noses.”

“I'll take it down to Deiss,” said Clin-
gan. “Did you get his report on the
prints in the wash-house yet?”

“They're due tonight. Ask him to do
a rush job on that wrench.” ;

That night, Deiss’ report stated that
the only prints in the wash-shed were

- those of Pcffenberger, Loveless and an-

other; there were no prints at all on
the pipe wrench.

dn Maryland fall slowly evolved
into winter. The months passed by
and the Poffenberger murder case re-
mained unsolved. The sheriff’s office
tirelessly searched for clues which would
lead to the guilty man but none came
to light. .

Once, some two months after the
killing, Sheriff Baker announced that he
had a theory regarding the case. He
would not tell his co-workers what it
was. However, he visited the cffice of
State’s Attorney Charles Wagaman of
Washington County, and had a long
and secret conference with that official.

Upon returning to his own office he
was met by deputy Clingan who eagerly

asked, “Anything break on Poffenberg-

er?”

Baker shock his head. “I had a hunch,
that's all. But the State’s Attorney tells
me that I have no case. You can’t
take a hunch before a grand jury.”

Winter took over the land. Christmas
passed and New Years. And nothing
happened on the Poffenberger case un-
til the night of February Sth, 1941.

A truck driver was held up on the
Williamsport Turnpike just outside Ha-
gerstown. Two bandits did the job and
raced away in a coupe the license num-
ber of which was noted by the truck
driver. As a matter of routine, the sher-
iff’s office was assigned the task of
finding the robber’s car. The job fell
to Deputy Bender.

On the morning of February 6th, Ben-
der burst into Sheriff Baker's office and
said excitedly, “Chief, you recall that
heldup on the Turnpike last night?”

Baker nodded. “I you traced the
car and brought the two bandits in.”

“J did,” said Bender. “And who do
you think they are?”

*Ycu've got me. Who?”

“Earl Loveless and James Miller. And

it turns out that Miller is Loveless’
brother-in-law.” ; ;
_ The sheriff whistled softly. “Maybe
my hunch—the one I told the state
attorney about—is working out all right.
I thought Loveless was Poffenberger’s
killer. First, he tried to throw suspicion
on others. Second, he was. around the
farm and had the opportunity. to plant
that pipe wrench in the chicken house.
And since he said he was at the movies
alone, that was no alibi. And it was
always possible that Miller didn’t win
all that money in the crap. game.”

For the next forty-eight hours the
entire staff of the sherifi’s office went
to work on Loveless and Miller. They
were questioned constantly about the
Poffenberger murder. But the pair of
prisoners remained adamant.

Neither would admit anything at all.
Leveless insisted that he would only
answer questions in the presence of
his lawyer while Miller maintained a
stubborn silence.

At the end of the second day: Baker
was willing to concede that ordinary


methods would not elicit a confession ler without enthusiasm’ and said, “What that Loveless and Miller had gone to “Who are you?”

from either of the men. . are you punks in for? Petty larceny? the farm after the completely innocent _“His name is Chapman,” Baker told

He called in Deputy Clingan. “Cline They ought to have more respect for Hclt had been dropped. at the tavern. him. “Lieutenant Edward J. Chapman

gan.” he. said, “I want Miller and Love-. 4 killer like me than to toss me in a They had stopped for a few drinks, then of the Western Maryland Railroad Po-

less put in separate cells for four days. cell with a couple of amateurs.” at Loveless’ suggestion, Miller and Love- lice. We didn’t use one of our own men

1 don’t want anyone to talk to them, Loveless answered him shortly but less decided to rob the. old man. because we thought he might be recog:

not even to pass the time of day. At the stranger did not lapse into silence. They had killed him. with the pipe nized.”

the end of that time I want them trans- He conducted a loud and scathing mono- wrench, taken four hundred dollars in “Wait a minute,” said Miller. “It's

ferred. to cell number six, together.” His prime point was that he was cash from his pockets and ransacked only his word against ours.”
class killer and his two compan-

He did net explain further. Clingan a first the house for more. After that Love- “Ol, no it isn’t,” said Baker. “During
carried out the sheriff's instructions. For _ icns small time punks. less had returned to Boonsboro, picked the past couple of days I had a dicta-
four days Loveless and” Miller were "At last Miller became nettled. “Why up the innocent Holt and returned to phone installed in this cell. Every word
separated and given the silent treat- den’t you shut up?” he said. “Who did ‘find’ the body. you said has been recorded.” : |
ment. Then they were put together in you ever kill, anyway?” No sooner had Loveless concluded his Less than an hour later, Loveless and ; |
a single cell. “Who did I ever kill?” shouted the recital, than there came the sound of Miller broke completely and si a |
At eleven o’clock of the first evening ther. “I've killed twenty men. Did footsteps the cell. Sheriff Baker detailed confession in the sheriff's office. ; |
that the pair were locked up together, you ever hear of a man Called Poffen- uniccked the cell door. Two of his dep- ‘The pair were tried separately. Love- | |
the cell door was opened and a man berger?” : uties were with him. less, who repudiated his confession dur- | |
was thrust into the room by the turn- “Tf you say you killed Poffenberger,” “Okay, Loveless,” he said, “you, too, ing his trial, was found guilty of first
key who locked the door and disap- said Loveless, “you're a liar.” Miller. It might go a little easier with degree murder on July 24th, 1941. Mil-
peared. ; “Me, a liar? Prove it.” you if -you'll sign a written confession.” ler was found guilty on the same charge
The stranger. was unshaven. His “You loud mouthed phony,” said Mil- Loveless and Mi stared at each on July 3ist, On this latter day Judge
clothes were dirty and there was 4 wild ler. “We killed Roleigh Poffenberger.” ther. The unshaven stranger said to D. Lindley Sloan sentenced them both |
Icok in his eye. An cdor of alcohol em- “You're right, we did,” said Loveless. the sheriff, “Tt was even easier than we to hang. |
anated from him as he sat down on the “I can tell all about it.” figured.” _ Both men went to their doom on the |

narrow bed. ed

Loveless and Mil- © He did and at great length. It seemed Loveless blinked his . eyes. He said, gallows on September 21st.

the navy 2 few weeks before for “gen-
See ;

45 minutes, to say nothing of getting “Margery’ to Denver,” he told ery tire and had been involved in several ¢s-
through the cordon of officers unob- the officers on the umns of dust high into the air. capedes just short of criminal.
served. It was plain, too, that the wash- street Thursday morning when I went “Look,” Mabray argued. “Five miles — - “He's precisely the type who'd rather
ed-out blonde could not be the brunette down to see my draft board. She had a off the highway, those two could drive try a living at crime than at |
in the Brownfield robbery, nor the one little bag with her and said she was. over a rise into a little arroyo and the honest work,” Gault finished. “What's
who had helped take Leaird’s car at hitch-hiking.” tumbleweed would hide them like a more, he fits the description of Leaird’s
Fort Worth. Maybe the girl had gone to Denver, tent. Granted that the boys have been bandit like a glove.” |
“Which outfit do we want for Lamb's but both Reeder and Mabray had their giving some attention to the back coun- “Where is Arthur Wright now?”
murder?” Reeder wondered aloud. doubts when the youth added that try, that pair would still have a chance Mabray questioned.
“] was in hope you could tell me Margery had been seen earlier in the to make a get-away. Or do you still “That’s the point,” Gault returned.
that,” the Ranger captain came back week with a free-spending stranger, figure that those ticee in the Stude- “Wright has been missing from home |
- of one patient in “Have you found the abandoned car. known only as a war-plant worker from baket are the killers?” for the past week. My guess is that |
hutas-ehe wale yet?” Dallas. The man. the informant said, Reeder shook his head. “Lamb’s mur- he picked up the gitl somewhere and
}

“Not a sign of it,” the police chief had been young and had remained in der is the work of a pair of amateurs,” started to New Mexico with her. Just
. “And my men have looked in Lubbock only a few days. Could he he declared. “No experienced crook why he cut back to Lubbock is any-
every street and alley in Lubbock. What have the one who robbed Leaird, would have let Lamb get close enough body's guess. But she’s just as deep

A truck driver was held up on the been the < ,
have you got on the couple who rob- and Margery his accomplice? As Reed- to grab that gun. On the other hand, in all this as be*is, that’s sure.”

Williamsport Turnpike just outside Ha-

gerstown. Two bandits did the job and bed Leaird?” er and Mabray saw it, the idea wasn't an amateur wouldn’t have the savvy Plainly, if the girl was headed for + |

raced away in a coupe the license num- “Not enough new to be of any help,” too far-fetched. to try swapping cars. He'd take right New Mexico relatives, she wasn’t Mar- ft |

ber of which was noted by the truck Gault admitted. “I'll come over as soon out in the same car he'd been using, gery Lane, since the record

driver. As a matter of routine, the sher- as I learn anything.” S. LAMB, as the officers expected, probably scared stiff. I think that’s the latter had no relatives in that

r vse assiened the task of Gault’s idea had suggested a small- was unable to supply any helpful what this couple did. More and more- state.
bie) Clyde Rarrow- Bonnie Parker informaticn to the detectives sent out it looks like Gault’s Fort Worth couple “I'm guessing that the Lane girl is |

har Her hnchand had had had dene the Brownfield robbery, then out and that the fellow with her earlier
; 3 Vhiz week in Lubbock is, also,” Gault


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Deiectuive Constable George Suter there
that he was convinced Doreen was a
seccnd victim of the slayer who had
killed Margery Gardner. Barratt gave
Suter all details of the fruitless search
for Heath and was told that Suter’s

“cffice had received a wanted circular

bearing a phcto of Heath. ©
Suter conferred with. the manager of

ing.

Heath, said he had never seen him with
Doreen or at all. But, under. Suter’s
direction, he began a series of discreet

ingutl beloie Willi severai Bilis anu Mech
shortly: after midnight. Yet in the
morning his shoes were found outside
his door, left for the porter to clean
and polish.

The night porter explained that a
painter’s ladder had ‘been. left against
the building near Brocke’s room.

The day temembered finding

porter !
Brocke’s shoes because he had had

job cleansing them of.an incrustation of ©

wet sand.
Suter decided to risk an arrest. He
had seen the body of Doreen Marshall.

Beiady, that i hae wilh Ulit
girl the night she d +d.”

“Tell us about it,” ouccx said.

Brooke told of dining with Doreen,
said he had left her soon after mid-
night. “I cculdn’t date her,” he said.
“She wouldn't let me escort her back
to.her hotel. We parted at about one
o’clcck. She had an appointment wi
ancther man.” : :

Suter nodded. “You must help us find
him,” he said, “because that man was
a murderer. We've found Miss Mar-
shall’s body.”

At the opening of his trial Heath
still refused to admit his crimes. Only
after Arlene Raymond testified, did he
plead temporary insanity. The jury re-
quired one hour to find him guilty; he
was promptly sentenced to be hanged
at Pentonville Prison. On October 16,
1946, the sentence-was carried out.

Editor's Ncte: As used in this story,
the name Arlene Raymond is. fictitious
to protect the identity of a@ ‘person in-
nocently involved in a criminal inves-
tigation. ;

“THE HANGMAN LAUGHS LAST

(Continued from ‘page 25)

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was to bear it to the mortuary.

It was asked that the two hired men,
Leveless and Hclt remain in their quar-
ters at the house in Sellman’s charge
until their stories could be checked in
the morning. ‘The Remsburgs retired to

“the -guest room which was the only

chamber on the second ficor of the
house which had nct been disturbed.

ESPITE the fact that: Sheriff Ba-

ker did not get -to his bed till well
after four o'clock on the morning’ of
October 12th, he was in his office well
before eight. Meeting him there were
the three deputies he had summoned.
' Thesé officers were Rebert Clingan,

Rcbert Miller and Byron Bender. Briefly:

Baker told them of Poffenberger’s death,
and of the circumstances surrounding

it.

“It looks.” he added, “as if the mo-
tive was robbery. Poffenberger is rich
and well known in-this regicn.. More-
-over, I’ve quite often heard rumors that
he kept quite a sum of cash hidden in
his house. The ‘killer-must have heard
the same story. I don’t know whether
or not he fcund anything last night ‘but
he certainly went locking = =:

_ Clingan nodded. “I guess the first two
items cn the agenda are to check the

stories of the hired men, then try to
find the murder w a

tcur. I want ycu boys ‘to go out to

the farm right away. And I want you .
to search every square inch of it. You’re

Iccking for a heavy cbject with an edge
sharp encugh to cut the .skin. There'll
probably be blocdstains on it.”

Two cars set cut in the bright morn-
ing sun headed for the Poffenberger
farm. Arriving there, the deputies lost
no time. instituting. their search. They
divided the fertile land into three ‘sec-
tions and went about their arduous task.

Baker asked Leveless and Holt: into
his car. Holt sat next to the sheriff and
was cbvicusly thoughtful. Earl Love-
less stared impassively at the windshield.
He seemed neither concerned nor shock-
ed at the death of his employer. .

At the tavern in Boonsberce, the pro-
frietor immediately corroberated Hclt’s
story. He stated categorically that the
hired man had spent. the hours befween
7:30.and 10.30 at the inn. He added
that at. the latter -hour Loveless had

“Okay,” said Baker.. He turned to
Loveless. “And what abcut you?”

“I left Tom at the bar, here,” said
Loveless, “and drove over home.”

“Home? I thought ycu lived at Poff-
enberger’s.” =

“I do. I mean my relatives’ home.
I went cver to see them, I stayed there
abcut an hour, then went to the movies.
After that I.came back here and picked
up Holt.” ; : .

“Who went to the movies with you?”

“No one. :
to the car and Baker for the

sete. ; Nee ogs
“Well,” said Baker, “this seems to

Baker drove back to the Poffenberger

farm. There, he discharged his two pas-

sengers and went in to interview How-
ard and Ficrida Remsburg. _
.However, neither .Poffenberger’s

daughter nor his son-in-law could throw |

any light on the mystery. To the best
of their knowledge, Roleigh Poffenberg-
er had possessed no enemies in his life.
Ner had he secreted large sums of cash
in his house.”

Baker shook his head at -the conclu-
sicn'cf this fruitless interview and stalk-
= ferth in the fields to check up on

Ma hhend Sea

‘cund i examining an
abandoned chicken. roost some twenty
yards behind the big red barn.

“Well,” he said, “find anything?”

Clingan shcok his head. “Nope. Nor
has anyone else. I. just checked with
the cther boys. We've searched half
the farm but no dice.”

“Keep at it,” said Baker and return-
ed to the hcuse.
_ He put through a call to the Wash-
ington County Hospital and received the
autopsy report written by Dr. Kurt
Lande, laboratcry director and patholo-
gist and Dr. Samuel Wells, the deputy

medical examiner. This report indicated
that Poffenberger had died: at approxi-
mately 8:30, a full hour after Holt and
Loveless had left the farm for the eve-

ning.
Then Baker called his own office and
obtained the information that Edwin
S. Deiss, an FBI investigator and fin-
gerprint expert was already on the way
to Remy wash-house. .
ring bright autumn afternoon,
the three deputies combed every inch

’ of the farm. Dusk came over the fertile

Maryland countryside and the mystery
of: Roleigh Poffenberger’s death was no
nearer solution than it had been the
night before.

DE: the FBI man, collected nu-
merous prints from. the wash-house
walls, the tools and the overturned gaso-
line can and took them off to his labora-
tory for examination. :

Then, just as the sheriff was about to
call it a futile day, Earl Loveless came
to him in the living room.

“Sheriff,” he said, “I don’t know if
this means anything or not. But I hap-
pen to kncw that Poffenberger had over
four hundred dollars on him yesterday.”

“It wasn’t here when we arrived,”
said Baker. “How do you know he had
it, .

morning.

Bh Sheriff Heer discovered about
the dealer in morning spcke highly
of him: He was a God fearing farmer,
a pillar of the community and a man
whcse banker would guarantee his note

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Colled the meeting to order. Us the
call fur nomipativa of officers of the
Parter, Datis and Smith Cleb,. for

which the meeting was especially called, |

the following gentlemen “were: put in
somigeation and unsalmously elected = 5.
Presidest, &.J..R.. Holloway; ¥V

pe Janer Walter ‘lanty pie
Mereing—1t Required Five Mreag Moa
‘Te Pet Bim fa tcone—Attempied To

Beaty 3. Hagdy, colored, the ‘con.
victed murderer of hie wife, caused a
great commotion le jail Nooday morn-
lng by assaulting Deputy-Sberif Freak
Waller. Whea the Depaty went. to!

|Handy'e cell he auticed that the pegro,

was laa surly mood. When the Depety }
entered the cell and told Handy to haad
him the water bucket, Hanily grabbed
the bucket in ose band and ‘@ large
earthen ware cup in the other aed made
for the Deputy. He buried the cup at
Mr. Waller's head, which fortunately
miseed bim, and was smashed into fragy

$1 PER R YEAR

CPWoRTH. LAGE LEAGUE. MEETING. MEETING,

SALISBURY DISTRICT: CORYERTION
_ SESSOR AT ASBURY.

tiers Than A Mecéved peisntes Ave In
_Altendence—Severas Noted Mintetere

. WHE Address The Copvestion, Watch
-- WIM Coatings Tue Days -Pieacant Re-,

Neck: thin 100 delegates re ie rr
feadance at the convention of the Batie-
ary Dictries Epworth Leagae, ju seo-
iplos at ‘Asbory Chureb; Salisbury.” The
delegates began to arrive Tuesday morn-
ing aad were welcomed by the teeeptio
committee and aagigned to humes, ©

The vessiog opened at 3 uw'elock Tues-
day afternoon, when Mr. Elmer H. Wi
toa delivered the ‘addrese of welcome.
This was responded to by’ Rev. G, ec
Wiltiams, | The snacanecement of com-
mittes’ completed the afternvon session
Tuesday evening a very large con grega-

formation of oer readers we have com- residents, -& R. Lohner, James Lay-
lbed the fotlowtag figures showing the} acta, Wa. C. Morris, Willard Campbell,
oe erence: £} Jobe Hammond, Thomas Hadsen; Rich-

é ad Farlow; Z. K. Bveew, B.-0, Bates,

mente by its contact against the wall. | tlon fitened tu an address by Rev. Dua.
Mr. Waller quickly drew his pistel aad |S. Colt, D. D., of Baltimore. At the toss
began firing at the fluor, in order to! clusion of the address ihe: Gelegates
frighten the tnfariated negro, Mr: Wal- | ‘eft tendered a reception in the Assomt
ler thee lef. the cell and’ sammond | bly Rooms of thé High School. Refresh: z
| Sherif Gills, Policemes Disharoos nad | #eGts were served and a fise musical
Crouch and Mr. Lecuard Higgins. The Proctne rendered. © :
five entered Handy's coll and it required | | Wedecedsy morning 1
their eatire power to sabdue the negre| Opened al 9 o'clock with love feast, coa-
and put him in froas, la the scuie| ducted by Rev. R. T. Coursey. Reports
Randy attempted to enatch the revolver roe or manu read, ee
roon’s and: show League a fouries :
trom Policeman Disharoon’s pocket, Sohaise al rer sha ee

2 ; asm
Nov $/Quantioo—45 added, 91 erased:{ next thing In order, Secretary Gillie
white: ere : added. aad 14 oo ae busy. fer more shan half aa
2 18 ioclored {were eddeg ond 7/ hour taking down the fecrg oeret
x become members. en
its = erases 141 bamee appeared on the |< {AHI read 8 paper, the tople of which
s ‘oad: 49| roll, making the largest enrollment for| Handy will be kept fe eas. ‘nati the
a 18 white were added and. 81 | the first night of aay club tm the county. date eet for his execution by the Gov-
ased ; 97. ovlored | “were added and 16}. The Club was nest favored with abort | ernor, His attitude bas changed greatly
1 white and addresses by G. W. D. Waller, R@.|slsce the death: sentence was passed
» | Reberteon, C. E. Harper, A. RB. Lobacr
’ Pitteberg—61_ ‘added and ee and éthers, touching briefly om the ie-
BE white were added and 54| sues of the compaigg. After the apesk- | da
‘were added and 6 tog the members were treated to cigare
z by Coanty Commissioner’ Emory. L.
Disharovs, one of the: bustling Abad

be instalted Iu tne town the proppaition |

|] Was voted down by pe eee Mowbray, D: D; of “rlstagian ‘wil
: < deliver an pce ble subject wig
€ a gleot ite ond 5 eptered. - =

; feed # on eatheslastic mase meetin Thereday

meaning thal the seatisent of the peo-
ple is agniast this much: seeded protec-
tlou, as 6 is conceded iby all thet 0 eys-|

eded over Of °F, Joshua Terner, and tem should be installed, Teaealy differ-|.

of 5 | tuq speakers were Mr,
Of thé House of Delegates J. Cleveland
a White, aad Col. Lemuel Malone. It was
Spur. -Jaqheon's fist appearance before a
Sellebdury &

Yon entirely and ihe other. wes
mit the mayor aad elty cosseil ¢

| for 6 water supply aad the melotevsnce creche wr
| 0€ @ water supply either with private of | Bis sesond wife, whu
| peeteresieks

meting wil} be held Thervfey aveslag
ae ead ca fall

=

( * me 7." .
few days after the big Are it epee te of Goss san aN ry

i. dp olepoergre tena nye . :
S-i letare, when it le confidently e Gtovenatille, Kooi sousiy
‘| beat another bill will be passed bade for lnteruiens,

Vice President, J. E. Nelece ; Beerotary|teg. ‘The
tad Wie. Meany ‘Trescarer; Wi A. Riggia ; ioe
ae is a. Benio ot nd ‘ eB


: Gaow Piaxs Lear
Sense ase, —— 5 is
rene 2 Goverser Warheld on Pridey took wp
a eset eos ore

ereemy
Suday.

acest of Heary J. Hasdy, colored, sori te

Sica of the aria eat ops Banat opie wy attRons cathe wey

7 igh la, at the September Term of the Cir- | in the Masnal Tralging Department for} porting, LC

Harry C. Fooks . Plott Deurt tor, Wieomico county, at ‘paxt year. The. work of this extrs tench. | will - be @ celebration of the < eryssh [en eee ease ie
SOLE AGENT.» os will be to instruct im physical caliaie Lherary Bociety of the school with the | towards your Company, ’
WHITE STAR COFFEE.. sre is : sod esla ts Wepeliennr eh following programme: © Addrees © by | ranta, but fa the public t
bak 3 cf : te Gace Lanner and ascieg the principal in, Fresident, Mls Alle Hu"; Orstor, shat tome of ; the: efate :

Clarence P. Lankford and James tacbel testning tnt Snrog ta tases

Jets helae to bere wo eey. tron re pede tre

‘the gallows. They took the cise-to the | c

Coon of Appeals om exceptions to the

Court bétow, but the higher Court sus

talne® the the Court below. Then Has-

dy'a counsa) sought a seprieve, but Gov. |

pwranteld Squad polbing se: malreet. is is

me 3
2

Hi
ity

1A

the good people would spare my lile,
‘aud let-me serve out s life sentence ip
‘the Penitentiary. lam véry sorry for}...
{the deed. 1 was uader great atrala oe | -
account of the action of le, -
Jot my anger got thé Getter tae. 1
still hope the good people will do some-
thing fot a, ond ovate m2 iife.

SAMUBL 4. GRANAM, Cashier,


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«(thet be weet te ibe boese sad found the

chil, aed af the enme time found come
letters im bie wife's treak which were
writtes by escther colored man; that
Baady took the child, clothing and let-
tere aad reterpes to his boat, which was
at Roarieg Polat wharf; tbat the nest
dey (Thursday) the boat was sailed

_ dows the river about oe mile. sad anchor-

ed; thet Hasdy was observed to be ery-
ing savera) times during the day ; that
@a Friday be remarked te those on
board thas be was sorry be had pot kill-
ed bie wife Wednesday aight, and that
be intended doing 1 that day (Friday);
that be went into the cabin asd pro-
ecureé_e gua, cleaned it, inserted « sheil,
Bred it, to nce if the gun wee in working
order, and thea reloaded it; that be
weighe:! anchor, gt the boat usder way,
sailed to Rosring Puint wherf, and tak-
lag the gue end severns) juaded shelis,
“started te the place where bis wife was
meyleg; that be did mot beed the ad-
mosition of those op buard Bot to kill
bie wife, but proceeded to ihe field
where ske wes working and cuggm'tied
the swfa!l crime, ia the manner stated
above. Thie chalo of incriminating evi-
dence was eklifally woven, liak by link,
by the prosecutivn, and judging from
the verdict, left no doobt apes the
minds of the jary that the crime was
planned severe] days before its exece-
Uoe and that Handy deliberately took
the life of bis wife.
, Beidence Fer The Defence.

‘the defense seaght in several ia-
Maances to shake the testimony of the
prosecuting witnesses and to coafuse
them as to tbe distaoce of Handy from
bie wife when the shot was fired, and
to the words which took place between
them ia the field. The defense also pro-
duced letters alleged to heve been writ-
tea by vee Bob Thomas, of Crisheld, to
the wife of Handy, and attempted to
prove that theee hed so euraged the
busband that he commitied the deed
while ja a fit of anger; that bie bome
bad been wrecked asd bie bappinces
detroyed by. secther mas, and was
thetefore fa such a mestal condition at
the time of the deed that he should not
bave inflicted upon him the death pen-
alty. No effort was made by the defeace
to justify Handy ia committing the
crime, their eforts being directed solely
to securing a verdict of murder in the
secoad. degree, or maasiaughter. It is
stated that the case will likely be carried
to the court of Appeals by the lawyers
for the defense on objections noted dur

of the tris] on the ral-
of the lower court.

be testimony prodeced at the trial

showed buw totally indifferent were the
negro witnesses to the terrible travedy
which was enacted lu their very pres-
ence. It was proveo by siz or scven
men aod women, (ove of the mea being
the victim's coesin) that they sever
raised their voice in protective of the
jone woman, and did vot utter a word
to the brutal busbead while be was
rte Fa to bis tutended victim with

a. Aad whea he told bis
wife to Pat dowe them tops, you'll
never tie another buoch ia this world!"
and raised his gua to bis shoulder to
slay the partner of his busom, not ope
of tbe cowardly negroes offered a word
ian defense of the woman who stood
there to receive the fatal shot which
seat her soul into eternity. Such tn-
difference and utter disre, of human
Hfe te hardly credible s elvilized
community; and yet the winenees testl-

fied to it ia a matter ot fact way, hee.
it wae was nove of nee business

braid aed maline, showing & oft sheered
baad of cnice shade ribdos, the trim-
ming of which covsisted of a pair uf
wings shading from oelcs te a brown,
caught with 5 beckic
Ove haf that etiracted special enten-
thon wee a large browe velvet model
with @ gracefal Sere and artistically
trimmed with a simple wreath of brows
roses showing centers of the popalar
eslor, coqee-de-ruche.
One of the prettioss misses bate was 8
terracotta beaver trimmed with a loag
shaded coqee plume ead liberty satia
ridboa of the same shede.

fh Ke wre al,
As asaal the display at Loweathal's
was very attractive sod elicited favur-
able comments from the great throngs
of lady visitors, The shuw wiedowe
Were very prettily decorated with pat-
term bets and the verious shades of
Sowers and ribboos fur trimming hate
The millinery pariue ia the rear pre-
sented as enusually bandsome appear-
aace, tke decuratives beiag in the see-
eva's preva:iing shedes. Oa the tabies
and in the giaes cases were displayed
sumerous patiorn hats. To atiempt o
discription of all of them wvuaeld fille
colams ut gure of our spece, co we will
bave tw be content with a few of the
prettiest ones.

A bat which atiracted moch alteativa
was ea handsome Gsinsboroagh ia bruwa
veivet, with abirred facing of taffeta
asd a Jarge champagne culored estrich
plume.

Another was a large black picture bat
iu velvet and malioe, with black ostrich
tipe and maline ties.

A lavender beaver, with soft silk
sheared scarf of shaded parpie oo purple
cord, was shown. This hat was faished
off with a knot aod steamer of the same
material, sed bad « bandeau trimmieg
of three-quarter plumes.

While the jarge bats were much in
evidence, there was also « plenteoes
array of hats in smaller styles to suit the
tates of those whe do not go is for desb-
ing effects.

Mre. G. W. Tayler.

The fall opening at Mre. Taylor's was
@ success in every particular. Visitors
found a display of pattern hats, which
met their highest expectations. One
glance et the display of bats was saff-
cient to show that the prevailieg mode
this fall will be the hat with the big
brim. No limit bes beea reached in the
size of the brim, and it seems that this

DONT CET LEFT 0

IN THE COLD-COME KOW

Doa't think yor will be sare ta come down here temorro# oF
some other da =— take a wok at the Great Boe Bargsive Fe
are now off aed then keep putting it off until it’s too late.
Deoa’t. wait ansaber day, The stock is going like lightning We
mean business. Every shoe must be sold if the price can sell it.

Don’t Think The Best Is Gone
Shoes Are Here For Everybody

There are still thoesaads of bargains in every style of footwear
for Mea, Women asd Children aod every shoe bar a = menrcy-
savie We're selling both old and sew stock. We're getting
te all the newest things of the season, and selling thew ,at
seck prices that you cam afford to bey as well as lovk at them.

This Ad Is Intended As
Note Of Warning

Not only to the pablic bet to other dealers who have been profit.
feg dy this store being closed. The era of bigh prices and
exorditant profits have ceased. We're in the shoe business to
eve yoo better valuee for your money tbat ever befure. If you
o get lef% oat in the cold it woa't be oor fauli\—will te?

Salisbury Shoe Company

Successor to R. LEE WALLER & COMPANY
A. LEE WALLEA. + . . MANAGEA

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wae we
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re or re

year the designers of the fashionable
uiillinery effects have soug bt to Increase
the width to an appreciable exteat.

every visitur and held it was e "Mother
Gooee" model. I, was a large pictore bat
of two shades of gray velvet, preily
sheared with a plume of similar ebades
coming beck from either side aed form-
ing @ grace trimming on the brim. The
whole effect was finished off with grna-
ments of gan metal.

Another hat that attracted a great dea!
of attention was a “sunflower” hat. This
was also a large bat, with a brown vei-
vet brim and s crows formed from three

roestier. Thecrown had brows roses
mounted on the side to make a graceful
Banish and to heep ap the color tone. 7
There was alen « fall tive of untrim-
med hate of almost every design and
shape and & corps of competest milliners
on hand to trim the shapes to suit.
: ee ee @

A GUARANTERD CURR FOR PILxs.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrediag
Piles. Draggists refand moacy if Pase
Oiatinent falls to cure aay case, 20 mal-
tet of how long standing, in 6to 14 days.
First application gives ease and rest. 50/ orber
coats. If your druggist hasn't it, send
G0c. ip stamps and it wil] be forwarded

oa.

The bat that caoght the stteation of |

ERE mest be something SPECIAL ebowta Business and Shorthand

S<noot that nes 110 GRADUATES wits a firm ta its own city, 35
with @ firm ia Prileéelpaia, end which receives stadeats from ten
States and the West ladies 4

STUDENTS ATTEND FROM GEORGIA TO NEW YORK

AN EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT FOR GRAOUATES

YOU WILL BE INTERESTED tn peading our new 64 pege Iustrated
catalogue—it tells how we traineour stadents for “BUSINESS
SUCCESS."* Write for this book te-day--!t is free. Address; GOLOTY
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, Wilmington, Del,

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imported and
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i Successor to Fos-

BAKE

Salisbury, -

A Fine Aseorta
Fancy Cakes
Bread, F

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esive proaape atrention.

Satisfaction G
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shades of corded ribbon in the form of}

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uss remember that Hall’ a Hate Rea Risewer

be without a any onsit
falling hair, and makes hair

Hotels,
Serveying sod Ceaveysecing

postpaid by Parte Medicine pempesy; }
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WICOMICO NE

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SALISBURY, MD., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1904,

$1 PER YEAR

ecial Sale.

Se

ad Bays Cathing,

‘eBt cule marted down below
| Sate of Meo) Bairts te aii

5) 2 ebire ot TS om. TS ccs |

+80 ate, shirts ot Bern Mme

TWO MEN BADL

ARE SHOT WILLE PROTECTING ee WIRE MAL MARID Te Scnoot | BUT PLANTIT MAD SUED ree

PRIVATE CLAM BEDS.

; Cavats 4 Man Stealing Clame And De-’
maeaded Bie Sarreeder_Me Mefacsed
Aod Veed Hic Winchester Repesting
Rige—Mne Of The Mon is Dangoreousty

Nabet wright paste frou £1.99 to |

Mtoe 4 ereet caving os |

EY WHITELY,

Md: The facts in the cease, as far as we can |

Ntosraphs.

we manga

SPECIALTY OF

(es° & onnorana
DTOORAPHS.

FRAMED TO ORDER.

lomag and Goishing for
‘ographers.

Smith =

nie F. Colley
Banana

ND CAREFUL ATTEN-
6 TO ALL DEN-
TAL WORK.

FARE
SURANGE.

orl. esveance —
vy mevecs.

SEPORE NEUAINS
asswuerd.

PHONE 123.

& Waller,

Ang Wale 31.
Ry MB.

E

Mr. Turser Disharoon,a well kaowa
}eitizen of Stockton, Worcester county,

was broaght to the Pealosals General
| Hospital om the midnight tralia Sanday,
| badly wounded by a bullet froma Wia-
chester. rifle, aad the surgeons are ap-
parent ve as to hie recovery

| }eare them, ere: Banday night abvut &
a’clock, Turner Dieharevos and bis
| brother Beajamia discovered ‘a man
stealing clams from their bede in Sine-
purseat Bay. They went down to the
Water's edge and demanded that the
‘man surrender, Turser Disharoon car-
a abot guo,and thinking he would
frightes the man into surrendering shit
She gun in the sir. The man refused ta
echesice rifle bla away at both mes,
wounding them. Tu Disbaroce was
shot in the left groin, the bullet splinter-
ing the upper part of the bip bone, and
cutting several arteries. Benjamis Dish-
aroon received a flesh wound in the left
leg, which is sot dangerous. Turner
Disbaroon suffered the Joss of a great
deal of blood and was in a very weak
condition when be reached the Salisbury
Hospital.

It is alleged that the shooting was
done by George Hudsvn, as he is said to
bave been suspecte:! for a long time
of stealing oysters and clame from the
beds in Btaepurent Bay. After shooting
the men he walked cooly away, leaving
them where they fell. Huadsoa was ar-
rested Monday and judged in Snow Hill
jail.

The wounded men are sons of Levin
Dieharovn of Worcester, and cousins of
Messrs Charles K. and Emory Disba-
toua, of Salisbury.

LOCAL GAME AND FISH LAWS...

Open Season Hoe Kiting Signe (of Vartous
Kinde Ie Wieemles County.

We jocelved this week from Col. Jobu

ly printed booklet, giving al) ibe gome
laws of this Mtate op to date, arranged
in convenivot form for quick reference.
| The booklet contains 160 pages, stiungly
bound, with flexible back. As we have
recently had several requests from our
suleciibers ta peblish the local game
laws of W lcumicu, we do so delow,
showing the open season for shooting
H geme aad catching fish :

Squirrel may be killed from September
1 to February J5; rabbit, from November
15 to January 15; quail, from November
15 to January 15; groase, from Nevent-
ber 1010 February 1; rail, September 1
to November 1; woodcock, from June 15
to February 1; plover, from November
15 to January 15; ducks, from November
1 to April 10. 4

Under the provisions of the State
laws, the selling of quall or partridge
outside of Wicemico county |e subject
so a penalty of $5 to $35. No penalty is
attecbed to the export of other game.

Arrests for viciation of the game aad
fish laws may be made by any of the
Deputy Game Wardens without a war-
rant, aod they may take the offender
before any Justice of the Peace for trial.
It io unlawfal for noa-residente of thie

State to catch fish in any manper ie th

surrender and grabbing up bis Win-|

W. Avirett, State Game Warden, a peat- |,

TEACHERS LAST SATURDAY.
a. a Sa a a:

First Time That Wicemtce Teachers Have |
Beee Paid Befere End Of Torw—Treae
aree Bounds Hepes To Make Moeithly
Payment Of Salaries Ie The Hear Fe-
tere—Other Beheel lteme.

Treasurer Bouads, of the Wicomico!
County School Board, who receatly te.
augurated the plan of advasce payments |
on teachers’ salaries, mailed out checks;
Saturday aggregatiog nearly 2,500.00 |
ow the fal] term salaries. Tnie te the,
first time im the bletory of Wicomico

—

TWEATY

j

TROUSARD DOLLARS.

The Sait Of fnptieantia' % deuce Against |
Hite Brother Cowciaded— 4 ssyrta Rringe
Counter Sart Against His Brother Ren-
jomta—The Damage Salt Agniast fnew

| MIM Destded Ia Paver Of Towa

t . H
| The slander suit of Besjamin & Joace
| re. Assyria L. Jones, which accapied
two daya lest week, wae coacieded

Wedneeday night aad went to the jery

aboet eleven o'clock. A verdict was

reached aboat tbree o'clock Thereday
morning, ia favor of the plaiati®, for

BADLY WOUNDED ADVANCE _ PAYMENTS MADE! ‘VERDICT FOR ONE DOLLAR. |wry, HEARS WIS DOOM!

Tm DEATH SERTERG PROROUACED BY
Wot uere.

eee Crewe Of tenia iy te The Court
Mecm Were Visitty AG@veted Ry The
Retemn Werds Of The Sadge- Mardy
Bevetved Mts So Witheot Dto-
paytag Mock Emotion ;

For the firet time ia the history of Wico-
mivo coenty the death sentence was
prosvueeced in our Temple of Jestice,
Pridey afternvca. Ia the presence of a
large crowd of solemn epectators, Hoary
J. Handy, colored, was brought into the
coer room to bear bie doum for the

county that the seboo! teachers bave re- $1.00 and cvets. This case was removed | murder of bie wife

ceived their salaries befure the cluce of)
each term. The prompt respuase by the!
teachers to the circular sent out by

Treasurer Bounds, stating that he ia-.

tended to inaugurate the new system. :

shows that they appreciate bis efforts,
Treasurer Bounds stated to a News

represestative Saturday thet be hoped!

to coatinue the aivance payments all:

through the school year, making, if
possible, two. paymeate each term, aad
eventually to pay salarice monthly. “The
teachers,” be said, “are entitled to their

pay moothly, and should have it. To!
pey them movibly will entail a great {

deal more work on this office, and I am
afraid that I cannot Bad the time to pat
into execution my plan of moathly pey-
mente without some clerical help. Bat
\eachers may rest assured that if it can
be done, and the faances will permit,
the pew plas wil) eventually be put ia
execution.”

Treasurer Bounds’ plan for the present
school year is to pay the teachers’ salar-
tes as follows: Fall Term—part payment
October 15, remainder Deceember 1:
Term ends November 15. Winter Term
—part payment January 15, remainder
February 15; Term ends January $1.
Spring Term—part payment March 15,
remainder May 1; term ends April 15.
Summer Term—June 15 ; term ends May
31.

4 damages for $1,000 by reason of injuries

frum Worcester county. [i wasae active
broaght by Beajamia 3. Jones against
his brother Assyria L. Jones, for siae-
der, the plaintiff? claiming damages for
$20,000. Much of the evideace produced
jet the trial will aot bear printieg is
ithese columas. It was shows that the
brothers bed freqacatly called each
other thieves aod liars aad used the
| Vilest Oaths in addressing one anuther.
Bes. claimed that Assyria hed robbed
him ow bis (Bee's) farm for years, aud
Acsyria retaliated by calling Ben a thief.
Ben, who wae a commission merchant
in New York, claimed that Assyria’s
talk bad caused many of his (Bea's)
shippers to stop Coasigning their fama
produce to bim, and fur conseqeent loss
of business he brought suit for the large
amount samed above. Bat the testimony
presented was not safficiest to coariace
the jury that the plaiati® was burt
Guancially by bis brother's slanderoces
talk and assewwsed the damages at the
pomine! sum of one dollar. Melvin aad
Handy were attorneys for the plaintiff ;
Robley D. Joaee and Toadvia & Bell
for the defeadaat.

Tharedsy morning another removed
case from Worcester was takea up for
trial. This was an action brought
against the Mayor and Council of Snow
Hill by Chas. W Henman, who claimed

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ay Farmers nnd Merchants Rew neektag Rees, Saltebery. ‘

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At

@ meeting of the Hebool Board,

Mandiag before the Judges, Heady
was sehed if be bed anything lo say
why the sentence of death should aot be
promvusaced against him? For several
seconds the prisoner was sileat, and
thee in low tones wae heard to utier;
“Lam sorry that I billed ber™ There
was bat little emution ta hie vaice, sad
bie face cid not ind mock

of cusectence at having committed ibe
terrible crime, Haady was meca onoler ~
than many of the spectators, for sighs
were beard ia the greet crowd, and evea
the jedge who pronceeced the seatcace
was visibly effected, and once of twice
almost broke dows.

Jedge Lioyd tmpoced the sentence of
death upon Hasdy. Ie asclema and
impressive manner Judge Lieyd tok! the
prisoner that he had been ably defended,
asd thet from ibe temtimony produced
@t the trial the murder wae cooly plaa-
ned aad deliberately executed, and that _
the jery hed brought tm a jest verdict,
He wished he could escape the axplese-
ant daty of pronouncing the dreadfel
seatence, bet the prieuner havieg had o
fair and impartial trial and bees cne-
viected of murder in the Gret degree, he
bed wo other atternative Ie 0 voles
quivering wih emotice, Jedge Liosd
besought the condemend maa to make
his peace with God, that be might be

tribenal where the secretanf mou's heatte —

are revealed, and where unerring jesice

is meeted oat to all alike ES

With the dreadfel words paging ta ©

bis care: “Yuu shall bacg until you are |

@eed, dead, dead! Heary Haady thos Fe
led from the coert room beck to the |

jeil, where he will remais seder tbe

waichtul eyes of his keeper uatil the

aor.

foe

ES Sth

DUMORATS, LOGK OUT re mk

he ee decteas whe fatlowing tm
quiry relative to a certain A. Veet
who clalme 6 be a citizen af Bal:

“Wil yoo plesia git ma bona tele
mation o¢ te the politics of a Mr. A:
Pragg, who come to my hoase Friday”
fest, representing bimeeif te be a gued
Democrat, bet who was perniotentia bie
efforts to persuade me ta vote for ten =
Hoo, Wa. H. Jackoal™ §— 5

We bave made sume inquiries gout:
hn cobeetabl Preah: kad abd ek’! r
a perty of thal same moved Into (bis
community about e“yeer age, sed thet
he claime to be a Democrat. Remorse —
are rife, bowerer,that be be really riding

alleged to beve bees sustalacd by bim-

er eins ty pdrennndsia

prepared to stand befere thet greet

doe oat Ue ble oneeatien ty the Gover. ge

HOWARD, James Irving, black, hanged at Maryland State Prison (Ann Arundel), 7-9-1937,

"Paltimore, April 1, 1937-A killer dragged Mrs, Mary Gunther, 55-years-old, mother of 9
children, from her athomobile and left her dead today in a wooded spot a short distance
from her home, Two negroes, heavily guarded against mob attacks, were questioned in
connection with the killing, A little later, an emergency police car rushed one, a 22=
year-old man, to a Baltimore jail under a guard of 6 officers, Just before the suspect,
Irving Howard, was taken to the Baltimore jail, Miss Elizabeth Gunther identified him as a
negro she saw lurking by the roadside as she and her mother drove her father to work
early in the morning, ‘That's him,'! she screamed and fainted, Police said later

stained clothing belonging to Howard had been submitted to the federal bureau of in-
vestigation for analysis, They said they also had found in his pocket a knife with a
stained blade, The negro denied any knowledge of the crime, Mrs, Gunther was discov-
ered beaten, slashed and gagged, shortly after she drove her husband, Herman, to his

work as a master shipwright at the Curtis Bay Coast Guard depot, Her son, William, 28,
going over to his parents' home to borrow their automobile, came upon the cary one wheel
in a ditch, in a narrow lane leading to the Gunther farm, Alarmed, he began a search and
found his mother's body in a clump of scrub pines, Her throat was gashed, her body
scratched and her clothes were torn, A workman's cheap ghove had been stuffed in her
mouth as a rough gag. Her pocketbook, which had contained 420 was found a few feet

away, empty." TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, La,, April 2, 1937 (6/1,)

ensuing dawn of day she wonld herself be lyin
a mangled and mutilated corpye, Much was the
melancholy fact, as the sequel proved.

The events of that night and the two sue.
ceeding days are wrapped in impenetrable dark
neas, no withess being left but Gud and the mur
derer, that can fully describe them. But such a
scene as we are lelt to imagine we will endeavor
lo narrate,

On Saturday morning, the 28th of September,
1839, Mrs. Rachel Abel, the wife of Mr Geo.
Abel, came'to the house to see her sister-in law,
and so soon as she entered the door she was sur-
prised to see Hellman lying in bed in the tront
room, with his head, face and clothing covered
with blood. With an exclamation of wonder
she asked him what was the matter. He replied,
affecting to be scarcely able to speak from weak-
ness and loss of blood, that two nights previous,
at a late hour, a loud rap had summoned him to
the door; on opening it, two robbers had entered,
ove a large dark man, (meaning a negro) anda
small white man, when he bad immediately been
levelled to the floor with a heavy club. Howhe
had got into bed he said he could not tell, but that,
he had been laying there suffering ever since, una-
ble to get out. On hearing this story, and from his.
bloody appearance and apparent faintoess, not
doubting rt, Mra, Abel Hod prise “Where, in
the name of God, is your wife”; to which he re-
plied, ‘I do not know, go and see.” On pusn-
ing opep the back room door, a scene of blood
met her view that it would be impossible fully
to describe. In the centre of the room ley the
mangled corse of the poor wife, witb her blood
drenching the floor, whilst the ceiling, walls and
furniture were also heavily sprinkled with the
streams which had evidently gushed from the
numerous wounds she had received in the dread-
ful struggle. : :
| Mrs.-Abel immediately left the house, anid
proceeded with all despatch to the house of
Gen. John Abel, which was but ashort distance
off, and on relating to him the story of Hellman
and the condition of his’ sister, he immediately
ee her to have been murdered by her
husband. Charging her as well as his own
wife and family not to goto the house again,
until some of the neighbors had ente » he
proceeded to make the fact known, and ina
short time a large number had assembled, In
answer to their inquiries Hellman told the
some story, and with faint voice, and apparent
anguish, pointed to the bloody and a arently
mutilated condition vf his head, ati laying
Oeaiers in his own bed. The condition of the
nouse also bore: evidence of having been ran-
sacked by robbers, everything having been
emptied out of the drawers and ‘chests and
thrown .in confusion on the floor. His story
being credited by the neighbors he was asked
where he had left his money, and on looking at
the designated place. it was found to be gone.—
A small amount of money, $16 60, belongin
to Henry, which had been deposited in the heft
of his chest, -had also been abstracted. The
reader can doubtless imagine the scene, and the
conmnisseratiun of the neighbors for the unfortu-
nate victims of the robber and the miduight as-
Sassin, “’

°

of the attack, wholly une WeCTOUSs CT Any Ua pen Tt
sevil, ‘Phe staine ou the pillow iuiddieewterd
that she had partially risen up alter the first
tlow, and had been again knocked back oa the
ved. ‘The soles of ber feet were saturated in
nlood, whieh led to the belief that she had man-
aged to get out of bed, and had stood erect in
ner own blood onthe floor before she was finally
despatched, Six distinet cuts, apparently wns
Sicted with the handle of an axe, were discov:
ered on her head. The hands and arms were
dreadfully bruised, as if she had, in the same
wanner as hissecond victim, endeavored thus tu
ward off the blows aimed at her head, winalst the
isttle finger of the left hand, and the fore’finger
wi the right hand were both broken. A large
wash, laying open the flesh to the’bone, was Visi-
tle on the right thigh, apparently inflicted with
an axe, and across the whole length of the ab-
domen there extended a heavy bruise, in the
shape of a letter X, in the centre of which was
a large mark of bruised blood, at least six inches
square, An attempt had been made with the
axe to sever the head trom the body, and three
separate gashes, passing nearly through the
neck, ‘the edge of the blade entering the floor,
appeared to have been the finishing stroke of the
dloody deed :

The fact of hishaving hewn up and dissected
the bidy of Malinda Horn, can no longer, there-
fore, be considered a matter of wonder. It was
only the second act of the bloody drama, and
well did he understand his part. “The man who
nad passed, without being conscience stricken,
tbrough such a scene of blood as that we have
yust described, was doublicss capable for any
emergency, and he probably disposed of his
second subject with the same ease of mind that.
j« butcher would quarter a calf. :
After he had been some time in prison he con-
sessed that he had hidden bis money himsell,
and that it was in a-tin cup bebind two bricks
ym the Sreast of the chimney. A search was
Phere made and moncy to the amount of $176,24
-n gold, silver, and bank uotes, were found,:
with promisory notes to the amount of $833,

praking in all $1014.24. There was also in the

cup two certificates tor sections of land in Mer

‘er county, Ohio. The money belonging to his
son Henry, which bad been taken out of the
chest, was found stuck into a crack on the jamb
of the chimney.. His acknowledgment of the
koncealment of the money was of course looked
masa full confession of guilt. He, of course
ubtained possession of it, and it is thought found
some means of transmitting it tu a friend in this
city, from whose hands he alterwards again ob-
tained possession of it. His farm in Starke coun-
ty, having three dwellings on it, and considered
to be a very valual le piece of property he decd-
+d to his son Herry during h:s continement,
which is, in fact, the ouly worthy act with re-
gard to the man, that has yet come under our,
stotiee.

A few months after his arrest a true bill was
‘ound against_bim by the ‘grand jury of Starke
county, and he was brought out for arraignment
tefore the Court of Cummon Pleas, and there
made known his determination, as he had right
‘o do, to be tried belure the Supreme Court.—

At this moment Gen. Abel entered, and
shortly after him a coroner+and a physician.
Twelve men were immediately selected as ‘a
jury of 1 hae? to examine into the cause of ths
death of Mrs. Hellman. The jury being sworn,
and having entered on their duty, Gen. Abei
openly charged Andrew Hellmen with being hee
murderer. The jury were struck with astun-

At length the term of the Supreme Court com-
mocnced, and two days before the cluse of its ses.
sion, his case was called up fortnal. Having
secured eminent counsel, they urged on the
ourt that the case would occupy more tune
than that allowed for the close of the term, and
finally succeeded in having it postponed to the
ext term, which, meeting but once a year,
caused a corresponding delay in the trial.

the peace, and exe.
Jand in Mercer eon |
thony, Ksq., one of |
Wehavo heard it |
cannot vouch for it: |
of 1841, which js: |
just mentioned was |
resident of this cit
shop on Pennsylvar |
street, where he wi |
passed by another n |
ed the name of Ada |
pearance in Baltim: |
ood of the scene of |
year 1842, and cc |
house of Wm. Poist |
the ensuing 17th da) |
married to Malinda |
by the readers of the |
irom that time up tc |

He is now awaiti: |
guilty of no other e:
stands publicly ch |
greatest criminal th:
country. Few men |
nity to enjoy the bl |
worthy of its blessin |
disregarded them.
him in possession of |
surrounded by a fam |
‘would have been p: ;
ear to the whisper:n
to the golden idol ¢ |
the teachings of thi |
from his lips the |

ishment as they looked at Hellman, lying pros-
trate in his bad and demanded of the accuser
what evidence he had to. substantiate such a
charge. The afflicted brother, in reply, stated
that he unfortunately had no, evidence, but de-
sired that the physician in attendance would
examine Hellman’s wounds, The examinatson
was accordingly made, and the result was that
not a scratch, a cut, or. a bruise could be found
on any part of his person. Not only morally,
but practically was it thus established, beyond
the shadow of a doubt, that ‘her blood was on,
his head.” He had evidently taken up 9 quan.
tity of her blood and thrown it on his bead and
shoulders, in order to give credence to bis story,
which act alone, served asa positive eviderce
of his guilt. Ona search being made of the
premises, his axe was found, lean Against the
bar post, about filty yards from the use, reck-
ing with blood, and hair sufficient Sticking to it
to identify it as that of the deceased—his knile,
covered with blood, was found coocealed uu the
hearth of the chimney—his tailor socks were
found in the cellar, covered with blood—2nd the
shirt he bad on, as well as his arma, wese salura
ted with blood up totheelbow. There was,

therefore, nothing wanting to identify him, fully
and conclusively, as the murderer, and he was

forthwith committed for. trial, and the remains

of bis victim, having Jaid two days expused de =
fore discovery, were, on the evening uf the same

day, followed to the grave by a large concourse

of friends and relatives, and deposited by the

side of her two children, whom she had sorruw-

ed over but five months previous.

“From the ecndition of the body, as well as

wther marks iu the room, there remained no
doubt but that the murder had been committed
-a the most cold blooded, premeditated and ma-
Jicious manner, ‘The body was lying on the

He was accordingly remanded back to the
ail in Belfont, Logan county, Ohio, which was
« large log building, from whence, on the 13th
of November, 184U, after being contined nearly
‘ourteen months, he made his escape. Jt had
aeen the custom to keep him confined in the cells
only during the night in cold weather, allow
ing him to occupy an upper room during the day,
depending alinost entirely for his security on the
heavy iron hobbles that were kept attached to
us legs. The means whereby he escaped have
veer the subject of much controversy, and several
persons have been implicated as accomplices,
either before or alter the fact. Since his arrest
ne has positively denied having any assistance,
and states that, having got the hobble off of one
“oot, he started off in that condition, carrying
“hem in his hand. On the night of his escape
he had been left up stairs later than usual, and
‘here being no fastenings of any conseqence on
the dour, he walked off.

He was imticdiately pursued and tracked to
the house of a man named Conrad Harpole, near
hast Liberty, in Logan county, in the neighbor-
hood of which a horse, belonging to one of his
<ttorneys, was found running louse, and it was
ascertained that he had there purchased a horse,
saddle and bridle, and pursued his journey. He
was then traced to Carrollton, in Carroll coun-
ty, where he had formerly lived, passing through |
mopen day. He was here spoken to by an old
acquaintance, but made no reply. Some of his

pursuers actually arrived in Baltimore before he

did, and although the most diligent search |
was made for him, assisted by: high constable f
Mitchell, no further trace could be found of |
him. They however were under the opinion

that he was concealed in the city, and finally f

thing that was heard of him was in York, Penn-

fivur, but from the fact that a large quantity of
blood was found in the centre of the bed, i is
supposed that she was lying asleep at the time

poh

sylvania, where, on the 28th of September, |

1841, about ten months after his escape, he ap: |
peared before John A. Wilson, Esq., a justice of i

His fate and histo
others to shun those |
snevitably make a |
fead to everlasting
Since his convict) |
he has become gre: |
guidance of a spirit ,
don of an offended |
#reat desire to see h |
has written for him |
ment's delay, and he |
course of next week

ed a desire to eee h: |
EXECUTI:
{From the Hl i
This event, whi |

weeks past, as the «

ty due to the ¢om
attrocious murders

acter of humanity. |
with the law, Jat
12 Welock, meridian |
ed by not less than |
eighth of whon wei
from an early hour |
execution touk place '
and more intense, |
tength by the awlul |
to be egacted, for th |
ly violated. laws.
streets ‘leading! tow: |
sent a very uniform |
of passengers that + |
hour hundreds of |
positions, or stood
within the immense |
of the jail. The ¢ |
north-west an he of

being not less {han { |
of the top of he w:

seen from many peir

city, and the whole |
from several windo |
the hour approached |
came thronged wit! |
their avocations and

and the i of :

visiters from |the s |
hither by curipsity, 1 |
character of the ma |
mensely pall: Th |
sands, and the merc! |
.and divine, the indi |
soil of his labor ip: |
and sedentary stude

gave 4 all hope of detecting him. The next |]:

the matron, the mai |
boys and girl

selves, we asked, V

vated, is human natu
The view from the |
most interestihg kind |


H

Ab the clove of this” Conversation Mr. Laws,
| Sheriff's clerk, Mr, Wilson, Deputy Sheriff, and
| Mr, Cook, Deputy High Constable, appeared,
fyr the purpose of arraying the criminal, Hin,
‘| shroud was produced and he put it en as com:
posedly as if it had been his dally garb, assist.
ed by the officers, after which his arms were!
| pinione 4 small cord passing from ea
elbow joint, behind him, having his hands free.
This being accomplished, Rev. Mr;'Tustin took
4 the prisoner’s hand to bid him farewell, he ha-
ving called for the purpose of a few minutes
conversation with him and his son. Mr. Tus-
-tin,'on parting, said to him: “Keep your eye
steadily fixed on the cross of the Lord Jesus
| Christ, as the only 'hopewof perishing mortals,
and may God have mercy on your soul.” - The
{| reverend gentleman then shortly withdrew from
‘the cell, and returned intotown. The Rev. Mr.
|| Newman, with the prisoner, then occupied a
'] few minutes in prayer, during. which the tears
came freely from the eyes of tte unhappy man,
. The minutes now sped rapidly away, Hern
‘| entering into:spiritual converse with the priests,
and remaining standing by their side, manifest-
ing the most Wonderful fortitude, and evidently
| marvelously sustained by the consolatory hope
‘of happiness beyond the awful noon to which
the time ‘was fast hastening. :
_ Athalf-past 11, Mr. Tracey and Mr. Sollers
came into the cell and intimated to the prisoner
that the time had arrived. He instantly rose,
and preceded by the two genWemen above na-
‘med, accompanied by the priests and followed
by Mr. Bersch, Henry Hellman, his son, young
Mr, Bersch, and those in the cell present at the
time, walked out through the long line of spec-
tators extending to the gallows. -

cota and placed upon a board, when it was J hand, which seemed cold and ¢ ammy, an
stripped and inewions made in the neck and} Wished that he pelght be prepared to meet his
d st Was dikoeide God. To which he replied witha smile, ¢I
arms, the chest aud’ stomac es will try my best.” As the whole character and
fluid was then ejected Into the system, and oxy- comparative measurements will be prepared and
gen forced into the lungs. Connections were transmitted to the Phrenological Seite pub-
then effected by which the force of the battery es at New York, ina flew days, I will for-
was applied, at first to the muscles of the face, ar further comment at the present time.”
causing a contraction of the several features, as
the pole of the battery was directed to one set Of
muscles and another. Around the mouth, the
effect ef a ghastly and unnatural smile was pro-
duced; and changing the direction of the fluid |

‘ced that they would cease, in’ consequence

‘next of kin of the deceased, for burial: It isto

“ Having arrived at its foot, Messrs. Tracy and
Sollers, the two clergymen and the prisoner
ascended the steps without any pause. On the
seaffuld, a short prayer was said, farewells were
interchanged, Horn. thanking each for their

kindness, and then all retired. At exactly 22

minutes before 12 o’clock the trigger was drawn

andthe unhappy criminal launched from the
platform. He struggled for about four minutes,
when, to all appearance, he was dead.

It is. worthy of remark that from the time that

Horn appeared on the, gallows, after the first

ff murmur was over the most decorous silence was

| observed, which pervaded that entire multitude
until the awful moment..which launched him
from the scaffold. The silence wasthen’broken
by the shriek of females under the sudden shock
which such an event could scarcely fail to cause
to woman’s heart.

The execution in every particular was con-
ducted by the most marked and exemplary pro-
pnety, and invested with that solemnity and
dignity which should invariably characteiize
the infliction of this, the highest, penalty of the
law. ‘The attention’ of the warden of the jail
tothe nunierous and diversified duties devolv-
ing upon him, andthe courtesy with which
they were performed excited the warmest ap-
proval; while the. calmness, dignity and appro-
priate apparel of Mr. ‘Tracy, the’ Sheriff, who
appeared in a suit of black, wearing the swerd
as the official badge of his office, and the prompt
manner in which he executed the most unthank-
ful minutice of :the painful duties of the day, eli-
cited-universal remark in approbation, as an ex-
ainple for the future highly creditable to the im-
portant office he fills. In looking back to the
event, we think we may adopt the remark of
an intelligent: friend present,—“I’ll venture to
say that there never was an execution took place
in the United States, if in the world, marked
by so much dignity and propriety as this.”

Exactly asthe cathedral bell tolled the hour
of noon, the body was let down and examined
by Dr. Dion Downs, physician of the jail, who
pronounced it dead. It was then deposited in a
neat walnut coffin, which had been placed pre-
vious to the exeeution within the frame of the
gallows at the foot, screwed down and borne
into the huase. In the next instant the rope, by
which the execution -had been performed, was
cutinto fragments by the.crewd, anxious to se-
cure a portion of the precious relic. °
“.The coffin was eoauveyed into the room above
the guard room of the jail, where the surgeons
had made every preparation for the galvanic ex-
periments usual upon such occasions. But here
so many persons had assembled, and the conye-
nience was so restricted that but- for the
incessant and determined exertions of Mr.
Sollers and the officers present, very few
indeed would: have’ witnessed the ' proceed-

ings. The pse was removed from the

t

James Williams
to the eye a rapid action of the exterior portions |
of that organ was visible. On applying the pole
of the battery to the muscles of the shoulder,
arm and hand, a very natural action was brought
about, the corpse slowly lifting the limb and
laying gt across the stomach, the forefinger
maintamhing an apparently independent motion,
as if picking the flesh with the nail; the lower
limbs! were also made to exhibit natural action
though to a limited extent, the muscles being
contracted by the fluid, only sufficiently to pro-
duce that quick catching of the limb which a
slight puncture inflicted upon a living being
usually effects. The experiments having been
continued about half an hour it was announ-

George Rustin

Both executed at Leonardt |
on February 16th 1844

Reported in The Baltimore |
page 4 column 2

|
of the insensibility of the body.’ The company

then retired when Mr.. Poncia, proprietor of a
store in Baltimore street, between Frederick
and Gay, for the sale of plaster statuary and |
ornaments, proceeded to take a cast of the head
and face. “This being effected, the corpse was
delivered into the possession of ‘the friends and

- Execctions.—At Le
day last James Willia:
George who had been p

be interred we understand, in Toudon county,
Virginia. cr ea

The galvanic experiments were condiated by
Dr. Dunbar, assisted by Professors Kuby, and
Aiken, Dr. ‘Thomas Edmondson, and Mr. James
Green, Dr. Downs, physician of the jail, and
Drs.'G. C. M..Roberts, Handy, Miltenberger |
and Bryarly. ; ;

The Time of the Execution.—As we had Pry ge Ge ct naa Sen cee as 4
stated prior to the execution on the authority of |
Mr. Tracy, that it would take place as near the
hour of: 12 o’clock as possible, it is proper to ex- |
plain the cause of the early action in the case,
which was the result of an afterthought. The
warrant named the hour of 12 o’clock, and as.a
legal questiom might interfere if it wasnot done
by that time, it was deemed advisable to pro-’
ceed with it earlier than at first proposed, lest
any accident should throw it beyond the hour
appointed. : :

&#Some persons. to whom tickets had been
given, for admission to the jail yard, having
been so mercenary as to sell them to others, a
report prevailed to some extent that the War-
den and Sheriff were making a speculation by
the sale of tickets. We have been requested to
say that about’ 500 tickets were issued, and
these were divided equally amongst the Board
of Visiters, the Sheriff and Warden, for the ac-
commodation of friends, and were distributed to
those who first applied. Such an allegation,
however, against twg officers so meritorious in
every respect, would have never been entertain-
ed a moment by those who know them. —

.Horn Phrenologically Examined.—We sub-
join a statement of the phrenological develop-
ments of the head of Adam Horn, made by that
experienced Professor of the science, Dr. Woos-
ter, of Philadelphia, who visited the city fer the
express purpose of obtaining it, and politely fur-
nished from his own pen for publication. ‘The
examination was made a few hours prior to the
execution. *

‘Destruetiveness, amativeness, philoprogeni-
tiveness, approbativeness, secretiveness, acquisi-
tiveness, combativeness, firmness and hope, are
very large; benevolence, reverence, marvellous-
ness and conscientiousness, are moderately deve-
loped—by no means small. The perceptive or-
gansare moderate; the organs of comparison and
casuality jare® full; caution is also full—small
ideality, full imitation, moderate order, and fair
powers of calculation. His temperament is mix-
od, with the sanguine and bilieus predominant.
His stature is very short, a little over 5 feet al-

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titude, and his form blunt and wide proportioneds
He was be complaisant in his manners, was
perfectly willing to have his head examined—
remarking that once before it had been, done.
ogee questions were asked during the time, all
of which he answered with much coolness, oc-
casionally smiling.

“Just at the close of the examination,’ the
two clergymen, Rey. Mevsrs. Sanderl and Neu-
mann, came into his tell, and he fose on his feet,
took the migror in his hand, and adjusted his hair
With particular care; and as they had come to
minister to him for the last time, the hour draw- Ip
ing near for the final act, I took him by the

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removed by permission
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blood, which led to the belicf that she had man:
aged to get out of bed, and had stood erect in
ner own blood onthe floor before she was finally
despatched. Six distinct cuts, apparently in-
Sicted with the -handle of an axe, were discov-
ered on ber head. ‘lhe hands and arms Were
dreadfully bruised, as if she had, in the same
wanner as hissecond victim, endeavored thus tu

wd off the blows aimed at her head, wiualst the

‘le finger of the left hand, and the fore’finger

the right hand were both broken. A large
‘Jxash, laying open the flesh to the bune, was visi-
ole on the right thigh, apparently inflicted with
<n axe, and across the whole length of the ab-
domen there extended a heavy bruise, in the
shape of a letter X, in the centre of which was
a large mark of bruised blood, at least six inches
square. An attempt had been made with thc
«xe to sever the head trom the body, and three
separate gashes, passing nearly through the
neck, ‘the edge of the blade catering the floor,
appeared to have been the finishing stroke of the
dloody deed :

The fact of hishaving hewn up and dissected
the body of Malinda Horn, can no longer, there-
fore, be considered a matter of wonder. It was
only the second act of the bloody drama, and
well did he understand his part. "The man who
vad passed, without being conscience stricken,
tbrough such a scene of blood as that we have
just described, was doubttess capable for any
fomergeney, and he. probably disposed of his
second subject with the same ease of mind that
ja butcher would quarter a calf. é
After he had been some. time in prison he con.
sessed that he had hidden bas money himselt,
and that it was in a tan cup hehind two bricks
va the Sreast of the chimney. A search was
Phere made and money to the amount. of $176,24
-n gold, silver, and bank nutes, were found.
with promisory notes to the amount of $333,
making in all §1014,24. There was also in the
cup two certificates for sections of land in Mer
‘er county, Ohiv. The money belonging to his
son Henry, which bad been taken out of the
chest, was found stuck into a crack on the jamb
#f the chimney.. His acknowledgment of the
uncealment of the money was of course looked
masa full confession of guilt. He, of course
obtained possession of it, and it is thought found
some means of transmitting it tu a friend in this
city, trom whose hands he alterwards again ob-
tained possession of it. His farm in Starke coun-
ty, having three dwellings on it, and considered
to be a very valual le piece of property he decd-
ed to his son Herry during his confinement,
h is, in fact, the ouly worthy act with re-
to the man, that has yet come under our,
e.

A few months after bis arrest a true bill was
tuund against bim by the ‘grand jury of Starke
county, and he was brought out for arraigninent
| sefore the Court of Common Pleas, and there
nade known his determination, as he had right

| |'o-do, to be tried befure the Supreme Court.—
| |Atlength the term of the Supreme Court com-

macnced, and two days before the close of its ses.
sion, his case was called up for tral. Having
secured eminent counsel, they urged on the

' | ourt that the case would occupy more tune

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than that allowed for the close of the term, and
finally succeeded in having it postponed to the
sext term, which, meeting but once a year,
caused a corresponding delay in the trial.

The stains on the pillow indicated
that she had partially risen up after the first
viow, and had been again knocked back on the We have heard it pdsitively stated, though we
ied. The soles of her feet were saturated in cannot vouch for its correctness, that in the fall

> or acres 0
Jand in Mercer county, in favor of Charles An.
thony, Esq., one of his attorneys,

of 1841, which is about the time that the deed
just mentioned was executed at York, he was a
resident of this city, and kept a small tailor
shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, near Hamburg
street, where he was burnt out. If so he then
passed by another name, and had not yet assum
edthe name of Adam Horn. He made his ap-
pearance in Baltimore county, in the neighbor-
‘hood of the scene of the last murder early in the
year 1842, and commenced boarding at the
house of Wm. Poist, in the month of May. On
the ensuing 17th day of August, 1842, he was
married to Malinda Hinkle, as is already known
oy the readers of the Sur, as well.as his deeds
irom that time up to the present.

He is now awaiting sentence of death, and if
guilty of no other crimes but those of which he
stands publicly charged, is undoubtedly the
greatest criminal that has ever been tried in this
country. Few men have had the same opportu-
nity to enjoy the blessings of lite. even when
worthy of its blessings, arid few have so utterly
disregarded them. At different periods we find
him in possession of a number of valuable farms,
surrounded by a family that most men at his age

ture of the mbst. diversified character it is possi-
ble tv conceive. _ Immediately below, the gaunt
object. which | lifted its skeleton form/into the
cold air, stood peering over the w Y upon the
vast concourse beyond, itself the/centre fur a
myriad eyes.) Around and abouy'it, conversing
in subdued tones, were those yho‘had obtained
by privilege or solicitation adsnission-within the
walls, the busy forms gf th immediately‘en-
gaged and interested in t hé approaching catas-

‘would have been proud of, but b lending bi
ear to the whisper:ngs of jealousy, lowins down
to the golden idol of avarice, and listening to
the teachings of the devil, he has thus dashed
irom his lips the proffered cup of happiness
His fate and history should be a warning td
others to shun those unholy passions, which wil
inevitably make a hell of earthly existence, and
‘ead to everlasting misery hereafter.

Since his conviction, however, we learn that
he has become greatly changed, and under the
guidance of a spiritual teacher, is seeking par
don of an offended God. He has expressed 4
#teat desire to see his son, Henry Hellman, anc
has written for him to come on without a mo]

course of next week, as we learn he had expres

ment's delay, and he will doubtless be here in the
ed a desire to sce his father before bis death. :

yond, the great interjagent plain, which had
in the morning been/a white field of snow,
was now thronged with an almost Compact mass

xide_of the Falls. [The elevations. upon the
north and the banky heights of Howard’s woods,
upposite upon the west, afforded facilities to im-
mense. numbers especially of women and chil-
dren. A great many carriages chiefly crowded
with women, occupied the line of Belvidere
Roaq and some had drawn up nearer to the
wall. ‘The windows of many houses commanding
a view of thé death scene were crowded by
the occupants, their friends and acquaintances.
And an uninformed traveller who: bad passed
that way might have looked on for an hour, and
had the gallows escaped his eye, imagined that
a national jubilee was about to be velebrated,
and that the|/shrine of oblation was the jail.

But we revert tothe more immediate details

scenes of his lify. We visited the jail at about
9.o’clock infthe morning, and founf our friend

expressed in| his countenanoe, be having ‘been.
up the greater part of the night with his prisoner.

admitted to} the céll of the doomed malefactor.
‘The officers} have this moment knocked off the

WHO T DN
EXECUTION OF HORN.
(From the aly Sun Extra of yesterday.)
This event, which has been ‘louked to fut
weeks past, as the consummation) of the penal-
ty due ¢o the tommission of one of the most
attrocious murdprs that ever blurred the char-
acter of humanity, transpired in accordance
with the law, |at exactly 22 minutes before

ed by not less than thirty thousand peeple, one
eighth of whon} were females. ‘The excitement
from an early hour in the morning until the
execution tovk place, continued |to grow more
and more inte se, and was only relieved at
tength by the Wwful' scene which was required
to be eyacted, for the satisfaction uf the fearful-
ly violated. laws. By 103 o’cloek, the various
streets ‘leading! towards the jail,| began to’ pre-
sent a very uniform appearance ef the tendency
of passengers that way, and even before that
hour hundreds of Persons occupied various
positions, or stood grouped in conversation
within the immense circle com anding aview

He was accordingty remanded back to the
ail in Belfont, Logan county, Ohio, which wa.
« large log building, from whence, on the 1th
41 November, 1S4U, after being contined nearly
sourteen months, he made his escape. It had
acen the custom to keep him confined in the cells
vmaly during the night in cold weather, allow
vog him to occupy an upper room during the day,
depending almost entirely for his security on the
aeavy iron hobbles that were kept attached to
as legs. The means whereby he escaped have
veen the subject of much controversy, and several
persons have been implicated as accomplices.

| wither before or alter the fact. Since his arrest

ae has positively denied having any assistance,
and states that, having got the hobble off of one

| ‘9bt, he started off in that condition, carrying
) hem in his hand. On the night of his escape
, xe had been left up stairs later than usual, and
| -here being no fastenings of any conseyence on

he dour, he walked off.
He was imiicdiately pursued and tracked to

| the house of a man named Conrad Harpole, neat
| Mast Liberty, in Logan county, in the neighbor.

; 100d of which a horse, lclonging to one of his
‘ttorneys, was found running loose, and it was
ascertained that he had there purchased a horse,
saddle and bridle, and pursued his journey. He
was then traced to Carrollton, in Carroll coun-

| ‘~ ~“‘ere he had formerly lived, passing through |

nday. He was bere spoken to by an old
i ntance, but made no reply. Some of his
‘rs actually arrived in Baltimore before he

| did, and although the most diligent search |

| was made for him, assisted by high constable

Mitchell, no turther trace could be found of |
' nim, They however were under the opinion

| that he was concealed in the city, and finally

gave - all hope of detecting him. The next
‘hing that was heard of him was in York, Penn:
‘vylvania, where, on the 28th of September,
1841, about ten months after his escape, he ap:

| weared belore John A. Wilson, Eeq., a justice of |

of the jail. The gallows was jerected in the
north-west angie of the yard, the upper beam
being not less than fourteen feet/above the level
of the top of the wall. It could be distinctly
secn from many peints in the central part of the
city, and the whole execution was witnessed
from several windows of the court house. As
the hour approached, she ways to the prison be-

their avocations and {were haste ing to the scene;
and the number of strange faces, indicative of
visiters from |the surrounding] country drawn
hither by curjbsity, resistless from the startling
character of the malefactor’s crimes, was im-
mensely great.’ The city poured out its thou-
sands, and ‘the merchant, the clerk, the lawyer
and divine, the industrious mechanic. with the
soil of his labor upon his han 8, the pale faced
and sedentar student, the young and the old,
the matron, the maid, and the/wanton, hoyden
boys and girls, the moralist and the jester, the
Serious and the profane, swelled up the motley
multitude to an oceanic flood. |Such is human
nature,” We inoralized and pa sed, for we our-
selves had wended our way to the spot, but
found a ready excuse in an imperative duty re-
quiring us to| present the details of this day’s
doings to the eyes of the multitudinous mass
spread out before our gaze. But are there no
promptings of a Dionysian cur omity within our.
selves, we asked. We could! not analyse the
fevlings with|suffivient vare tulobtain a satisfac.
tory response} Human nature, however culti-
vated, js human nature still.

The view om the top of the jail was of the
wost interestige kind,

resenting a dioramic pis

12 o'clock, mer dian, this day, and was witness. [°

came thronged witlf parties who had quitted |

ged at it so
ed to the fire
ing bis boots, which stood at the h
them upon his feet... Horn is now in co
tion with the reverend gentlemen in attendance
Messrs. Saijderl and Neuminn:* He is evident-
ly conversing with a freedom and ease of mind

iron itso from’his legs, having been enga-

composure. Ren

We learn |from Mr. Sollers, who. was up with
him during kb greater portion of the night, that
he remained engaged in reading and prayer un-
til about twp o’clock in the morning; when he,
‘laid down for about an hour, and appeared to
enjoy repos¢ during that time. He then rose
and re-applied himself to devotional exercises
during the fesidue of the night. He declined
taking any breakfast this morning; breakfast be-
ing the only meal he has taken for two or three
wecks past, and from Friday last until Monday,
he maintained perfect abstinence. He was, how-
eyer, persudded to resume his morning meal
again on Monday, which he continued until
yesterday, l¢st he should become too weak to
sustain the trying scene of this day unassisted.

‘ Half-past| 10 o’clock.—The Rev..8: Tustin,
chaplain of |the U. S. Senate, has ‘entered the

gentlemen attending, of course with no purpose

of taking part in the religious exercises.—
Horn has continued in intercourse with the
Priests, the conversation being carried on in Ger-
man. A few minutes since Mr. Tracy, the she-

riff, came into the cell, he Laving previously vi
sited the pris mer during the movning.
minutes “before 11 o'clock Mr.

Bersch and young Henry Hellman came into the |
cell. The prisoner directly took the hand of |
his son and said “Well, Henry,” andthe youth,
replied “Well, Father; it seemed as much. as
either could say for the moment. Horn after
interchanging salutation with Mr. Bersch beck-
oned his son to the table and took, up a variety
of papers artd pamphlets tied ina bundle, which
with-a carpenter’s rule he delivered to him; the
package appearing rather loose Horn took up
some books, saying “there was a piece of paper
here somewhere,” and having found it took the’
bundle again, carefully wrapped it up, and de-
livered it to his son. f a
They then retired to a corner of the cell, and
had some conversation together, which we sub-
sequently understood was in relation to the “dis-
position of the body, Horn expressing a desire
that his son, as next of kin, would make a for-
mal demand for it of the Sheriff .. Mr. Bersch
was afterwards called up by Horn, and the threg'
continued the conversation ‘together, Horn ap-,
pearing exceedingly earnest in his instructions,

which related chiefly to the disposition of his bod

trophe occasionally. pass} g§ to and fro. Be: |.

of people, occupying both the hither and thither |

connected with the criminal and the closing |
Sollers, the|warden, with anxiety and fatigue |

’ Horn’s Cell, 10 Pclock.—We have just been |

e twenty minutes. Horn then turn- }
) Stirred it up, sat down and warm- :
h, put |

and expression that denotes the most perfect

cell by consent of the criminal and the reverend |


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: Jones » an 18-year-old black resident of Chance,
“On Jane 12, 19:5, he and his 15-year-old bro-

- as an oyster pickere
ther, Holbrodk, were in the process of stealing @ skiff owned by 4 pe |
-16-vear-old Chance white youth. The boy discovered them tampering | |
d during which Weldon shot him

with his craft and an argument ensue
The two brothers then went to

Y eer. ‘They returned to Chance
ss -year-old girl and a ),6-year-
¢ old woman storekeeper but were frightened away both times by their .
< victim's screams, They then went to the oyster packing business ~ n
run by 39-year-old I. Raynor Graham ori Deal Island and broke into
: cigarettes and 4 pistol. As

e bullding, & ing Some ey,
they were leaving Graham, who had lent them €he money to g0 into
and for whon they had worked on occasion

| the oyster picking pisiness and. |
~ drove up to get a newspaper ‘out of the office. The boys hid and»
when Graham approac Weldon Jones shot “| ~
him from ambush and killed him. They stole the man
taining $135.00, and a gasoline rationing coupon pooklet in his —
name, They then went home and to bed.
that evening. Both of the womoen they had


JONES, Weldon, Jre, black, 18, hanged Maryland (Wicomico) on August 1, 1917.

"Chance, Mde (AP) = State police early today took into custody two young negroes as
suspects in an outbreak of violence in which one white man was shot to death, ano-
ther was wounded and two women were assaulted, State police headquarters in Balti-
more announced the arrests after troopers who had rushed into this Maryland eastern
shore area late yesterday afternoon and last night had spirited the suspects to safee
ty across the chesapeake Bay. Lieut. William Weber of state police was in charge of
officers who took the negroes from the area, Finding of the two negroes followed a
growing search through the night by state and Somerset county law enforcement officers
and armed civilians around Chance and on neighboring Deal Island. The series of
attacks and shootings, the first of which took place around 5:30 o clock yesterday
afternoon, occurred over a five-hour period, police said, Details of the various
violations were not given out by state police who announced these victims: Kenneth
Willing of Chance, wounded in the head late yesterday after he sought to frighten away
ttwo negroes who wene found tampering with his boats; Peggy Price, 16, beaten by two
negroes shortly after the Willing shootings; Ada White of Ghance, about 0, choked by
a negro as she closed her stores and Raynor Graham, Deal “sland oyster packing plant
operator - found shot to death in his attbmmbile in front of his place of business.”
NEWS, Jackson, Mississippi, January 13, 195 (6:6.

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THE MUSICIANS.

The Birmingham Local No, 52, Amer-
ican League of Musicians, will hold
their annual meeting tomorrow.
Among other business to be transacted
will be the annual election of officers.
This meeting sliould bave been held
last Sunday, but on account of the

On ‘he

until this coming Sunday. There fs no!
doubt that Mr. Frank Arrico will be re-
elected President. He has held the
office almost since its organization sev-
eral years ago, and he bas given the
best of satisfaction in the position. The
annual installation and banquet will
be held next month.

The call for the meeting of the
Knights of Labor, Alabama District,
has been issued by District Master
Workman A. J. O'Keefe. The meer-
Ing will be held next month, and It is
expected that there will be a full at-
tendance, . District Master Workman

fice on account of the position he hoids
on the General Executive Committee
of the National organization. He will,:
however, continue tw take a leading’
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tion throughout the district. District
Master Workman O'Keefe announces
that he expects to make several con-
tracts shortly with Jefferson county
coal operators in behalf of miners fn
the Knights of Labor working in
mines in this county. He claima Walk-
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“NEGRO HANGED FOR. ‘RAPE. ©

Hagerstown, Md., Dec. &—Samuel!
Johnson, colored, aged 22, was hanged
in the jail yard here today for rape.
The rope fell at 1:23 p. m., and Jobn-
gon was pronounced dead 11 minutes
later. Hig neck was not- broken and
he died of strangulation.

The crime for which Johnson suffered

vault in July last upon Annie Ker-
foot, the l¢-yearold daughter of a
farmer living near Williamsport, Waeh-
ington county, a few miles from Ha-
gerstown —

Ohio Merchant. Cured of
“Ohsenie Diarrhoea.

My son had been troubled for years
with chronic diarrhoea. Sometime ago
bf porate bim to take some of
Chamberlain's Fae
Diarrhoea Remedy. After using two
bottles of the 25 cent size he was
éured. I give this testimonial,

‘some one similarly affiicted read
it and be benefited.—Thomas C. Bower,
Glencoe, QO. For sale by all

| Highland avenue,

Cholera and E.

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cordially invited to att

of these meetings. Strangers gm .

itors sojourning tn the city are atvay:

welcomed. Business mea and womet

without church affiliations are urgent-

ly requested to accept a home with us 4
-- OP. Splegel, Pastor.

People’s Temple, Ninth street and
Third avenne—Dr. C. L. Mann, pastor.
Sunday achool, 10 a mm: Epworth
League 645 p. m.; preaching by pastor

11 a. m. and 8 p. m,; prayer meeting,’| 1991
welcome

Wedneeday 8 p. m. A cocdisi
to all

Sunday school at Grace Comed: Lo-
elle Station, Woodlawn, every Sunday
efternoon at 8 o'clock, ]

Woodlawn Presbyterian se pig
Sunday schol at 945 a m., Dr. C. a.}
Merrill, Superintendent. Preach at
ye m. and § p. m. by the pastor,

E. Beattie. Senior Christian En-
dekcer at 5 p m. Prayer meeting:
Wednesday at 8 p.m. All are cordially
‘nvited to attend goer services.

South Highiands Peecbiteatin
Church, corner Twenty-first street and
Preaching service}
at 11 a. m. and 8 p.m}
Prayer meeting W evening at
8 o'clock. Sunday school Sunday.
morning at 9:30; Christlan Endeavor
prayer mecting evening at 7:15
o'clock. Strangers and friends cordl-
ally invited to all services. Rev, ded.
Grier, pastor.

every Sunda

Church of the ‘Advent, Sisth avenue
and Twentieth street, John G. Murray,
Rector, 8 services Celebration |
of Holy Communion, 7:30 a. m.; San-
day school 0:30 a. m.; morning mated
and sermon, 11 a. m.; evening praye
and sermon, 7:30 p, m. First Sunday of
month celebration of Holy Communion,
1539. and Le a.m.; Wednesday eve

rayer, 4:30 p. m.; Brotherhood of 8t,

rew meets In hard every Wednes- ‘hurt

ype at 745 p. m. All pews are free, »

‘Cumberland Preshy teria: Charch, |
Seventeenth street, East Lake—Ser-
vices every third Sunday In the month.
Rev. J. H. B, Hall, pastor,

eke RB ihe
St. Paul's Catholic Church, Third
avenue and Twenty-second Street—
Rev. Father P, A. O'Reilly, tor.
Sunday serviced: First mass, 7:30 a.
m.; high mags, 10:30 a. m.; Sunday

8s Xk hn'e pepe 8 sptecoit
t. Jobn

Church, South, corner of avente H and’ n
Twentieth street, ‘Rev. DL. ©. Brans-|
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350 Md. 45 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

pliance with the law announced in Walters
v. State, supra.

We find no error in the ruling of the
court, and the judgment and sentence will
be affirmed.

Judgment and sentence affirmed, with
costs,

© «© KEY NUMBER SYSTEM

~Aums

JONES et al. v. STATE.
No. 23.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Jan. 8, 1946.

1. Criminal law 130

Petition of accused for a change of
venue was a pleading, and, in absence of
a demurrer thereto or a traverse by the
state, the facts averred must be taken as
true, and trial court could not ignore or
summarily dismiss the petition. Const. art.
4,§ 8.

2. Criminal law ¢=139

The constitutional right of removal,
granted to both the state and the accused,
contemplates a removal to a court where
the jury is unprejudiced and will render a
fair and impartial verdict based on the law
and the evidence. Const. art. 4, § 8.

3. Criminal law €=126(1)

An accused should not be coerced to
relinquish his right to a jury trial and sub-
mit to a trial before the court in order to
escape an intolerable situation of a trial
before a prejudiced jury. Const. art. 4,
§ 8.

4. Criminal law ¢>126(1)

When a suggestion that a party can-
not have a fair and impartial trial is filed,
supported by affidavit, the court has the
duty to order removal of the record to
some jurisdiction where the jury will not
be prejudiced. Const. art. 4, § 8.

5. Criminal law €=126(1), 1166(4)

Where petition for change of venue
filed by accused in murder prosecution con-
tained averments which cast grave doubts
upon question whether the accused could
have obtained a fair trial in the county,

which averments were not contradicted by
the state, overruling the petition was re-
versible error. Const. art. 4, § 8.

6. Criminal law €=622(2)

In prosecution of two brothers for
murder, trial court did not abuse its dis-
cretion in denying motion for severance
on behalf of one of the defendants, filed
by counsel representing both defendants,
where there was no intimation that the de-
fense of the respective defendants was hos-
tile.

7. Criminal law 6>665(1), 1153(5)

The trial judge may refuse an order
of sequestration of witnesses where it does
not appear to be asked in good faith, but
the exercise of court’s discretion may be
reviewed if exercised in an arbitrary way.

8. Criminal law €=665(1), 1153(5)

In capital and other serious criminal
cases, motion for sequestration of witnesses
should be granted, and in any case the re-
fusal is open to review in the Court of Ap-
peals.

9. Criminal law ¢=665(4)

Court’s refusal to grant motion of ac-
cused to exclude witnesses from courtroom
during the trial of murder prosecution, was
an abuse of discretion.

10. Criminal law €=517(1)

In murder prosecution, confessions of
accused were properly admitted in evidence
where all references therein regarding
other crimes than the crime for which de-
fendants were being tried were deleted by
the court and no question was raised that
the confessions were not free and volun-
tary.

11. Criminal law 528

Where defendants were being tried
jointly for murder, and no request was
made to limit any of their confessions to
the defendant making it, court properly
overruled motion to strike out all refer-
ences in the confession of one defendant
to the other defendant.

12. Witnesses €=258

In murder prosecution, where officer
who had obtained verbal confession of one
of the defendants had made notes of names
used by defendant in the confession, per-
mitting the officer to make reference to
such notes when testifying was not error.


cd

JONES y. STATE Md. 351
Cite as 45 A.2d 350

Appeal from Circuit Court, Wicomico
County; W. Laird Henry, Chief Judge,
and Levin C. Bailey and Edmond H. John-
son, Judges.

Weldon Jones, Jr., and Holbrook Jones
were convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, and they appeal.

Reversed and remanded with directions.

Before DELAPLAINE, COLLINS,
GRASON, HENDERSON, and MAR-
KELL, JJ.

W. A. C. Hughes, Jr., of Baltimore, for
appellants.

Harry C. Dashiell, Acting State’s Atty.,
of Princess Anne, and J. Edgar Harvey,
Atty. Gen. (William Curran, Atty. Gen.,
and Rex A. Taylor, State’s Atty., of Salis-
bury, on the brief), for appellee.

GRASON, Judge.

Weldon Jones, Jr., a colored boy eighteen
years of age, and his brother Holbrook
Jones, fourteen years of age, were con-
victed by the judges of the Circuit Court
for Wicomico County, without the aid of a
jury, of murder in the first degree. Wel-
don was sentenced to be hanged, Holbrook
to the Penitentiary of the State of Mary-
land for the term of his natural life. They
appealed to this court.

The indictment against them, upon which
they were tried and convicted, was re-
turned by the grand jury of Somerset
County. It charges that these brothers “on
the 12th day of January, 1945, at the Coun-
ty and State aforesaid, feloniously, wilful-
ly, and of deliberately premeditated malice,
aforethought, did kill and murder, I. Ray-
nor Graham.” The accused filed in the
Somerset court a suggestion, supported by
their affidavit, that they could not obtain a
fair and impartial trial in that court, or
any court of the circuit, and prayed that an
order be passed for the removal of the rec-
ord in the case to a court of some other
circuit for trial. Their counsel wrote a let-
ter to the presiding judge of the court, in
which he objected to the trial of the case
“in Dorchester County for the reasons set
out in my motions for change of venue
filed in Indictments two and five.” These
motions are not contained in this record.
The Circuit Courts for Somerset, Dor-
chester and Wicomico Counties are in the
First Judicial Circuit of Maryland. The
court, however, disregarded request of the
accused to send the case to a court in an-
other circuit, and sent the same to the Cir-

cuit Court for Dorchester County for trial.
Thereafter the State’s Attorney for Somer-
set County filed a suggestion, supported by
his affidavit as State’s Attorney, that the

tate could not have a fair and impartial
trial in that court, and prayed that the
record be sent to some other court in the
circuit for trial On March 6, 1945, the
accused filed a paper in the Circuit Court
for Dorchester County, captioned ‘“Peti-
tion for Change of Venue”. It was sworn
to by the accused and, among other things,
contains the following allegations of facts:
That they cannot have a fair and impartial
trial in this court (Circuit Court for Dor-
chester County) or any other court in this
circuit; that the crimes for which the de-
fendants have been indicted have created a
great deal of unrest and racial friction
throughout the circuit, and more particu-
larly in Somerset County; that mobs of
armed men formed to track down and cap-
ture the defendants, and said mobs threat-
ened bodily harm to them; that the situa-
tion became so acute it was necessary for
the head of the Maryland State Police to
rush sixty State troopers to the scene in an
effort to quiet violence and to safeguard
the lives of these defendants; that said
troopers were forced to transport the de-
fendants, under cover of night, out of the
community to the western shore of the
State, where these defendants were housed
for safe-keeping in the Harford County
jail; that resentment against Negroes has
been so great that other Negro citizens and
residents of this county and circuit were
advised and did remain in their homes: to
prevent racial riots; that the parents,
brothers and sisters of the accused were
forced to leave their homes to prevent
molestation and possible mob reaction; that
a mob did break into and ransack the home
in which the accused lived at the time of
the commission of these crimes; that on
February 14th, 1945, the above suggestions
for removal were acted upon by the court
and the causes removed from Somerset
County to Dorchester County; that the
cases against the accused were moved by
the State to Wicomico County; that Wi-
comico County is much closer to the com-
munity where the crimes occurred than is
Dorchester, and is subject to more local
prejudice against the defendants, due to
statements printed in local and state-wide
newspapers alleging confessions and ad-
missions of guilt had been secured from
the defendants; that accused believe it is
impossible for a jury to be selected in any

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county in the circuit which would render
a fair, impartial and unprejudiced verdict;
that the accused were constrained to fore-
go their right to trial by jury, which will
result in a denial to them of due process of
law; that they were compelled to relin-
quish their right to a jury trial and forced
to accept the alternative of a trial by the
court, without the aid of a jury. They
prayed that the record be removed to a
court of some other circuit, other than the
First Judicial Circuit, and they except to
the removal of this cause to Wicomico
County for trial.

This petition was not replied to by the
State either by way of demurrer or trav-
erse, and on March 8th, two days after the
filing of the petition, the record was trans-
mitted to the Circuit Court for Wicomico
County for trial. This appears from the
docket entries in the case, while pending in
the Circuit Court for Dorchester County,
and is reviewable by this court. The case
was tried in the Circuit Court for Wicomi-
co County on the 21st day of March, 1945.
On that day the traversers filed a motion
for change of venue, an exact copy of the
petition for change of venue filed by trav-
ersers in the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County on March 6, 1945. The court over-
ruled the motion. It is noted here that the
State made no reply to the motion then
filed, either by demurrer or traverse.

[1-5] The petition of the accused for
a change of venue, filed in the Circuit
Court for Dorchester County, was a plead-
ing. The State could not ignore it, because
in the absence of a demurrer thereto or a
traverse of the allegations of fact by the
State, the facts averred must be taken as
true. It was not competent for the court
to ignore or summarily dismiss the peti-
tion, for no matter of law or fact was be-
fore it until the State either demurred
thereto or traversed the facts alleged. If
the State had denied the facts alleged in
the petition, the accused would have been
put to proof of the facts therein alleged.
The testimony adduced would have con-
stituted the material upon which the dis-
cretion of the court would operate. Upon
review, this court could determine if the
discretion exercised was arbitrary and
hence abused. We are not unmindful of
the provision of Article 4, section $ of the
Constitution of this State, which gives a
right of a removal to both the State and
the accused. But this right contemplates a
removal to a court where the jury is un-

352 Md. 45 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

prejudiced, and will render a fair and im-
partial verdict based on the law and the
evidence. A trial before such a jury is one
of the most cherished rights of the citizen.
A denial of this right would destroy due
process of law. A citizen should not be
coerced to relinquish his right to a jury
trial and submit to a trial before the court,
in order to escape an intolerable situation
of a trial before a prejudiced jury. When,
therefore, a suggestion that a party cannot
have a fair and impartial trial, supported
by affidavit,.is filed in a court where a case
is pending, it is the duty of the court to
order a removal of the record to some
jurisdiction where the jury will not be
prejudiced. If it appears doubtful that the
juries in a given circuit would be fair and
impartial, the case should be removed to
some other circuit or some other section of
the State. Without rehearsing the allega-
tions contained in the petition of the ac-
cused for a change of venue, it is sufficient
to say it contains averments which, not be-
ing contradicted by the State, must be taken
as true, and cast a grave doubt upon the
question of whether the accused could have
obtained a fair trial before a jury in Wi-
comico County. It is unnecessary for us
to review the law governing the matter.
It has been so recently and so well done
by the late Chief Judge Bond in the case of
Lee v. State, 161 Md. 430, 157 A. 723, 727.
In the opinion in that case all the previous
pronouncements of this court were re-
viewed. It is the law of this State, and
decisions of other courts need not be cited.
Referring to the matter before the court in
the Lee case, Chief Judge Bond said:

“Tt was not the problem of keeping order
in the town and in the courtroom, or of
preventing bodily injury to the accused or
his counsel, but the further problem of ob-
taining a fair impartial jury to decide the
case in such an orderly trial. It was nota
problem, again, of having it adjudicated as
a fact, with certainty, that a trial in one
jurisdiction or another would not be fair
and impartial, but a problem of the ap-
pearance of danger of having a material
amount of unfairness and prejudice drawn
into the jury box with persons taken from
that neighborhood.”

We think, from the undenied allegations
of fact in the petition of the accused for
a change of venue, there was the appear-
ance of the kind of danger of which Chief
Judge Bond warned in his opinion in the
Lee case, and that the Circuit Court for


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JONES v. STATE Md. 353
Cite as 45 A.2d 350

Dorchester County abused its discretion
when it sent the case to the Circuit Court
for Wicomico County for trial. This ac-
tion constituted reversible error. The trial
court overruled a motion of the accused for
a change of venue. It was an exact copy
of the petition of the accused for a change
of venue filed in the Circuit Court for Dor-
chester County on March 6. 1945. The
State did not reply to this motion, and the
trial court overruled the same. The error
inherent in the action of the removing
court permeated the record in the trial
court. No man ought to be tried in a
court where there is the appearance of dan-
ger that a jury impanelled in that court to
hear his case will be prejudiced against

him. And his right to a jury trial is not |

waived if, under such circumstances, he is
forced to accept a trial by the court in or-
der to escape a trial before a prejudiced
jury.

[6] The court overruled a motion for
severence on behalf of Holbrook Jones.
No reason was stated to the court why the
severence should have been granted. Coun-
sel making the motion also represented
Weldon Jones, Jr. There was no intima-
tion that the defense of the respective de-
fendants was hostile. That such was not
the case would be assumed, as each defend-
ant was represented by counsel making the
motion. The matter was in the discretion
of the court. Gray v. State, 173 Md. 690,
195 A. 591. There was no abuse of dis-
cretion, and the action of the court was
correct.

The traversers moved “that all witnesses
be excluded from the courtroom,” which
the court overruled, to which action trav-
ersers excepted. Professor Wigmore points
out the following:

“A few Courts concede that sequestra-
tion is demandable as of right. But the
remainder * * * hold it is grantable
only in the trial Court’s discretion; de-
claring usually, however, that in practice
it is never denied, at any rate for an ac-
cused in a criminal case.”

“But when all allowances are made, it
remains true that the expedient of seques-
tration is (next to cross-examination) one
of the greatest engines that the skill of man
has ever invented for the detection of liars
in a court of justice. Its supreme excel-
lence consists in its simplicity and (so to
speak) its automatism; for, while cross-
examination, to be successful, often needs
the rarest skill, and is always full of risk

45 A.2d—23

to its very employers, sequestration does its
service with but little aid from the ex-
aminer, and can never, even when unsuc-
cessful, do serious harm to those who have
invoked it.”

“It seems properly to be demandable as
of right, precisely as is cross-examination.
In the first place, it is simple and feasible.
In the next place, it is so powerful and
practical a weapon of defense that no con-
tingency can justify its denial as being a
mere formality or an empty sentimentality.
In the third place, in the case when it is
most useful (namely, a combination to per-
jure), it is almost the only hope of an in-
nocent opponent.”

“The most that ought to be conceded to
the judge is to refuse an order of seques-
tration where it does not appear to be
asked in good faith, i. e. not in the honest
hope of exposing false testimony, but mere-
ly to obstruct the trial or to embarrass the
opponent’s management of his case.”

Wigmore on Evidence, 3rd Ed., Vol. 6,
pages 358, 359, 354, 357, and 358.

We think that the practice in this matter
should be uniform throughout the State.
At argument, counsel for the State told
the court that a motion to exclude wit-
nesses is never allowed in the First Judi-
cial Circuit of Maryland. To the knowl-
edge of the court, in other trial courts
throughout the State it is never denied in
a serious criminal case. Certainly there is
no reason to deny such a motion in a case
like the one at bar. The granting of such
a motion might well be the last means of
establishing one’s innocence, and the State
could not be injured in any way by the
granting of the same in establishing guilt.

[7-9] We are cited the case of Parker
v. State, 67 Md. 329, 10 A. 219, 1 Am.St.
Rep. 387. This was a rape case, and the
court granted a motion of the defense to
exclude witnesses. One of the witnesses
violated the court’s order and remained in
the courtroom at the trial. The court did
not allow the defense to offer this witness.
This court reversed that ruling and granted
a new trial. The opinion in that case stat-
ed that a motion to exclude witnesses is in
the discretion of the court. We do not
construe that decision to mean that such
discretion cannot be reviewed if exercised
in a harsh, unjust, capricious and arbitrary
way. We hold that the exercise of discre-
tion in such a matter is reviewable by this
court. We agree with Professor Wigmore

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apt Md. 45 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

that “the most that ought to be conceded
to the judge is to refuse an order of seques-
tration where it does not appear to be
asked in good faith.” In capital and other
serious criminal cases it should be granted,
and in any case its refusal is open to re-
view in this court. We think the refusal
of the court to grant the traversers’ mo-
tion to exclude the witnesses from the
courtroom during the trial was an abuse of
discretion and reversible error.

[10] The remaining questions raised on
appellants’ brief, namely, four, five and six,
can be considered together. Confessions
of the traversers were offered in evidence:
One, a written confession by Weldon Jones,
Jr., two, a written confession by Holbrook
Jones, and three, a verbal confession by
Holbrook Jones. These traversers were in-
dicted for other crimes in Somerset Coun-
ty. On January 13, 1945, when the written
confession was obtained from Weldon
Jones, Sergeant Randall told him his name
had been mentioned in connection with the
assault on two women and the shooting
of Raynor Graham. At the instance of
counsel for traversers, all reference re-
garding other crimes than the crime for
which they were being tried was deleted
by the court. No question was raised that
the confessions were not free and volun-
tary and had been induced by fear or hope
exercised or held out to the accused by the
officers. The record shows that the con-
fessions were properly admitted by the
court. Counsel for traversers contends that
reference was made to other crimes, but
the record shows, on his objection, all ref-
erences to the other crimes were stricken
out of the confessions, and hence his objec-
tion on this ground is without merit.

[11] The further objection was made
that as the confession of Weldon was made
out of the presence of Holbrook, and Hol-
brook’s confessions were made out of the
presence of Weldon, all reference to Hol-
brook, made by Weldon, and all reference
to Weldon, made by Holbrook, in their re-
spective confessions, should be eliminated.
We do not think that these objections were
well founded. These traversers were being
tried jointly. Counsel for the traversers
did not ask the court to limit any of these

confessions to the defendant making it.
What Weldon confessed was admissible
against him, and what Holbrook confessed
was admissible against that defendant, and
the confessions would have been limited in
evidence against the defendant making the
same, upon seasonable motion. No such
motion was made, and the court was cor-
rect in overruling counsel’s motion to strike
out all references in the confession of one
defendant to the other defendant. In
Markley v. State, 173 Md. 309, 318, 196 A.
95, 99, it is said:

“But when on trial the confessions are
admissible against the confessing code fend-
ants, those not confessing are entitled only
to have the jury directed to exclude them
as proof against themselves. It may be
that the practical value of such a restric-
tion is small, but it is the only remedy
practicable on a joint trial.”

[12] Officer Sherwell obtained the ver-
bal confession made by Holbrook. While
he talked to Holbrook he made notes, we
understand, of proper names that were
used by the traverser in the confession.
He was permitted to make reference to
these notes when he testified, to which the
defense excepted. There was no virtue in
this exception.

For the reasons above given, the judg-
ment and sentence respectively imposed
against each of these defendants must be
reversed. The case will be remanded to
the Circuit Court for Wicomico County
and that court is directed to return the
record to the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County; in the last mentioned court the
State is directed to traverse the facts al-
leged in the traversers’ “Petition for
Change of Venue” filed in that court on
March 6, 1945, and testimony shall be taken
by the court to determine the truth or
falsity of the facts alleged in petitioners’
said “Petition for Change of Venue.” The
court will then determine to what juris-
diction it will send the case for trial.

Judgment and sentence against each
defendant reversed, and a new trial as to
each defendant awarded; case remanded
to the Circuit Court for Wicomico County,
with direction to proceed in accordance
with this opinion.

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484 Md. 52 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

or give the court a basis for preventing,
improper arguments before the jury.

Judgment ‘reversed, with costs and new
trial awarded.

"JONES v. STATE.
No. 90.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.
April 16, 1947.

1. Criminal law ©=517(1)
A confession, to be admissible, must
have been freely and voluntarily made.

2. Criminal law €=519(3, 4)

The fact that person makes confession
of crime while in police officer’s custody or
even while imprisoned under arrest is insuf-
ficient to render confession inadmissible,
if.it was not made as result of threat or in-
ducement. ‘

3. Criminal law €=519(1) :
"The fact that prisoner makes confession
of crime while without counsel does not of
itself render confession inadmissible.

4. Criminal law @=522(2) .
An accused’s confession, induced by

fear of mob violence, is involuntary and in-*

admissible.

5. Criminal law €=531(3)

In murder prosecution of negro sus-
pected of assaulting a white girl on same
night, evidence showed that defendant’s
confession to police officers was voluntary
and not induced by fear of mob violence.

6. Criminal law €=531(1)

The burden is on state to show affirma-
tively that accused’s confession was freely
and voluntarily made and not obtained by
improper inducements.

7. Criminal law €=736(2)

The preliminary question of whether
accused’s confession is admissible must be
decided by trial judge before permitting
confession to go to jury.

8. Criminal law, €=532 :

Where evidence of circumstances under
which, accused’s alleged confession, offered
in evidence, was made, is contradictory,
trial judge must weigh evidence and decline
to admit confession, unless he finds that
state has. established voluntary character
thereof.

9. Criminal law €=538(3)

A jury should consider accused’s con-
fession, admitted in evidence, in light of all
surrounding circumstances and in connec-
tion with all other evidence.

10. Criminal law €=532(2)

Determination of question whether ac-
cused’s confession is voluntary lies within
trial judge’s sound discretion,

if. Criminal law €1153(6)

The trial judge’s determination of ques-
tion whether accused’s confession was vol-
untary will not be, disturbed unless such
judge’s discretion was clearly, abused.

12, Criminal law €=>1153(6) —

The circumstances constituting improp-
er influences, rendering confession inad-
missible in evidence, are reviewable on ap-
peal from conviction, but credibility of con-
flicting evidence concerning such circum-
stances is matter for trial judge and not
reviewable in absence of manifest abuse of
his discretion.

13.’ Criminal law €=535(2)

An accused’s extrajudicial confession
does not warrant conviction, in absence of
independent evidence’ establishing corpus
delicti\ “ mu

14. Criminal law @=535(2)

Generally, independent evidence, neces-
sary to establish corpus delicti, need not
éstablish such fact beyond reasonable doubt
in order to corroborate accused’s confes-
sion, but is sufficient if, when considered
with confession, it satisfies jury beyond
reasonable doubt that offense was committed
and that defendant. committed it.

15. Criminal law €=535(2)

Evidencé of corpus delicti, corrobor-
ating accuséd’s confession, may be either
direct or circumstantial.

JONES v. STATE | ; Md. 485
Cite as 52 A.2d 484

16. Homiclde €=228(1) :

In homicide case, proof that victim ‘is
.dead and that death occurred under cir-
cumstances indicating that it was caused
criminally by someone is sufficient to es-
tablish corpus delicti. ‘

17, Criminal law @>1158(4)

On appeal from conviction of first-de-
gree murder, Court of Appeals considers
whether corpus delicti was established on-
ly in connection with admissibility of appel-
lant’s confession, as otherwise such ques-
tion is matter for jury and not reviewable
on appeal.

18. Criminal law @=517(4)

In murder prosecution, evidence of cir-
cumstances pointing unerringly to murder,
rather than accident or suicide, and proof
that some of deceased’s belongings were
found in accused’s pockets, established cor-
pus delicti, so as to render accused’s con-
fession admissible in evidence,

19. Criminal law €=404(4)

In murder prosecution, a wallet, con-
taining some of deceased’s papers and
matches, and his automobile registration
card, found by policemen on or near route
from place of killing to defendant’s home,
were admissible, not only as evidence that
crime was committed, but as link in chain
connecting defendant therewith.

20. Homicide €>22(2)

Defendant’s statement in confession of
murder that he thought he was shooting
another than deceased and fact that he had
no reason to kill deceased did‘ not preclude
conviction of first degree murder as show-
ing insufficient time for deliberation.

21, Criminal law > 1159(2)

The Court of Appeals will not pass on
sufficiency of evidence to establish commis-
sion of crime on appeal from conviction
thereof, as jury are judges of-law, as well

as fact, in criminal cases. Const. art.
IS, § 5,

22. Criminal law ©>1159(1)
_ _A jury’s verdict of conviction and
judgment thereon must stand on appeal, in

absence of reversible error in trial court’s
Tulings,

Appeal from Criminal Court’ of Balti-'
more City; W. Conwell Smith, Chief Judge,
and John.T. Tucker and Herman M. Moser,
Judges. > |

Weldon Jones, Jr., was convicted of mur-
der in the first degree, and he appeals.

Affirmed.

Before MARBURY, C. J., and DELA-
PLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HEN-
DERSON, and MARKELL, JJ. :

W. A. C. Hughes, Jr., of Baltimore, and
Charles H. Houston, of Washington, D. C.
(Joseph C. Waddy, of Washington, D, C.,
on the brief), for appellant.

J. Edgar Harvey, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Hall
Hammond, Atty. Gen., J. Bernard Wells,
State’s Atty., and Anselm Sodaro, Asst.
State’s Atty., both of Baltimore, Prentiss
W. Evans, State’s Atty., of Crisfield, and
Harry C. Dashiell, Sp. Asst. State’s Atty.,
of Princess Anne, on the brief), for ap-
pellee.

DELAPLAINE, Judge.

Weldon Jones, Jr., appellant, aged 18,
and his brother, Holbrook Jones, aged 14,
Negroes, were indicted in Somerset Coun-
ty for the murder of I. Rayner Graham, a
seafood packer. They were tried jointly
in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County,
and were found guilty of murder in the
first degree. Weldon was. sentenced to
death, and Holbrook was sentenced to life
imprisonment. The judgments of convic-
tion were reversed by the Court of Ap-
peals. Jones v. State, Md., 45 A.2d 350.
The cases were subsequently removed to
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, where
defendants were tricd before three judges
sitting as a jury. This time Holbrook was
acquitted. Weldon was again convicted of
murder in the first degree and sentenced to
death, and he’ is now appealing from that
judgment.

' About 11 o’clock on the night of Janu-
ary 12, 1945, Graham’s dead body was
found on the ground in front of his pack-
ing house on Deal’s Island. In one of his
hands were the keys to the building. One
of his pockets had been pulled out.. His
automobile lights were on and the motor
was running. One door of the packing

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house had been forcibly opened. The of- to Graham’s packing house to see if they
fice had been rifled. Sergeant J. R. Buck- were picking crabs. He gave the follow-
worth and Corporal T, A. Short, of the ing story of the homicide: “I saw a white
Maryland State Police, stationed at Salis- man come out of the crab house. I put the
bury, were immediately on the scene. gun up to my shoulder and aimed at him
Less than an hour before they had arrived and fired, ‘I thought he was Gene Taylor.
in Chance, near the bridge to Deal’s Is- * * ¥* We walked up to where the man
land, after receiving a call to help search was laying, and reached in his pocket and
for two Negroes who had assaulted two took all the money we could find.” He
white girls, Peggy Price and Ada White. said that he and his brother divided the
The sheriff. suspected Weldon.and Hol- money, and that he took $105. He further
brook Jones as the trouble makers, but he stated that he threw his gun from the
had not yet found them. The State police wharf into the water. He admitted that
went to see the body of the murdered man, he had been well treated by the State
and shortly afterwards found two sets of Police. He stated that he made the con-
footprints on the beach. They followed fession freely and voluntarily. The ques-
these tracks for about a mile until they tioning of the boys was completed about
turned from the beach into the woods in 6:45 a.m. After the statement had been
the direction of the Jones home. About typed, appellant read it and said he under-
midnight, when the officers called at the stood it. Sergeant Randall then asked him
home, the boys were upstairs. As-soon as whether he wanted to make any changes,
they came to the door they were arrested. and he replied that he did not. The
The officers searched them, and took from sergeant then asked him if he could write,
appellant $105 in cash and 47 bullets. The and he said that he could. Appellant then
officers then handcuffed them and put them signed the last page and initialed the three
in the police car. On the way to Salisbury preceding pages. A confession was also.
a stop was made several miles north of signed by his brother,
Princess Anne, where Miss Price identified

appellant as her assailant.

Arriving in Salisbury about 1:30 a. m.,,
the police searched the boys more _thor-
oughly. They found on appellant Gra-
ham’s gasoline ration book, a number of
gasoline ration coupons, and cigarettes.
They kept the boys in the Salisbury sta-
tion for about thirty minutes, and it was
then decided to remove them to the police
station at Benson, Harford County, about
100 miles away. They arrived there about
5 a.m, and the boys were then separately
quizzed by Sergeant Paul J. Randall in
the presence of two other police officers
and a stenographer. Sergeant Randall
said to appellant: “Your name has been
mentioned in connection with the assault
on two white women and the shooting of
Mr. Rayner Graham.” Appellant said he
was willing to confess. The stenographer
began taking down the questions and an-
swers about 5:30 a. m. Making a com-
plete confession, appellant said that, while
he was feeling the effect of some drinks,
he walked up behind Miss Price and grab-
bed her by the shoulder. Later he went

[1-3] Appellant contends that he did
not make his confession freely and volun-
tarily. It is a settled rule that before a
confession is admissible in evidence, it
must be shown to have been freely and
voluntarily made. It must not have been
obtained by any threat or violence or by
any promise of advantage. Carey v. State,
155 Md. 474, 142 A. 497. In this case the
prisoner made his confession while in the
custody of the police before he had an at-
torney. But the fact that a person makes
a confession while in the custody of a
police officer, or even while imprisoned un-
der arrest, is not of itself sufficient to ren-
der it inadmissible, provided that it was
not made as the result of any threat or
inducement,. Toomer v. State, 112 Md.
285, 76 A. 118; People v. Fitzgerald, 322
Ill. 54, 142 N.E. 542; People v. Parsons,
105 Mich. 177, 63 N.W. 69. And the fact
that a prisoner makes a confession while
he is without counsel does not of itself
render it inadmissible. McCleary v. State,
122 Md. 394, 89 A. 1100; Wright v. State,
177 Md. 230, 235, 9 A.2d 253.

JONES vy. STATE
Cite as 52 A.2d 434 Md.

4,5
aa ne ets Sete were properly admitted in
Vv
with the object of inducing him to make a 350, Teg, ee a ie
ee eee Be Nua oa of, there was no evidence of ee ae
-box” methods. e officers, who or indeed of any mob. Sergeant Buck
were Present when the confession was worth, when questi 2 ole athe
made, testified that appellant made the con- iff i une We e
fession freely and voluntarily. According Tee ee Dee ae
to ot stenographic notes, Sergeant Randall There was no ate a De ae
Pui :
en eee i is my duty to in- community.” Even though appellant may
oe iio Ge ee) eis the possibility of being
have a perfect right not to Seswey any and fee rod : oe tos a ae AOE
all questions asked you.” The testimony of ly to ‘Harf a gi He es ae
all the officers was clear that there were Shore of fe Re eae
no threats or promises. On the other hand, clai : ee vd ae
the testimony of appellant wes conflicting oe re ees ee “TE
and unconvincing. He admitted that he you don’t cba it, I am ne oa a
swore falsely at the first trial in Salisbury back to the Raster, Shon He ee
a he denied that he had signed the con- loose.” Appellant’s lacaen i ce
ession. :
serve any credence. N i
Appellant now contends that he was in- Randall sasnees se apn ue
duced to confess by fear of mob violence. way in which the prisoners were : ;
He stresses that, after he was taken from tioned, as evidenced by the steno a ic
his home at midnight, he was put in the report, shows plainly that the es igus
automobile with the father of a girl he was were voluntary. oe
Suspected of having assaulted, and that he
knew that mobs had lynched Negroes in the
past when accused of having assaulted
white women. .He contends that the cir-
cumstances at the time he signed the con-
fession, climaxing the events of the night,
were sufficient to frighten a country boy,
Who had gone only as far as the sixth grade
in school, and make him believe that it
would be best for him to make a confes-
sion. He says that, if the police feared
mob violence, as shown by the fact that
they took him more than 40 miles away to
Salisbury, the seat of Wicomico County
and then about 100 miles further to Hae
ford County, certainly he had Sufficient rea-
Son to be afraid. Sergeant Randall admit-
ted that the two Suspects had been taken
away from Princess Anne in order to pre-

487

[6-12] In Maryland the burden of proof
1s on the State to show affirmatively that a
confession was freely and voluntarily
made, and was not obtained by any improp-
er inducements. Hammond v. State, 174 Md.
347, 198 A. 704; Wright v. State, 177 Md.
230, 9 A.2d 253; Taylor v. State, Md., 49
A.2d 787, In most States the question
whether a confession was voluntarily made
is primarily for the trial judge, but where
the testimony is conflicting, the judge may
admit the confession and instruct the jury
that they must find it to be voluntary be-
fore considering it as evidence. Common-
wealth v. Hudson, 185 Mass. 402, 70 N.E.
436; People v. Doran, 246 N.Y. 409, 159
N.E. 379; People v. Baker, 251 Mich. 322
232 N.W. 381. But in Maryland the a
vent inv pails Ab dicordck eee ae whether a confession is
: admissible must be decided by j i
a that. a confession every case before it is ada Le s
ee induced by fear of mob vio- the jury. McCleary v. State, 122 Md. 394

Ce 1s involuntary and inadmissible in 89 A. 1100. We reco nize th
evidence. In this case neither appellant nor alleged confession i oft a
his 14-year-old brother made any sugges- le ce
tion at the first trial in Salisbury that there
had been any threat or coercion. The
Court of Appeals accordingly found

at, where an
and there is
contradiction as to the circumstances under
which it was made, it then becomes neces-
sary for the trial judge to weigh the evi-
that dence, and decline to admit the confession

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unless he finds that the State has met the
burden of establishing the voluntary char-
acter of the confession. Lubinski v. State,
180 Md. 1, 22 A.2d 455. After a confes-

sion is admitted in evidence, the jury

“should consider it in the light of all the
surrounding circumstances and in connec-
tion with all the other evidence. Thomas
v. State, Md., 47 A:2d 43. As there is no
precise formula by which to determine
whether a confession is voluntary, the de-
termination of. the question lies within the

sound discretion of the trial judge. The .

determination of the question by the trial
judge will not be disturbed by the Court of

Appeals, unless the discretion has been .

clearly abused. ‘ The circumstances that
constitute such improper influences as to
make a confession inadmissible are review-
able, but the credibility of conflicting evi-
dence concerning the circumstances is a
matter for the trial judge, and is not re-

viewable unless there is a manifest abuse .
‘that the death occurred under circum-

of discretion. Demby v. State, Md., 48. A.
2d 586, 589; People v. Bartz, 342 Ill. 56,
173 N.E.:779; People v. Perry, 195 Cal.

623, 234 P. 890. In the instant case we’

find no abuse of discretion by the judges
in the Criminal Court in determining that
the confession was freely and voluntarily
made.

[13-17] Appellant also contends that
the State did not prove the corpus delicti.
It is an accepted rule that an extrajudi-
cial confession of an accused does not war-
rant a conviction, unless there is also inde-
pendent evidence to establish the corpus
delicti. Weller v. State, 150 Md. 278, 132
A. 624; Markley v. State, 173 Md. 309,
317, 196 A. 95. Judge Learned Hand,
while conceding that there is a very gen-
eral concurrence of judicial opinion in the
United States that some corroboration of a
confession is necessary for conviction,
made the following comment on the sub-
ject: “That the rule has in fact any sub-
stantial necessity in justice, we are much
disposed to doubt, and indeed it seems
never to have become rooted in England.
* * * But we should not feel at liberty
to disregard a principle so commonly ac-
cepted, merely because it seems to us that
such evils as it corrects could be much
more flexibly treated by the judge at trial,

52 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

-and even though we should have the sup-
-port of the Supreme Court of Massachu-

setts in an opposite opinion.” Dacche vy.
United States, 2 Cir., 250 F. 566, 571. We
follow the general rule that the independ-
ent evidence necessary to establish the cor-
pus delicti need not establish the fact be-
yond a reasonable doubt.. It is, sufficient if,

‘when considered in connection with the

confession, it satisfies the jury beyond a
reasonable doubt that the offense was com-
mitted and that the defendant committed it.
7 Wigmore on Evidence, 3d Ed., sec. 2073.

-The evidence of the corpus delicti may be

either direct or circumstantial. State v.
Mowry, 21 RI. 376, 43 A. 871; Common-
wealth v. Johnson, 162 Pa. 63, 29 A. 280:
State’ v. Coats, 174 Mo. 396, 74 S.W. 864:
State v. Bestolas, 155 Wash, 212, 283 P.
687. In a homicide case the proof of the
corpus delicti is sufficient if it establishes
the fact that the person for whose death
the prosecution was instituted is dead, and

stances which indicate that it was caused
criminally by someone. Commonwealth v.
Coontz, 288 Pa. 74, 135 A. 538, In this
case we consider whether the corpus de-
licti has been established only in connec-
tion with the admissibility of a confession.
Otherwise, it is a matter for the jury, not
reviewable here. Delcher v. State, 161 Md.
475, 486, 158 A. 37.

[18,19] It is earnestly contended that,
while it is true that Graham was killed by a
bullet, the gun from which the bullet was
fired has not been found, and there is noth-
ing except the confession to prove that
the crime of murder was’ committed.
There is no merit in that contention. All
of the cirgumstances surrounding Gra-
ham’s death point unerringly to murder,
rather than accident or suicide. When it
was shown that some of Graham’s belong-
ings were found in the pockets of tie ac-
cused boys, the corpus delicti was abund-
antly proved. In addition, three policemen
found a wallet containing some of Gra-
ham’s papers and matches, and a registra-
tion card issued for bis Packard sedan,
buried in the sand near the base of the
lighthouse at Chance. This was on or neat
the route from the packing house to’ ap-
pellant’s home. These articles were admis-

Cases of the second degree.. Code 1939
be , art,
27, 8§ 475, 479, ; .

2, Constitutional law €=268, 270

who

ABBOTT v. STATE
Cite as 52 A.2d 489 Md. 489

sible, not only as evidence that the crime
had been committed, but also as ‘a. link in

the chain connecting appellant with the
crime,

[20-22] Finally, we reject appellant’s

contention that the verdict of murder in
the first degree was unwarranted because
the State did not Prove premeditation, He
argues that, even though his.confession is
admissible, he said in that confession that
he thought he was shooting Gene Taylor,
and as he had’ no reason to kill Graham,
he had insufficient time for. deliberation.
The Constitution of Maryland, art. 15, sec.
5, provides that in the trial of every crim-
inal case the jury shall be the judges of
law as well as of fact. The Court of Ap-
peals has always refused to pass upon the
sufficiency of evidence to establish the com-
mission of a crime with which a defend-
ant has been charged. Where there is no
reversible error in the rulings of the trial.
court, the verdict and judgment must stand.
Wilson vy. State, 181 Md. 1, 26 A.2d 770;
Demby v. State, Md., 48 A.2q 586.

Judgment affirmed. _ :

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ABBOTT v. STATE,
No. 103.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.
April 18,1947,

!. Homicide C21 i

victed by confession, court shal] determine
the degree of the crime does not violate

requirements of due Process. Code 1939,
art. 27, § 480,

3. Criminal taw €>1159(2)
The Court of Appeals will not: pass on
the legal sufficiency of evidence to convict

i a criminal case, where the case is tried:

before a jury. Const. art. 15, § 5.

4. Criminal law >260(11)
_ vury €=29(2)

An accused may elect to be tried by the
court without a jury, and, in such case, the
Court of Appeals will not Pass on the legal
sufficiency of the evidence to sustain court’s
determination. Code 1939 art, 27, § 636;
Const. art..15, $5. :

5. Criminal law Sal l58(1) ‘
Where accused pleaded guilty general-
ly to an indictment for murder, trial court’s
determination under Statute of the degree
of murder as first degree murder, was as

conclusive as the verdict of a jury, and
Court of Appeals on appeal could not pass
on the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant
finding of first degree murder. Code 1939, .
art. 27, §§ 475, 479, 480,

6. Statutes C225

Statute Providing that where an ac-

cused elects to be tried by the court without
a jury, the court shall try the law and the
facts, and Statute Providing that where:
@ person is convicted of murder by con-
fession, the court shall determine the degree
of the crime, are, in so far as they deal
with different aspects of the same sub-
Ject-matter, in pari materia, and should
be construed together. Code 1939, art. 27,

Statutes dealing with first degree mur- 88 480, 636.

der and second degree murder do not create
New offenses, but merely divide the common

aW crime and mitigate the punishment in

Criminal taw €=978

Homicide ¢313(1)

Statute Providing that jury, before
™ any person indicted for murder shall

—_o—

Appeal from Circuit Court, Dorchester
County; W. Laird Henry, Chief Judge,

and Levin C, Bailey and Edmond Hi, John-
son, Judges,

Ross J. Abbott was convicted of first

degree murder, and he appeals,

Appeal dismissed.
Before MARBURY, C. J. and DELA-

tried, shall find if it is murder in the first PLAINE, COLLINS GRASON HEN

rT second degree, but if accus i
, ed is con- DER le
52A.2d—31y SON, and MARKELL, Jj,

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BEI QROE Hamer ers Meee ttaae eee ee


” “State: Police. Troopers
Bring: Brothers. Here o
UF rom. Bel Aire

eS negro Breihece “went”
re today for the murder of
cor, Graham before a packed
soom that heard the slain
Island © seafood — -packer's
“describe how she had
Sa. ts body outside .his packing
ae Gn tHe night of Jan. 12, 1945.
‘im dones, Jr. 18,: and his
era: old ‘brother ~~ Holbrook,
agnt here from the Hartford
cyt jail at Bel Air this morning
a4 detachment of 20 state troop-
_< entered pleas of not. reullty
“agh ‘their counsel, W. A.
eed and a MW. Dogan, colur:
BtOPNeYB. 9
Huyhes jost I in rapid order a mo:
Pio a change of venue, a mo-
, for @ severance of the case
fe stbrook, and. a motion that
“a -tnesses be excluded. from the
in room, »
¢ Jones Arothere. are Sindicted
Vharges of murder, assault
ie intent to. kill and assault
rtent to repe. —, :
State Sets Out Case. 4
+x Opening statement,. “Harry
cewil Somerset county. state’
Srrey, said the. state would
oe that Greham was slain and
‘tet at his packing house where
tad gone for @ package of cig-
-. He seid the packing houxe
jisn® been robbed before. the
¥.
“Beye ‘Arrested ce,
Jones boys were ‘arrested
re Lrnidnight by State Police of
ao who. made three visits to
sr heme at Chance following en
vavak of violence in which
ran was murdered, 16 year
{Kenneth Willing waa wounded
tw women were: attacked, on
Shih os”
hash eth: paid” ‘the | ive’ were
err oty the Salisbury State Po-
» barracks and to the Bel Air
aauning the night. The next
he sald, both signed. confers:
ce ado thing that eldon held
vit that whet and killed Gre
ae after they had firat tothed

ney Willranm
hoff eounty

Juorthern ;

Berlin: Marek? ae State’«
Pore Bane Teed

offives sof
Berlin stores and
yesterday

Atte:
epee
Peis #4
bosaess
cand, seized ‘
machine yarnh vt Jdeviers 73

The rants were ded. petaonally
ty Kerbint abd Cte pon
of repeated emmyplaints, he
that gambliog. machines were. be
ing operated “wide: open say
Worcester, AUTEN

me ver

Fite
nicipalitys a aos
Several hundseds

ARE CASUALTIES:

Satisburiait. Reported” AS
Missing Is Dead

A Sahaburnn previansly: ripe ot
ed missing has been chilled ae ce
tion, another one. wMTssiny iso mnywls

dier from. Hebron hus been wound
ad on- lwo. Jima.. They sare:

Pfe. Edmund. Massey, whoowie
Oreviously missing in Luxembourg
has been. killed in Germany, ac
cording to-a telegram received by
his wife fey the War beperl
ment.

Massey want inte the service i
his training . at Camp Blanding
Fla. He was shipped from, ‘Ft
Meade overseas. in January, hay
ing spent a J0-day Christmas fir
lough = with “his wife, Maude, nod
their two children, Barbara Ann, 7
and William Lee, 18, months, Can-
den Ave, 2

He had ‘been. hi Germany. bat ”
week: when he was: killed. while
fighting with Gen. George S tat
ton’s 3rd Army. Hecis the sor af
Mr. and Mrx. Witham Massey, uf
Berlin. Prior to entering the ser
vice, he war employed. hy. Mont

gomery Ward and -Co.
e Wounded On ine

Pvt. Louis W. White, Hebron. +
the second Wicomico) countiin or
ported wounded in the invanion wf
lwo Jima

In w letter to tbe wile Mrs: Mar
geret. Savage. White, Hebron, be
wrote that he had received the
Purple Heart for wounds: TOCCTVG:
in the battle: for the: tiny Pacific
island

The 245

Officers See 7 Slot Machines
In Raids. On 13 Berlin Stores -

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poafticers

rae eel

phot Oanry,

7

Pe

the tee sts:

* ath 3

‘teeter county strial magstrate,

3 COUNTY. MEN

Ewin
ParthGr Lynch of Berlin staged the

prisoner of war, cand a third sol:

August @f last year and receive:

: Favorable report of the judiciary

a auld en

this:

aned quarins whith: the
found ap the sever alot
cnn bates Can fixe uted.” will, be turt:
of Worcester
following the
“fying

ie kels._

tote the Lary
Kerbs said
slp prise 1aads hye hon
aq jiaef * t
: Warrants “Te ie Drawa*

“Folay” state warrants (charging
he tne propristors with purxsesaiun
incoct operation of gambling devices,
wilh be sworn out before » Wor
the
state's attorney: sad”

Some of the ‘Cases. ay be pre.
sented before. the’ March grand
yay which is schedilled to convene
pext Munday, Kerbin indicated

> Names of the Berliti places ruid-
red Venterday “together with iden-
fnes of —persuns for: whom state
Warrants will be issued are being
withheld for the recent, Sheriff,
Edwin, b. Lynch said.

Lynch, Kerbin, State "Troopert
McGee and ‘Pohee Officer

Sjotfuchine. raids. .

One | Bertin business: man, “in
whose establishment officers found
chiee slot: machines inp operation:
deckired he would carry the case
before the Worcester county granc
jury next: Monday .at Snow Hill or
the grounds that he felt he was
being: “picked on” by officers. ‘

JIM CROW LAW
REPEAL LOSES}

County MDcleg ations Kill
_ Bal's Last Chance

Frigate March” #1 (AP) =
The Senate approved repealer en
the 4) year: ht jim Crew” law
requiring separate “accomimoda-
tions for whitee and negroes oo
public “conveyances was in the
iimbe of defeatet. meas res tovay.

Phe House- A the “no's” of
the county delegations reverberat
ing through th agoneraie State
House killed “a, modion ~ have
the bill’ substituted for the un

ahead
i the
eee with a
sent several se
Heitine. ohasber to sig what was

‘the repeater hes ‘been intro

JAP WE

& Aircraft Cam

Also Dama
Planes W

US Pacific
ters, Guam, March:
leaxt “17 Japanese
cluding = . 45,006-
ship and eight s
were crippled Mx
than 1,000 America
which hunted dowr.
suse? home fleet

« 240-mile-long
ake audacious
Adm. Marc A. M
largest» task forces

\hitherte untouchec

pan considered saf
also destroyed 45
Sunday and Mond
well ‘over 100 mo

~Not one AmericE

jour. although on
seriously
sl eainge blows as the
based: air force ser
‘against. Mitacher
ships moved away
power: BA gs
Plane |
Combat losses
planes “were ext:
These first f
counts of the mq

Jaction of the P

iminary account o
A- Spruance of
Fleet and first
pilots given to
correspondent Ha.
with MMitacher's

clase (the 46,000
sunk last Ostoder

amaged. =
biggest batt

? 1 of the beg te

A_battleohip

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Finding of the two negroes followed a ‘growing

ough the night by state and

~omerset county law enforcement
cers and oarihed civilians os

and. Chance and an neighboring

Estland

Sieut Weber, after questioning

* negroes at Be: Air State Po-

© sub station, gave their names

» Wetton Jones, 18, and- Holbrook

18, brothers who had been

sc kinty at gathering oysters

-* Contession By One oe
“Aeher said that the elder Jones
stmitted bis part in the four
is and that he had made a
nent te state troopers The
were taken inte: custody
home at Chance by Frest
seant 3. Ro. Buekwerth and
al T. A. Short, both at
fo the Salisbury barracks
cher, who said the boys were
med at the time, sat that
would, be Placed against
tay.

‘vter- related the
“ef the outbreak. based
owning by him and” other |

sees af the palts os 2s

(ce teu boys were on the »bOKES
chance when they became ene

‘1 the difference with WH-
“8. and finally Welling was]
+ ama‘l calibre bullet creas->
“forehead and causing only |}
ial injury. Willing was
te: Peninsula’ General

~ al

ay

OTe

rear

ES

and released.

Srothers then went to Prine}

returning to Chance af-
“ooghtfall, where the attempted [
2s con the women ‘took piace. ;
comen, Weber said, scream:
the . two nes ties

ed away. ;
Man Is Killed
time after that acta nt

. had gone to his: place.
ness and had left. his -car

“lights on. As he came}:

‘tre door, Graham was ‘shot
“eft side, fell to the ‘ground | *
dean attempt to get up
ch his Seachine. again. fall.

bs was ‘lead when Gfticerk
He had been shot with
pm He. rifle. Weber said
"*cney was missing from Gra-
pockets and the officer stat-
*4t-ahout §200 was recovered
_persons of the two Rota hi

sib ag

“et atated that Welton Jones
A mitted in his statement that
«t chandled the rifle in’ both
shootings. Graham, he said,
winced a boat for the boys
ar) oynterin in the area.
pers Sam Sherwell and T.E.
were continuing Investiga-
‘the case in ms Chance-Deal
section
Police reported “that every,

_ ontiqued on Page | 2)o3

2 remen ‘Find. Plenty.

& Smoke, But No Fire’

Ee “old adage “where there's
theres onre” ‘didn't hold
talerday when ficemen re-
wal ta ge ching fire. alarm

a ahd Pearl

ae |

i maher,
ong sinew
“following: iS
On}

Hos- 5
Salisbury, where he was;

igtum since Dec
of Mrs. John Banks, of Frurtland, |

were). }court declared:

his entry’ in the

ried and the father of five employed by Martin and Schwartz.

2 COUNTY MEN
ARE MISSING

‘ee

: One Hadn't Ceaned: Of

_ Son’ « Recent Birth.

Two W fcpmnicd o Shinty
ef whom didn't know t
son ten weeks obit
in action, therr
closed here today.

Min frene- Lee Bertit® Shad
Point, has been informed hy the
Navy Department that her hus
band. Rochwrd Jay Bertin, boiler
first-class. has been. iiss
Nic 30., - i

Before’ his enlistment (an thy
Navy. Bertin lived ino New On
leans, ‘Las and is the father of 4
ten-weeks-old boy, Richard Sam:
ue] Wolhams Bertin. Mrs Bertin
Dawid “P-don't know if my husbatid
had learned about the baby.
was bornoon’ Nov, 2. and we tried
tas aotify him by the Red Cross,
‘ut in the Jast letter TE received,
‘ated Nov. 7, he didn’t say any-
thing about it" Bertin had been
in the Navy since 1942.

Missing In Belgium
Denweod Banks, 24. husband
Clara Banks, Fruitland,

men, one
tat he: had
Bre PIs thy
nextof kin’ dis

re.
of M t~

‘has been reported missing in Bel-

16.2 He is the aon

Pfc. Banks. has been in the Army

ces jsince June, 1944, and has been over-

seas about four months. Prior to
service he /was

‘He has two brothers in the ser-
vice, Pfc. Howard Banks, also in
Belgium, ‘and Cpl. Carol ~ Banks,

who Is stationed in North’ Caro-
lina: His other brothers. and -sis-
‘ters are Walter, Albert and Hay-
ward Banks, all of Fruitland, and
Stanford Banks, Salisbury; Mrs.
Mury Lekey and Mra Lillian
Lowe, both of Salisbury, and. Sire:
Dorothy Blades, of :
City. “ae :

® The last letter: Terived ‘Troms

him dy Mra. Banks was dated the; predicted the situa’

‘ny he was reverie. missing:

: i inatione = Tey. the”
Salisbury. Award were asked to-|
day by Ralph H. Grier, secretary
of the Award's Board of Truatees

The Award will be the 16th pre
resent

sented since the first was
~ Todd

ed to the late Dr George
in 1927.00

Last year's. award was present
ed to ‘those organizations | which
made outstanding contributions te
the wer effort by community av
tion and was the Arst not present
ed to an individual It was tn the
form of a plaque Row mounted 19
the State Feechors Colley, and
the $gzh cosh award wes present
sd to the Wicomico County War

Mernorial Cormmitter for use in

i of at

_ bidding
oHe

pwhich

‘prashed

Pp ocomoke :

Pe Cty in ‘the past yes

nued on, down to the date of the
inatitution of this awit hae been
dictated by the Navy Department
and the needs there’ in the sip-
port of the war eflerts® the oes:
ien declared. :
No Cantract ‘Breach
“Having reached tar conclusion
upon all vf the evigeeuce -in the
case it fo'lowa that we. find no
breach by the defentiart” ‘company
of the. contract sued ar, but rather
that there was a sugpension. by it
of ite activities under said. con-
tract necessitated bg the urgent
needs of the Navy De pm ment
“The evidence disci wt the
curred ted dean of tie @ppliication
of the Fast bearing oto
shafts of the type née
Navy were not submivied by: Me
Faust te the Naval Agetaiecta, an
Sept. (425) tnat) the ere
af text traritige Wom a
feaet three months, ete
Seu test would exter a
ivast Bix TAG) ODL N.,
th ithe : eat. Dye
for the protuction..
ings even if approve
and awarded after:
unt  appEe
middle of the year
meantiire the oN
in “yoew. oft)
was
events of Decembe
insisting that. the
to the defe
shoud he employ
upon their comple

that

bear:

vituation
ed by

1G410 was

am
of

etn a/statement
Was made part of

“The -deciaration
contains twe counts

royalties on Fast
manufactured by |
AC ontinued °

_ def endant

“Many ‘Here
Meatless W

~ Salinburians fa

Meat dealers san hat no oe:
liverien were expec pnd
would get
me ofse bbl this

propeller,

the
Fur ‘ae persed:
z Blie

used.

Iminechately :
Vista) Pg
tems +

Cost $33

He ssid thet
well, described
wildcat venterd
pany, coat SpPe

Drilling begec
year on. the
farrc, on the
six mike, east

The Ohio
drilling pians
proximately 2

Maryland Th
other major

tegar leaXxing
[tivities throug
‘tharva’ Perine

iMeat Slaugf
: Shutdown
HEM pebie gtcw

T ree Pr foe!

beer whe

ae TLE Rt

dae ater

fig raw he

© Chee ©

‘The prapos
ys the OFA
meat prrtiucr
. Stee ko US prea
psanectrons axa
‘enforcement:
at price increa
Pmediate® appr
vgress to eter
ba recommend
pernment unde
te all frvest»
. | Dutioen thro
ot channets.
Maryianc.
York and
Ytaier, labor
Psentatives: at
pence yestercag
‘tended. the
fat wes Aer :

“Tokyo Sa
‘Will Be

ae _ Londen, J
Tokyo rade

ontla, goal of E

eserve pabirc!
ante made |
t which the,
Hret made’

recognitisn Pres
recipient's ‘name
known

The folie ite no;
may be made ins
neva fer. conside

Award’ board of
Ralph Ho Grier, See
The Salisbury Awt
Salisbury. Maryls

‘blank

Paks aed

t hereby nominate

3 “to the

pvading Luzog
utm.
TAM. defer
~ Mania have
broadcast (de
Pinos Rare vi
i anese army
@ state af c
be Another !
, Ube Amerie

+ on the teft +
(end aad ow
ide a form ihe

-tpeisl


have ons SCOT
would ge in approvidt Ameris ning #8 GO yo

ee
perce in future world —-t— Center — Unif
curity hed oh: Se violet Lee Seidish, daugh- | tributed at ee will be a

thus to give MT Pendent Hooseve: 3 bt, anal Mrs, Clyde Redtich
trussp cord in bis Conversat. — felis celebrated her 12th] 8 Sy! w
with other Allied ehidfs.

But time traveled too fast bor met
Ball and Hatch said they dei
believe it wine to attempt tele og
before the Senate & proposal wi >

“Purnell H t

rohay with a deat! There | Pyote, ‘Ten. “is pencina! inet, of
ix : deve with hin mother, Mra Ruth

: Se ataing’s, Salabur

v4 hnox dr. of ‘Beatle, wife. aha haa beck hahies cn

spending a 24 ay fur | hans in Feras, in wisiting her par-

mught ind the chamber cil: nhs wife and parenta in penta ie Heloianre wee is

ip bitter detate adoring the ip Be ee — oye ce a Suse eg
three meeting — 3 PM a “Ral Ip rf Mrs bras W. Perdue and Misses red
la Chairman Coonally (2 Tex 3 pM e ge ph Wimbrow, Murty and Auer Tosdyine returned | $reir
the -forergn rehatiens commit eoonave pe their weekend | vestenia, after a month's viet in of 6
tte ands Mires Sarnuel Pat | ecbland. Wash with Mr and | niet

auhng bis father the ere saad his eylleagues fe" & Ps dalk ox ;
ot 1000 7” e offer resolutions wr engage in { SOG a, former: Mis James A Grad oun tr
chage for $ : : cussions “which wotld dixtorh 2: ae hia s : = hare: damonty bia Liga vung | Pe

ce See erecta dln icone tae:

delicate international: situat ee

4 : While the resolution avers
s ‘Baby’ -\parently 1s closed, the chalks

desire for silence on foreigt

~ | b= “Pinatters seems cwiikely Maen
u "| debate. es
me Senator Vandenterg CK Ma
larence ee pees G Webb said in response te Fe es
“for scrapple.” questions that while be
with Miss Lee with Connally there ts fs th :
c adirector of Cadet Nars- be gained by further Senate o :
e the hospital, Misa Marjorie lutions, he can net aulscrtie t.
poopre-cintat “Cadet Nurse; @"y suppression of discussier
avis. Marjere Allen, junior Ca- Similarly, Hatch © thinks oe
Nurse, spoke: on the need for friends. of international eneys

t nuries art the. course of tion “for peace + heald exp:
themselve: le<t other nation. 5.5

. ies

"f

te class opening san: “q small vocal munority” os!
of “world security: ergstiz ©

oe Cacaa sate a5 Cadet {t the impression that what he ss

Bigdhite = oh ‘Trepresents the Senate's . view, o
casa heer Page One. ae : cube c= i <2
FAST CGE ce Continued | a © a wally is, s the Bible. Because the Bible i is =
pany during tne term ott the , “SLAYING Jee
M.ment sued on in this se.| thing was quiet in the area ae a!
gym the test:mony herein we tind | ialthough there were little oxste.
BA othe amount uf: royalties. due™ Ing: operations because many. ©
che defendant to the plaintff. isi gro employes failed to appear |
: Hundred © Sixteen Dollars‘ work on bess and ut the Pace 2
416.00). The testimony” dis- ; house. — fo,
cs a slight variance as to the | “One trooper sey “we -appare
a ont due but counsel: for ‘the gut them out just in time
Sgocctive — parties have “agreed | night” before omany
ac the proper figure “18 ~ the | learned ‘of the assaults. :
Graham was one “of the. et

lount above xpecified. >> ees ee
t of the prominent. busine-smeti =

Under the second coun
: jaintuff seeks to to | Island, - where he | wis 8 ki
‘ver damages for the alleged: ‘resident.
“ce of the royalty contract sued; Besides hi widow, he iss:
this ease. It-needs no cita- ed by five ee June, VS
n at authorities! to subatantiate | ner, cdr, Lilian, 32) Jer:
ge nera! principle of law that, and Juck, ss ees pee Us
ased of this character the bores - Members ‘of ‘the family - : = | Sponored By
is upon. the plaintiff to prove. Graham - ‘returned home. aly 3 oe ‘ 4
| ceeential elements of his case; P. Me ‘and annyunced that be *— SeADKISS. & CO.
a preponderance: of the evidence. i geing to his packing house te He
athe plaintiff contends that the|a cpewspaper and would. re
fendant was guilty of bad faith,’ five minutes. =
hein: the execution of the con;. eur waiting until Sabena:
act sued on” and, in ats geen duce p.um. June Graham - “went t
reafter : : | pucking “house in a taxical
“The efendant am Abe contrary. found. her fathe *s body Feat
ntend« tha@ its non- performancs car. We had t eit shat:
the contract was agecasioned be the abdomen.
use of the wetion of the Navy |=: a mess oe
eee in directing it to at Continued From Page. One
ariities erected and purehe : WE
th ‘monies secured (from >the |.” “ST FRONT
hited Statee Government under miles below. Laroche at the For
e Shore Farilities Contract. of. | west | tip of the. ‘salient, ard
red in evidence, and thst the British Second ‘Arary in 2 her
ton of the Navy Department in mile joined hands 4"
recting it to use the. said fecili-| h fiteh near“!

Ria teaver nee emer eon otter 7 Barre et jus

pau they will never outro it is the fore: 2

the

ema needei! in the war producth Hubert | wan ce
ogram prevented it from maen- fight.
facturing or promoting the. Third Army 1
earings.” [miles overnight ser:
“Precision” plant had ‘been | Germans west of pe
Quilt, Sand equipment furnished, | miles
rough $270,000 aliucated to it by}eats cleared the

Bhore | Pertinies section of the|tum on the Mosefle’s. west, bank
javy. Sees Es [n 6 Joe) ection.
OE —_ en bulge. he


a,
eee

black, hanged Maryland (Wicomico) on 8-1-19);7.

art,
Attacked

riolence au which One white man was ee! fo Heath

an er trodper Gh
LAaEeT Ny Shore areca a late
api iz rited the “sus pec 3
“Lieut. William Ww eber

Stat &
Kenneth Wi
“erday after he sought:

a found tampering. w

Peggy. Price,
ae “Ailing: shooting 2%
Wh nite At Cha

Ray
rdr-=-foune
s tlace of busin

Fanding of the

now Graharn
i Mn

: Sr irendenes
arhed ccivilatie oe
and oni spoghtoring
ahr
e peyroes wt Be Air State. Po. |
<> ¢95 etalion. gave their names
i Paon donee, 14, and Holbrook

3% brothers who had been
care at gathering: aystere :

Confenaion ‘By One.

a ener

A cher aid that the elder Jones

ot-4’dmitted Ris part in the four
:vastta and that hehad made @
went th atate troopers The

gis

Mees were taken inte cuatady |

their home at Chance by Firnt
‘ergeant J. Ko Buckworth | and
“sstaral To A. Bhort,
ated to the Salisbury bacrecks
Vober.
‘ol afmed wt the time, weld. that
ha Eat es would be. placed mgeinnt

rena wed into this Mar,
esterday ¢
to safety
: of the
thieers who took the negroes from. the a
Police announced. these vict

» alert

Yreal: tal
eae in. an

bath ale i

who said the boys were

in "Balti imore anhounce

afternoon and jast) night
y across the Chesapeake
State Police
red Z
ims:

iting of Chance, wounded nm he bent lat

to trighten away two negroes who)
with his boat:

16, beaten by two. negroes shortly

after

oat ‘nyster: aciy vant pro.
automobile itront ef

"2 COUNTY MEN

“questioning | oe

One Hadn't Learned Of

Son’ 8 Recent i

Tea ‘Wicomlec sy count
of whom didn’t know tha

Ta hon ten weeks old, care
an

action, therr next

closed here today.

Mrs Irene Lee Be

Point, has been infoga

Navy os ediyatl that: er
hand. Hichard Jay Herthge boiler
qosker, frat class? hes i

ing #itee Nov BO

Wat ar

: C guatody twa! ee hegrous as Fees in “an out.

land |
, velopment

eS :
was in charge) roy nl ¥

lawhich

‘$616 AWARDED HOLE IS DR
“FAST IN SUIT. AT 5,
OR MILLION GEOLOGIST

Plant's Failure To Future Plans
Make Bearings Due Oil Co. On Sho
To Navy ’s Needs >> Be Announc

‘

of the Precision

‘Company in fail

Panant ieactere ; Past bearings 1

with the |

dictated t

: ne breach |
twas find the Wien

fa) County Circuit Court vated jn

denying wtamaces to the Fast Co

sued Execision for a aor

Eee
a ?

pote

Act

ey pleral

ArINg “ ere

ee <oiny ny fons
agreed: ‘by ‘hoch Bites to be
Write said
the future have met +

ear tis

The (oun has reached the ca
that the action af the de-
“company, from, the--time
~ecution of the Se hos t2
n, down to the date of:
institution of this suit) has bern
dictated by the Navy Department
and the needs thereat in the sup.
port of the war effort,” the
ion dee lured. ci began, eh OC.
No Contract Breach Syeat on the Larty 6
: “Having: reached this conlusian i taite on the Mount He
npen all of the evidence | in the | gin miles car ot Sal
case it follows that we find se The Oh: 6 OTS
breach by the defendant tompany alll ing “plans oe ene
of the contract sued on, but sather Ste ely STR
that there was & Buspension by it) The log Pao elt é
of its activities under said “con Marea oa
tract necessitated by «the urgent ‘ ree
needs of the vy Departivent besa leasing an ene!
“Phe evidence discloses that Uke levies theoug esd ibe
cortected design o€ the apace tian inatva Penibeais
of the Fast bearlug to propeller fs eae

shafts Gf the type peedai by the Ss
Navy were not submitted by Ms |Meat Slang hte rin

Fast to the Naval Architect» wot Shutdow n Averte
Rept. 142, that the inanufe ture ;
of test bearings would

jeast thiee months, amd. that “the | Phew

weaingect

$230 we

"Ral
: eA cpbed at
wilde at

thee
othe 6
weniure Sy. ihe

opin Ss e.
WH PKS VET hae eS

teeet

tefl
ey

nea teat would extend fora period) spac


Two negro brethers went
af here today for the murder of
_ Kaynor Graham before a packed
ut room that heard the slain
faland — seafood — pacher’s
axhtcr describe how she bad
und his body outside his packing
cave on the night of Jan. 12,1945.
Weldon Jones, Jr. 18. and his

cought here from the Hartford
ants jail at Bel Air this morning
_ a detachment of 20 state troop
+ entered pleas of not guilty
‘ugh their counsel, Wo A.C
axbee and M. W. Dogan, color:

: rapid order a mo
efor a change of venue, a mo.
os for @ severance of the case
Holbrook, and a
«wtnesses be excluded from the

thurhes lost in

Foe Jones brothers a
-charges.of © murder,. assault
-jh intent to kill) and
‘hantent to rape. 5.
State Sets Out €
tn hix opening statement, Harry
hell, Somerset. county state's
-sreye said the state
.e that Graham was: slain and
i at his packing house where
ad gone for s package of cig-
He said the packing house
» been robbed before the

Jones’ boys were | arrested
ost midnight by State Police of-
--« who “made. three. visits to
= hame at Chance following an

bam was murdered,
» kenneth Willing was wounded
women were attacked on

said the boys were
: the Salisbury State Po-
+i rrickk and to the Bel Air
“Ging the night.
aid. both signed confes-
sitting that Weldon held
that shot and killed Gra-
they chad first robbed
2 He also admitted rob-
the body after the shooting.
er queationing at Be
sv said they had ©
“Yue k Creek after the shoot-
arcet at Rock Creek > light.)
; from. Graham's. pocket:
buried the purse,
<tate Troopers later. found
ee thouk where
1244 had buried it. os

- <Krothers Brought. Here”

“tilowing their

“remained at. the

aly Seeks Permit
oo War On Japan —

nicipality.
Several h

3 COUNTY MEN
ARE CASUALTIES

Salisburian Reported As
~ Missing In Dead _

undreds of dollars in

A Salisburian previously report
ed-uiissing has been killed ni
tion, another one missing is now
prisoner of war, und a thi sof
dier-from Hebron has been wound
‘doy, Two Jima They are :
Pfc) Edmund Massey, who
previously missing in Loxembeoury
has. been killed in Germany,
cording to a telegram received ts
his wife from. the War Depart
ment. a ae *
Massey went inte the service i:
August of last year and receiver
his training at Camp ‘Blanding
Fla. He was shipped from’ Ft
Meade overseas in January, hay”
ing spent a 10-day ‘Christmas fur

ws

their two children, Barbar« Ann, 7
and William Lee, 15 months, Cam
den Ave. : ee eta
He had been in Germany but »
week, when he was killed. while
fighting with Gen. George 5. Put:
ton's 3rd Army. THe is the son of
Mr. and: Mrs. William) Massey, of
Berlin. Prior to entering the ser:
vice, he. was employed by Mont
gomery Ward and Co. © 0
“> Wounded On Iwo s

Pvt. Louis W. White, Hebron, @s
the second Wicomico countiny os

Iwo, Jima.
“Ip’a letter

garet Savage White, Hebron, be
wrote that he -had received. th
Purple Heart for wounds receiver

island.
. The 24-y
the 2xth Regiment when t
ican. flag. Was -set up:

ear old Marine was wit)
he “Amer.
over. Mt
island, and he als» took. part
the bitter fighting ip the nerther!
bn paneer NEE

Iter S.. White, Snow. Hill Ra

Wu
the Marines 4!

Before “entering

anid she had received ©
him, dated Feb. of
“Don't worry, Pn
from

Vine St.
postcard from
in which he sat,
all right." The card came
German prison ¢s#
had been in the *e
going overseas

U.S. ‘Servic
To Avert Coal Strike —

Washington,
The U.S. Condition
an! : pete
yotiations i
work stuppage,

ec
prevent any
operators a!

lough with his wife, Maude, ane

ported wounded in’the invasion of)

HSE a ‘i tavorable report of the. judiciary
committee. and then went ahead
aut. yesterday's seasion to adopt the

to his wife: Mrs. Marl

in the battle for the tiny Pacthie

Suribachi, the southern tip of the

M He Gx the son bf Mecand Mere}

a

mp °-Pfeo Snyder
rvice three years

March 21—(AP)

“Service

* gave
id miners every ghance

state’s attorney sad. :
Sume of the cases may be pre
sented

text Munday, Kerbin indicated

vd’ yexterday together with iden

withheld for the present,
tatwin bb. Lynch said
Lynch, Kerbin, State

Arthur Lynch of Berlin s
slut machine raida.
One Bertin business

man,

‘hiee xlot machines in operalion

being “picked on” by officers. .

JIM CROW LAW

Ball's Last Chance —

“Annapolis,

requiring. separate accommoda
public conveyances was

jimmie of defeated measures today

the county: delegations reverberat
ings through the

the bill Substituted for the. un

repert with a roar of “ayes” tha

‘House chamber tu see what w
gop on = nhs
“The -repealer
diced in- each session
jature. since
“This time. it
Governor’ U'Conor’s

of the legis

to t with to debate: :
Chairman: Tolle (D-Balto
ty cof

ceater county triel magstrate, the

before the March grand
jury which is acheduled to convene

“Names of the Berlin places reid.

Uties of persons. for whom state
wartants wil be issued are being

Sheriff
Trooper :

bitwin, McGee and. Police Officer
taged the

in
whose establishment officers founs

declared he would carry the case
before the Worcester county granc

Jury next Monday at Snow Hall on
the grounds that he felt he waa

REPEAL LOSES

‘March 21—(AP)—
The Senate-approved. repealer on
the 4l-year-old “Jim Crow” law

tions for whites and ‘negrves on
in the

“<The House—with the “no's” of

! venerable State
MMouse-- killed motion: te have

sent several ‘senators over to the

“has been —intro-|

had ‘the bscking
adminis-
tration and -pasxed the Senate, 20.
‘coun-|

the judiciary ‘committee
made tye motion to substitute the

hitherto untouen
pan considered
aleo destroyed 4
Sunday and Mo
| well over 100 moe

Not one Amer
sunk, although
seriously and
minor blows as
based air force
against Mitac
ships moved awa
power.

-Combat
planes “were ext
These first
eounts of the
action of the
ieced together
iminary account
A. Spruance of
Fleet and first
piluta given to
correspondent H
with Mitscher’s

The fliers,
pan's major na
of air . bases
them, told Faro.
rockets smas

A battleship
class (the 45,00
sunk last: Octob
Leyte Gulf.in
her sister ship.

t

i] A batueship
big aircraft ca
reels

ur small,

Fo

June, 1944, he, wus employed oy till for hiv committee’s unfavor-
Martin and. Schwartz here, able report, and Delegate Kolb
os Minaing Man Safeco (D-Wicomico) wae Jone of those! s.
“pte. Lloyd We Snyder, 25: yest | whe ushed that Tolle's motion be oilers and four by
old Salisburian - reported. © missunge| defeated, we probably were s
since Dec, 1K in axe Siete ——— ——
“}prisoner of the Germans, bis rela |. Se <S : é #
slreetscatate carer” "| Army Answers LaGua
“Hiss winter, o Marys. Disharoon ° oo 5

Mu Bi a
=New York; March 21—(AP)-

interpreted as the
first counter- measure

sion, has ordered all
sonnel to leave places
ment by midalg

=In New Y
hohling out at a ta. m.
order came a6 8 ourprise

oasis,

x

soldiers.
The first

> Fa]

‘ if

Puts Gls Under Curfe

The War Department, in a move
government’
againet
Mayor La Guardia’s curfew exten-
military per-
of entertain-

ork ity, which still te
F wo cafe
owners, batkespere and grumbling}

» when militar

oj ing

ee to ee ee ae eres


aoe ads sald RY EA kas PAN ees a WEDNESDAY EVENING, BAR. H abel 1945

ady For
al Budget

Eastern Shere and
Aster packers were the
chers of the mensuls
“more important bill.
fe upper House durine
session Was that which
p state centrol< an
qj! loan associations.
“4 debate over this mea
Ding on in the Senate
Sof Delegates’ was the
wanother battle -over a
fireet relief te persons
pen Maryland resident:
e vears.
ument Arises
ent arose over a pro-
iment to erxempt thesr
from the armed ser
hose who find them
ted through causes he-
control.” The amend
tefeated and it passed
sage stage as amend
pt War veterans and
voters.
» building and loans a
bill, othe institutions
aced under supervision
me banking commission
annual reports and au
be made.
te also passed a racing
ng the State Racing
‘s action last year in
one half of one per-
mutuel take pre
wed the tracks for im
to their plants.
r Bills Passed
Ils passed by the Sen-
short but busy SP xe TOT
ose to extend tw Junc.
ime in which any hou:
ity could “nitiate de
of defense housing pre
ea to reduce to IK the ave
ae permitted ty | drive
Bees and other common
q These two were «ent
far O’Conor for signature

gate set something of «
as 8 when at) passed
Measures mo-t of
~while President Lind
Ito county) was away
rostrum for six minutes
ief from the heat of
r.

Continued Foom Page One ped *
JONES BOYS

Am pestle te prepare for the for other crimes committed eat
resat ah ehe-sbale wet lier the same day,

Joby Wo Webster, Deal Island] spe ye
varage amd ostere coperator, thelrhat he was intercepted at Bean |
first witness for the state, testi champ’s stere on the asiand and)

attempt to show State Pohoe had!

Buckworth testified!

4a

treed that Crrateny ‘mine tk ,
wa noe » his notified of the shooting by De PULY pests, and steno caphers neeejed
ty the war etfort ino Washington

tore for ctwarets about 8:50 that|Sheriff Woodland Jackson,
vic ht Webster had ono eigarets erset county.

se» Grahain said he would get ie

sone at hrs packing house office. rare ome | ALY emee
“toahium's wife called me fa-

tor. he testifie i, “and asked = me

Sem. |

ny son. and) June, Graham's
facugriter, went out to

hen were searched there and

3 . ! to State

TEM: Oiket came back a few min-
ates later amt sant "Daddy, come . reg COEAPIETS prided :
atch. 2 tescamet Wire's Ra tiperverd itp ut into evidence were the fv!
Wee Revo He's lavineton his lowing articles taken from the
Tabi EvtFied toe hilt hi but pockets of Weldon,
think he's dead.”

W ehatchitiat hed that he awenl | een ene: pee OF oF
te the packing house and found Graham; 16" ATy stains bearing
ane ame eRe hie the same serial number as the
ante, to. Chance: where the lets; aoman's wallet containing
adie ere hinted adiekdne tutor $105; a small compact containing
Lye Joties "bly x a Webster con- TUE e $144 ny chanee, mat hes)
romied “EP netitied deputy sheriff with red and: white sahcrel Alaibg!
Wood Jac ason ‘ parks af +imarets.
June Graham, the’ slain ‘sea: From the pockets of Holbrook.
toad eA ei 16 year old daugh Set. Buckworth recovered a wallet!
: Pe AS ae a “jwith $31 ino cash; Tb pemes; a
pet eeccheah Bia ad oo nee se hundred and ‘forty-one (22 bullets;
bette alteriner “Whuthe vr had iwice pipet Sams otonins ME a agar) ie, Sag a

N me » tees as ach. of!
tried te Jocate him by phone. He poner: ae het ets es
had told them ¢arher that evening] oliber bullets Ht ce and
ee he es going to bed early) — 7), prisoners cre LOkpel yee

7 mae. env et th= Webster's to Syt. Ratdasi, Set. Serman anc
tified, and as Wallam drove up te Bet ener, ee rN i
the building, he xaid, “There, he'st pcp worth Febtiir mets er ees bo
Ivinges there. Somebody's knocked gm ; ie
; shetkend’s further investigatein on Deal ts
him an the head. land the next mortuny:

Runs To His Body Sea be
Market Reperts

June -testified she ran tp her
father’s body. :

“Tl torned him over in ny: arms Minder win oC Trae Res, Leck, ORM ir
and saw that he wasn’t breathing. rere ce) NAT cle ies MeN
but Just couldn't realize he wasiateck, vers dall on cungrated  stook
dead he. told the courtroom rey ot sg nee Le 3 peace ND satheth iv
“His hip pocket was turned out.” pope ai ae Bit are

On cross examination, she said}Strke Ul ko Dwter Keres
the Jonex boy« had worked around [fe® Meher various syrictics worer ad

ad Heat P50 To peewer oft bo
he packing plant and, as far as| yay vps Ayer i ne aii thaadec ate

Stacncin FM Pee Pow oie TOF orks
y ee

she knew, her father had madé@ nofareck  Steate ter tt yeas asl
complaint about) them, hf rae ; Why ay ee ea
Webster's SOD, corroborated wa Va Forte pty (OW er ties} =
June's testimony in dereribing the Is Fy ret te PR ok 9 UIE: Mts
F i Mo be Bae The Ih” pa py ee Bee ha PSS
drwovery of the body. He said he es vie due i hee ae .

found it face down, feet to CHET joe in cacks pound white be k.

packing house door, SWEET POTATO S © Miatket steady
“L jumped oat of the car and 4 te ee vee stat Thane! eee
e a we pa he ene y

picked up the body,” he testified tks huskew 275 3.60 ~ ung ste tle

“Tt ware cold” 400 bu bax White Yaw EN Is
‘ar’ ; be Putin: ame ig haiek 1 oe On
Car'n Motor Still apg ia? NJ bu hamp derseys t 8 Ts Bh Se
He ackled thet the motor in Gra nearby ba baimp  Gonleas UN Is
ham's car, 20 feet away, wan xtilllpon 225 few Pacey hugh woacatd

running and the lights were turned ]\% ¢° he Hct gia oi ye
on dim.

ferse successfully pratestod eve o'Two Here Receuliieg
been called to search for the bey, (Typists, Stenographers

fhenore bo Kolo are at tne I'nited
tNtates bmployment Offer, Gunby
ihuiksirig, Salisbury, this week to

tal is offered by the War Lepart-
He told of searching the Gra-| ment to appomntecs
ham packing house and going to! ing quarters al a re ‘asonable price

toe ok for h Wall “ebster,jthe heme of the Jones brothers. have bee:
chile Depeg ghana About 12:10' a.m. the boys were son as soon as they are assigned

found at home and arrested. They to. duty,
<tck aed taken! Subject to. WM¢

Police barracks here for,cies. priorities
| stantirzatron
years old are eligible

< : ; iStocks Suffer. Another
we t CAT 0 »h
sot the wut see ac vor: Decline In New York

rocke 9:
pocket) hook: forty-seven 22 caliber bul-leline today (on heaty selling at-

Mies Emily Fiehiner and Mins

nterview appleants for eleras,

Free transpe. tateon to the capi-
Dexirable liv-
arranged for each -per-

All appointments are
resulatién, peoli-
and employment
Persons over 17%

New York. March 21 iAPy
Stocks suffered another sharp de-

tributed to  terwousness over. the
market's recent upsets:

Many, vat anid industrial Meader
fella pemt Sor more “and ina}
few “Instances losses ranged
trem yas prants. Near the fourth
hortic selliag slackened, permitung
some recoveries from. the lows.

the dit ei yea ay tee
aalen iv OUE THY — Market Mea

iP r he

halal”
Dall


quick.
Mr Raynor
face.
think he's dead’ ”

the argument grose over a pre
mendment to exempt thoarc

4 from the armed set
er those who find them
n need through causes be

Deir control.” The amend
as defeated and it passed
passage stage as amend

ed = yoters.
rc the buikling and loans as
bill, the = institution:
under supervision
“4 state banking commission
hom annual reports and au
ld be made.
USenate also passed a racing
“Atifying the State Racing
ssion'’s action last year in
ing one half of one per-
{ the mutuel take pre
allowed the tracks for im
ents to their plants.
Other Bills Passed
¢ bills passed by the Sen-
its short but busy session
d those to extend ty Junc,
time in which any hou-
thority could initiate de
ent of defense housing pro
and to reduce to I8 the ue
sons permitted to drive
busses and other commen
These two were sent
ernor O’Conor for signature
w.
Senate set something of a
for speed when it passed
of 47 measures--most of
ocal—while President Lind
Balto county) was away
he rostrum for <1x minutes
relief from the heat of
amber.

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ti theres!

happened to
He's laying on his
To tried to Hift him but I

Something's

Webster

Chance where the
teeking for
Webster con

“Po went to

Sener > bay «.”
Jac anon ‘

June Graham, the slain sea
foal packer’s 16 year-old daugh
ter. testified that she went to the
packing house te look for her
father after her mother had twice
tried te locate him by phone. He
had told them earher that evening
that he was gore to bed early
that nirht

Vhe girl went) with Webster's
son to the packing house, she tex
tified, and as Verlltam drove up te
the building, he said, “There, he's
Iving there, Somebody's knocked
hin on the head.”

Runs To His Body

June testified she ran to her
father’s body.

“L turned him ever iv my arms
ind saw that he wasn't breathing.
but just. ecouldn't realize he was
dead’ <he told . the courtroom.
“His hip pocket was turned out.”

On cross examination, she said
the Jones boys had worked around
che packing plant and, as far as
she knew, her father had made no
complaint about them.

Webster's son, . corroborated
June's testimony in ‘describing the
discovery of the body. He said he
found it. face down, feet to the
packing house door.

“fp jumped out of the car and
picked up the body,” he testified.
“Ht was cold.”

Car's Motor Still Ranning

He added that the motor in Gra-
ham’. car, 20 feet away, was still
running and the lights were turned
on drm.

lover White. Graham's — sales
manizer, testified that’ he had
been with Graham earher in’ the
evening and had returned to the
oyster plant when he -heard Gra-
ham had been hurt.

He found the office had been en-
fered. vunshells and cartridges
taken fro Graham's desk. Petty
cash, elyaret- and gas coupons
were mica from his desk, White
and. @:1@

Layout Described

Much of White’ testimony was
in decenbing the layout %of the
meceing plant and office. One
door had been pried open, he te»s-
tified, and oan attempt had) been
made te break a second door open.

Preferse objections — prevented
White from celling the amount of
money he believed Graham had in
his pocketbook,

De. Henry M. Lankford, Prin-
reas Anne, and Dr. George Coul
hourmme, testified that Graham met
his death almost instantly as the
bullet. entered bis abdomen about
three inches below his left ribs and
ranged stucht.y downward and to
the right.

The «tate had difficulty in &s-
tablishing the presence of State
Pole on Deal Island before. the

Waal

TIMORE- EASTERN BR

laying was discovered as the de

lets;
$105; a small compact containing market's recent
reuge; Many tail and andustnal leaders
“Po netihed deputy sheriff vorka cof preach heads; three fell aw point oF dmore
From the pockets of Holbrook, from
Set. Buckworth recovered a wallet) hour
with $310 in
hundred and forty one
ber bullets
five S0-caliber blanks,
cigarets, and an empty box
cabber bullets
The prisoners were turned over

lowing «@
pockets of Weldon.
Cover from an “A”

test'fiel that he went opp onal name

te the packing house and found
arm dead, with sis
turned ont

the same «xerial

$144

four "cals

te Syt Ran

Buchkworth

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in change;

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to
further investigation ov
land the next morning

Market. Reperts |

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few higher Various 5

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stock Steale- bor 4 : tery tal
(or CSR oN GV ine ot Ok ne
whites PSS sustlt 200-4" itn
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SLAYING DENIED |S
HERE DESPITE

4 CONFESSIONS

seater

Two “More Amission’ Of
ae rime Entered Into
: Evidence

he. face of. four cor. F feasiona
slaying of F. Raynor Gra-

3. year- -old Deal Island ays’
acher, Wekdon Jones, Jr, 18-
old negro. defendant, main-
ei mw steadfast denial of any
wiedge. ‘of the crime as the de.
Se peered in & irenit: Court here

fexsions by “Weldon, and’ be
reld brother Holbrook, had
“read into the testimony byl
te Police officers: yesterday , and
The police testified ‘that
second «pair of eonfessions
ide on January 21 at the Bel Air
disclosed the © buried. hiding
“af Graham's wallet. The
after that confession. they
tas directed to the Deal Island
uo ket navigation’ light and, ex-
ctiy, as described, found the wal-
~.> and Graham's registration. carr!
yet inthe sand.
Wel jon stubbornly Benied Thal
ott ever made, uny. statement
she officers. He denied that he
‘ever had a -22 caliber rifle
av defense attorneys objected, ir
“ (e3ya examination by the state, to
qnestion as to whether he had
Kenneth. Willing, ‘Deal.Jaland
Aay Graham was slain. In nep |v
indictments, not before the
tin this case, Weldon is charg:
with. shooting and wounding
‘ing that day with a .22 ‘caliber
: Weldon denied: seeing: Will
oe hat. day.
‘3 Denied Benrch
Me denied that, when he war
mae hed. ‘at his home upon arrest
1 any other time, that officer
fuund 22 ealiber bulleta in hir
vesion, or that they found "ior
>. posseasion, He sald all they
from him was $18 in cash, hie
wallet ond three peels of

to
ot

ae

declared that” he h
wilh
: ee on the day or. night of ‘the
denied going to Princes:
ea the day 0 Ee the slaying
teclared that he had been at #
shir store at the ume the

oe eat 4 took place. * ’
ite entered a complete denial wo
“ceniig any statement to the of.
tf vie and to the accurecy of any
fernventa contained ins any of

1 five months. after their induct

to Graham's oyster packing].

chr
ervtling:

Jupanene= aoe
machine «un xeme

planed.
2,000

camp on Lugzen the day American
paratroopers, guecoilas and aim
phiblous assault’ forces hibernie!
them, the son of a native: Eastern
Shoreman wrote Telatives ae day
after his rescue.

Describing ine ducing daylight
raid, Owen. Kreuse, 35, said “it!
was all over in 2 minutes with
the Japanese commander, his staff
and 243 Japanese guards killed.’

©The jetter, written. to an aant,
re Newell Hayman, Clarkeburg.
W. Va... was-pessed on to Mroaund
Mrs. Albert Eo Krause, Princess
Anne, and Mr and Mrs. ©. ~D
(rause, 1401 North Division St
he two Riss are. uncles
Owen. ae
“We were out in the yard about
6:20 wm. on Feb. 23," the letter
said. "The Japanese (Siete were

EXTENSION OF

woe Cominllictet es
eal Without Change .

; Fyshington, Mareh’2
The House military eee
day “unimously approve

draft law:

The action :
brief hearing during? which ary
spokesmen asked that ono: restric.
tions be. placed against! the-current
policy of sending men inte: compa!
eyy
when: necessary

“Some members had. sought
ductees into combat without a spe:
cified period of training.

Chairman May ((D- ny
would seek, House consic
the bill early next aweeks
Congress extends it, the presen’
draft jaw, caer Hn 1940,
become. inoperative. on May 15.

z “Major (hanges

4 eas

) ail he

iWito”

ast uw full
rhs. eas
“that

- year

internees in the Los Banos prison!

of

han the: sending. of: teen-age “an.

eration of|*
Unies:

will

ainat Senaine
- conpat

of

abe aftecs
“fronts be Rives.

having their vaat setting’ 1p: on:
ereines and we were working,
fyan to drop from: -the sk Simul
taneously the yuerrilas
the camp and amphibious, aasault
forves arrived on the beaches
“dt wae all over in 2u minutes,”

the internees were rounded: up. A
fourth of them had te walk Inva-
Hds and) nurses ‘were car.
on trucks.)

“By. & pom that: mabe we had

Japa

Krause wrote that
learned. the Japanese is
ning te owbandon the “camp and
we were to be mactune- penne to
death before they left,

Krause, employed by
Ob Co, of Caltfornmia, w
China.” He had i
hai and was taken. b
nese when “they captures a ship be

from Pekin t

“His father” was ‘the {
Krause, nativé of the Somes
Shore and former reside f Sal:
jisbury and. Princess
‘mother was ‘the late M
ford af Princess Anne. |
anon 42 years in ¢
treasurer. of the ~No!
Methodist Mission? He 4
dwhile on furlough in

Mia Krause died in 1927,

Krause, captured by
119420 had been a prisoner ‘for over
[three yeais. He was ef the

~ |rirst “prisoners of (wa

Jay's attack on Pearl.

Krause didn't disclose where he
nail been. taken after the. rescue
sut the letter was writ
Crosa stationery.

wes sus
force “for
Virgil Hite hens ¢
shooting last night on
St in-which two bullets sen
into the door glass” “apd Xilieg of
the Burch Paint Co.
Mayor Alitchens wouki
close any details other vag 4 bay
that Officer:
lite same ¢
Uhiel of

“Suddenly the paratronpers be].

Continuing, the letter asid that :

rake into| :

Nearly 3,000,000

Si have been. evar

and steps “are be
up removal of
radio tad toda
- Quoung a 5
the Met by t
the broadcast
avian populat
has ahrunk to
bons” of the
ius. The sta
ges Tokyo's
LEAS,

By The A
“San- Franciac:
Approximate:
i} Suberforts, Libtt
nings redec &
“he south Ching
broadcast hear

| radio Tokyo

“ommunica tions
“The uncornd
‘apanese defen:

siderable losses Ea

‘Hainan. is
Tbeaten: track
ers, and mentio
Uicipation ‘reca:
-eports in whi
have been conf

LA plies
from. 2a Air
here said a ~
af the big B-

perks
Results of rn
to de. sanounced

> fare ‘aveotiabie,

The reid te
‘se ral ¢

)


Sy wore th ThA © ere al laf i ass al ita a i 8
pled up sliver of paper. As one ot while employed with a paint company, “What?” shirt underneath. And there, on his
detectives unfolded it, Mrs. Wil- he had been charged with burglarizing “A pair of blue trousers, Captain. chest just: below the neck line, were a
is cried, "That's it, I'm suret” a home in Clifton Park and. takin: They look like that blue cout we found. number of deep seratehes, painted with
crawled in pencil was the name, money and Jewelry in the amount of And aset of automobile keys, He doesn’t an prange-colored antiseptic.
| Mier. “the address was inthe 2900 $119. He had been caught when at- own a car.” Then, according to a brief statement

‘k of Longwood Street, a quiet resi-

Link street in West Baltimore,

bout 30 minutes later Lieutenants
ers, Eurice and Charles Rocken-
sh reached the address. The sleepy
dents convinced them that they
er had heard of Carl Kier.

sul back at Headquarters, Captain
‘le had had a bit more luck.

fe had telephoned the Baltimore
ice Department. Detective Lieuten-
Joe Kelley, handling the Records

om on the night trick, soon told him,

's, Sir, we have a Carl Daniel Kier.
address is on Westwood Avenue.

3on parole. What about him?”

“d like a run-down on him.”

elley obliged. Kier was 21 years old.

she age of twelve he had been in-

ed in a minor burglary and placed

srobation for four years by the Bal- —

wre City Juvenile Court. In 1954,

No Time

‘hrough the back basement door.
Pugh let me in.”

artin said, “Did she talk to you?”
he told me she could hardly hear
snocking, on that door, and in the
re would I use the side door near
farage.” i

7hat was she wearing?”

ruthfully I don’t remember. I see
of women every day.”

7as anyone else in the house?”

ot that I saw.”

"hat did you do when you finished
ce

went on to the next place.”

‘as any other car in front of the
2? A Studebaker?”

didn’t see any.”

e officers questioned him for about
our without being able to draw any
of a lead from him. Then, as a
er of routine, they investigated his

d they came up with startling
mation. as

the home next door to the Pughs’,
uin Elbert spoke to Mrs. Ethel
on, the maid. She’d been away the
dus afternoon and this was the
time the police had talked with

2 meter reader had been to this

, all right, about 12:15 or 12:30,

’s more, he’d gone into the base-
wearing one jacket, and he'd
out wearing another. f

ert, startled, asked, “Was he
ng his other jacket?” ;

1 than I could see.”

as he carrying a jacket when he

in?”

lidn’t notice it.”

tain Elbert searched the base-
He found nothing.

at was this all: about? Had he
vearing two jackets, perhaps, one
the other, and had he hidden one
se of stains on it?

iad the maid been mistaken?

y asked Lyons about it.

e’s nuts,” he said. “How could I
it? I don’t carry no spare jacket
d with me.”

y went to each home Lyons had
| that day. He’d been there, just
records showed. No one remem-
specifically what jacket he’d
vearing.

y searched his home, with his
ssion, and found no bloodstained
3, nothing incriminating.

a, because this was the first pos-
liscrepancy they'd found, they
him if he would take a lie-
or test.
be glad to,” Lyons said. “I’m
kind’a tired of all this junk
iround about me.”

did and, although the operator

tempting a second burglary on the
home of a city official and sentenced to
the Maryland Reformatory for a term
of five years. On August 7, 1955, he had
been released on: parole.

“Anything cooking on him?” asked
Kelley.

He really didn’t know, Deyle replied.
Could a detail of Baltimore detectives
be sent to the Westwood address to
meet Deyle’s men?,

Kelley said he would attend to it at
once.

Deyle then by radio advised Powers
of the new address and the impending
arrival of the Baltimore officers. ‘“‘Let’s
re sare this fellow has to say,” he fin-
ished. k

At 3:45 Powell was back on the radio.

“We found him, all right. He denies .

any knowledge of the crime. But there's
a couple things, Captain.” i

for Alibis (Continued from Page 43) - OFFICI

. Said that the test was inconclusive in

some particulars, it showed no guilty
knowledge.

“All right,”. Colonel Sandman said
when he got this report, “let’s dig in
a little harder on that black Stude-
baker and that freezer salesman.”

Detectives were out running down
the 800 black 1946 and 1947 Stude-
bakers registered in Hamilton County.
Other detectives were out talking to
distributors of home freezers and oper-
ators of the various food plans, learn-
ing the names of each freezer salesman
and questioning each one and verifying
his whereabouts on the day of the
stabbing:

It was long, tedious work and at last

.they found a salesman who'd been in

the general vicinity of Hill and Hollow
Lane that Wednesday. nai

His name was Carl Neymor and he
came into Headquarters in response to
& request the detectives left at the office
of the firm for which he worked. A tall,
slender man, he held his hat with both
hands at waist level. He had a thin,
bony face and eyes that were flat and
expressionless.

Colonel Sandman led the questioning.

“The ‘newspapers,” he said, “have
had a number of stories about our hunt
for you. Why didn’t you come in
before?”

Neymor shrugged. “I haven’t been
feeling well.”

“All right, now tell us about that
Wednesday.”

“There isn’t anything to tell, really.
I was just out trying to make a living.”

“Were you at the Pugh home?”

“No, Sir, I was not.”

“Were you on Hill and Hollow Lane
at all?” Lieutenant Martin asked.

“So, Sir. Not even there. I spent all
my time in the Price Hill area. That's
nearby, all right, but—”

Sandman said quietly, “You were
seen, Mr. Neymor, in the Hyde Park
vicinity.” :

Neymor frowned. “Someone must
want to get me in trouble. Why would
anyone want to get me in trouble?”
and he looked at the floor, as if the
answer might be there.

Sandman glanced at the others. He
wasn’t sure what it was, but something
was strange about their Mr. Neymor,

The Colonel said, “Do you own a
Studebaker?”

“No, I don’t drive.” .

“How did you get around that day?
How do you make your stops?”

“I used a taxi..I was driven around.”

“You know the taxi company?”

Neymor named it.

While the others continued question-
ing Neymor, Martin left for the office
of the cab company. He spoke to a

Thirty minutes later the detectives
were streaming back into Headquarters
with a slender, sharp-eyed youth with
long, gangling arms.

The youth met the first interrogation
with calm. “I was in Towson, sure, but
that was over a week ago. I ain't been
back since that time. I never killed that
woman, You can't prove a thing on me;
I been good on my parole and you know
it.”

Kier failed to change his story when
the detectives claimed that the keys
fitted the victim’s Chrysler. Then, as
the blue coat was brought out, he
cue “Don’t put that on me, don’t you

ry!"

Shortly after nine in the morning,
Sergeant Gagliano and Doctor.O’Don-
nell ordered him to strip for a physical
examination. With slow, fumbling fin-
gers, Kier removed his shirt, then a T-

supervisor there and had him go
through the time sheets for the fatal
Wednesday. Sure enough, one of their
men had had an afternoon fare, a long
one, in the Price Hill section.

About an hour afterward, Martin
was talking with the driver. Yes, the
man told him, he recalled that fare. All
he’d done was drive the man to the
Price Hill area and wait for him while
he’d walked around.

Martin said, “Did you take him to
Hill and Hollow Lane?”

“No, I did not,” the man answered
emphatically.

Later that day, the cab driver defi-
nitely identified Neymor as his fare.
The salesman was not held.

A DISCUSSION Colonel Sandman
had with a psychiatrist the follow-
ing day was of no comfort.

He'd gone to the psychiatrist in the
hope that the doctor would be able to
give him an emotional portrait of the
kind of person behind such a brutal
crime, a portrait of behavior and man-
nerisms, perhaps, that would stand out
like the mark of Cain.

“I'm afraid it won't be that simple,”
the psychiatrist told him. “A man kills,
In those moments of killing he can be
completely deranged. Yet minutes after
the last of those twenty-one knife
blows were made, you might not be able
to pick him out of a group of five
people, say.”

“You mean he could be completely
normal?”

“To all outward appearances, yes.”

“And right now could be leading a
normal life?”

“That's right.”

“He could come into my office, for
instance, and sit there calmly and
speak to me quietly and not show a
Single sign of anything wrong?”

“Oh, yes.”

“But within him, Doctor,” Sandman
went on, “the same forces that made
him kill once are still there, aren’t
they?” -

“We cannot say he will kill again,
but his emotional pattern hasn't
changed.”

Sandman got up, thanking the doc-
oe walked to the door, then looked

ack,

“He could be anyone on the street.
My neighbor. A man who'd loan you a
buck or stop and help you fix a flat
tire. Someone who'd say ‘Excuse me’ if
he bumped into you.”

“Anyone, Colonel. Anyone at all,”

How find the killer of Audrey Pugh?

A month passed. The police had
questioned scores of people, run
down hundreds of Studebakers—and
still they. were as far from the killer

.

issued shortly afterward by the police,
Kier leaned wearily against a wall of
the examination room and said: “All
right, I don't guess it’s much use me
lying about it no’ more. I killed the
woman, She got me mad. I wish now I
hadn’t of gone there . . .” At this point
he broke off.

Baltimore detectives questioned Kier
about the crimes in their city but he
maintained he was not involved in any
of them.

As this issue goes to press, Kier is
being held in the Baltimore County Jail
pending legal developments. Watch “Up
to the Minute” in a future issue for the
results of those developments.

To protect the identities ‘of innocent
persons, the names Ridge Tatum and
Charlie LaPalma are fictitious in this
story.

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AL DETECTIVE STORIES

as that moment when they'd looked
down at Audrey Pugh’s knife-marked
body in the entrance hallway.

Captain Elbert shook his head.
“What else can we do?”.

Sandman said, “We’ve pushed it just
about as far as we can.”

Lieutenant Martin sighed. “Start
‘over. Make like we never questioned
anyone at all.” :

Sandman groaned inwardly. Martin
was suggesting what felt like the im-
Possible to these weary men. To begin
again, look for things they might have
missed, talk to those they’d already
questioned for hours and days, the gar-
deners, the meter reader, the freezer
salesman, the owners of so many
Studebakers, people in the neighbor-
hood of the crime. And yet, the Colonel
realized, what else? Unless the slayer
were a stranger to this city, who'd
paused here to kill and then moved on,
they’d stretched the investigation to
its limit and somewhere in the tangle
of the past was the single thread they
had not seen. : :

Assignments were handed out to
members of the Department. Each
man, as far as possible, was to con-
centrate on one person and check him
off again before moving on to the next.

Martin’s, for instance, was typical.
He was digging into Lyons, the meter
reader, once more, following the route
the man had taken on the day of the:
Slaying.

And Martin was getting just about
the same answers as the first time.
Lyons had been to each place, had done
and said nothing unusual.

“I know it’s been quite a while ago,”
Martin said to one woman, “but do you
have any idea what time he was here?”

“It was in the late morning, I’m sure,
but I don’t know exactly when.”

“He said half-past eleven. I'm just
trying to nail that down. You see, he
went to the Pugh home a half hour
after he left here. He said he noticed
ne tere on the clock on the basement
wall,”

“The clock where?” the
interrupted.

“In your basement.”

Bhs 5 don’t have a clock in the base-
ment.” :

Martin's eyes widened. This had been
a@ casual remark Lyons had made.
They’d overlooked it in the rush of
other things.

“Did you have one then?”.

“No, we did not. We never had one.”

Martin hurried back to Headquar-
bai Why would Lyons have lied about

is

But, at Headquarters, Martin found
excitement for another reason.

Trying to question Carl Neymor

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BALTIMORE, MD.

ERCHED ATOP THE weather-vane, the red fox pointed
northward as a sullen southern breeze pushed up
steadily from the Chesapeake. The mid-afternoon sun

filtered through the towering elms and maples, flecking the
dull-red metal sides of the fox with patches of light. The
house, nestling on three levels up the side of the hill, was
silent—a silence broken only by the sound of cars passing
through the exclusive residential section north of Baltimore,
or the croaking of frogs in the sodden little brook across the
way.

High up on the bluff of the hill, a line of houses jutted
against the sky, but the house with the red fox on the roof

was secluded in a woodland dell all its own. It was a peace-
ful setting, Mrs. John H. Bopst thought as she nosed her
1955 Chrysler hardtop coupe up the driveway.

Her day had been a pleasant one. After a morning of
household chores, she had visited her daughter in Northwood,
a section of Baltimore-in which young couples just getting
their start like to settle. After the visit, Mrs. Bopst drove over
to Towson, the little suburban shopping community. She
bought some groceries, then a half pint of vanilla ice cream,
two coconut cupcakes and a women’s magazine.

She would make it a restful two hours before her hus-
band, a successful mechanical engineer, came home.
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Victim’s mother cried, “Why did this thing have to happen to my little girl?’ _Killer lurked outside

48-year-old matron walked through the shaded patio at the
front of the house.

As the thin storm door slammed behind her, its lock cliale
ing shut, Mrs. Bopst decided to leave the heavier door open.
She deposited the groceries in the kitchen, then walked into
the den where she started to eat the ice cream and flip through
the pages of the magazine.

And all the while the killer stood watching, with the
mounting tension drawing the skin taut about his eyes.

He stood beside a tree, peering guardedly through the
patio window while his fingers tightened around the beer
bottle in his hand.

Some people are marked for violence; the way they lead
their lives is an open invitation to horror and tragedy. But
Myrtle Bopst could not have been so marked.

She was a quiet woman with a sweet motherly disposition,
soft eyes and slightly graying hair drawn up in a bun at the
back of her head. The daughter of a foundry worker, she had
been brought up in modest circumstances. Her marriage to
John Bopst had been solid and successful and her four chil-
dren had had their share of the good things in life.

Ahead of her, one would have ‘thought; lay peaceful,
contented years. and the excited cries of little boys and girls
come to see grandmother.

But the flexing hands of the killer would end all this—in a
manner so vicious and senseless that tough Baltimore county

_ cops, their lips quivering in anger,. would call it the “most

brutal crime of our generation.”
The murderer started to move.
Across the patio he crept, ere ratdway behind a | tree

that grows through a hole in the roof of the outdoor enclosure.
He tried the latch on the storm door and it resisted.

Myrtle Bopst heard~the noise. She walked out of the den
into the hallway that leads down two steps to the living room.
Her attacker threw his body against the door and crashed
it open.

The terrified woman, immediately sensing her peril,
dropped her bowl of ice cream. She ran toward the wall
telephone but, the man was upon hey, his hands clutching and
his fists flailing.

‘Lhe courageous woman put up a frenzied fight for her life.
While he beat her with a 12-inch brass figurine of a man-on-
a-horse Cone of many Oriental curios in the Bopst home), she
pushed screaming toward the door of her living room.

He threw her to the ground, cracking her head against the

edge of a small white table and smearing it with a splatter _

of blood.

But Myrtle Bopst struggled to her feet again as the assailant

darted in the kitchen and picked up two ten-inch butcher
knives. Police later theorized that while he was gone, Mrs.
Bopst grabbed a Japanese saber. But she never had a chance
to pull it out of its scabbard.
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and stabbed. In his madness he grasped the saber, still in its
scabbard, and punched it through the dying woman’s neck.

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widening pool of crimson seeping into the tan rug, the killer
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On the kitchen table sat Mrs. Bopst’s handbag. The killer
took his victim’s money and the keys to her Chrysler, walked
out to the car and drove off.

In the house, the vanilla ice cream oozed into the cracks
of the floor. The blood slowly thickened and the package of
coconut cupcakes remained unopened.

Overhead, atop the weathervane, the red fox swung un-
easily from north to east and back to north again as the first
hint of evening touched the tips of the trees. . . .

In his office in downtown Baltimore, John Bopst was ending
another day of work. He got in his car, one of three owned
by the family, and drove north on Baltimore’s famous Charles
Street.

As the automobile swung past stately houses on the tree-
lined thoroughfare, he knew he was getting close to home.
Probably he was wondering what his wife was preparing for
dinner, or mentally running down the television listings for
the night.

As the road narrowed and dipped and swung left near his
home, the 55-year-old engineer felt the coolness of his wood-
land homesite on his cheek.

He parked the car in the driveway. No one seemed to be
at home. The heavy wooden door from the patio into the
living room was locked, having been slammed shut by the
assailant as he left.

Thinking his wife was out, Bopst went to get the key from

was brought to laboratory in effort to “get the bum.”

its usual hiding-place under a mat in the patio. As he walked
toward the window and saw his wife lying face down on the
floor, he thought she had fainted.

He ran to the back door, kicked it in and found her battered
body. The shocked husband telephoned Baltimore County
police at Towson. “My wife has been killed,” he gasped in .
an unbelieving whisper. Awaiting their arrival he numbly
placed a curtain torn down in the fray over her body.

Swarms of police, led by Captains Gilbert Deyle and Cyril
Baumiller, rushed to the scene. Their practiced eyes surveyed
the house of murder. There was Mrs. Bopst, clad in a gray
cotton dress with red figures on it. Her black pumps were off
her feet, each a few inches from the body.

The red-smeared man-on-the-horse figurine that the killer
had used to bludgeon his victim was lying nearby, next to the
blood-covered knives and Japanese scabbard. A half of a
curtain rod, which might have been used in the assault, leaned
against the wall, while the other half hung bent and twisted
from the window frame.

Three other Oriental figurines had been knocked to the
floor. The woman’s desperate attempt to escape was written
in the clawing fingerprints of blood on the white end table
and the screen door.

The ice cream was sodden now, drying into rivulets around
the broken fragments of the bowl. In the den, ‘the magazine
still lay open to a summer recipe. And on the kitchen table
the bag of groceries sat unopened next to the rifled pocket-
book.

Deyle and Baumiller ordered detective squads to pick up
fingerprints in every conceivable (Continued on page 94)

workmen hereabouts. Not one of them
remembers anything of the kind.”

As the officers speculated over the rea-
son for Poffenberger’s being in the wash
house at that time of day, the dead man’s

daughter arrived from her home, five

miles away. Loveless had driven over in
his own car for her immediately follow-
ing the arrival of the officers from the
fashington county seat at Hagerstown.
@ he daughter could advance no theory
as to why anyone would have wanted to
injure her father. She pointed out how
all of his men called him “Uncle Rol.”
He had helped every one of them with

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4 Poffenberger was found sprawled near the
asoline drum as*'this official photo shows.

Investigator Wayne Sellman, above,

“had an early hunch that proved correct.

loans and other financial assistance at
one time or another, she added.

Sheriff Baker wondered if one of those
employes or neighbors who had gone to
Poffenberger for financial help might not
have become embroiled in a fatal argu-
ment with the old man in the event his
demands were refused. But he determined
to keep that theory to himself until fur-
ther investigation.

It was near midnight when the quickly
organized posse returned to report that its
search had brought no result. Not a trace
of any suspicious person had been seen.

Meanwhile, County Investigator
Wayne Sellman arrived and started a
minute search in an effort to locate the
weapon with which Poffenberger had
been slain. Along with Sheriff Baker,
Sellman was working on the theory that

the killer was still in the vicinity and
very likely: was some person whom the
old man knew and trusted.

The daughter had gone into the house
soon after her arrival. Now she came
out to report that someone had ransacked
the place. Bureau drawers and cupboards
had beén pulled open and their contents
dumped onto the floor. Several articles
of value, including her father’s leather
wallet, were missing.

Farm employes declared that Poffen-
berger frequently kept large sums of
money in his home. He always paid sal-
aries in cash and although payday was
several days off, it- was believed possible
that he had had sufficient funds for that
purpose already at hand. The sheriff de-
termined to learn more about the dead
man’s financial habits as quickly as possi-
ble. ,

Officers went to the house and started
a search in the belief that the killer might.
have left some clue to his identity. While
they were inside, one of the employes
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about. Seems Mr. Poffenberger treated
the people who worked for him as one
big family. The fact that some of them
were in the house, and others had been in
the wash house and left their prints there,
means exactly nothing.”

“Yet you think that it is some member
of this ‘one big family’ for whom we are
looking?” persisted Sellman, suddeily
alert to the note of finality in the sheriff's
voice.

“IT can answer that much better after
we've questioned the neighbors—talked
with disinterested persons whose private
opinions may give some clue to the real
conditions here at the farm.” The sheriff
turned to one of his deputies who stood
guarding the door to the room in which
- the inquiry was being conducted. He was

about to ask that another witness be
called when hurried footsteps approached.

A farmhand burst in. “Sheriff,” he
blurted, “some of our chickens have been
missing since the murder. I've just seen
them in the yard of an old place half a
mile down the road.”

The officers leaped up. Was it possible
that this discovery would provide a solu-
tion to the riddle? Had the murderer
been so stupid as to steal a number of
chickens as well as the elderly victim’s
money?

Baker, Sellman and their informant got
into an automobile and sped from the
Poffenberger place. Down state highway
No, 34;-the car went for about half a mile,
then made a turn to the south and rocked
along the dirt road for several hundred
yards. Sheriff Baker pulled to a halt be-
fore a ramshackle, one-story house that
appeared from the roadway to be utterly
deserted.

“This is the place,” the man said, point-
ing toward a weed-grown field to the left
of the house.

The sheriff nodded. “Several chickens
out there, all right. I don’t see anything
to indicate the house is occupied. But
we'll know that soon enough.”

As the officers made their way toward
the unpainted dwelling the front door was
opened a crack and they saw in the dim-
ness behind, a thin, bearded face, topped
by a tangle of gray hair. Two tiny sharp
eyes peered out toward them. But before
Baker and Sellman reached the small
porch that jutted crazily from the lop-
sided structure, the door was slammed
suddenly shut.

A moment later Sheriff Baker was
pounding loudly on the cracked panels of
the door. There was a stealthy move-
ment from within and again the door
opened a crack. Once more they saw two
red-rimmed eyes staring out at them:

“Open up, we're officers of the law.”
The sheriff pushed the door inward as he
spoke.

“What do you want?” came a high,
squeaky voice.

It was then that the Washington
county officers saw that they had come
to the home of an extremely old man.
The occupant of the house stepped gin-
gerly out onto the porch and instantly
the same thought crossed the minds of
the two officers:

Was it possible that this weather-
beaten, bent oldster could have wielded
the heavy pipe-wrench which had been
used to beat Raleigh Poffenberger to
death?

“Whose hens are those outside your

house?” Sheriff Baker shot the question
in a cold, hard voice, turning to point
toward a dozen Rhode Island chickens as
he spoke. 2

The officers saw the expression of’ gen-
uine bewilderment that swept the wrin-
kled old face before them. They saw that
expression turn to one of surprise and
alarm as the tiny eyes darted to the lot
where the hens were scratching vainly
for food.

“Come on, tell us how Mr. Poffen-
berger’s hens happen to be on your place.”
The sheriff stepped toward the old man,
but his voice was softer now.

For another minute the man _ stared
toward the chickens. Then he turned
back to the sheriff and when he answered
his creaky old voice came steadily and
his eyes looked straight at Sheriff Baker.

“Mister, I never saw those chickens
before.”

There followed a long series of ques-
tions. The officers learned that the old
man had lived alone in the shack for
years, that he rarely left the place. Once
weekly his grandchildren would stop by
with groceries and to see that he was all
right. He had not been able to work for
a decade and the possibility that he could
have slipped off, committed a cold-blooded
murder, then returned with a dozen
chickens, was so remote as to be ridic-
ulous.

HE old man had not known of the

presence of the stolen chickens until
the arrival of the officers, they became
convinced. Obviously, then, since they
had been locked up securely, someone
had tried deliberately to throw suspicion
upon him by planting them there.

On their way back to the Poffenberger
farm, Sheriff Baker turned to the county
investigator. “Well, there’s one thing to
be gained from this little excursion,” he
said thoughtfully. “Whoever tried to di-
rect suspicion toward the old man back
there certainly hasn’t lived around these
parts long. Any old-timer would have
known better than to plant the stolen
hens on the one person who couldn’t have
committed the murder.”

That night Dr. Kurt E. Lande, labora-
tory director and pathologist for the
Washington county hospital, reported the
results of an autopsy performed on Pof-
fenberger’s body. The farmer had been
in excellent health for one of his years,
the report indicated.

The blows which had struck him down
had been struck from behind, crushing
the skull and rendering him instantly un-
conscious. Although a single blow would
have been sufficient to cause death, the
slayer had struck repeatedly, either in
a frenzy of homicidal madness, or in fear
that his victim might through some mira-
cle recover sufficiently to identify his as-
sailant.

On the third day following the murder,,
Poffenberger was buried and a coroner 8,
jury returned a verdict of “death at the:
hands of a person or persons unknown.
That same afternoon county officials me
in the office of the state’s attorney ¢
review their progress in the investigation

It was a dejected group of men w
left that conference less than an ho
later. Both the sheriff and the county
vestigator had to admit that after h
spent in talking with neighbors of

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only that afternoon received more than
$200 through the sale of farm machinery
to a neighbor.

“You saw him receive this money, in
cash ?” asked Sheriff Baker.

“Yes, That was about four o’clock. It
was out near the big barn. He put the
money in his tfouser barnes and started
toward the house.”

“Anyone else see the transaction?”
continued the sheriff.

It would be impossible to answer that
question, Baker was informed. Several
of the hired hands had been working in
the vicinity at the time, but none other
than the sheriff’s informant had been
standing with the two men during the
actual transference of the money.

It was not until the day following the
crime that Sheriff Baker located the in-

State’s Attorney Charles F.
Wagaman, above, successful-
ly prosecuted the slayers of
the wealthy farmer, using
dictograph evidence obtained
through the aid of Lieut. Ed-
ward J. Chapman, veteran
railroad detective, right.

DETECTIVE

strument with which the slaying had been
committed and then under circumstances
that were more mystifying than helpful.

Along with several assistants, Baker
and Sellman had conducted a systematic
search of the barns, outbuildings and
grounds the night before. They had gone
from the stock barn to the building in
which machinery was stored, thence to
the chicken yard, the hay barn and other
buildings. Nothing that could have been
the fatal weapon had been uncovered.

After hours of searching in every con-
ceivable place of hiding, the sheriff had
gone to the house for a short rest. Imme-
diately upon awakening early next morn-
ing he asked Sellman to aid him in
resuming the hunt, re-covering the
ground already gone over.

It was back at the chicken house that
the sheriff made his discovery. There,
lying only partly concealed beneath the
feed box, was a 14-inch pipe-wrench, its
handle splotched with blood. The heavy
jaws were similarly marked—and nu-
merous thin gray hairs were visible.

Sheriff Baker turned to the investi-
gator. “I could have sworn we looked
thoroughly in this very spot last night,”
he stated as he stared down at the feed
box where the missing wrench lay.

“And you’d have been absolutely
right,” returned Sellman tersely. “I defi-
nitely remember moving the box to look
beneath it.”

“Then the killer, or some accomplice,
must have put that wrench there between
nine and ten o’clock last night and early
this morning. Probably even while we
were searching for it someplace else, but
after we’d gone through this place.”

“Yes, and that means we need no longer
logk tor a stranger,” the investigator
agreed. “But it still leaves more than a
score of possible suspects. There must
have been at least twenty-five persons
gathered here at the farm last night—
employes and neighbors who took part in
the search for the slayer.”

Sheriff Baker studied the handle of the
murder weapon closely. Although not a
laboratory technician, he readily saw that
whoever had wielded the, cruel instru-
ment had taken care to wipe away any
fingerprints that might have remained.

“We'd better start with the people em-
ployed right here on the farm,” Sellman
suggested. “Once we find out definitely
where each person was at the probable
time of the murder, we'll know whether
it will be necessary to continue the hunt.”

Both Sellman and the sheriff were by
this time convinced that the murderer of
*Poffenberger had been motivated solely
by robbery. They were convinced, too
that the slayer or slayers had waited un-
til a time when they knew there was
money at hand to be stolen and that they
had in some manner lured ;their victim
to the isolated wash house and there killed
him in cold blood.

All during the day following the crime,
Sheriff Baker, Investigator Sellman and
State’s Attorney Charles F. Wagaman
questioned the dozen persons eupaye:
on the farm.

L BROWN and Earl Loveless, the
youths who had discovered the body,
had been in the farmhouse occupied by
the latter’s family, for more than.a hour
preceding their grim discovery, they tes-
tified. Their story was substantiated by
27-year-old James Lee Miller, another
employe, who said he was with them at
that time.

“We had started across the yard
toward the cow barn, to get things ready
for the evening milking, when Earl no-
ticed the door to the wash house was
open,” young Brown told the officers.

Other persons who lived on the farm
were able to produce witnesses to confirm
their statements that they had been either
at their homes or working far distant
from the murder scene during the hour
in which medical authorities placed the
fatal attack.

At the conclusion of the questioning,
Sellman turned to Sheriff Baker. “Well,
Joe, it looks as though we would have to
look for the killer some place other than
here on the farm,” he said slowly.

“Yes, unless something should turn up
to prove that one of these people we’ve
already questioned has been lying,” Sher-
iff Baker replied.

“You have something in mind ?” inter-
jected the state’s attorney. “Fingerprints
or footprints in the wash house, or in the
rooms of the big house where the killers
went in search of money after the slay-
ing?”

Sheriff Baker thought for several min-
utes before replying. When at length he
spoke, there was in his manner a hint of
some definite suspicion which he was not
yet ready to reveal.

“T don’t believe we can look for any
of the ordinary clues—fingerprints and
such—to help us in this case, Charlie.
You see, half the employes on the farm
had the run of the house. Naturally many
of their fingerprints, even some of their
personal possessions, were found lying

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51


PACT OF MURDER
emt FIRST Dt

= , _Gentioncd Frou Fiewt Fagg.

re

there wore grave doubts in the minds of |*
theese whe stiended the trial that the’

prisoner would receive the full penalty.

BA showed a premeditated and willfal
meorder, with few (if any) mitigating
“. gtveumetances. It was proves that Has-
dy hed beates hie wife at their home in
CrieGeld ; that several weeks before the
meardes she hed ich bome with his
Laowleige ang comsent to go to Tyaskin
District, Wicomico county, te visit bis
(Haady’e) relatives ; that she took with
her hes three-yeas-old girl ; that shortly
after arriving in Tyaakia Distsict, Celia
Bandy eecared work aad was providing
for bereelf aed child; that a few days
before the murder Heady saiicd is bis
@yeter boat for the Nanticoke River fur
the perpose of bayieg oysters, taking
with him oa the bost two ther persona,

aed procured a serolver, and showing
is to the other mea remarked that be ia-
tended te hill hie wife; thet that very
same night be went eakore aad visited
the house where Celia was staying, and
ealling her dows siaire into the hitchea,
* threatened to kil) her, pointing the pie-
tol at her breast ; that be then and there
Geman ded possession of the child and
its cloth ing, aad after procuriag some
clothing was told that the child was at
_the bpme of s peighbor not far distant;
that he weat to the house aad found the
ebild, ang at the same time found some
letsers tu bis wife’s trunk which were
writtes by another colored man; that
Haady took the child, clothiag and let-
ters and reterned to bis boat, which was
at Roarieg Polat wharf; that the sezt
day” (Thursday) the boat was sailed
down the river sbout a mile snd anchor-
e@; that Handy was observed to be ery-
ing severa) times during the day; thet
on Friday he remarked to those on
beard that be was sorry he bad not kill-
od his wife Wednesday might, aod that
be intended doing ft that day (Friday);
that be west lato the cabia and pro-
cured » gen, cleaned {t, inserted « shell,
fired it, to see if the gun wes in working
« order, and thes relosded it; thet be
weighed aachor, got the boat under way,
«* salled to Roering Point whasf, and teh-
“) img the gen and several loeded shelie,
started tw the place where bis wife was
staylog; thet be did sot heed the ed-
mositien of those op board sot Ww hill
hile wife, bet proceeded to the field
where sbe wae working and commitied
tbe awfel crime, in the manner diated
“gbove. Tale chaie of incriminating evt-
dence wee phiifaily wores, liek by link,
by the prosecutive, and judging frum
tthe verdict, lef no doobt epma the
‘minds of the jury that the crime was
plansed several days before its execu-
thos and that Handy deliberately took
the life of hie wife.
«. | Betdence For The Defence.
‘The. defense seeght in several ia-
stances to shake the testimony of the
prosecuting witnesses and to coefuse
: them es to the distance of Handy from
his wife when the shot wae fired, sad
to the words which took place betweee
them ie ibe field. The defense also pro-
Geced letters alleged to heave been writ-
tea by vee Bob Thomas, of Crieéeld, to

-* + the wife, of Hendy, and attempted to

_ prove thet theses hed 20 esreged the
Aucband tibet be commitied the deed
while ia a @t of anger; that bis home
bed been wrecked asd bie happiness
devtiroyed by another mas, aed was
therefore ia such a mesial cosdition at
the time of the deed that be shold not
bave inflicted upon him the desth pea
alty. No effort was mode by the defence

Last week was devoted to fall opea-
tags im the sores of Selisbery, and many
benatifel displays were made by the big
mores on Main Street. The weather
being favorable the ladies termed out ja |
great througs to inspect the besatiful
creations in bata, coats, furs, dress goods, |
rete. Im addition to the displays mea- |
toned, the stores wore prettily deeorated
with Sowers, foliage, autema leaves aad
other decorations. Below will be found
brief accounts of some of the newest
fesbivas ja bats ad other things.

R. &. Powell & Co.

, | ture were first attracted by the baad-
that on Wedaveday before the marder | some display fa the large show wiadows.

Handy went isto the cabin of the boat! O54 was Glled with @ great variety of

Visitors at Powell's big deparimeat

ladies’ coats, fers, tailor-made seks and
dress goode ; the other contained a bean-
tifel dieplay of pattern hate. The iater-
lor of the store presested & very atiract-
ive appearence, all the seasoa’s novel-
tles in dress goods being co display.
The millisery partor, om the second
floor was, of course, the ceater of attrac:
tion for the fair sex. Here were dice
played a great variety of pattern bate.

Une of the most attractive shapes was
a brown box terben meade of chenille
braid snd maline, showing a edft sheered
band of onion shade ribbos, the trim-
ming of which ovnaisted of a pair of
wings shading from oslca to a bruwsn,
caught with ea buckla. *

One hat that attracted special attea-
tion was » large brows veivet model
with o gracefal flare and artistically
trimmed with a simple wreeth of brows
roses showing ceaters of the popular
eolor, coque-de-ruche.

Ore of the prettiost misses bats was a
terracotta beaver trimmed with a long
shaded coque plume aad liberty satis
ribbos of the same shade. ?

&. Rowenthab 4

As useal the display at Loweathal's
was very attractive aed elicited favur-
able comments [rom the greet throngs
of lady visitors. The show windows
were very prettily decorsted with pat-
tern bate and the various shades of
flowers aed ribbons fur trimming bats.
The millinery parlor fa tee rear pre-

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bave to be content with @ few of the
prettiest ones.

A hat which attracted mech ailestivs
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fo velvet and maline, with black ostrich
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A lavender beaver, with soft silk
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cord, wae sbowa. This hat was finished
off with a kavt aad steamer of the seme
material, aed bad a dandean trimming
of three-quarter plumes.

While the large hate were mach fe
evidence, there was alec 8 plesteces
artay of bate ia smaller styles to sult the
tates of those who do sot ge le for dash-
lag effects,

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19,7 ihe 1) bh }
eqeal obility and ceergy tbe prussrution
bed atrempted to convict the prisvser
of the atrecioas merder of bis buscm

When the verdict was reedered 6
dvaib like stillecee pervaded ie the Tew:
ple af Justice, amhoegh Rh was crowded
to the very é with epectat The
jery retired about twesty Ave wieeics
of twelve o'clock, aed after remalaiag
owt bese Ube ball an boer sent word to
the (vert that they bad agreed epoe s
verdict. Whh soleme treed the jurors
filed inte the box aed is response to the
queuines propoeaded by Clerk Toad-
vise, aanoseced the verdict of ‘Marder
te the Gret degree,” the fest ever ree-
dered in Wicomico, ahbough the county
be thirty-ct2 years old. Handy, the coe-
viected man, sat beck of bie coussel
whee the soleme words fel] upoe bis
ears, and seemed to receive them with
indifference. If he was mock affected it
wes aut visibic. The priwner was led
beck t» jall by Sheri@® Gillie aad hn
depary, Mr. Waller, there Ww remain eo-
Ul theday of executive, unless Exec
tive ch meecy comanatos his sestence tu
im prisvament for life.

Mmeory Of The Crime.

Tee crime for which Henry Handy
will forfeit bis Hfe wae commitied ie
Tyestia District, Wicumico cosaty, ce
Friday, September 16 Armed with «
slagie barrel breech loading shot gue,
Hands mode bis way trum Rvariag
Poiat to the core feild ie whice bis wite
Celta was tyieg up topa, and there ia
Ube preessce of several other colored
prreoces, nbet ber deed. Before cummit-
ing Ube awfal deed, Handy bed 2 few
words with bis wife, in which be accued

occasions poke of the service aad st-
tention rendered by the plaistif’ and
woeld pay him. The defendant found
by witnesses that the plaintiff hed stated
he was to be paid vat of the crop, aed
bad been paid and received one-half of
the crop raised oa the farm. The jury
broeght in a verdict for the defendant.
Toadvia & Bel) for the pisiatiff ; Jos.
L. Bailey, James KB. Ellegood aad Joshua
W. Miles fer defendant.

As coon as the verdict was rendered
ia Unis case, the murder case of Henry
J.Haady, colored, wes taken up aed
cocapied the remalader of Wedsesdey
and al! day Thereday and uati! nearly
midaight. The verdict of the jary was
meorder in the Gray degree. A full bis-
wry of the case will be found in another

colume.
Friday's Preeeediags.

Friday morning the salt of Dr. Joba
W. Steeves against the County Commis
et 3 of Dorchester county was taken
ep. Dr, Steevee claimed that be wae
appelated by De. Guy Sicele, the jucal
health officer fur Durchester cuunty, to
take charge of a smallpox epidemic va
Etliott’s Istand. Dr. BSteeves claimed
that be treated the peticats, 8 ur 10 ia
avmber, aed maintained a quarantine
seccessfully, preventing ibe spreed of
the costagion over the Island; that all
the patiests recovered, aed that be fa-
migated all the premises afier the cases
bad recovered. For his services cover-
ing a period of 4 days Dr. Steeves rea-
dered a bill to the Commissioners fot
$545 00, of al the rate of ten dollars per
day. The Commissioners considered
the bill excessive aad refused to pay it.
They, however, told Dr. Sieeve tbat if
he would bring ln 8 reasonable bill they
would pay it, Dr. Bteeves thes brought

republican party
blows. Col. Smith is an
spesher 20d every Democrat ia

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By sh * dpcap both of Baxee Islond,
Va, were married jas ema!l opea bua
ja Pocomoke svand, twu miles from
Criefeid. Mr. William Mister, the
father of the bride, wae very aoe op |
posed tothe attention that youeg Spevce
was paying to ble deaghter aod bed |
forbid ber to allow Spence Ww: call,
threatening bim with violence should
be catch bie: at bis (Mister’s) home
Spence payed little attention to the
threats, but wooed sad won the girl
An elopemoat was planned tv take place
Wednesday aight, aod Spence procered
the license te Virginia. Arriving ot the
garden gate, which wes (the appoleted
spot for the meeting. the youeg mae
aitered his familler wbistie, and to bis

surprise instead of bie Indy love carry
ing & satchel ber father appeered with e
shotgun ead gave Bpeace & chases
through cornfields and marsbes eotll a

ouit for the entire amocat of bis dill.
Tre pletatif’ sammoned four or five of
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Coolly louking ef the dead tody of hig
wife for a few eecoads, Haedy tarsed
bis beck and welked away, apparently
met caring whet became of ber body.
He weet straight to the office of Jncticve
af tbe Peace Wm. Deatee, banded the
gts to tbe Justice, and then in 2 cool

the peaahy of his crime oa the galluws,

‘ Haedty whed Jontice Denton Hf be woald

write bis «ill making dlepesitive of bis

thea of Bellebary. Full partioutare can} =~
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experience in the trestmest of small-
pon cases, for the purpose of proving
the valne of « doctor's services in treat-
ing a small-pes epidemic. They all tes-
tied thet the service was worth $10 6
day. De. Joka 8. Fuitos, of Baltimore,
executive officer of the State Board of
Heahh, Sgered Dr. Bteeves’ services at
96.80 per day. The defence produced
teatimeay free physicians in Dorchester
county whe bed attended emall-pox ep-
ideenics, thet their charges raaged from
G1.30 to 61.00 a visit. The defense also
proved that the enees wader Dr. Bieeves
ebarge were mild, asd that he was act
pet to much trouble ia treatisg them
end te malnteining a quarantine, This
ence ecenpled al] of Fridey aad Batar-
day eatil Court adjourned ai noos.
Bowdag’s Preceedinga.

The third wees of Court opened Mon-
day aftersows at 2 o'clock, The case of
Dr. Greeves was resumed It was fia-
iahed aad gives to the jary at eleves
@elvck Monday night. The jury reach-

Ler county te pay all costs. Thomas W.
Simaces and Toadvis & Bell were at-
torneye for the plaintif ; W. Laird Hea-
ry and James EB. Ellegood for Coeaty
; ‘Tucetay’s Freeeesiags.
Ko. 47 Trials, Jones vs. Jones wes
taken up. This ts ane of the three Joues
cance removed from Worcester county.
Te thie case Beajensia & Jones sees his

late bonr, when Mr. Mister, thiskieg
that be was thoroughly rid ef Spesce,
retarned to bis home to enjoy peacefal
siamber. *

The sext morning Speace weet to
Princess Ance and secured asother
license. He thea returned to bis home,
met bie sweetheart, found = mialeter,
and with o few friends embarked in the
boat. They sailed jest acrose the
boundary liue iato Maryland and were
mafried.. A large number of Maryland |

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esa Bays’ cating ‘fits WATT DEAD WR TTASKIN. [IR WOCOMKO COUNTY, © Doo Ime: | fy . WAS.

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: Sc ee Me Bad Pewee Love Letters From Anethes Rerren Crock District Mas A League With The Trial Dechet Coutaine 81 Cucee ‘Aa a ewerat ieee
! aA tig bt weight suire jearect Wien: r ot . Mae Ia Bos Treah--Given Mimelf Up : Greer Vitty Memhere Te Start With— Fhe Cristnal Merket 8A-Sames me. ; ‘mont Took rte
{et “Alec a murctel Male of Mens Bairy te oll | Te The Justice Aftce The Sheeting Matters Atco Mas A Merveg Leages Jones Cigece Fergpman tf The Grand od SFaverieg .
j the latest ebedee §1.00 shirts af T3 ces: Teor | { , Aud le Breaght To Galtebary Jal Wi-| With Mustiing O@eore - Other Dtetriete - dary~—Jndges rege, Neilacd And sinker 810,000 Ry Yh
A PUna St ste (8 ove. cuirns a1 Tote Men's! couisy May Mave Ste lect Reagt _ Te Orgaatoc Tate Week, On The Memon ete s Secure A Like

9 | ramos ane ane wewht pants from sue! * : aes ‘ fare) é IEE EE, : Goel eh Saks

Sepesecd nad peee Nahas nage Sete Looney ageacanantieee el fi sai 6 Soin!

0 lee sores ww Hm 4 ereet saving oa : ; ; ees eae
[every purchase. - = = 4 Reraged at Sading that bis wife Celia} The Democrets of Wicomico county “the Recraniar Term of the treat - The road meeti
= ae “ {had been untrue to him, Henry J. Handy, | ere tabing an active Interest ja the work (Court fur Wicomico county custened : place in the Par
B hing For o = | a respectable coloured man, deliberately | of organising Parker, Davie aad Smith Monday morning a4 ten o'clock, WIth | Galisbary, Tueed
very g. or. a tuanver WANIELY fe jilted her with e shut gua le Tyaskin! Leagues. and within the sext few days | Chief Judge Pege and Associate Jadgee' The mecting was
ee > sDietrict, thie county, Friley mureing | there will be Rourishing Leagues Yo} Holland aad Licyd o@ the bench. The] Thomas Perry at
; coe S 5 $04 Division Street, a hene After shooting her, Handy walkcd | operation ia every district. : calling of the docket diselused the fol-/and Mr. Was.

; “= +to (he office of Justice of the Peace Wm} Saturday night Inst the sturdy ‘Deme- lowing cases; Trials - 51, ‘Appeals 7,! secretary, After
Near Mynpirere "Salisbury Md. Denton aod gave himealf up, request-| crats of Harrea Creek District orgenized| Crimiaa!l Appesrances 18, Criniisal Con- meoting edjoarn
Mi {tag that he be brought to Nalisbury jail.ja leegue wiih the followiag officers :| thauances 6. There aresis removed caseeiof Mr, A, NM, Jc

Constable Juace brought the negru tu/ Presideat, A. 3, Venables; Vice-Preal- | on the docket, five from Hi oroestet aad) Eagineer.: Mr. J

2 a sreroswoneoreoneenescssecn| tlt erriving bere about Gvejdent, Isasc & Bennett: Treasurer, @.| one fram Dorchester Boon train sad th
: ae Friday afternoon, The prisoner} W. Willey; Secretary, Robert GU. Rob-t The following gentleaien were select: veued at’ 2,00

seemed cvgl and cullected, sud seemed jerteua; Orgeaizer, Irving N. Cooper. | ed to compose the Grand Jury: James Perry. was ele
j Settafied with the deed, although he said | Esecative Committee, 8. J. Phillipe, J. | y. Jones, (foreman}, Levia Hastings, Engineer Jobasod
bad be bad more time to thiak the mat-| A. Waller, A.J. Eoglish, L: B. Bradley, Elijah Hears, Hobert H. Lowe, Wm. J. general explanat
iter over he might not: have semen ited H. L, Murphy. About 60 members wore! Walies. Wm. K, Laws, Irving Twilley, | said that he did »
: : the awful act. =. 5 eorulled aed en invitation exteaded to Joho Ws Adhias, John A. 8. Heara.} made & permanen
: z we mane A” é Heady ts « Bomarses scunly ‘negro all who fatend to support the ticket to | Geo. W. Adkins, Benj: W. Bethardes, Maté Kngioger c
“| SPECIALTY OF Lent bas always burue «4 gud veputation juin’ and work fur the glection af the} Join L: Powell, H: James Truitt, Fred. / ruad as coming. w
cane i arta his hume. The wumas was) tickal till the polls close on the Mh of | A. Crockett, “Alva H. Walter, Haady {ihe State approp
: eo... ‘im the Meld gatheriag fodder ‘whea the! November; The League will moet every Deante, Fred Porker, Charies E Ben. fa this section of
} murder occurred. The witnesese tu the Batarday. evening a(7.80 o'clock. Wei gett, iclerh): Blan Harcum, Ernest Grit’ | sidered lime Mond
_enmesenannimenee z crime were tao small children, of Cart Vbope ta. see every Democrat in Barren Oth, Janes U. Johnson, Lsony I. Insley, pat Pon Deposit
 ewicebpag ant dnahing: fur Handy, colored. But few ‘words passed | Creek. Distrhe ‘enroll ble fam and eet Noab H. White) ty qvod advantag
Amatueur Photographers. = @ [between the man aad hie wife, before! down tu business... : ‘Judge Hollend, ‘io inotructing ‘the | pet of ells tov
e 3 Mendy raised hia gus and Aired the fetal! The tried aad true. (in ene oCold Grand Jury of thete duties, spoke ofthe! within the mean
shot. The womak dropped dead ia her | Nutter's are never found ‘lagging iu the qgood-ruads movemest in Wicomico the State law; “H
tracha, the load taklog effect iu her} work for the success of the Democratic | county as follows, * “Gentlemen of She} in thie section of
throat: - The: ‘murderer deliberately left) party. Tuey bave reaponded to the call Jary, you areto. ekamtne the condition aboat $3,200 per o
her lying um the groued, anil walking to! to organize a Parker, Davis and Both) of ibe county toads aod in makieg yoar ibe oetat slag ai |
the Justice's office, told bis sory and) League, with a good size membership. | repurt yor ore to advise of any l@prove- | tivered on the seo
gave himself up. The. breech. jJoadiog |The officers. of the League ere: Preei-| meat \hat you think, becessary., Tem ing about 9,000 80
gua had one empiy shell, asd in thejdent, Aluasy Dykes; Vics: President. glad to say thet there is a: movement | mite of read. &
other barrel a loaded one, abowisg con-| Jamea C. Jubneca ; Secretary, Willie P.| now on foot forthe improvement of she i bulirout of
_. ;clusively that Haady ‘weat prepared to] Ward; Treasurer, Alfred W, Reddtet ; pavilc highways: df this cogaty,” 9 stone, would cyst
“4 do the Job complete.” The prisoner was; Organizer, 1; Joseph Hearn. The Exe-| The first case of (nipurteace. ‘et Mr. Jotecon’ ‘eup!
-ouol aod collected whea interviewed by; cutive Committee is. ‘oom posed of the Monday waa No. | Appeels, the: Balti. tor procedisze wee
tbe Nawe man Fridey alternoun. Me five geatlemeg | mentioned above'and M more, Cheeapeske. & Atlantic Kaitwey tlssiopers
eave the fullowlog slatement: |. Drydeo, Jobo B. Pryor, Loals Hus- Company v6, Eben B. German Appel) money equal
Ss *E ama 37 years vid, waa burn in Som-' sells, Janes D. Coulbourn and Josiah frora Justice Hoston, “German sued the | county. from
jorvet couaty.aad live in Crisfeld. Last! H. Jubnson,” Nutter’s District will give} reliway company for wages. claimed te
_j May my wife, Cecitle Handy, to whom I} a es acouant of hereelf on the, mo of be due for bis. services. as painter aed! s
bave beea married for foul years, came | obtained Judgment before the ‘Inagts-
he Wicomico to pick berries, bringing : “Row let abe other ‘dletriets ‘er trate -. The railway company’ appealed survey ‘section ae
eur Hule child. Trae over from Somer-| their tessa ens at once, ‘and sent! aad ihe case waa tried before e Jury, jig the SON, and
: et eee ~ feet in my.cance “Wednesday night aad , which brooght ln = verdict for G. da
quot Clger thing of how cthers m amumy. ma “eaw my wile, Ackiag her why she bad]. oe ee assessing damages at $35.00 cote.
Sur ween Joe are emoning on, oe a era = deserted our child aad going to her! RP. Sraseie teacher t “ vertise for Mdator’
eow'y smoas roe oraane. : trunk to fad the child's clothing, I came . seelcaas’ ae Ralisdery : *{ work Is to be done

Tow ose aut tr gd meard § across some lettre written by a man “LD, W of the Stale Engin oe
Sot Bice sed be com |” t who tives In Crisfleld. I took the letters ats anpacrerkomr nial od : j tung been bulit a
ee ie eR DEM | 1 with me and Tread thea: over, On Thure- r
ne =e PORTER, | : : ~ ne <— \. | dey ead this morning 1 Ten” my boat, visors overfowing With: _epthuslasm ch OS.  followiag . were dis ef rcpt aoseeah
‘ic hecah rate,» ‘Sabie Me. He tenia —————— | taing my sboigan, to confront my wite| eed confidence, The committee at pree- Tuesday: No. 2 Crimisal Coatingances, Wicamiea got
ae no a eeerren wre ,| with the letters. If abe bad acknow-/ eat le busily engaged te distributing | Bate ve. Marcus Ternor. [sdisted tor the wey
TELEPHONE 31 be eR Ses : : led ged that ebe and the. “men” chad ‘bees iteratare throughous the counties “pad inscessyy Trial before j 5 9

guilty of wrongdoleg I might: have aleo ta arranging for the promotion of|

gener
spared her life. But she lied to me aad eticel preliminaries, watch are the follneivg

sald she had never received a letter from the eceseary goacomitanie of: every ee e by Mr. Ay So fe
him, eo Fitted my gun and shot ‘ber. campaign. ‘That other phase of fhe work} No. 1Crimfast Coation ates, Slateye, after discassioa. by

Bhe fell dead in her tracks, I suppose, | "hich | to be visible to the public, to Klas T. Aastin, Esdeiet tor obtaining
although I sever jooked at ber after obe wit, the holding of rovelag, pabile meet- Ir ; Congreomaa ',
fell. L shouldered my gun aed weet to Jaee a be Marte lait eealieel tn
Squire Dentoa's office and told him Feporte poeriag te, from tie preeti ise
what I hed done and: ashed him to send | 006 of the State are full of succerage-| ira, “Tetenere Be Feqeset
me to jail in Ballabury, I cannot say 1| @%at The Democratie. party ta Mary: No.8. gnizes Y : sary moaseres ta
am sorry, bat I euppose If 1 hed mot | 9nd ts rapidly reaching 9. cuadition of rile, Sand bie eatin of tan
been mad with a. queer feeling I would | lldity which it -bag wot enjoyed for] 5. ae, Day, Fimer H. Wal- beildiag vader ihe
hot hove killed ber, Lam needy to det yeare.: Mea, who for (en years have re- Humphreys. Mortlt e8s)igture, abd we

the law decide the base, j mained indifferent to shetr party and | ip tegisiration aad the | feasable pi pian to 6p

: It be by petitic
“The facts in the case are so plain that |D8?e Fefrained from votiag, are openly men “pamed above bectme bis | wl
the trial ‘of Handy before the Clrouit| 4°elering thelr purpose to cast a ballot | ng es, nr eatin ate the

Court, which fe now in session, should be forthe entire Democratic ticket this i ance i ‘Morte. shipped nad pay 10 pet cont. of ie
& short one, The prisoner was perfectly | #1! Bo encouraged does the Mate (om: to y Arist, Motion wes how, 0s aa ty the pee
cane when interviewed Friday, and thete | ite feel by the taformaiion slready lnorered, Thay *
te no way in which hecan make a plea | !8 bend, that predictions are being con: | ef by the cow! tetore Novembe ee iE
of self-defence, It looks as if the fury] M¢eatly made that four, and possible or :
tu bis casd will have (o fad a verdict of | A¥e, of the Coagressions “Districts wih
marder in the fret degree, Ia whick cane | 5° Democratic. The Sixth seems to be]

: the only one safe tor the Repablican
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VOL. XIX. NO 36

SALISBURY, MD., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1904.

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VERDKT OF MURDER
IN THE FIRST DEGREE

GERRY |. MANDY GORVKCTOD OF Tut
MGRDTR OF ES WHT

Treo Jury Dedibavened tore Than elf he
Reer In Remsiieag, & Unritiog 4 Uinmms
Creed Bemabesd Ceti MM bantgnht Yo
Bear Tho Verdtré- Rasdy Board Hits
Dees 1 eomarod- Who Finet Com rietiee
Of Berder la The Fwet Degree ia The
* Mtstery OF Wicessine Coanty.

“Gaihty of merder in the fret degree!”
These were the solema werds of Fore-
wan Jeda Cleveland White, eitered just
ea the clock ia the coart house tower
talled eat the hour of midaight There
day. Aed with these sulbm@an words,
Heary J. Handy, colored, paceed under
Ube chadew of ibe gullowa

For more than two days the attorneys
fer Haady bed mode a brilliant and
renecus Aight to sare his acck for the
taking of the life of his wife. And with
eqeal abdlny and energy Ube prosecetion
hed atrempted te convict the priscser
of the airectess marder of bis bosom
com panne. :
“When tne verdict was reedered a
death like stillness pervaded le the Tem.
ple of Justice, athough t wee crowded
to the very doors with epectators. The
jery retired about twealy-Sve minates
of twelve o'clock, aed afier remaining
eat bess then balf ae hoer sent word to
the (oert that they bed agreed upen s
verdict. With solema tread the jerors
Bled inte the box and ia respoese to the
qQeesiions propocaded by Clerk Toad-
vine, ansoanced the verdict of “Marder
im the Grea degree,” tbe Gres evet rea-
dered ta Wicomico, ahthoagh the county
be Ubirty-siz years old. Handy, the coe-
wieted man, sat Leck of his couasel
whee the solema words fel! epoe hie
ears, aad seemed to receive them with
indiffervece. If be wes mack affected &
was aut thible. The prievecr was led
deck ts jell by Sherif Grits and bie
éepery, Mi. Waller, ibere tu remain ee-
ti! Ube day of exerethe, unless Exece-
tive ch acacy commescs his sentence te
bm prime ment for life.

Retery OF Yow (rium

The cztme fer which Heary Haady
ill forfeit bis life was committed in
Tyackin District, Wicumico eoesty, es
Friday, September 14 Armed with a
siagie barrel breech leading shot gee,
Haedy made bis way from Rveriag
Polat to the core field in whied bis wite

rerrrrwr

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THE. THIRD WEEK OF COURT

BEGAN MORDAY WITH CASES BROUGHT
rhom ofr COUNTIES.

fe. Bereves Geences Jadgmccat Aganiast
Devshester Oreaiy Vor 6126. 00- Rad
Sued The County For 8544.98 For Boc-
wtese Be Attcn@ing A Small Pex Epl-
Gomle-Diher Mameved Ouse.

Whea Tuas News went to prees Wed-
nesday of last week the Heara case was
oe trial, as referred to in these colamns.
The plaintiff is a nephew of the late
Noah T. Hearn, aad on Octoder 18th
west to live oa the farm of his uncle and
lived tbere nati) bis uncle's death ip
Janvary, 1904. The evidence showed
that the plaintiff waited oa asd sursed
hie eacie aad his sunt vatil their deaths,
bofh dying within about eight mosths
of the other, and claimed of the exece-
Vor compensation at the rate of §1.00 2
day. The pialotiff being disqualified as
@ witness, it was proven by other wit-
messes that his uacie oa many different
ocensions spoke of the service and at-
tention readered by the plalatif? and
would pay him. The defendant found
by witnesses that the plaistiff had stated
he was tw be paid vat of the crop, aad
hed been paid and received ose-balf of
the crop raised ou the farm. The jury
browght ina verdict for the defendant.
Tuedvisa & Bell for the piaiatiff ; Jos.
L, Bailey, James E. Elloguod aad Joshus
W. Miles fer defendant.

As soon as the verdict was rendered
im this cose, the marder case of Hoary
J. Handy, colored, was taken up and
eceupied the remalader of Weduesday
and all day Tharedsy and uati! nearly
midaight. The verdict of the jury was
marder in tbe Oret degree. A full bie
tory af the ence will be found {a another

colama.
Vriday's Preceeedtags.

Friday morning the salt of Dr. Johe
W. Broeves against the Couaty Commie-
tioners of Dercheoster county was taken
ep. Dr. Steeves claimed that be was
appuisted by Dc. Gay steele, the toca!
health officer for Dorchester county, to
take charge of & sma}l pox epidemic va
Ellivtt’s Islaed. Dr. Bteeves claimed
that be treated the pailents, 8 or 10 ja
nember, and maistaised a quarantine
seccessfully, preventing the spread of
the cuatagion over the Island; that ail
the patients recovered, and that be fu-
migated al} the premises afier the casce
bad recovered. For bla services cover-
jog a period of 64 days Dr. Stoeves rea-
dered 0 bill to the Commissioners for
9845.08, of ai the rate of ten dollars per
day. The Commissioners eonskiered
Ube bill excessive and refused to pey it.
They, however, told Dr. Siceve that i!
te would bring in & reasonable bill they
would pay Rt. Dr. Brevves then brooght
salt for ihe entire amogat of bis bill.
The platatif® summooed four or five of
the physicians of Salisbury who bed bad
experience in the treatment of emall-
pon cases, for the perpose of proving
the value of a doctor's services in trest-
tag & emali-pox epidemic, They all tes
Used that the service was worth §10 «
day. Dr. Jona 8, Pultos, of Baltinbre,
executive officer of the Biate Board of
Heahh, Sgered Dr. Bteeves’ services at
94.80 per day. The defeace produced
testimony from physicians ja Dorubester

idemics, that thelr charges ranged from

eounty who bad attended oemall pus gp |

DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING

WHL Bf MELD IR SALISBURY, Of
"SATURDAY, OCTOBmR 29.

Congress, Will Addrem The People
‘Tt le Prepesed To Make The Decnstes
A Memerebdic Ove Ta The Anunie OF
w toe C SB

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Arrangements are sow being med
for a grand rally of the Democracy of
Wicewmico cousty, im Salisbury, o8 Bat-
erday, October 2b. The Uimes Grand
Opera House hes bees secured for the
oceasion, and meetings will be beld
efierscos and evening. Heals wil] be
reserved for the ladies at the eveniag
meeting, sad their preseace ts desired.

The speakers at these mostings will
Hos. Thomas A. Smith, nominees for
Congress, who wil) tell the people where
be stands on the vital fesves of the
campaign. He will give reseons why
he is asking the support of the people
of the First District, and wil) deal the
repoblican party some sledge- hammer
blows. Col. Bmith fe as attractive
speatec aad every Democrat in Wicom-
feo sounty should bear bim. . ~
The ether speakers will be Gea. .L.
Vietor Baughman, of Frederick City;
ez -Attoracy-General Jobe P. Poe aad

Hoa. A 8. Goldsborongh, of Baltimore,
ead ex-Congressmas Joshua W. Miles,

fas

an aadience that will fill every sees je
the Opera House. * ‘4 eke
Is is proposed to make the dey s mem-
oradle one in the sanue of Wicomico
Democracy. There will be » bang im al-
tendance aod 0 supersbeadance of true
Democratic esthesiam. ig ae

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MARRITD IN AN OPIN BOAT.

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Explicit Of A Youog Virginian Coupte te
Pocemohe Seanad. fete ce ‘
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Thursday last Miss Angie Mister sad 0

Mr. Jobs Sprece, buth vf Bares Isleed,

Va, were married Io s email opea bogs

in Pocomoke sound, teu mites from 4

Crisfeld. Mr. William Miser, the

father of the bride, wea very mech op«| |

posed to tbe aitention thal young Spence
was paying to bie daegdter sed bed
forbid ber to silow Bperce ty call,
threatening him with riciewre should
he catch him at hie (Mister’s) home

Spence payed little etiention te the

threats, bet wooed aad woe the giri

Aa elopement wes planed }) lake place |

Wedsesdar vight, sed Spence pracered

the liceuse is ¥irglele Arriving ot the

garden gait, Which wee the appoisteg | ©
spot for the mecting. the yousg men
aitered bis familier whletle, sed to bis
surprise instred of bis indy bere carry.
log a satchel ber (alber appeared with @
sdoigun asd gave Speers &° chase

through eurnteids aed marshes patil, 5

late hour, when Mr. Mister,

tbat he was thorvegbly rid of

reterned to bie home te enjoy

slumber. y te

The pert moraing Spence | is

Princesse Aspe sad secured

license. He tben returned to bis

met bis sweetheart, found 9 safe

ood wit & few friends embarked In

Rpet. They esited just across

doundary line lato Maryinad and 9

warried. A large apmber of Maryland

| 01.30 te 8450 a vie. The defense also


: -worn sult Of mised gray
{ obie yor ey roty ore
iw all-aud the soos
j by MHanter build than
; small, handecte feafores,

! poseseselog look, dark ¢p'
| oastache and small impetia!:
| @ wae peat and gentlemanly.

; set Bor Dinches. Hol)

| RRAKOEMENTS. |

| mentsof Marehal Gray were

| me bandred and fifty
le vveriooking th if
oui Be dea “fre

veew wi the ecaffo'd, and in
| iat bad been cleared atithe
of the eaine, the propri¢tor
rwards rented i! to elg¢ht-

' were present at tie

jail,
rrangemente with Mar

bal
i rey.
2 oumeton. i
sn O'clock there wae @ 7
am ball of the eppreach ot
the visitore’ roum., where
ved witn their spiritual ad-
ey had been pipioned aud
- There were possibly 150
cclasive of the doub'e tines
been formed from the

4 Deputy Marshal Frey.
sk, which te piaced tu the
mmirance, several reporters
cidents of the moruing and
di«patches for the extras
bear to the world of Balti.
distant wires the inciueats
tesent in tbe hal

resent int litte nag
rthe scribes of tit news.
Hete self-control and free-
t. There were many anx-
around ae the tiine ap-
ives kept coo! in epite of
@ mervous exciiemest all

“ sinters:

itch at five minutes to ¢:
ied ot tee vieltore’

wards e@ gal

wif Kane, who, Sromee
sed beside his deputy, Gea,
uncovered. “Hallohan fol-
@ @ dark slouch hat. made

' an
| 0160 pounds, war feet 10
| b etrongly marked features,
| syes, REryoUs Bction, quick

| parently about 13s cfioban

en
jail
ere Shes.

‘a ca

ace of the policemen
pen the paseave way
cleired a pumber of

ten cents. The wert of

rof the apartment, ander |

.

ful God. :

I forgive Mr. Crone, and pba f God bless him.
{Just here Nicholeon gweouulzed Mr, Crone
among the bystanders, and sald:] “Hrother
Crone howdo you do? | die in the faith of
Jesus Christ. May God be with you all.”
Holloban then stepped forward again and sald:
“T forgot to say something: I freely forgive all
my CHemte. aud hope they will all forgive me.”

Nicholson cawe furward again aud ead “1
atso wleh to add the same.”

oliohan spoke with hesitation, apparcntly

the short, black mautie,
neea, and pinioned Rev.
lame walked ou each side
outwardly arrayed like his
xt, attended by Reve. J. P.
ae on each side of him. aud
. Goodrich and seven other
amediately behind the con-

there were a number of
the Prieoners’ Aid Asso-
tiam bodies. Eleven mem-

anda large concourse of
lowed, the procession pass-

P and 6p
caffold, everybody ancover-
from the visitors’ room, on
“prison, through the maio
( steps on the east side, ba-
3, to the main road of tha
distance of 120 yarde, past
einto the gallows enclosare.
{ men walked firmly, with
gh with anything bata de-

ATIVELY CALM
sl. There was no singing on
aid and po conversation
sre silently engaged
at the perfect com-
1 who walked so
doem of death.
auy an ¢nergotic, nervous
more in the movement of
ng and in the long drawo
ae was accustomed to begin

| \leon's manner was prompt,

health and springinesa,

2 THE OCAFFOLD.

ad deputy Rosuman, Hollo-
he prisoners to mount the
1en walked up tho 2% steps
. treading as firmly as
zoing for any other pur-
the deaths of. felons.—
facing the north, the clor-

4, the sberiff an epatics
mau only going on the
- deputies remal at the

One reporter each
ted wag admitt witbio
ut offother apectad>re in the
— the platform. turned
at the rope, the nove of

‘# round the post on the west

1 for Nicholsou wae around
ield by a oleat. Peek: the
10d on the west sides, Hivlio-
. Nine persons altogether
which left very little room
se wero Sheritt Kame, Depu-
Goodrich, HKeve. Doll, Wil-
orris and the two.crimipals,
Deputy De Gooey was sta-

r bar; other deputies were .

cet and on daty at the etair-
vate or two of ten o'clock
ded the scaffold. The sun
atbeecene. Within the gal-
lute quietncee prevailed as
thelr attendants ascended
\oarse hum from the many
ed without the walis came
f the execution ecene like
on theseashore. The mo-
enscly suppressed excite-

OF THE SHERIF.

twoof coneultation between

1¢ officers of the law, Sherif?
eaat railing of the platfurm,
witnesses below, said: “I
attention be given to the

ademned men present, who

tow words of parting. Mr.

‘oF HOLLOMAN.
:pped forward, and, leaning
of the ecaffold, with his hat

vr voice, without a tremor of:

times halting in hie epeech,

others— Yon arc aware that I
:Lacknowledge the justice
am perfectly willing te give
me which 1 have committed,
e is nothing like Christian
1 It is better than gold. We
was sont to the penitentiary
any man in the Lulted Statce

| ef notimany prison before

ro in Prince George's
d ehamefully by the
' the court. J lost
, Money, my wifo,
.eet in Heaven. .
the upright jndges and the
‘nin Annapolis, I feol grate.
kindness to me, and | thank
i}, avd Pdle ip the faith of
tieas youall, Guo bye
OF NICHOLBON,
introduced Nicholson, who
forward and enldi | wiehte
«es. The confession that was

iicholeon, at Annapolis, ws

fe just, andl warn
@ of money, J commit in
ev tothe bands ofa merch

more moved than on suy previous occaeion
siuce hie sentence. He bit hie Hpe after hia
habit, and seemed to be striving to choke dowo
emotion, taking jong orawn breathe. Nicholeon
spoke incisively, and was perfectly se) f-pos-
cessed. His manner was crisp and teeta
‘the voices of buth were stropg and clear,
every word belong distinctly heard by all
within the enclosure and by the great number of
pevpie cinstered on top of the penitentiary wall
and bouse-tops immedintely back of the jall
wall, though neither of the prisoners appeared
to make any effort to ralec their yolces, Nichol-
son's eelf-posscssion was
REALLY MARTELLOTS.

He never for an ipatant showed the least 8
of emotion, and the reporter watched his fea-
tures closely, Many who were present who bad
veep nambere of exccutions declarod that they
had never seen the coolness of these two men
surpassed. When Hollohan came forward eii-
ling to add tbe aesurance that he forgave hie cne-
mies he recognized Mr. Crone among the epecta-
tors whose name hv called out. When Nicholeon
added the same sort of aseurance he did so in the
moet buelvess-like manner possible. wt

Juet before the cap was drawn over Hajlohan’s
eyes he recognized The Sun reporter, who had
known bim, and who was standing at the foot of
the scaffold, aud bowed and smiled to him.

BINDING TAE ayedeys
Deputy Roseman tied the lege of both the con-

moved in prayer. Deputy Roseman
white linen hoods over their faces, farewclis aud
parting advice were whispered, aud all was
ready for the supreme moment,
» LEAVE TAKING, .
Hollohan's last words on the scaffold were:
‘Lord Jesus, receive my epirit.” The ebhe iff
shook bands with both prieouers as well ae he
could under their cloaks, and they Shook hands
with each other, the minletcrs and others. The
condemned men shook bands, so far ae their cords
would permit cordially, and at the instance of
Holloban, who said: ‘Brother Nicholson, give
me your hand, I will bid you good-bye; 1 hope
to meet you ia Meare.
tas Dkor rect.
‘After all the preparations bad been made fr
the final momefdt, Kev. Mr. Doi) anuoanced that
en minutes would be given to allent prayer, but
scaréely a minute wae allowed, all quiet! leav-
ing the gallows, the desiga being not to {nform
ywhen the drop

Desiges the criminals oe the : pA,
Kane being the las} to descend, Gejiberatesy u.-
tied the rope at the band-rail pulled the
trigger at 10.06 precisely. The drop fell with
very ttie Doise, the machinery apparently be-
ing in excclient order. Nicholvon fell Gret, and
hoog without spparent contraction of the
muscles. Holluban fel) ecarcely an instant after,
and eome dietance further than Nicholson,
owing to his heavier weight Conley
Holloban's limbs contracted violently, his
hands clutching at each other ander the black
cloak or sproud which hid them from view, and
his legs were drawn up spasmodically eeveral
times. His feataree under the thin linen hood
ppeared to be contorted. He evidently died
ste The rope iu both instances siipped to
the pack of theirnecks. Rope was given to al-
low a fall of three feet, but owing to stretching
it was tically @ fall of four feet. They hang
from 16.06 o'clock till 10,80 o'clock, when they

} red, and Dre. J. W. Houck. J. H. Bus-
lervand F. Milholland examined them, aad
foand that

‘
Lire was exfrcn
Tlollohan’s coffio, heretofore described, was
brought to the foot of the gallows. Tre budice
were jow ty
placed im the x
the undertakers establiehment of Mr, Weaver,
on Fayette etreet, where a sre) throng of peo-
ple soon cougregated. instivated bya murbid
curiosity to vce the body, Nicholeou’s remains
were piasced on # busrd covered with linen and
conveyed to one of the basement roome of the
prison, whore they were examined by a number
of medical guntiemen, including some stadents
of medicine. Nicholeos’s ueck wae broken.—
e¢ hand fe of Nicbol were ia
im death, calm sod. without die
Johan's face was not the least dis-
colored, and the features were lqerps Nichol-
sun's eyes appeared sunkea, and hj
course blackened by the mark of the rope.—
llollohaa, it was at &:0¢ thought, bed died
from etrangulation, but the eargoons, who made
k that his neck wae slightly

were cevered.

2. \0 te tresvered Doet
where asm lore’ kat ma Se cece tat
hav the only soavqnlgt Dposalblr ef Wash Well:

de

men precie
tbe RTE Mae Ta wale — ty

Thomas Hollahan
Joshua Nicholson

Both executed at Baltimore on August ;lst 1873

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 8-2-73

page 1 column

hie pi id the descrip

remembered crimina}] now extant,

4

‘we except

an
iu tho files of Th¢ Su

of bis execativn

scraped and ower clean, and almost pertenty

ad some

a fow 6
lumber there waa sothne’ todses the crowd of

6 tore, the
@ enclosure.
eral hundred
ecaffuld was
feet above the w
condemned men| were
boads wore almopt on

le look:

affold, and the crimigals within
rom the penitent!
upon the scene. The
bigh, sad hence about 10
Il, bag when the drap fell the

cipitated until their
line with the wall. A

wall sev-

tall fron ratling [ee tod the front jail yard
“Of the traged oot

from the scene of

, and through the

Dare peered an eager and excited crowd.

Among these 9)

pectaters were two boys, cer

tainly not more/than five and aix years old,

pressing thelr ciildish faces
Ts, anxious to

railing, which extladed from
diately aboat it ¢

ecen@. Around tr ecaffold wae a eli

ainst the fron

obtain a fall view of the dark

¢ plank
the space imme
he criminals, -

the minietere, the officers of the law and the

representatives of the press.

When the sheriff

descended from jhe scaffold the clear outlines
of the 1nstrumeps of death, with the dark figures

motionless a
actintheir life's traged

it and silently awaitiag the last
stood out ‘bold

bare against the my god simoet terrible in the

bright sunlight. | ‘he
crowd jurt beforg the

ush that fell upon the
riff tonched the trigger

was solemn and 4imost deathiike. and every eve
alternated betwopn the dark-robed figures and

thoir executi
She

Deputy Sher i DeGoey, at a at
ff Kane, removed the pia whi

a) from
held ia

place a tallupright bar. Thie bar supported a
cross-piece, whigh in turn-sapported two beams
runbing east aud] west. and supporting the two.

doors which fermed the trap.

hen these two.

pesme cate way)the doors being unsupported,

would

fallapart qu ithe ns standing on them

would be precipitated. If, therefore, the tall
bar support! Og @ cross-piece should be sud-
Neckea ror

dealy

p under the two transverse

supporting the tfap. the whole platform would
at once give way] with a st@ddon oeog. The pin
which Mr. DeGopy removed merely held the up-
right bar in secute porition, but ite removal of
course did not alter the position or pull tha ap-

tight from undqr the trap.

Thie was accom-

plished, however, by meaue of a rope attached
to the upright atid passing through pulleys to

the foot of the
Here Sherif!

eps.
ane took hie position, and by

pulling this ro) Metegee suddenly and tastan-

taneously prec! pitat

the platform without the

slightest jarorthud. From their position on the

scaffold

e cond::mned men bad a full view of

the mainly pityipg but sometimes jeeriag crowd
which surged aod waved on every ncichboring
hill and houee-tap, and their last look upon

earth embraced |the ghastly

epectacie of thou-

sands of eager figures jostiing each ober rudely
to catch a glimppe of their last dcatithroce. «
The Outside Spectacie.

The execution was witnesevd by an immense
throug of peopl from outeide the-yatl yard, per-
bapsas Lai Sd via epee as evor witncered an

ry

execution aitimore, not

exeepting the fa-

mous Cropps ahd Corrie tragedy. It ie est

mated that at leget not less than f
TEN|THOUSAND PKOPLE

occupied elovaten positions commanding a view

of the tragic ecene. The

le commenced to

arrive at a very early hour in the morning,
some as varly ag ix aud a half to seven o'clock,

and from 6 to

o'clock the various thorough-

farce leading to the city jatl were thronged with
people on foot and In conveyances.

At the time the execution took place 4he one
lot lying east of| Calvert street aud between En-
ger and Read etfeets, aud further spath, wae a

perfect sea of farce. McKim"

6 hill, on the cor-

nor of Eager aud North streets, was crowded

with spectators] and among
as well ae at. other poivte,

the mmmber there,
were. many ladies.

It wae an astohishing fact that many parouts
who witneseed fhe ecene brought their children
with them, arriving band in hand, as though
coming to parti¢ipate ina picaic or some otber
enjoyable occasjon. Some of the women had
fofautein their, arms. Concord street, facing

that portion of {he jail yard

where the gallows

wae erected, ang Giiy's alley, in front of that.

section of the Jall yard, wage literally packe a

with people.
¢c

The house-tops and other
contained throm
stancos a charg

w
owning a shed fommanding a yo
f

execation askod as bigh, it is

position.
to the annoyap
anxiously moyibg aronnd to
sition.

tributed aroun@ outside the

@WDED HOUCSE-TOPF, ‘

elevated positions

of people, and iu some in-
de furaelght. A party

view of the
said, as $1) fota

Vehitles of various descriptions
crowded and bi¢ckaded the thoroughfares, much
of pedestrians, who were

procare a good po-

There were gver one hundred policemen die

Jail yard, aud it ie

owing totheir prertions that noaccidents are
reported from persons crowding upon ebedding
that was unabipto bear their weight. Among
the crowd whojwitnedsed the sccne were many

colured personp, ijucinding a Jarge number of
colored women] and children, ‘I'he crowd was

orderly. howev¢r, and bore th
for two long Agurs, while waltiog,
» Wheat

eome of them
with wonderful furtitud
fell there wae
from tho crow

H, and many

excepting thosg
around the Ph a.
crowd to a fey

was cnacted lecfp.
tone where the
until hey werd out down,

@ hoat of the aun,

A general exclamation Oo!

Aurned their faces

from the harrowing ecene, Afwur the falling of
the trap the bydios were bid from view of all

higher positions

PCENSB

From the we
tacle wae elm
northwest werb Mterally massed with homan
beings, apparedtly including many women. The
enolizht fell full u

FuoM THE WEST PORTAL.
t portal of the prison the sp/c-
biy immenre. The hille to the

othe immenee throng and |

added to the spienGor of so great a congregation ff
of pepple avscrabled iu @ yaet amphitheatre on |
the eloping grpund from McKim's hill do |

head of Calve

walle.

there were ma
women tu brig
and meno with

street, down to ¢ very 2
oem

a picturesqu
b itcould Seite

y well dressed
t colors, provi:

umbre:laa, w
shade. Under/some of the trees)there were

regular picnic} groupe, though it
one brought @ lunch,

known to bet

yin tho man
tuner howr.

ha

stant

ehand to

cerely repe'
the Lord Jesa

I return my

elr teach‘a,
thanks be to

ehip .

Amen.

from dark to

fotgive ‘them
have wronz
edge that I bi

I give myee!
the Saviour o

Jeous Corist.

date of the lgw before the earlivat

onth umons Papers.
¢

from their views express
fold, Nicholegn left a paper add
Ope, Which is|evidently the speech from the
R ttorin whic oo had prepared in his ce!l be
or e

Holloban left
mon. The dogduments areas follows: _ r
HICHOLSON]® LAST WRITTEN @TATBMENT.

I wieh to say that my confession made to Mr.
Wm. Crone was because of hie proniere that f
should become State's evidence. and that the
statement made by my brother at Annapolis
concerning Crone's promises to mo is correct I
warn all against the love of money. IJ have
<6 of my eins. | die trusting ia

mit my dear wie ang -precioos children tu the
hande of a merciful Goa.

P. Wiison and|the Rev. Kichard Norris se my
sore adviders through the grace of God in
t

reeting place where sorrow, toil

olga through ail pip yay aed a A
‘he aud we me eoaven

with them Big). Gay tl 2 *

LETHERS AND Lact woks’, © >

90, 1978.
Rev. Mr. pa: We bave talked tenty together?
on the subjedt of religion, but by the justrad
tions that I repeived from you and Dr. Williame
and other good ministers you have brought me

fees to ben enjut, I have sckio #ledged my rine
era to bring thie chauge about. and 1 have beco

bappy both 1u/ mind
has taken piade.

moment. THerefure, being justified by fai
we have peace with God, ti wees Lor

Rev. Mr. Wihson—Desr Brother fe Christ: Dar-

poesibie no
since it was pretty well
He sheriff's intention toyet througa

Suherwise | ere ie jallee wae

en the caeé. A feat many of
dpectatore of the gallows tragedy
riages, and numbers had brouzht
witb which ther {gleurely ear.
Hing ecene. Col. Rane may be
lor hie good intention, which was
luws in a corner, but there could
bn more spectators on the outeida
the ecaffold becn erected Ip front
gate or evcn on McKim’s bill

cuted criminals lef bak state-
fm, differing in no matériel point
pablicly on oye acaf-

o no

olivered from the gallows.
two letters addressed to clorgy-

qas my pereonal Saviour, J com-

bincere thanke to the Rev. Joreph

~o ews

City Jat, da

ight and by reading the fous ff

sible, and Teath ant faith {a the

pi} @o realize that there has
xe and a great, load lifted

my enemies, bat now [love and |
and 1 trust that those whom ! |
will forgive me. I ackvowl
ebeen a grea; sinner: I don't pro-

red my pray-
and body elnce thas £bs0ge

bumbly aod unreservedly to Ices,
ail einnere, and shall antil the lat

i bave peace, thank ¢
Tuos. BR. Hotronay,
irr Jaw,

cquatetance we have hed such @
ane that { fe2) so much attech-
1 don’t like to part with you #0
js pleasant to koow that we shall

bs. 5
met youand other good minis
reading the precious truths of the
rought me to iizht. Bave been
here has been a great
it, Igoce hated my eacmies, bat
em “ahd freely forgive them. God
4 anewered my By tree

sem
first jingle.

aND PUWKRALS,

dy wan Pemved fren the fall te

ieateeniiniatmadtaasmieed

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res late ea ey OER ee

though pale from contvemeyt, iollohen pas
dreesed in bis well-worn sult of pues ray
cloth and {''pperd On ble feet, Nicholeod fore
gaitere, and hie feet Woes, typall saud the elves
Deatly fitted. He was siighter build than

oljopan,, having emali, haudevfie fe
thoah a cold, unprepossessing look, dark ¢p .
lexion, jet black moustache and small impe att

te whole appearance was peat and gentlemaply,
Ile weight wae pppereatiy about 134 bake

THE GALLOWS.

A DOUBLE EXECUTION.
BANGING a NICHOLSON AXD HOLLODAY,

Thomas Hollahan
Joshua Nicholson

height, probably 6 feet Bor 9 inches. Mollohan
weighed about 150 to 160 pounds, wank feet 10
aches Io pe Joly with etrongly marked features,
eavy jaw, P cullar @yos, Rérvous action, quick
rank. |
POLICE ARRAKGEMENTS,

The police arrangementeof Marehal Gray wero
ample and perfect, one bandred and fifty men
being placed on the bills vveriooking th jail
and around the jail walls, ean peeeye y-Ove {nithe
jail and about the ecaffold. There Gai Do ofca-
sion, however, for the prescnce of the policemen
in the jail, except to date open the paseave way
to the scaffold. The police cleired a number of
roofe commanding a view of the ecatfo'd, and in
one instance # roof that bad been cleared atithe
request of the owner of. the saine. the propriétor
ina few minutes Afterwards rented {1 10 el¢ht-
seers, charging each ten cents, The poard of
aoe commiseloucre were present atthe {aii

at left a!) police arrangements with Margtal
Gray and Peosry Ee bal Frey, }
The Fxecution. i

At elx minutes to ten o'clock there wae ator.
mar tu the lirge prison hall of the approach of
the criminais from the visitore’ room. where
they had beew closeted witn their spiritual ad-
visers,and where they had been pipioned and
robed for the ecaffoid. There were possibly 150
persone in the ball, exciasive of the doub!e lines
of policemen, who bad been formed from the
weet tothe east door of the apartment, ander
the superintendence of Deputy Marshal Frey.

Attbe keeper's desk, which te piaced tu the
left of the western entrance, several reporters
eat writing Mf the incidents of the moruing and
barriedly sending of di«patches for the extras
whieh were soon to bear to the world of Baiti-
tore or to fash over distant wires the incidents
and mw M4 of the

Of all the pereces present in the hall itis not
too mach to claim forthe ecribea of tht news-
eae the moet complete self-coutro! and free-

0
te

The Fate of she Lampley Murderers

Their Last Hours—-Religious Services
in the Celis—The Final Brenkfast—
Mesigned Demeauor of the Con:
@emned—Scenes om the Outaside—

y The Gazing Idle Crowd—The March
te the Senifeld—ltse Ascent-Tha
Fatal Drop—Re ation Comsum:
mated, Ete., Ete., " |

; (Reported for the Baltimore San.1
Joshua Nicholson and Thomas R. Hollohan,

aliae Whalen, the marderors of the aged lady,

Mrs. Lampley, who was killed in her own bouee

onthe night of the %d of Jannary, 1873, were

banged im the yard of the Baltimore city jall
yesterday, in the presence of several hun
dred persons inside the enclosure, and within
sight of ¢housande clustered on the hills,
housetops, fonces and streets of the nci¢

borhood in the rear of the prison. Th

execution being the first that has taken piace ig

Baltimore since April, 1859, when Gambrill,

Cropp,.Corrie and Cyphus were hanged, nearly

fifteen ycare ago, there was of course great pub-

Uc curiosity in the event. The prieovers were

calm and collected, considering the trying or-

} deal through whicirthey passed, aud comes

death with resignation, jie

PHE LAST NIGHT WH JAIL. |
After prayer meeting io the cell of: Hollohan

Thareday night the two condemned meu retirca

to reat, aud were both eound asicep by iba io

Both men rest:d well during the night, and at

fifteen minutes before 5 o'clock yesterday morn

ing Hollonan left his bed and offered up prayer,

Shen dressed. himeelf and read a chapter from

bie Bibie, At twenty minntes before six o'clock

Nicholson siso rose and engaged in devo

teonal exercises, after which be and Hullo

ban were coudacted to the bath-room in tha
basement of the building and indulged in a bath.

spoken aud

Both executed at Balt

Reported in The Baltti
page 1 column 4

ma from Src eat There were many anx-

oking faces sl! ae the tine ap-
pees. ee eae kept coo! in spite of J ful God, :
Greadfal beat and. mervous exciiemeat all I forgive Mr. Crone, and may God Wess him.
aboat them. [Just here Nicholeon weoguized Mr, Crone
MOVING TO THE GALtows. among the bystanders, and sald:) ‘Brother
jom, which at five minutes to ten § (rene howdo you do? | die in the faith of

Jesus Christ. May God be with you all.”

remembered crimina] now extant, 4 weexce |
hie picture and ed iption of his tu |
un,

4
iu tho files of Th
HE TRAP WORKED.

now |
The yard in which the ecaffola wae erect |
was very contracted, and a mere court. |

m
t

by the jail barber and retarned to their cel

ing the postbumoos papers given eluewhere.
P

finished his breakfast, drew on his coat, an
with a smile on bis face, joined Nicholson in b
cell, and took an active part iv the siuging.

- Daring the singin

@©@ee0e0060

those pereous who heard it,

} the hearts of
i NICHOLYON'S PRAYER,

| realms of lizht. commis myself to Thy ban

} dloud ie sufficient. I am Thy child, Father.
j While 1 bave been infirm Thou bast veen wi

with the
you again. Strengthen my beloved brother

fuld L cau die with aemile uponmy face wh
mit myevlf wholly to thy band. ‘

Jaw of the doome

Further elnging was had, and at balf-past eiy
o'clock wo!
a 1 wae in readin
that all ,oud-bye:

d 1 hope that God hai
Without a tear dim

doue fur him since bis sentence.

adwinietered to the condemned

and Wilson after w
the Kev, W. 8. Edw
Charch, Nicholson a
hymn together after which ther
ence in Chr

Thies completed, both meu were cleanly reel

END. ’
ting of ham and

eggs, bread and butter and coffee, wae carried
into the cells of the condemned. Nothwith
standing the fact that the men were then stand

| both men wore a cheerf
expression,and during au futerval Nichulsu
oltfured upa fervent prayer, aud which thriile

O, merciful Father, increase my atrength; let
mo bear jt to-day with reeiguation. 1 {ve} than,
Father, Lehallece the beautiful faces on bigh.
1 fevl that Thy precious blood bae washed me
free of all gai ane I can go safely to Hy

ee SF

1 know I have done wronks bot the Atoning
ny

b

me, |

} I commit my poor wife and children to Thae.
May they be Jed to eaivation. Strengthen me

aly Spirit. itis bhardto bear, but we

the fearful trial he is now enduring. Give me
the strength of Thy biessing 60 that on the ecaf-

pering the name of sweet Jesus, Fatier, I com-

During the prayer the brother and brother-in:
man were io his ceil, add

those of the geutlemen who were iu the cuil.

ihe

was couveyed to the prisonore tlint
es for the Holy Sacrament, apd
ust be eaid, {
The brother of Nicholson thes threw himee!f
upon the neck of bie Joshua, and subbed as if
his beart would break. The brother eaid, “Uh,
| God, thie ie hard. 1 have done all that I could
| given you
ing bis aye
} Nicholeon admitted that the ecene was a mort
terrible one, but he felt strong in the love of the
Lord, avd thanked his brother fur what he had

After the ead farewells had been said, Hollo-
han, with &uimble etcp, walked to bis cell, put
ou bie hat, handed a sealed package to Rev. Mr.
Wilton, and, with Nicholeon, proceeded to tne
vieltors’ room, where the Holy Sacrament was

let.

‘The process:
by the prtwon clock, emergea from the visitore’
per moved towards the allows

of ellk,-robed in the ehort, black mantle,

whieh came to hie knees, and pinioned Rev.

Mesers. Do!l and Williams walked ou each eide

of bim. Nicholeon, outwardly arrayed like his

confoderate, came next, attended by Reve. J. P.

Wilson aud Morris, ous on each side of him. and
+ Good:

an
over the road to the scaffold, eve body ancover-
ing. Tbe roate was frum the visitors’ room, on
the west side of the-prison, through the insin
hall, down a filght of steps on the east side, be-
tween prisun offices, to the main road of the
vegetable garden, a ralatanes of 120 yarde, past
the coal storage house into the gallows enclosare.
Both the condemned men walked firmly, with
heade unbowed: thongh with anything bat a de-
Gantair, ‘hey were

®UPERLATIVELY CALM

throughout the ordeal. There was no singing on
the way wo the ecaffold and po conversation
among the spectators. All ware silently engaged
in observing and wondering at the perfect com-
posure ‘of the two men who walked so
sourageonsly ‘to meet the doem of death.
Hollohban has naturally an energetic, nervous
organizatién, shown more in tho movement of
hie lipe when speaking and in the long drawn
breaths with which he was accustomed to begin

MOUNTING THE SCAFFOLD.

After the sheriff and deputy Rosuman, Hollo-
ban was the first of the prisoners to mount the
scaffold, Both the men walked up tho % steps
without aesigtance, treading as firmly as
though they wore going for any other pur-

so than to die the deaths of. felons.—

‘hey were shanged facing the north, the cier-

foot of the ecaffoid. One reporter each
admittqy within

newspaper represented w:
apecta@re in the

sp
the railing, which shut offot:
gallows enclosure; ,

Dlollohan upon Pert? the platform. tarned
around and looked up at the rope, the novuse of
which was turned around the post on the west
side, as that intended for Nichol was a
the eastern upright held by a oleat. Facing the
borth, Nicholson stood on the west aide, Hullo-
ban on the east side. Nine pcreonus altogether
were on the scaffold, which left very little room
for movement. These wero Sheriff Kame, Depu-
ties Roseman and Goodrich, Revs. Doll, Wil-
liame,Wileon and Norris and the two criminals,
Below the gallows Doputy De Gooey was sta-
tioned a the trigger bar; other deputies were ,
etationed at the wicket and on daty at the etair-
way. It was a minute or two of ten o'clock
when: all had ascended tho scaffold. The sun
was shining hot be theecene. Within the gal-
lows exclosure absolute quietncse prevailed as
the prisoners(and their attendants aeconded
the scaffold, but a hoarse hum from the many
thousands congregated without the walis came
upon theetiliness of the execution ecene like
the roar of billows on theseashore. The mo-
ment was one of intenscly suppressed excite-
mcot, if not of awe.

REMARKS OF THE SHERIFP.

After a moment or two of consultation between
the clergymen and the officers of the Jaw, Sherif?
Kane etepped to the east railing of the platform,
and addressing the witnesses below, said: “I
bey of all that ellont attention be givon to the
utterances of the condemued men present, who

Houlloban then stepped forward again and sald:

since his sentence. He bit his pe after bie
habit, and seemed to be striving to choke down
emotion, taking long Grawn breathe. Nicholeon
spoke incisively, and was perfectly eelf-pos-
sessed. Hie manner wae crisp and alc
clear,

REALLY MARTELIOTS, -

He never for an ivatant showed the least signs
of emotion, and the reporter watched his fea-
tures closely, Many who were present who bad
seep nombere of exccutions declarod that they
had never gecn the coolness of these two men
surpassed. When, pollens came forward emi-
ling to add tbe aesuranco that he forgave his cne-
mics he recognized Mr. Crove among the epecta-
tors whose name he called out. When Nicholson
added'the same sort of assurance he did so in the
moet bueiness-like manner possibile,

Juet before the cap wae drawn over Hajlohan's
eyes be recognized The Sun reporter, who had
known him, and who was standing at the foot of
the scaffold, and bowed and smiled to him.

BINDING TAB wit alah

Deputy Roseman tied the legs of both the con-
demned men; the sheriff himsclf adjusted the
she and placed them around the necks of the
criminals, deputies Roseman apd Goodrich as-

nances were of an ashy paleness, avdheir ilps
moved in prayer. Deputy Roseman drew the
white linen hoods over their faces, farewclis aud
parting advice were whispered, and all was
ready for the sapreme moment,
/ LEAVE TAKING. '
Hollohan‘s last words on the scaffold were:

condemned men sbook bands, so farastheircords
would permit cordially, aod at the instance of
Holloban, who said: ‘Brother Nicholeun, give
me your hand, I will bid you good-bye; 1 hope
to meet you la Heaven.
tag Dkor recy,

‘Afterall the preparations had been made fur
the final momeft, Rev. Mr. Doi) anuoanced that
en minutes would be given to silent prayer, but
scaréely a minute wae allowed. all quietly leav-

{ng the gallows, the design being not to {nform
ywhen the drop

the ¢9 D men precie
moale AE YE Hae Tali Which degefved others
besides the criminals op the egfold. Kperif
Kane being the las} to descend, Geljberates teal
tied the rope at the band-rail pulled the
trigger at 10.06 precisely. The arop fell with
very nttie boise, the machinery ppperenty bde-
ing {mn excclient order. Nicholson fell fret, and
hong without apparent contraction of the
muecies, Holluban fell scarcely an instant after,
and some distance further than Nicholson,
owing to his heavier weight possibly.
Hollohan’s limbs contracted violently, his
hands clutching at each other ander the black
cloak or sproud which hid them from view, and
hie legs were drawn up spasmodically several
times, His feataree ander the thin linen hood

peared to be contorted. Ho evidently died
ten The rope iu both instances silpped to
the back of theirnecks. Rope was given to al-
low a fall of three feet, but owing to stretching
it wae tically a fall of four feet. They hang
from 16.05 o'clock till 10.80 o'clock, when they
were lowered. and Dre. J. W. Houck. J. HW. But-

eral hundred
scaffold was '
feet above the wall, bat when the drop fell U

condemned men| were
hoads were almost on
tall fron railing Tasers the front jail ya

Sherif Kane, re
Diace a tall upri
¢cross-pivce, whigh in turn-supported two bear
running east. and) weet, and supporting the ty |
doors which fermed the trap.
beame I tye way

would fall apart qm ithe ns etanding on the

mous Cropps a
mated that at le
N

TE
occupled elevated positions commanding a vi
of the tragic sc
arrive at a ver
some as varly ag six aud a half to seven o'c:o
and from to
farce leading to
people on foot and in conveyances.

was bare of grasq or herbage of
the space immddiately about the scaffold w

ey
6 enclosure. pie the
le

any a

rom that time until fifteen minates before was headed by Sheriff Kane, w “ET forgot to say sumething: | freely forgive all
o’ciock Holiohan was engaged in writing, and im @ Ulpck onic, walked peaide bis Baty ad m cnoraled aud hope they will all oriive me.” scraped and anor’ clean, ané almost perfect
Nicholson also employed about haifan hoor in W. Roseman, toth encovered. “Hallohan fol. Xicholson cate furward again aud ead “1 if Smooth. Beyond a fow pig pens and some o
thoeame work, both men handiug what the: lowed hebind. wearing @ dark slouch hat. made atso wleh to add the same.” lumber there wag nothing besides the crowd
had written to their spiritual advisers, comprlg. : Voliohan apoke with hesitation, apparcntly tatore, the edaffold, and the crimigals with
more moved than on suy previous occasion itentiary wall se

high, sad hesee about

cipitated until the
line with the wall.

Depnt

pulling this rope
taveously prec’

slightest jar ort
scaffold the cond: mned men had a full view
the mainly pity!
which su

diately abont it every one except the crimina!
the ministers, the officers of the law and t!
representatives of the press. When the sher
descended from
of the 1nstrumeps of death, with the dark figar
motionless apoa
act in their life's tragedy,
bare against the
bright sunlight.
crowd jurt beforg the siferiff tonched the trigz’ |
wae solemn and 4lmost deathiike. and every @: |
alternated betwopn the dsrk-robed figares ar
their executiones.
Sheriff DeGoey, at a signal fro

he scaffold the clear outlin

it and silently awaitiug the le
out ‘bold at
A and almoet terrible in t!
The bush that fell apon ti

moved the pia which held |
t bar. .Thie bar supported

hen these tv
the doors being unsupporte

are going to @ better place tu-day. Mother, bie sentences. Nicholson's ner was uM g }
’ man prompt, Bf fisting. A’ condemn i would be precipitated. If, therefore, the t
bekutiful mother. sixter aud brother, I shall ove and indicated elastic health and springiness. a ing. Ae, 4 ao hu i. mee te sel shel Sir cuneate dee inachuises ahoubd teres

denly jerked from under the two transverse be
Supporting the trap, the whole platform woo
at once give way] with a s®@don oang. The p
which Mr. DeGopy removed merely held thet
right bar in secute porition, but its removal
course did not alter the position or pall thar
tight from unde¢r the trap. Thie. was acco
plished, however, by meaue of a rope attach:

wept écalding tears. After the prayer had been “Lord Jesus, receive my epirit.” The sheiff
coucinded Ruck of Ages” wae tung. the voicpe ee ag ey aril more Aa steels shook bande wih both pri goners oe well o be ine balled through pulleys
oO ollohan an choleon ne heard above 1 could under their cloaks, av . oo! ode

platform. The other depution remalggat the § Tio other, the ministers ag fh others. The Here Sherif Hane took bis position, and

trigger saddenly and iasts
tated the platform withoat t
ud. From their position ont

hg but sometimes jeering crov

aod waved on every neizhbori
hill and house-tap, and their last look up:
earth embraced
sands of eager figures jostling each otber rude |
to catch a giimppe of their last deatitbroce.

the ghastiy spectacle of tho

The Outside Spectacie.
The executiog was witnoseed by an immer

Inumber as ever witncesed
gitimore, not exeepting the

et not less than
THOUBAND PKOPLE

me. The paople commenced
y early bour in the moral:

o'clock the various thorous
he city Jat were thronged w

At the time the execution took place ¢he of
lot lying east of| Calvert street aud between |

ger and Read st

eeto, aud further apath, wa:

perfect sea of farce. McKim’e hill, on the c
por of Eager aud North streets, was crowo

with epectators.
as well ae at

aud among the member the
bther pointe, were. many Jad

It was an astohishing fact that many paro:

who witneseed
with them, arr
comin
enjoya

lhe eceve brought their child:
ving band iu hand, as toon

to parti¢ipate ina picaic or some at!
le occasion. Some of the woment |

looked upon the scene. T! |

ing upon the brink of their graves. they atp ‘the voices of buth were strong’ an

} what had been given them with an exceedingly pts ar ag del isamenlags pertnites other Every word belug distiuctly heard by all Bay the scene of the tragedy, and through t!
good relish, Nicholsou was the first to finish, demned men. Then th y \ io herr within the enclosure and by the great number of ns peered an edger and excited crowd.
and immediately afterwards Rev. Mr. Wileoh MM represeutatives of the Prieonere’ Ald. Asso. | Pevple cinstered ou top of the penitentiary wall Hf 4! ane those spectators were two boys, ce
entered the cell and eugaged in prayer. ‘This ciation and of Christian bodies Eloven mem. f 80d bouse-teps immediately back of the jal! yd Dot more/than five and six years ol |
ended, several gentlemen were admitted tp ders of the grand jury and cy seh plone ‘of f Wall, though neither of the privoncre appeared ressing thetr c¥ildish faces against the irc
sen ciehcaad sang nay 1h ee ‘Home.!’ Hi ofiicials and othera fo lowed, the procession pass- to make any effort to raise their valces. Nichol: coonh Arendt ‘a yng raph a ; A ples

Ly was concluded, Hollohan, who haji ing between lines of poll t son's self-posscesion was railing, which extladed from the space imm

throug of peopia from outwide theyll yard. p |
bapa as largoa
exccution fn Bi i
nd Corrie tragedy. It ie er |

other and expreseed their confi (
Tbe religious exercises were then terminated,
avd the men were pinioned sccureiy fur the last
scene Ip the tragedy by Deputy Sberitt Roreman,
While they were being pinioned Nicholeon and

deeire to aay some fuw words of parting. Mr. j
Hollohan wii! speak.” Pp pl - S F. hemnacae examined then. and
Lire was BxftKct,
Holloban’s coffin, heretofore described, was
brought to the foot of the bod
were low 4 Hollosan’s remains were
Placed in the @ieket and quickly borne away to
the undertaker's establishment of Mr. Weaver,
ov Payette street, where web 2 throng of peo-
ple soon congregated. inetivated b morbid
curiosity to vee the body. Nicholeou

ehaw in thely arme. Concord asireet, fac!
that portion of the jail yard where the gallo
was erected, ang Guy's aliey, iu front of t!
section of the pall yard, wage literally pack

with people.
CROWDED HOTSE-TOPR, !
The houvse-tops and other elevated poaitic |
contained throggs of people. and iu some
stances a chard was piade furaeight. Apa
owning a shed fommanding a good view of t

SPEECH OF HOLLOMAN,
Hollohan tben stepped forward, and. leaning
egeingt the railing of the scaffold, with bis hat
Holigban kept np @ ready convereation with @ sii!) on, and in a clear voice, without a tremor of
cach other, euled caally, and seemed thorough- § hie face, but several times halting in his speech,
ly at their_eaec. The ropes binding torm § gaia:
—emalk but etroug—were firmly secured at tbe Gentlemen and Brothors— Yon are aware that I
wriste of the men, then paseed further :u gaye been convicted; Lacknowledge the justice
: the arms and secored, then passed around their { the sentence aud am perfectly willing te vive

tled “black serge mantles or shrouds were

upon the condemned crimin

bodies several times, thue securing the arme and
reventing them from being drawn up when the
‘atal.drop took place. After the men had been

pat

which concea'ed

the gallows.
s TUE CONDEMNED MEN SURTNICED.
Just before being pinioned, at a quarter to
o'clock. Nicholson Went to the water-cuolef
H the visitors’ room to get a glass of water,
} casting bis glauce out of the window saw
immense crowds on the hilltops to the no!
west of tue prison, and the sight m
him start back, cd nahoy pe f astonished to
so many people congregated. Holluhan etep|
up to his side, and they both stood for seve
seconds calmly surveyice the great maee of p
pie with inter Neither of them
Temark, bat both appeared a9 cool as ice.
* DRESS OF THE PRISONERS.
Before shroudiug, both men appeared dre
in their ordinary cloth was gre
pafull suit of black and looked ve

i

en
tin
afd
he
th.
ade
lsc
bed
ral
em

ade any

med
ised
ii

up my life for the crime which I have sommitted.
(Howitating.) ‘here ie nothing like Christian
and brotherly love@ It te better than gold. We
aro all brothers. I wae sent to the penitentiary
wrongfully, I defy any man in the United Statce

judges aud the lawyers of the court. IJ lost
everything 1 bad—friends, money, my wife,
whoin I’expect to meet in Heaven. ,

When I thivk of the upright judges and the
State's attorney down In Annapolis, I feol prate-
ful to them for their kindness to me, and | thank
the officers of tho jail, aud I die in the faith of
Jesus Chriet. God bless you all. Guod bye.

*BPEECH OF NICHOLSON.

The sheriff then introduced Nicholson, who
promptly stepped forward and said: 1 wishto
make a few remarks. The confession that was
given wae given under promise of Mr. Crone
that Is d be State's witucss. The teati-
mony of ‘Thomas Nicholson, at Annapolis, wae
the truth. My puniehment ie just, and 1 warn
you against the love of money. I commit m

dear wife and children tothe bands ofa inercf-

we laced on s buard covered with |
conveyed to one of the basement roome of the
prison, whore taey were exainined by a namber
of medical gentiemen, includiag some stadente

brokea.—

colored, and the featuies were

evun's eyes appeared sunkes.

execation asked
position. Veh
crowded and bid
to the anuoya
anxiously movi

that was unabi

fell there was

reported from

the crowd who
colured perso!

colored women
orderly. howev
eome of them f
with wonderful

from the crow

as bigh, it is said, as $1 %) fo
cles of various dcacriptic
chaded the thoroughfares, niu
hce of pedestrians, who w:

the binding of their bande aod arms, and, all to say that I was ever put imany prison before of medicine. Nicholeoa’s Beck wae sition.

being in readiness, the prisopers and these in ff 1969 for any crime whatever. e of were is There were gver one bundred policemen ¢

the room formed ia p and pr ed bo | _1was arrested on the charge in Prince George's ped bs OT! indeath, calm sod without die 9 toputed arounf outside the jail tire. and i
county, where 1 was treated ehamefully by the | tortion. Ho johas owing tothele Pxertions that no accidents +

ereons crowding upon shedd!

B, iucindinga Jarge oumber
and children, ‘he crowd ¥
t, and bore the beat of the «
r two long hours, while wait!

general exclamation of "0!
|, apd many turned thelr fa

from the harrowing ecene. After the fallin
the trap the bpdios were bid from view o

excepting thoeq
uod the ya

rd, and as @ consequence |

was cnacted Icff. -Many of those occupying pc

tions where thd

until they werg

cut down.

fortitude. When the fatai t: |

bg Bronnd to procare a good | |

pto bear their weight. Amu |
witnedsed the sccne were m: |

occapying the higher posit |
a

crowd io a few minutes after the tragic sce ,
iy could eee the bodies remali |

Jenes=Akten >
William Jackson

Executed at UppexMarlboro,—Prifice—seorge'S-Ce.

saad Centreville, Queen Anne's Co. respectively
on July 6th 1894.

kcread in The Baltimore Sun issue of 7- 7- 94

page 6 column 5

BYATE OF MARYLAND.
tions at Centreville and
\ Upper Marlboro’.
OOLORED MEN DIE ON THE SOAFFOLD.

|

James Allon Hung at Upper Maribers’

- aad William Jackson at Centrevitie—
Brothers in a Shooting Affray in Coot
Gummer School fer Priests, © |
f®pecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.)

. Uprsx Marcpono’, July 6.—James Allen,

colored, was hanged bere this moroing at

8.58 o’clook for a rape upon) the

of Cora wt the
para J, Thomas Simpson, of ‘ook.
more, Queen Anne district, Prince George's
two hours during

whieh\was given to bim by. Warden Gpicer.

Tt consieted Rd vor honey, toast a0 é
bicken.\, T' d man ate\rbe meal

‘be
j with @ rellsb ©

Mpueria’ Ro Dunied b: iw. H, Tak
ber! ve, 7 ‘a

dott, went to Allen's cell and MF: Talbott out

the man'siexs.

gave the prisoner a new suit of

and told bim to prepare for

lothing and

sed at his appearance. The

# Joseph A, Cunnane, the. spire

of the convict, held a short

service in the cell, after which
was formed, with Sheriff Dove in the lead.
| He was followed by Hev. Jose

Then came
Denuties T.

dail and H. Mor

| sberiff led the way down the iron steps out
y into the main hallway, passing through a

door at the'rear of the jail, As Allen went
out of the door he glanced up at the scaffold
and, with a Orm, steady step, he ascended to
ae patient phere he we placed over the

vaeK Father Cnnace fread the itaoy for
be dying.; Tbe prisoner respvnded in a firm
tone. After the service the priest asked
Allen if he bad anything.to say. Tbe man
raised bie nead and said: “I -
those whom I bave foju

be sewn (rickiiog down obeeks, Deputies

Bult and Wells tied condemned man's

the hallway of/the jail, and the trap was
fropped through the open-

was but « slight drawing up

of the feet and the bands rematoed clinched.
1$ minutes the body was low-

thiand Latimer pronougced

oe was due to strangu-

es Cometers,
A ide of thst of
Daniel Barber, one ¢ the murderers of

Francis M. Bo
wase ver quiet and order! y
one, aod was for attended by so large a
which attended the banging of
) Pinkney, adout ove year ago.
ose who wito the #xeoution
wae the fathor of the victim of the assault
and az bulpred women, Owing to the carly
bour! he execution ik place sevoral
gund were P The
morning train brought a large crowd, and

“4

many perions came from Wash’ igton and Its

nity after the banging bad taken place,

be scaffold wad ro} me used
Bo rere.

Allen wa a twenty-two years

Hin father

ution whiob has taken plac
er Jennings w

JACKSON'S EXECUTION, |

He le Hung at Centreville for the ‘Mar.
dor ot George Leager,
{Snect: to the Bal 8 Bie.
CENTREVILLE, Mp., July 6—Woiiliam Jack.
sou, colored, was hung today for the murder
of George Leager, doo the létnor

last April, Sheriff Bryan had completed ar- |

reog ai the 4 hour, baif-past
one, After prayer in bis cull with bis
spiritual advisers, Revs. J. H. scott, J. E.
Webb and F.C. Wright, and sinwivg several
hymns, Jackson walked from the rear door
of the jail directly on to the eraffold and
took his position un the trap without aos ap-
Durent trepidation. Acrowd of about 600
people bad aesembied in the. vicinity of the
Jail and the d d man ex 4 @ de-
sire to address them. This wads permitted
and while the sheriff! was adjusing the
noose and binding bie feet and arms be made
a rambling epecch, ia which he roufirmed bis

of any mal fai fon to kill
Mr. Leazer, saying that bu was justified inthe
act, and hoped that bis life would prove a
warniog to others. He had come here a

stranger, he said, and had always tried to | i

conduct himself properly, but tue law bud
compelied bim to stand on the. scaffold. He
then vade good-bye to ail and'sbook hands
with the sheriff and the.mlaisters who stood
by bis'side, While the mao was speaking it
| became neovesary to alightly alter the ar-

| rangement of the rope, and he hushed and [ft
} turned toward theesherif®. When told to pru-

| ceed he said, “Thank you, sir,” and talked

} for several minutes longer, He thea re.
Quested the sberiff ty wine the perspiration
from bis face. *

The binck cap was placed upon his head | fi
and Sherif Bryan pulled tho rope that sprung | | i

|

about five feet, disidoouting -the neck. At @

the trap, and fa fifteen minutes Jacksou wus
‘pronounoed dead by the physicians, Drs.
Hordley, Finley and Colley, The droo was

Gret Jackson struggivd somewhat, contract-
ing bis limbs and once pr twice attempting
to raiee bis hands, After being pronounced
dead he was placed in bis coMs and. buried
in Centrev ille Comete: +4 al ;

‘The ministers had untiring in’ their
attention to him ang baptizea him a tew

Quys. ago.. They reqfaincd with bim last if’
é and’ at halt-past 10

of the Lord's
Supper. ‘Jackson Joined wiih them fo sinw-
ing and talked calaily of the near approach
Of death, deoluring bie readibessto div and
his confidence of salvation hereufter., After
the ministers lett be asked bis guard, Mr,

was 4 und he |

Robert Coursey’, for a mated, as be wishod | to
is

sat on bis cot and conversed until nearly 3 [m|

o'olook, when he went to bed and slept
soundly until aroused at 6,30 this morning.

After a vatb ‘he atea hoarty breakfast of
beetsteak, exis, cofce and warm rolis.. Oo
belong usked bow he felt he replied that be
was comfortable and bad passed a pesceful
aight. The aloisters soon returned and. re-
mained with him until after the exeoution,
reading the Bible, singing ead praying with
bim. His conduct throughout was weit pos
seseod and unfaltering. ©

Jackson dictated «the following ‘statement
to Kev. 3. @ Wright:. “I am thankful to
officers for their kindness to me while in
their oustody, I:am thankful to the aberiff
for the protection that he has extended to we
from jawless persous, and to the watchmen.

for thetr kindoess showa: to me, and, also, I |

H am indebted to the clergymon for their good

} and timely advice, by which I hope to meet

| them in Heaven. Good-bye, one and all. I
wilieoon be io Heaven.. I am going home
to die go more.”

|

At i o'clook he ate substantia! dlimer of H

fried bles; whieh he
apparently reliehed. His new suit of cloth-
ing .was thea Bante’ to nim, in which be
carefully rested himself, and thea called

bis ministers, Ho taiked freely and

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Hilt

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278 THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD YEARS

sternation of the executioners, when they hear the words,
“Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

That is a very uncomfortable chair. It’s horror is un-
speakable. It’s sinister warning, it’s humiliating, death-
dealing fangs, should be an effective warning and bring
cold chills to the hearts of all criminals and prospective kill-
ers. It should prevent murder, but does it? Killings have
not been stopped; murders are increasing. Burning at the
stake did not stop witchcraft. When they stopped the burn-
ing, witchcraft disappeared.

Executions are by no means confined to men. Women
have met the same fate, but in smaller numbers. Can any-
thing more gruesome be imagined than the revolting sight
when Mrs. Eva Dugan was executed in the Arizona state
penitentiary, at Florence, on February 21, 1930? When
she dropped, the rope cut her head from the body as clean
as the guillotine of old. Her lifeless form dropped in a heap
on the floor. The head rolled to one side. In the fall of 2931,
Warden Scroggins, of the West Virginia penitentiary, had
the same tough luck.

When John Jackson, colored, was hanged in the peniten-
tiary at Baltimore in 1931, the rope broke. His uncon-
scious form dropped to the floor. They picked him up,
fastened a new rope around his neck, and hanged him all
Over again.

In this country the ancient custom of drawing and quar-
tering of prisoners has been discontinued. The branding
of convicts has been abolished. The whipping post is dis-
appearing. Legalized execution must go if we want to be
rated a civilized people.

So thorough was my conviction, while I was still in the
Moundsville penitentiary, that executions were useless and
wrong that I lost no opportunity, after starting the Prison-
ers Relief Society, of doing everything possible to abolish
capital punishment. I had some mighty fine cooperation.

a |

my * Sash

MURDER BY THE STATE 279

Many leading thinkers and newspapers throughout the coun-
try have been advocating the same thing. Many leading
criminologists and penologists are adv ocating the abolition
of this hang-over from ancient days.

Dr. Walter C. Murphy, an elderly physician, who had
been practicing medicine in Washington for fifty-five years,
helped to bring the argument to a climax by joining with
some of the rest of us in offering to be electrocuted publicly.

“As a doctor,” he said, “I know that the electric chair is ©

the most horrible torture conéeivable.

“TI feel that if the people could only see the extreme agonies
of a man being electrocuted they would soon abolish the
practice. That is why I am willing—even anxious—to gac-
rifice myself as an example.”

This movement was really started by G. P. McGraws, an
aged philanthropist, who made his purpose known to me.
He said that more than thirty years ago he had been con-
victed of murder in Ohio and sentenced to death.

“I appealed the case,” he told me, “won a new trial, and
was finally acquitted.

“But the shadow of my crime still hung over me in the
town where I lived. I was completely ostracized. When I
went to church the people got up and left the pew where I
zat, :

“Finally I changed my name and moved away. My wife
died, and my son was killed in France in the World War.

“Now Iam old. I have nothing to live for. But I would
like to do some act that would help humanity.”

Not only these two, but ten other men, including myself,
mostly old men, volunteered to offer their lives as living sac-
rifices to abolish legalized murder. We offered to invite the
President, the governors, many notables, wardens and
prison authorities, to witness the executions. I wrote to the
Attorney General asking for permission to put on the ex-
hibition. I am sure that our plan would have been a per-
suasive argument to convince the people of this country that

Airey
Jacobs

ne
—_—_—

@ at Annapolis on January 10th 1913

ed in The Balttmore Sun issue of 1-11-13
column 1

fog 5

Oe

' Gallows At Annapolis,

NEAR COLLAPSE ON SCAFFOLD]

Marderer Of John Brooks, Colored,
Passing Penalty For His Crime,
Held Up Ry Guards.

i Special Utspateh to the Baltimore Sud.)
> Anpapolle, Md, Jan. °20. —Although he |
tind Aeveral Umea tully confessed his crime, }
naked furgivencss of his: Master” and
stated that he was “ready. “to. go,” Ja tj
Jacobs, the “negro murderer, was on 3

ins iu tbe county. Jail yard ‘int
thse mornings: 3 aie

an nigh:
his: extremely ‘nervous COM: it)

tertiess taronenent 3
Mt tis.

except when pidressed: ‘BY one of:
temdants, and: 8:
abpre a whisper. <

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CRIME AND
PUBLICITY

The Impact of News on the

Administration of Justice

by Alfred Friendly and Ronald L. Goldfarb

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND

NEW YORK: 1967

SSE oeocos
iit state

The Complaint

or the unfortunate
be borne by the
perience in Dallas
ng about a proper
informed and the
“It recommended
t associations and
standards” on the
-) interference with
or the right of in-

“id by “press” here
vision—during the
-itment of criminal
it performance, or
7 an unbelievable
1 What is beyond
ced as an illustra-
‘ regularly against
a ng demon-

; (and later at the
it inflicted on Lee
only the culmina-
ome to be labeled
owth of the press,
hrough the perva-
ot merely a com-
is, and the force of
verpowering than
big voice and the
attentive millions.
wr newsworthiness,
1e,solemn, dispas-
ous rules of court.
v. The injury that

The Complaint ll

the press is seen to inflict on the administration of criminal justice is,
preponderantly, in its asserted denial to a defendant of his Constitu-
tional guarantee of fair trial before unbiased jurors; to a much less ex-
tent—at least insofar as the volume of complaint provides a measure—the
press (especially television) is accused of corroding the dignity and
scrupulous procedure of the judicial process itself and the objective,
impersonal environment in which it operates.

Press coverage of crime and trials is seen to make its harmful impact
in two principal ways: One comes from bringing to the attention of the
actual or prospective jurors, outside the courtroom, information and
opinion that is “nonjudicial” (or “extra-record” or “extra-judicial”),
namely, material they are not allowed to consider under procedures so-
ciety has designed to govern the fair adjudication of a defendant’s guilt
or innocence. The second comes from creating an over-all atmosphere
in the community, by the sheer volume or sensationalism of publication
about a case, that tends to contaminate the objectivity of the jurors and
the court and to subvert the dispassionate attitude prescribed for the

trial procedure.

Today’s concer with the effect of news coverage on trial procedure had
its beginnings in the events of the 1930's in Flemington, New Jersey.
There, Bruno Hauptmann stood accused of kidnapping the Lindbergh
baby. He was tried and convicted in an atmosphere of circus sensa-
tionalism that outrageously degraded the judicial process.

The interest of the public and the press in the trial was obsessive.
The prosecutor did not disguise his intent to bring the inflamed public
opinion to bear upon the jury. He said in his summation:

I am not concerned about what the mob is clamoring for, as counsel
refers to it, but you can bet your life that if there is a clamor from the
people of this country for this man’s conviction I have sufficient faith
in the American people to know that it is their honest belief and con-
viction that he is a murderer. Otherwise, there would be no clamor, if
there is one.

During the trial, pamphlets were circulated showing Hauptmann’s
earlier criminal record in Germany. Newspapers reported the opinions
of eminent lawyers about his guilt. The prosecuting attorney gave con-
stant newspaper interviews. Present in this otherwise quiet little town to


| Negro Sobs On His Way To The}
| ' Gallows At Annapolis.

6 at Annapolis on January 10th 1913 NEAR COLLAPSE ON SCAFFOLD |

Murderer Of John Brooks, Colored,
Pasytng Penalty For His Crime,
ed in The Balttmore Sun issue of 1-11-13 . Held Up By Guards.

column 1 [Special Ustanateh to the. Baltimore Sun. i

Angpapolle, Md, Jan. °10.—Although he |
lim aeveral tinwes fully confessed his crime,
aeked forgiveness of “his Master pas and |
stated that he was “ready to go,”- Jam
dacohs, the negro murderer, was on. th
verge of complete collapse when he ¥
ney tu the county Jail. yard in this
this morning,

The exrccotion was carried through
remarkable digpatch and ag it took
eartly in the morning few person
neased ft. ‘

That Jacobs. dreaded his. “approachin
fate was plainly evident. last night froma
his extremely nervous condition, H as
restiess throughout the: night and ~stept
Nrtle. He ate very sparingly of the hreak-
fast that was brought bim by one ¢f:the
deputies hefore daybreak. less than an
hour after his breakfast. Jacobs was Bro
nounced a dead man.

Neck Broken By Fall. ’: ni poe

Prior to and during the trip from the
Courthouse to the jail yard Jacaba fre-|
quently sobbed. He did not utter a sword, |
except when addressed by one of the at: |
temdants, and then his voice. was scarcely :
above a whisper.

Tt was exactly 7.10 o'clock that: Sheritt
Beasley pulled the lever'that released:
trap and. sent the niurdérer’s bods aw.
ing into- space. The drop. was.
feet)’ Ten minutes fater Dr,
kins; the county healt
Willfam 8. Welch, ‘the
examined the body and pj \ .
tinct, They found that the net

1. The ‘body “was then tut “de
ned over te ato
colored. undertaker to. “De prepared Or
burial. fs ee
The body was claimed hy # brotter of |
the dead negro, whe ives car Hierton |
Station, onsthe Ma ryland. Biec trie: Rebiwary :
Line, It was shipped there by the ouRey:
authorities, ; |
L@ss than 50. persons, Anshuting: a acore
of s jectal deputies, durt
clals witnessed the éxecunion.
the inaret to the gallowa Her No j
rol, jpastor of Asbury Meets Kpisoae'
Chugeh, calorie, vintte

ice, i He uti iad. prays

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deputirs had to unsist ts if
the gallows und the dewce
parapheriaatla owe ee
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Was | committed in thee
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the fesult of anuld fe
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Slave JAMES, black, hanged St. Mary's County, Maryland, May 3, 175.

"April bh: We hear from St. Mary's County that a few weeks ago one
Widow Vebeots 5 2bout 30 or 35 years of age, was found murdered at her
renee near Clement's Bay and is supposed to have been strangled but
had many wounds and bruises about her. And about a fortnight ago a
young girl of 11 or 12 years old near the same place, being sent
on an errand, was found murdered in the woods. Her body had been
cut with a penknife, and otherwise used in such an inhuman-and
barbarous manner as decency forbid s to mention ,. A mulatto fellow
of a vile character was found washing himself at a run of water not far
from the poor girl's body, and a garter, fellow ta that on one of his
legs, was found 1 ying by her, and he is taken up and committed to the
gaol of that county as the supposed vile perpetrator of on e, if not
both, of those two horrid murders." PENNSYLVAN IA GAZETTE, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, April 11, 175h.

"Marylend, April 25: We hear from St. Mary's County that at the Asstzes in
that County last week, the mulatto fellow who was taken up for a rape

and murder committed on a girl about 12 years of age, lately men-

tioned, was tried and found guilty. But what death he is to suffer

we have not yet heard."

PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, X®# May 16, 175).


NAME PLACE — City _ oO COUNTY . DOE MEANS.
Eugene H, James .|"MaS so '(aaitimore City) He ada
D008 OR AGE 31 RAS Lack occuraniter & handy man RESIOENCE GEN
° Baltimore
RECORD
CRIME DATE OTHER
Murder 7B -1918 ~~ :
“ victim Ace’ RACE METHOD . . +
Marsha Brill ll stabbed
MOTIVE 7
Z SYNOPSIS > : *
° "Zugene H, Janes, Negro janitor and handyman, was hanged at the Penitentiary early this

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morning for the:mrder 13 months ago of lleyear-old Marsha Brill..,?rison officials said the noose
slipped during James's hanging, the first time such a thing had happened at an execution in more
than twenty years. Sut he was pronounced dead at T2736 aM, 15 minutes after the trap was Sprurze
Meanwhile, morphine was adminittered to James by Dr, Henry W. D, Holljes, prison physician, Dre -

aw oe sore pee a Lb end atransilet+ion Tamen almast
joe ~TDUTT a UL One se TreUN. alta St math aim TEU ee ee VoRTel aL

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be supported by guards on the way to the platform,James was 32, According to the Rev. B, F. Blu-
=2 stant_chaplain, he «aid little in the hours £m before the execution and had no visi-
tors on the day before.....James emerged from bushes along Glen Avenue, Pimlico, and stabbed
Marsha 3rill to death as she was riding her bicycle alone the road with two playmates. The courts
rejected claims by James's counsel that he was memtally unbalanced aith a subconscious hatred of
young girls, or that he confessed as a result of 'psychological torture! by Baltimore police.
James was indicted in Jashington for a similar murder, the killing of ll-year-old Cardl Bardwell
who was bicycling in Rock Creek RX¥KXHXEH Park when she was raped and stabbed to death only nine
days before the Brill slaying. Washington police cuoted dames as admitting he killed Uarol after
he had sat for hours watching swans in the park while on a visit to the Capitol, The James case als¢
-was-the-cause of -atengthy legal battte i i 5 isi
striking out key sections of the Criminal Court rules here restricting publication of crime newSe
; +3 ro convicted of contempt—of court for broadcasting

details of James's arrest and confession following the Brill murder, plus detf#ils of the prisoner's
past crime record, The stations and the commentator appealed, and the higher court upset the con-
victions, remitted fines that had been imposed and ruled the crime-news rules of the courg$s here
violated constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and press. James was arrested with a few
hours after Marsha's death July 6, 195, and on July 8 was charged with killing her. He was tried
in Seotember and convicted of first degree murder by a judge who described thecrime as a thorrible
outrageious offensee'
BALTIMORE SUN, Baltimore, Maryland, August 12, 1914,

TRIAL

APPEALS

65 AMauhe, C2) &B2

LAST WORDS

EXECUTION

SOURCE

FRANK NEWTON OFFICE SUPRPLY-ODTHAN


SNe ETE RATER EMER

12 The Complaint

cover the case were 141 news reporters and photographers from all over
the world, 125 telegraph operators, and 20 messengers. The presiding
judge forbade photographs while the court was in session but allowed
newsreel cameras with sound equipment to be installed in the court-
room. The inevitable happened. One photographer muffled his camera
in a soundproof hood, installed in it a recording device with a remote
control, and recorded some of the testimony. When the court was not
in session sightseers were admitted. Placards were placed around the
courtroom showing where principal participants in the trial sat. How-
ever, as a sign of decorum, “members of the Rotary Club kept sight-
seers from cutting their initials in the judge’s bench.” At the trial, the
public applauded state witnesses. The whole proceeding was wild, rau-
cous, and unrestrained. The court itself scarcely attempted to correct it.

When the issue of prejudicial publicity was raised on appeal, the ap-
pellate court said, “It was inevitable,” and upheld the conviction,

After the trial, the organized press and bar agreed that something
had to be done about lurid publicity of trials. Speeches were made and
committees were formed, but very little was accomplished. While the
bar’s unilateral prohibition of broadcasting and photographing trials
was a direct result of that case, the basic problem went unresolved.

In the years that followed, the media grew larger, their impact be-
came more pervasive, and their taste for sensation, it would appear, in
no way abated. The temptation to gain circulation through the elaborate
and voluminous reporting of scandalous and shocking criminal cases
remained.

The Hall-Mills case stands out as a classic early example of sensa-
tionalism gone wild. Actually, more than three decades after the event,
it is clear that there was nothing wild at all about the manufacture of
the sensationalism: It was contrived coldly and deliberately as a weapon
in William Randolph Hearst’s circulation war with Joseph Patterson.2
Since then, the formula for the sensational case has remained standard,
cut on the tried and tested Hauptmann and Hall-Mills pattem: Major
circulation magazines and newspapers and broadcasters dispatch their
crews and chroniclers; the whole country is treated to the details of the
principals’ love life, Broadway and Hollywood columnists’ curbstone

* The story is deftly told in William Kunstler’s The Minister and the Choir Singer
(New York: Dell, 1965).

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Following from Baltimore SUN of July 6, 19:8. Crime occurred in early afternoon after he leaped

out from wooded area in Pimlico and stabbed. her as she ran from her attacker, ‘She was bicycling
with two playmates on Ylen avenue just west of Merville Avenue. She jumped from bicycle and fled
on foot before he overtook her and plunged a large Scout knife into her right breast. Her playmates
wereBarbara Lee Sapperstein, 11, and her brother AlanaSapperstein, 8, The other two children waved
dwn a passing motorist. He asked Marsha what happened and she said: "A colored man hit me,"" He
rushed her to a doctor's office where aid administered and she was taken to Union Memorial Hospital
where she died in short time. The following from SUN of 7-7-1918: The crime between noon and 1 PM,
The two girls had become tired and dismounted from bicycles, “lan riding ahead. James leaped out
of woods and stabbed without saying a word. Following from SUN of 7-8-1948, A souvenier button
reading "*ilsen Line - S, S, Mount Vernon - Washington, D, C," found near Marsha's body and estabe
lished link between her mrder tnd that of Carol Bardwell, The following from SUN of 7-10-19),8,
"Fugene H, James, colored janity, was indicted for murder, rape and robbery, The rape and robbery
charges grew out of an alleged criminal attack on a woman in Ashburton section, Had been arrested
on night of 7-6 and questioned since then, Rape victim was 38-years-old and had occurred on June
15 on Wabash Avenue, She had been attacked at 11:15 AM while she walked throuch a woods near
Wabash and Seonoia Streets on her way to grocery store, A long butéher knife found buried in woods,
This, police believed was murder weapon, James lived on 3300 block of Patton Avenue, a block north
of Belvedere Ave. Worked as a handyman and janitor in Pimlico section, The Bardwell child's body
had. been found in Rock Creek Park, “ashington, her throat slashed, The following from SUN of
7-13*1948: At arratgnment in Criminal Court pleaded not euilty by reason of insanity to both
charges, Trial set for August 3, Description, five feet, seven inches tall, 10 pounds, Face
marked by excessively heavy lips witha long thin mustache,


Pnoto dy James Fede? Jr The Wasmington Times

2S in the 28-pound hammer throwing competition at the
Alemwandria over the weekend.

Beatley Jr. “When the time for action arose,
they supported George Washington, George
Mason and our other citizens in their efforts
to secure independence.”

The Scottish fair, originally a one-day fes-
tival, this year also included the first annual
international Scottish harp competition. In
addition, British automobiles and Scottish
dogs were on exhibit.

Festival organizers said participants
came from all over the United States and
from several foreign countries.

In another competition, the National Scot-
tish Fiddling Championship — always held
in Alexandria — drew top fiddlers and
judges from as far away as Scotland.

The biggest problem for participants and
Spectators came with the concessions

- Stands, which hadn’t anticipated such raven-

ous crowds yesterday. By midday, vendors
threw up their hands in desperation as food

ran out..

"| Maryland re reviews
its law on secrecy
of execution date —

By Maureen O'Donnell

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Maryland Penitentiary Warden
Leslie Dorsey had no idea he was
violating state law last month when
he announced he had selected Fri-
day, July 13, as the date convicted
murderer Richard Tichnell would
die in the gas chamber.

Tichnell appealed the decision
and remains on Death Row, but his
case is still being discussed
because it sheds light on an unusual
Maryland statute — apparently the
only state law in the country — that
bars announcement of the date of
an execution.

The canceled execution has
prompted an examination by the
House Judiciary Committee to
determine whether it encroaches
on any constitutional safeguards,
said Delegate Joseph Owens, D-
Montgomery, committee chairman.

“I’m not sure that it raises any
free-speech problems, but we will
take a look at it to see why it is there,
and if we should changeit,” he said.

One of 16 prisoners on Mary-
land’s Death Row, Tichnell was sen-
tenced to die for fatally shooting a
deputy sheriff in a gun battle after
a burglary.

Tichnell’s trial judge,’ Calvert
County Circuit Court Judge Perry
Bowen, is entitled to sign another
death warrant because the U.S.
Supreme Court refused to hear
Tichnell's case.

Legal experts began puzzling
over how the law came into being.
Watt Espy, research associate with
the University of Alabama's Capital
Punishment Research Project, said
he has found the answer — a 34-
year-old execution.

Janitor-handyman Eugene
James had confessed to fatally stab-
bing Carol Bardwell, 11, as she
walked in Rock Creek Park, and
was convicted of the July 1948
slashing death of Marsha Brill, also
11, in Baltimore.

James’ statement, reported by
radios and newspapers, resulted in

’ four radio stations and a news com-

mentator being indicted for pub-
lishing details of the confession,
Mr. Espy said.

At the hanging at the state peni-
tentiary in Baltimore, James
struggled for 15 minutes before he
finally strangled to death, a event

carefully recorded by REWADAPCTR:
and radio stations.

“As James dropped through the:
trap the noose slipped and instead.
of becoming unconscious immedi-'
ately, he continued to struggle. His:
outcries were plainly audible’
throughout the execution cham-:

_ ber,” an account of the Aug. 12,

1949, Baltimore-News Post read.
“It was necessary for two guards:
to hold his legs, and with the sanc-:
tion of Warden Edwin Swenson, Dr.:
Henry W. Holljes, prison physician,:
gave him an injection of morphine.
to dull the pain. '
“James managed to struggle one’
arm from the strap with which he:
was bound and reached upward to’
the noose. He had almost reached it.
when his body suddenly went limp.”!

The bungled |
execution — and the '
resulting news
accounts —
apparently led to the
passage of the
secrecy law two years
later.

The bungled execution — and the:
resulting news accounts — appar-
ently led to the passage of the'
secrecy law two years later, said Mr.,
ia? eRe

“It’s my belief the General
Assembly passed this bill to pre-
vent the news media from having.
too much advance notice and being
able to publicize these events,” he
said.

“It [the James execution] made,
the state of Maryland look bad, as if :
it was executing people in a bar-:
baric fashion,” Mr. Espy said. “I ‘
think it was an attempt to teach the
reporters a lesson.”

The James hanging also figured:
in the Maryland Legislature's:
decision to end executions by hang-
ing in favor of death in the gas’

' chamber, Mr. Espy said. In 1955, the:

General Assembly approved a bill’
that provides for criminals to be.

executed by asphyxiation. ;

1

Od fueqsutTysem *SaWIL UcysuTYSeM Word


JOE, Slave, hanged Cecil County, Maryland, on February 1, 1751,

"Feb. 13: On the first instant the mulatto man JOE for the murdesé of
his master was executed in Cecil County pursuant to his sentence,"
MARYLAND GAZETTE, Feb, 13, 17513 same article PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE,
Feb, 26, 1751,

"January 2nd: We hear from REKKK Cecil County that the mulatto man JOE
who murdered his master Mr, Edward Taylor is again apprehended and in
that County gaol. A specisl commission is gone up appointing Col,
Colville, Mr, eazy, Mr, Nathan Baker, Mr, Baxter and Mr, Rock to hold
a Court of Oyer & Terminer for his trial, This JOE is a brother of the
negro who was executed in 1729 for murdering Mr, Aquila Hall,"
PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, Phila., Penna., January 29, 1751,

"The mulatto man JOE who shot his master in Cecil County some time ago

and made his escape, was afterwards taken, has been tried and condemned for
the murder. On his trial he at first pleaded guilty but soon withdrew

that plea, which the court allowed, and pleaded Not Guilty, But the

fact was fully proved and the jury had no difficulty in finding him

Guilty. He was sentenced to have his right hand cut off, then to be

hanged, to have his head severed from his body and his body to be

divided into four quarters and his head and quarters to be fixed up

in the most public parts of the county which sentence is to be executed

on him the First day of February," MARYLAND GAZETTE, B Annapolis, Maryland,
January 30, 1751,


JOE, Slave, hanged Annapolis, MD, on March 26, 1755.

Ltr. dtde 9-13-1989 from Hearn: "1755. Negro Joe. He was a slave
of Mr. James Weems of Anne Arundel County. His crime was

committed 6n 2/21/1755 when he murdered his overseer, Richard
Price, by driving an ax into the back of his head, His value was
fixed at sixty pound sterling. Source: Judgement Journal of the
Anne Arundel County Court, Liber 3 (175-1756) page 102, March
Term, 1 755."


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JOHNSON, Charles, black, hanged Annapolis, MD January <o), 1901,

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JOHNSON

David, black,

hanged at
Annapolis, MD
on 1/7/1853,

[Correspondence o of the Baltimore Sun.].
ANNAPOLIS, Jan., 7, 1853.

Execution of David Johnson for the Murder (Oft
i - Thomas Cole,
| This was the day appointed by the state for the
execution of David Johnson, colored, convicted

of the murder of Thos, Cole, a white man, at the } aan.
Octoberterm of court Johnson, it will be recol- Hay
lected, was the slave of Col. Geo.. W. Hughes, and (tm.
| murdered Cole to pessess himself of a watch and eh Herta Op
afew other things’ he had about him.’ : S
The gallows nad been erected in the north-é
corner of the jail.yard, commanding a good
At about 84 o’clock Sheriff Worthington : 7
deputies, and the Rev. C, Kj Nelson, of the Pro-.
teatant Chirch, visited, his room, when, after ser-
vices, the Sheriff. procecd to place on’ his shroud
# and to pinion him, ‘/": |
- AtQo’clock the culprit iscended the’ scaffold to-
gether with Mr Worthington and Rev. Mr. Neison.
-The convict exhibited ‘every indication of repen- §
cea being engaged all the while in fervent pray-
: The rope was ther adj sted, the:.cap pulled
| pier his face, and the poor man was launched into
eternity. Not more than 7). persons were present. |
After the lapse of some twenty minutes he was:
taken down and placed in his coffin, which was of
black walaut, and interred din the: public burial
ground. - :
At 11 o’clock, hundrecs ‘ot persons from miles
and miles in the county, flocked into town to wite |
| nas the scene, but of course/they were disappoin-
a The Sheriff had no idea of making a mere
show of the final departure from this world of a-
| fellow mortal in satisfaction lof the offended laws.

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SUN, Baltimore, Maryland, January 8, 1853 (1:2)

The strange cat-and-mouse game
ended abruptly shortly after 9:30.
Clark, a glittering-eyed, thick-chested
man with a black mustache, waa nabbed
the moment he rolled to a stop in the
parking area of the Rock House Grill.

Calmly, and with a faint smile, he
said, Take it easy. I know all the talk
that’s going on about me because of
that gun and power saw, But I can 6x-
plain every bit of it.”

The gist of his explanation was that
he had met two men in a tavern out-
side of Spruce Pine who had “conned”
him into buying the articles. “I had an
idea they were hot, but they told me
they weren't. They said they’d meet me

back at the tavern the noxt niuht, but
they never showed up. So I got rid-of
the stuff and didn’t think any more
about it.”

Clark couldn't name anyone else who
had seen these strangers. The question-
ing persisted, Finally he slumped in his
chair and said, “You guys win, I'll tell
you the truth.” °

According to Sheriff Banner, Clark
then told this story: Late in the evening
of June 4 he had trudged up Doe Moun-
tain with a twelve-gauge, single-bar-
reled shotgun of his own, looking for
ground hogs. A pheasant flew up
before him. He aimed his gun, and
Walter Lilly appeared “from out of no-

In the Case of the Fifth Victim—

Doctor Charles O'Donnell, the Bal-
timore County Medical Examiner, made
a preliminary examination of the body.

His tentative opinion was that she
could have died either from the bludg-
eoning by the statuette or from any of a
half dozen deep stab wounds in her
throat and chest. He placed the ap-
proximate time of death at between
three and 3:30 that afternoon.

Neighbors, following a methodical
canvass, were positive no screams had
been heard from the Bopst home at
any time during the day.

“ E YEN if she did manage to scream,

we probably wouldn’t have heard
her through that thick shrubbery,” one
of them pointed out.

Meanwhile, the Towson officers, after
conferring with the Baltimore authori-
ties, went over the reports of the four
successive crimes, but failed to come up
with any clear-cut lead. — .

Several of the victims were inter-
viewed, including the young girl still
in the hospital. But they could not
amplify the sketchy descriptions al-
ready in the hands of the police. And
the one witness was vague about: the
coat being blue. “I can’t say for sure,”
she said. “After all, when something as
horrible as that happens to you, you
don’t remember much of anything.”

A dragnet soon spilled a number of
men into Headquarters. Lieutenant
Eurice and several detectives ques-
tioned them. At least three men failed
to provide clear-cut statements con-
cerning their whereabouts and actions
during the afternoon, but with sullen
obstinacy insisted that they were in-
nocent of the atrocity.

“Who'd try something like that in
broad daylight?” one of them asked.
“You can almost spit from Headquarters
over to the Bopst place.”

The theft of the Chrysler. indicated
that the killer probably was not a local
resident. But the detectives refused to
take anything for granted. They went
over and over the statements of the
three whose alibis were the shakiest.

One of these was a man named Ridge
Tatum, a construction worker who said
he'd been in several taverns during the
afternoon, he wasn’t sure just which,
between three and four. “But you ask
them bartenders,” he said. “Mebbe
they'll remember.” :

The detectives did and they discov-
ered that Tatum was telling the truth,
He had been in one between approxi-
mately 3:15 and four.

“I remember ‘cause he got in a fight
hale Charlie LaPalma,” the bartender
said.

“A fight?” asked Sergeant Ross Gag-
liano. “About what?”

“Well, it wasn’t exactly a fight, it was
just an argument,” the bartender
replied. “Charlie came in about four
and he looked like he’d had a scrap with
somebody, blood all over his shirt. He
said he was in some kind of trouble and
he says to Tatum, ‘What did you keep

me from going to Washington for?’ and:

Tatum tells him to shut up. That’s
about all there was to it.”

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That might have been all, but it was
enough for Gagliano. He knew Charlie
LaPalma, all right—and he knew that,
when he wasn’t off on a bender, Charlie
earned his living as a tile setter. —

And tile setters would have been used
in erecting the new bathroom at the
Bopst house. .

Gagliano returned to Headquarters
and talked it over with Lieutenant Eur-
ice. Tatum was then brought out again
and questioned. After an oblique ap-
proach that left the officials convinced

he had met LaPalma in the tavern

shortly after the slaying, he was bluntly

asked where and how his friend got the

_— on his clothing. He-said he didn’t
now.

“Then why did you tell him to shut
up — what were you trying to hide?”
demanded Gagliano. ; :

“I wasn’t trying to hide nothin’,”
declared Tatum. “He was cussin’ all

over the place, and we’d’a both been”

thrown out. He’s always gettin’ himself
in a jam when he's drinkin’, I tell you
I just wanted him to let me alone.”

Tatum’s alleged’ lack of curiosity
about his friend’s bloody appearance
was too much to swallow. The investi-
gators questioned him closely but failed
to get any further clarification of the
incident. He’d told LaPalma earlier not,
to go to Washington, he explained, for
LaPalma’s own good. “He'd ’a been
picked up in no time if he'd gone.”

The contractor for the addition to the
Bopst home was requestioned. He'd
already told detectives that none of his
men had been to the house, on business
anyway, that day.

Now he said that he never had
employed LaPalma.

“Just the same, we’d better bring him
in,” decided Eurice.

A little past ten o'clock LaPalma was
found and brought to Headquarters.
The officials’ suspicions catapulted
upward when LaPalma denied that his.
clothing had been bloodstained.

“| DON’T know what you're talking
about—I never had no blood on
this shirt,” he said. “No, Sir, you ain’t
getting me mixed up in that lady’s
killing.”

“We're not interested in the shirt
you're wearing now,” replied Gagliano.
“Just the one you wore this afternoon.”

“I don’t know what you're talking
about.”

-A bare 20 minutes later, however,
after being confronted with Tatum, his
memory: returned. “All right, I got
smeared up,” he admitted grudgingly.
“But with this whole county talking
about that killing I knew I'd be in hot
water. Anyway, I didn’t do it—the blood
I got on me don’t mean a thing.”

“Where did you get it? How?”

His story was.rather involved. He said
that after Tatum had talked him out of
going to Washington, he had decided
to visit a divorcee he knew. Unfortu-
nately, her brother had been at the
woman’s home. The brother had re-
ceived him with something less than
enthusiastic welcome. “He got sore and
called me a slob,” said LaPalma. “I

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whore, He ordered mo off the property
and began cursing me, He was in # vio~
lent temper and I got scared. So I shot
him, Then J saw the woman hurrying
along the tral. She had her hand under
her apron. So 1 shot her.”

He could not explain why he had
drageed Mrs, Lilly's body into the for-
est, the Sheriff claimed, but he ad-
mitted taking $120 from Lilly’s wallet
and the automatic shotgun and three
days later, after becoming certain that
no one had discovered the bodies, he
returned for the power saw, wrapping it
in a canvas cover,

The alleged confession spread like
wildfire through the county. By noon,

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wasn’t gonna take that, and we had it
out. I must ’a drunk more’n I thought,
‘cause he managed to shove me out the
door. I can take care of myself most of
the time, but he laid it on me. Look
here,” he invited, “if you want to see
where some of that blood came from.”

A thick finger yanked at his lower
lip, pulled it down. The officials were
able to see a long, ugly gash on the in-
side of the lip.

In less than three quarters of an hour
the lead had blown up‘completely. An
interview with the divorcee corrobo-
rated -LaPalma’s story. He was released,
cleared of any suspicion. ° :

Other disappointments came swiftly.
Tatum and the other two men whose
alibis had been flimsy were soon elimi-
nated as potential suspects. An equally
thorough look into the activities and
whereabouts of the workmen who had
begun the bathroom job at the Bopst
home satisfied Captain Deyle that they
could not be involved.

And not a single clear print had been
found at the death scene.

MEANWHILE, Lieutenant Powell had
learned ‘the license number of the
missing Chrysler. A supplementary
alarm was promptly issued on the thir-
teen-state hookup.

“The car is important to us right
now,” said Deyle. “We've got to make
our own breaks.” He called in several
detectives assigned to other squads and
Captain Baumiller cooperated by offer-
ing a number of patrolmen. They were
given the job of cruising the streets
looking for the car.

They crisscrossed Towson without

» seeing it and spread into the edge of

Baltimore. And Sergeants Heim and
Bangert spotted it, parked in the shad-
ows near the corner of Grantley Road
and Garrison Boulevard, in northwest
Baltimore. : }

As the top brass and laboratory tech-
nicians swarmed to the scene, Heim and
Bangert questioned the family of.a phy-

-sician in front of whose home the car
had been abandoned. The physician’s
wife said that when she had left on a
shopping trip around two that after-
noon the car had not been there. A
maid, working inside, had failed to
notice it at all.

However, a teen-aged son of the doc-
tor told the officers, “Sure, I saw it
there, around half-past three. It’s a
beautiful job. But I don’t know who left
it there.” Nor did anyone else, appar-
ently. A swift canvass of the neighbor-
hood was wholly unproductive. .

The lab crew reported that a prelim-
inary dusting of exterior and interior
surfaces of the car had failed to yield
any prints. :

Captain Deyle, tight-lipped with dis-
appointment, returned to his cruiser.
They had taken a thousand-to-one shot
-and it had paid off. They had located
the victim’s missing car within a few
hours of the crime. And it hadn't helped.

What now? What possible move
could they undertake now to trace the
killer?

- As Deyle stared glumly down busy

a huge throna had gathered before the
courthoune, ‘To prevent any oulbroak,
Banner took the prisoner to Marion, 30
miles away.

AL Via writing, Obbie Clark is being
held without benefit of bond in the
Marion County Jail, awaiting legal ac-
tion. He spends his time reading comic
books, occasionally singing the captions
in a lusty baritone that annoys his cell-
mates no end, Watch “Up to the Min-
ute” for final news of the disposition of
this case in a future issue.

To prevent embarrassment to a per-
son innocently involved in this case
the name of Ennis Blane is fictitious.

Read It First In
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

Garrison Boulevard, his radio broke
silence. It was Lieutenant Eurice.

“Captain, we've got a lead,” he
reported. “Overbey has found a witness
who says a stranger was in the neigh- ~
borhood about a week or two ago.”

Deyle sighed. It certainly wasn’t much
of a lead—a stranger, probably uniden-
tifiable, in the vicinity long before the
slaying. He spoke into the mike quietly,
“All right, I’m coming in.”

The witness proved to be Mrs. T. Bay-
ard Williams, wife of a lawyer who lived
on Charles Street Avenue, close to the
victim's home. Despite the late hour,
she had obliged by coming to Head-
quarters for a complete statement.
With her had come her husband, who
recently had been appointed to the

_ County Board of Education.

“I really wouldn’t have mentioned
it,” said Mrs. Williams, a gracious,
pleasant-mannered woman. “But my
husband thought I should.”

Sergeant Elgin Overbey had been the
detective who had questioned her in
the lawyer’s home. She had told him
that approximately five days before,

possibly a /little longer, a tall, slender 4%
man had tramped through the neigh- =

borhood asking if the residents had any
odd jobs he could do.

“TI told him I couldn’t think of a thing
right then, but maybe I’d have some-
thing later. I asked him how I could |
reach him and he said he lived on Long-
wood Street in Baltimore. He gave me
his name and his address, but for the
life of me I can’t remember it.”

“ “Can you describe this man?” asked

Deyle.

“Well, as I told the Sergeant, he was

tall, very thin, looked straight at you

and wore a suit. I think it was blue but -
I’m not sure.”

Deyle rubbed his chin -in thought.
The information appeared to be with-
out any real value. An odd-jobs man
had wandered through the neighbor-
hood, days ago. He had worn a suit,
maybe blue, maybe not. Still—

“Did he say he might be back?” asked ~
Deyle. .

“No, he didn’t. Captain, I wrote that ©
man’s name down, and his address, too. .
I don’t know why I can’t remember it.” |

“Where did you write it?”

“On a slip of paper. But I threw it-:
away, a couple of days later.”

Deyle asked perfunctorily if she had
burned the trash. Mrs. Williams said .
she wasn’t sure. She had burned some
recently, but she didn’t know if that
had been before or after the man had |
been around.

At 2:30 in the morning a team of 4
nine detectives headed by Lieuten-
ant Eurice began what appeared to be
another hopeless, unpromising task—a
search for a scrap of paper.

With the cooperation of Attorney’
Williams and his wife, detectives sifted
trash baskets in the den, kitchen and:
study. They searched the basement
carefully, looking into several paste-
board cartons.

Then, in a small white trash can at :
the rear of the yard, they found s

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Lt. Holmes and Sgt. Overbey made a microscopic search of the spot
where the body was found before carrying away the evidence

And now had come this killing in
Towson, so close to Baltimore. A killing
probably, from all indications, inspired
by the same motive. 4

One of the Baltimore victims ha
said that the man.wore a blue coat.
Could the same man be involved? If so,
could the combined records of all the
cases in which he was a suspect help to
nab him? .

The officers returned to the Bopst
home and assigned detectives to rush to
Baltimore and confer with city officials
and also to taJk to the slashed girl, still
being treated in a hospital. “

A totally unexpected development
came shortly afterward. The victim’s
husband, in carrying out an inventory
of valuables to determine if anything
was missing, discovered that Mrs.
Bopst's purse, lying on the table in the
kitchen, had been emptied. An unde-
termined sum of money and a set of
automobile keys were missing.

“They were for her car, a cream-col-
ored Chrysler sedan,” Bopst said. “The
garage doors were closed when I came
home but I wonder—”

Deyle, Holmes and Captain Baumiller
hurried to the garage.

A single glance inside told the story—
the car was gone. :

Had the killer taken it?

Unfortunately, Bopst did not remem-
ber the license number. The registra-
tion card, according to State law, was
kept in the missing car. After several
futile efforts to reach the Division of
Motor Vehicles in Baltimore by tele-
phone, Lieutenant Powell hurried away
to find someone in the city who would
provide access to the registration files.

Chief of Police Homer Atkinson, ar-
riving at the scene, decided to issue a
preliminary alarm anyway. Conse-
quently a thirteen-state alert soon went
out with a fairly minute description of
the 1955 Chrysler that included such
details as “white leather paneling and
a blue auxiliary cushion.”

After being brought up to date on the

‘case, Chief Atkinson voiced the sug-

gestion that the criminal might have
been a mental patient who had escaped
from a nearby hospital. A detail of
detectives was promptly dispatched to
search streets and parking lots near
the hospital for the missing Chrysler—
the killer might have scurried back to
the safety of the building—and to see
if any patients were missing or were
permitted off-premises liberty for any
time during the day.
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knives, their blad: + appromimathty ten
anese saber still en sased in its Sf45b :rd.

“Look! Somebod ¢ ramm »:! Sf Yito'her
neck without bot! srir’ ‘o pu.. it out
of the scabbard,” ‘dosing whisp 20,

Evidence that M  ;iopst had j%'t up.
a@ brave but futile «7 iti# for life: was
apparent.

A drape had bee’
window, indicating. ‘ho} the ‘7a, ed
woman had rusher ‘9. Wie w'iciow to
call for help but he! ! tee® yanred back.
A wide smear of -°1d  ‘h:> screen
door showed that « : had come within
a few inches of e. “e YU whee more
had been caught.

His voice steady | alzao# ixe:dible
in its low-pitched. -e--2¢ énly out-
ward indication 01 |e s12¢m of grief
and emotion with! hixre-Mr.. sopst
identified the victi his *ife,) 1y-tle.
He said she was mother $2 four
children—two me deagh irs, \a
28-year-old son a

nineteensy> ar
old son, David Bris, had Mart ~aat

orD trom i > tio

day for Ocean Cit; t! “sc > 44 # waa-
tion outing. Mrs 1 $ art ba 48.
when she died. ‘ j

With the same out { show of ¢..1m,
Mr. Bopst to.d the . ‘a? a his
discovery of ‘he bc» “i &8+ home

Capt. Gil>ert Det
He matched the a”
coat with lue 3%

Rosling and his partner, Brinker,
spotted the address only by seeing Gom-
eringer’s car already parked in front
of the Bopst house. This was a ram-
bling, tri-level affair, barely visible
through the thick shrubbery ‘and trees
that surround the sloping lawn. The
officers squealed to a halt, then bounded
up the flagstone walk. They found
Gomeringer standing on a patio talking
to a dark-haired, distraught man.

“What is it?” Rosling asked.

“Mr. Bopst’s wife,” Gomeringer re-
plied. “She’s in the living room.”

The Sergeant strode past a stack of
lumber lying on the patio, then through
the nearest open door. Close on his heels
was Brinker. ‘

Mrs. Bopst had been beaten and
stabbed. Her limp body lay just inside
the door in a pool of blood. Her features
had contorted in a frozen expression of
agony; her gray, red-figured dress was
twisted around her waist. Beside the
body were a partially smashed brass
Statuette, two bloodstained butcher

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around a quarter after five,” he said.
“I tried the front door and it was
locked, so I went to the back door,
thinking Mrs. Bopst might be in the
kitchen. But it was locked, too.”

When his wife was called out
unexpectedly, he said, she usually left
a key under a small silver tray on the
patio. He had looked under the tray,:
but the key was not there. “Then I hap-
pened to glance in the window .. .”

Bopst had rushed to the back and
kicked in the kitchen door. One look,
as he reached the living-room, provided
the chilling certainty that she was be-
yond all help. He then called police.

As he was giving these details to the
officers, top departmental officials and
homicide detectives were streaming up
the flagstone walk. First to arrive were
Captain Gilbert Deyle, Baltimore
County’s hard-hitting Detective Chief,
and Captain Cyril Baumiller, head of
the Uniformed Division of the county
force. On their heels came the depart-
ment’s homicide men; Lieutenants
Gordon Holmes, William Powell and
John Eurice and Detective Sergeants
Elgin Overbey, Ross Gagliano, Norman
Heim, Henry. Kone, William Gibson,
Raymond Wilson, John Horn and
George Bangert.


Rosling and the officers who had an-
swered the first alarm speedily briefed
the officials on the few known facts.
Captain Deyle, after ordering several
men to search the heavily wooded
grounds and others to canvass the
neighborhood, asked the husband about
the death weapons.

Bopst said that the saber and the
statuette were souvenirs of his travels.
They had been kept on a living-room
mantel.

The butcher knives, however, had
come from a rack in the kitchen. -

Te pile of lumber and building ma-

terials on the patio, he said, had been
left there by a contractor engaged to
add another bathroom to the home.

“Was anyone working here today?”
Deyle asked.

No, the type of tile he’d wanted was
not immediately available, Bopst re-
plied. The work had been shelved tem-
porarily.

“That's a fact we've got to be sure
of,” explained Deyle. “Could you give
us the name of the contractor?”

This, Bopst did. Sergeants Wilson
and Horn were sent out to talk to

m.

Minutes later a shout sounded from
the rear of the house. As several of the
officers raced over, Sergeant Heim held
up the soiled coat of a man’s blue suit.

“YT found it right behind this tree,”
he said. “We'd better ask Bopst right
away if it’s his.” ,

But it wasn't. Bopst shook his head
and said: “I never saw that before in
my life.”

Had the killer dumped such an im-
portant clue in their laps? Or was the
coat totally unrelated to the case, pos-
sibly left by one of the workmen or a
deliveryman as he rested in the shade
of the tree?

They had no way of knowing, not then
at any rate. Deyle examined the coat
closely—no labels, no cleaner’s marks
of any kind. In a side pocket was the
bottle cap of a popular brand of beer.
Nothing else.

The coat was turned over to the lab-
oratory crew who had swarmed into the
home and was busy with the technical
tasks.of photographing the house and
its lifeless occupant, and methodically
dusting objects possibly touched by the
killer, including the death weapons. —-

A preliminary examination of the

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Workmen had left the patio cluttered when John Bopst peered through the _

window, right, and saw his wife. Above, tray where key should have been

Up this wooded flagstone walk Sergeants Rosling and Brinker ran
be de they answered the first alarm. It leads to the Bopst patio

coat by Lieutenant Frank Weber
brought little encouragement. “All I
can tell you right now is it’s about a
size thirty-eight and unquestionably
was sold in the lower-priced stores.”
Deyle ordered the coat added to the
items that would be labeled, gathered
up, and then taken to Headquarters for
additional study. Any attempt to trace
the codt to its owner would have to
await completion of the on-the-scene
investigation. .
Meanwhile, as the technicians pro-
ceeded with their tasks, Deyle, Holmes
and Baumiller continued to look around
the home. In a short while the pattern
of the slaying emerged from their care-.
ful search. Lying on.a couch in a pan-
eled den was an open magazine, a
household periodical commonly on sale
in supermarkets. In a narrow passage-

way between the study and the living
room was an overturned dish and
beneath it a splotch of a sticky, white
substance. Three feet to the right of this
was the screen door, with fresh marks
and scratches showing in the wood near
the thumb latch.

“She probably wasn’t even aware that
the killer was around,” observed Deyle.

“She was sitting in the den, reading a -

magazine and eating some ice cream.
That’s what the stuff is on the floor,
melted ice cream.

“The killer jimmies the screen and
she hears the -noise. She gets up with
the ice cream still in her hands. As she
reaches the living room, the killer has
the door open. He jumps inside, and
she puts up a desperate struggle.”

“In that case,” put in Holmes, “the
coat could be our best clue.”

“How so?” asked the Detective Chief.

“Well, the fact that he walked up to
the screen boldly and forced it open
shows that he knew no man was around.
Maybe he hid behind the tree, casing
the house, for some time.”

“Sounds reasonable,” Baumiller said,
“But you noticed those smears of blood
in the kitchen sink, didn’t you? The
killer apparently took time to wash his
hands before he left. He wasn’t in any
hurry; nobody frightened him off be-
fore he could go back for the coat. I
don’t think it's his.” ‘

Captain Deyle held up his hand.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute! What
about those Baltimore cases? Doesn't
that man wear a blue coat?”

For a moment the others were silent.

They knew only too well what he
meant by “those Baltimore cases.”

Just one week before, on the night
of June 5, 2 morals criminal had begun
a startling series of crimes upon women
in Baltimore. Lurking in a-shadowed
doorway, he had leaped out at a lone
woman scurrying home in the darkness
through the Mount Royal section of the
city. With a knife, he had forced her
to accompany him to a secluded corner.

The frightened, sobbing woman told
police later that he had been a “tall,
thin man with bony arms and a blue
an That was all she could remem-

r.
The very next night, June 6, the
crime had been repeated, with a differ-
ent woman as the victim. And the fol-
lowing night, June 7. And on June 8
he had seized his fourth victim, a young
woman who fought loose successfully
and screamed for help despite a long,
deep knife gash in her arm.

Te! descriptions in each case had
been close enough to convince the
police that the same man was respon-
sible. They went back through their
records and they discovered other,
similar crimes attributed to a man of
the same general appearance.

In desperation, Chief Inspector Fred
L. Ford of the Baltimore police had
ordered 100 rookie. patrolmen, their
training not fully completed, on night
duty in the various districts of the city.
Special squads were formed from reg-
ular patrolmen and retired officers who
volunteered their services.

Three nights had gone by without a

repeat attack.


LOVELESS and MILLER, whites, hanged Md,

By MORTON FABER

ening as the two young hired

hands, Earl Loveless and Al
Brown, strode across the field of their
employer, 76-year-old Raleigh Poffen-
berger, near Keedysville, Md.

The farm was one of the most prosper-
ous in northwestern Maryland and more
than a dozen persons were employed on
the place that day of Oct. 11, 1940. But
at the moment only the two young men
were to be seen as they scuffed along.

Loveless jerked a thumb in the direc-
tion of a small outbuilding used as a
wash house. The door of the shed was
ajar. Once before, when the door had
been left open, -Poffenberger had gone
there next morning to find a stray hog
had entered and raised havoc with the
stacks of laundered garments.

“Better fix that,” he remarked.

Both youths turned their steps toward
the outbuilding. It was Brown who
reached the door first and glanced idly
inside before preparing to close it. The
youth stepped quickly backward and
Loveless saw: the blood drain from his
tanned young face.

“Earl, there’s something...
thing awful in there.”

Loveless stared at his companion.
Then, without a word, he stepped beyond
him and entered the building. In the half
light of the early evening he made out
the form of his employer where it lay in
a dark spreading pool. A shadow from
the laundry equipment cast its concealing
length over the head and shoulders so
that it was not possible to see immedi-
ately the old man’s battered head.

I ATE afternoon shadows were length-

some-

OW Brown entered the room and
-‘ Loveless turned toward the door.

“Get a light, Al. And get help. Some-
thing’s happened to Uncle Rol.”

A few moments later, the youths were
staring with horrible fascination at the
inert body of the kindly old man who for
years had been their friend. There was
no need to feel for a beat of his heart or
look for other signs of life. The entire
left side and back of the head had been
crushed.

It was obvious that the injury could
never have been sustained in any acci-
dental fall. Loveless turned to his com-
panion.

“Run up to the house,” the older youth
commanded. “Get on a telephone and call
the sheriff’s office in Hagerstown. Tell
him Uncle Rol’s been killed—that it looks
like murder. Have someone put in a call
for Doc Zimmerman. Then you’d better
round up the boys and start looking for
the killer. I’ll stay here with the body;

)

we can’t let anything be disturbed until
the sheriff gets here.”

Dr. I. M. Zimmerman arrived at the
Poffenberger farm from his home at
Williamsport, 25 miles north of Keedys-
ville, within an hour. One glance at the
body of the aged farmer convinced him
that nothing could be done until the ar-
rival of the coroner. It was immediately
evident that death had been caused by
blows of a heavy instrument, such as a
lead pipe or iron bar. The skull was
crushed in half a dozen places.

A widespread hunt was already under
way by the time Sheriff Joseph D. Baker,
accompanied by Deputies Robert Miller
and Robert Clingan, arrived. Dr. Zim-
merman had expressed the opinion that
the fatal attack had occurred not more
than an hour before the body was dis-
covered and it was believed that the
slayer must still be in the neighbor-
hood.

Dr. S. R. Wells, deputy medical exam-
iner, arrived as the county officers were
preparing to join in the search. After a
brief examination of the body, Dr. Wells
confirmed Dr. Zimmerman’s opinion that
death had been caused by blows from a
heavy instrument with a blunt edge.

By this time the sheriff had finished
his examination of the room in which the
crime had taken place, but no sign of the
murder weapon could be discovered.

In reconstructing the fatal attack from
the little physical evidence at hand, Sher-
iff Baker expressed the belief that Pof-
fenberger had been standing with his
back to the door at the side of a large
drum of gasoline stored in the wash
house when he was struck down.

“There’s no can or other container
about, yet he must have been getting
ready to withdraw some gas,” volun-
teered young Brown. “Mr. Poffenberger
hardly ever came to the wash house for
any other reason.”

“But just why would he have been
after fuel? His car’s still in the garage
and the tank is full,” coun-
tered Deputy Sheriff Clingan.

“The killer probably drove
up and told the old: gentle-
man he was out of gas, then
lured him here under the pre-
text of wanting to borrow
some,” suggested the sheriff
thoughtfully.

“Surely someone
would have noticed
a strange car near
the place in such an
event,” returned
Clingan, “T’ve ques-
tioned a score of
the neighbors and

SB (Al Cow TOL, *s

[Maryland's Mysteiy

When officers first searched the
murder scene, no death weapon was
found. But next day, this blood-
spattered wrench mysteriously
turned up to narrow the field of
suspects in the strange case.

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rested the following April.
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question he was guilty. He told me .
right off.” |
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of the court, but Judge James G. Cui- |
len sentenced Lipscomb to death. On |
the night of the execution, Lipscomb
was tied to.a chair, electrodes at-
tached to his forehead and legs.
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pushed the button that mixed the
lethal chemicals in a pan. There was
a puff of whitesmoke. ~ .
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comb took five breaths of the poison.
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straps. .. . Slowly his head tited for-
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HAMMOND vy. STATE.
No. 5.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.
April 21, 1938.

1. Criminal law C=1170!/2(2)

Alleged error in permitting question on
cross-examination was not ground for re-
versal where answer thereto was favorable
to the defense. :

2. Criminal law €=531(3)
Homicide 237

Evidence in murder prosecution indi-
eating that defendant was a “high grade
moron or perhaps a low average member of
his social group” held to establish that de-
fendant was mentally capable of making a
yoluntary confession and of appreciating
nature and consequences of his crime.

3. Criminal law €=531(1)

To make defendant’s self-incriminatory
statement admissible in murder prosecution,
state must prove that statement was made
freely and voluntarily-and was not obtained
by improper inducements.

4. Criminal law @531(3)

In murder prosecution, evidence held to
establish that confession and prior volun-
tary statement made by defendant were
voluntary, not procured by threats or prom-
ises, and hence admissible.

5. Criminal law €=520(2)

A confession which admitted absence of
threats or promises and stated that defend-
ant made it of his “own free will” was not
inadmissible in murder prosecution because
it recited that anything defendant would say
might be “used for or against” him, as
against contention that quoted phrase might
have induced defendant to hope for some
resulting favor, in view of defendant’s nerv-
ous condition and limited intelligence.

Appeal from Criminal Court of Balti-
more City; Eugene O’Dunne, Judge.

Richard Hammond was convicted of
murder in the first degree, and he appeals.

Affirmed.

Argued before BOND, C. J., and UR-
NER, PARKE, SLOAN, MITCHELL,
SHEHAN, and JOHNSON, JJ.

J. Howard Payne and Simon Silverberg,
both of Baltimore (Silverberg & Silver-

198 ATLANTIC REPORTER

berg, of Baltimore, on the brief), for ap-
pellant.

Charles T. LeViness, 3d, Asst. Atty. Gen.
(Herbert R. O’Conor, Atty. Gen., and El-
mer J. Hammer, Asst. State’s Atty., of
Baltimore, on the brief), for the State.

URNER, Judge.

The appellant was indicted and tried in
the criminal court of Baltimore city for
the murder of Edith Milman on August 12,
1937. The case was submitted for trial be-
fore the court without a jury. Three ex-
ceptions were reserved in the course of the
trial, which resulted in a verdict of “guilty
of murder in the first degree.” After a
motion by the defendant for a new trial
had been overruled by the supreme bench
of Baltimore city, he was sentenced by the
criminal court to suffer death, and from the
judgment imposing the sentence he has ap-
pealed.

[1] One of the exceptions (the third)
refers to a question which the court per-
mitted to be asked the defendant on his
cross-examination. As his answer was
favorable to his defense, the ruling would

not be ground for reversal even if we could,

regard it as erroneous. But we have no
doubt as to its propriety.

The other two exceptions were taken be-
cause of the admission in evidence of two
statements by the defendant, the first deny-
ing that he had any knowledge of the crime
and the second, in effect, confessing his
guilt. Before those statements were admit-
ted the State had produced the following
evidence:

It was testified by Colman Milman, hus-
band of the woman who was the victim of
the homicide, that on the night it was com-
mitted, his wife retired about 11 o’clock in
their apartment over his store at 400 North
Fremont street in Baltimore city; that
about a quarter of 12, while he was in the
store, he heard his wife screaming, and
when he went into the hallway adjacent to
the store he saw her standing on the second
floor with her head bleeding, and she said,
“Callie, a colored fellow hit me twice in

the head”; that she was brought down- °

stairs by the tenant of the third floor apart-
ment; and that she died nine days later.

While the record on appeal does not ap-
pear to be complete, it justifies the conclu-
sion that the death of Mrs. Milman resulted
from the injury she received in the attack
to which the testimony refers.

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HAMMOND v. STATE Md. 705
198 A,

Delmar Gross, the third floor tenant, tes-
tified that on the night of the attack on
Mrs. Milman he was in his apartment, and
about a quarter of 12 he heard screams and
ran downstairs to the second floor, where
he found Mrs. Milman standing in the hall-
way and bleeding from her ear; that she
said a colored man had hit her on the head
while she was in bed, and had run down-
stairs.

It was proved by Officer Fogarty that a
hole had been cut in a screen door at the
rear of the house, and that a pair of shoes
had been left at the foot of the stairs in the
hallway. .

The testimony in chief of William Taylor
is thus summarized in the record: “That
he was in the store on August 12th, and it
was nearly twelve o’clock. That he heard
screaming. That he looked toward the
dining room. That he saw a fellow come
downstairs and look into the store and go
out through the dining room. That he had
seen that fellow before, and knew him.
That, that fellow was Hammond (the de-
fendant). That he knew him by the name
of Pap. -That the defendant went out the
back, towards the kitchen. That he, Tay-
lor, is in jail now as he was convicted of
burglary, and that while awaiting trial on
this charge, the defendant called him and
said to him, ‘Why did you pick me out of
the line-up’ and that the witness said, ‘You
done it, didn’t you’, and the defendant said,
‘I plead guilty—I confessed to it’, and that
the defendant also said to the witness, ‘My
brother-in-law came up there and identified
my shoes.’ ”

Alfred Redwood testified, according to
the record, in part, as follows: “That he
knows Hammond. That he lived with
Hammond's sister and that Hammond lived
with them. That he saw three pairs of
shoes at the station house, and picked out
One pair as Hammond’s. That he knew the
shoes, and had seen them for a couple of
months, That Hammond was there at the
time. That Hammond told the police in the
witness’ presence, that the shoes were his.
That witness identified the same shoes in
Court, and stated they were Hammond’s.”

Dorothy Matthews testificd: “That she
went in Milman’s place the night of the 12th
of August, near ‘twelve o’clock. That she
heard someone scream. That she saw this
man Hammond when he was going through
the dining room, That she did not know
him before that. That he went out the
back door of the kitchen. That she ran

198 A.—45

to the front door and saw him peep out of
the alley. That she noticed he didn’t have
on any shoes. That she saw the same man
at the Western Police Station in the line-up
of six men. That she identified Hammond
in the Court Room. That she later saw the
shoes in the hallway by the stairs, before
the police picked them up. That she identi-
fied the shoes in the Court Room. That
they were on the first floor. That when the
man came down the stairs, she saw his face
because he looked toward the store.”

Lieut. Rollman was then called as a wit-
ness, and we quote as follows from the
record of his testimony:

“That after the arrest, he asked Ham-
mond if he wanted to make a statement and
told him of his rights, anything he may say
may be used against him as evidence in
Court. That he told him he did not*have
to make a statement if he didn’t want to.
That he made a statement, which was re-
duced to writing. That in the morning, aft-
er the shoes had been identified in the
presence of Hammond, by Redwood, Ham-
mond stated they were his shoes, and he
said he would tell the truth about the matter.

“Q. He had already made one statement,
had he not? A. He had. * * *

“Q. Did he sign that first statement? A.
He did. g

“Q. Were any promises, or inducements
made to him? A. No promises, threats or
duress at all was had.”

On cross-examination the witness said
that the statement about to be introduced
had been read by and to the defendant and
signed by him, and it was then admitted
in evidence over the defendant’s objection.
It is herewith quoted in full: “Statement
of Richard Iflammond, colored, Alias Pap,
Age, 31, 10 West York Street, taken at the
Western Police Station 10:30 a. m. on Au-
gust 22nd, 1937. I do not know where I
was on August 11th, I cannot say. I do
not know where Mulberry Street and Fre-
mont Avenue is, I know where Baltimore
Street and Fremont Avenue is, but do not
know the streets north of Baltimore Street,
I know the man who picked me out, that
is, I know him to see him on the street but
do not know his name. At the Western
Police Station, I saw these three people
pick me as the man. I do not know any-
thing about it. I was shown the candle-
stick but I do not know anything about that.
I was asked whose shoes I have on and I
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Sharp Street. I was shown a pair of shoes
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’ not know who they belong to.”

After the admission of that statement,
to which the first exception was taken, the
testimony of Lieut. Rollman, thus, in part,
proceeded: “That after the identification
of the shoes his second statement was then
made. That when Redwood was at the
station house, four pairs of shoes were lined
up on the window sill. That they were
shown in the presence of Hammond and
Redwood said they are Pappy’s, Richard
Hammond’s shoes, and Hammond then and
there said the shoes are my shoes. That
the defendant was again told that no threats
were being made or any promises offered
to him; he was asked if he wanted to make
a statement and he said, he did. That the
statement was taken, put into writing, later
typewritten, and read to him and signed by
him in the presence of Sergeant Forrest,
Officer Maskell and myself.”

An objection by the defendant to the ad-
mission of the second statement having
been overruled, it was read in evidence, as
follows: “Statement of Richard Hammond,
colored, Alias Pap, taken at the Western
Police Station on August 22, 1937. After
being informed of my rights and being told
that anything I say may be used for or
against me later, I make this statement of
my own free will, without any threats be-
ing made against me or any promises made
to me. I was drinking a little that night
and I was up town and I got in a window
and I saw a woman in bed and she screamed
and I ran down the steps and out the back
and jumped over the fence. It might have
been Mulberry and Fremont Street, but I

do not remember if it was. I lost my shoes —

at the time and I went straight home to
10 West York Street and my sister Made-
line let me in the house and I remember
waking up the next morning and could not
find my shoes. The pair shoes the Lieuten-
ant is now showing me are my shoes and
they are the shoes I had on that night.
When the woman screamed, I got scared
and I do not remember hitting her. The
things I told you before are wrong and I
am now telling you what is the truth.”

The defendant was called by his counsel
and questioned as to the two statements
after they had been introduced. This was
permitted by the trial judge, although, as

198 ATLANTIC REPORTER

he suggested, the defendant’s testimony as
to the circumstances under which he made
the statements should have been offered
before the ruling as to their ‘admissibility.
From his testimony at that stage of the
trial we quote as follows:

“Q. If you signed this second statement,
saying the first statement was untrue, why
did you do that? A. Why did I sign the
first statement?

“QO. No, the second statement? A. At
the time I signed the first statement, I was
kinda scared and I was nervous amd every-
thing, like Iam now. * * *

“Q. Then, when the second writing there
was given to you and you signed it, why
did you do so? A. Why did I do so?

“Q. Yes. A. Because I was scared.

“Q. Scared of what? A. Well, the first
time, you see, I have had any trouble like
this.

“Q. Didn’t you know in your second
statement, that one or the other of them
was true? A. Yes sir.

“Q. Well, which was true? A. The first
one.

“Q. Then did you sign the second state-
ment voluntarily? A. Yes, sir, I did.

“Q. Did the officer tell you that you
should sign the second statement? A. No,
they didn’t tell me I should do it.

“Q. Well, why were you scared? A. I
don’t know what I was scared, but I was.
x *

“Q. They read a statement to you and
you signed that, denying everything? A.
Yes, sir.

“QO. And that same afternoon some police
brought you back in there. A. Yes, sir.

“Q. And they asked these questions? A.
Mec Seo

“QO. How did they treat you in there?
A. Well, they treated me all right.

“Q. Then they went along with you and
finally they read this statement over to you?
A. Yes, sir.

“Q. You know one or the other is true.
Why did you sign the last statement? A.
Because I was scared and nervous and
everything and I generally know what hap-
pens to fellows, you kngw, that commit
murder.”

The trial judge found in the defendant’s
testimony no reason to conclude that the
confession in the second statement was
other than free and voluntary, and there-

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198 A.

fore adhered to the previous ruling to that
effect. The renewed objection to the ad-
mission of the statement was accordingly
overruled, and the second exception was
thereupon reserved.

The State having then closed its case,
the court called as a witness Dr. Gutt-
macher, medical officer of the supreme
bench. It is argued on behalf of the de-
fendant that his mentality, as described by
Dr. Guttmacher, is such as to reflect un-
favorably upon the defendant’s apprecia-
tion of the confession which he signed. Dr.
Guttmacher said: “ I made an examination
of this man on September 28th, at the jail.
There is, so far as I can determine, no evi-
dence he is suffering from any type of men-
tal disorder. * * *. The patient, at the
time I saw him, was under a good deal of
tension, was what might be termed as nerv-
ous, his intelligerice level is not high, but
I don’t think that one would feel that he
was a strikingly defective man; he might
be classed as a high grade moron or per-
haps a low average member of his social
group. * -* * JT felt he was quite alert,
had a good memory and in my opinion
seemed to know right well the difference
between right and wrong and realized the

_ hature and consequences of his act. * *

We gave him the standard intelligence test
which we use. That is not a measuring
instrument like blood pressure apparatus.
It gives us a certain index as to the individ-
ual’s mental make-up. His level is slightly
lower than the average male negro defend-
ant who comes into our Court, but the dif-
ference is relatively slight. I should say,
as my memory serves me, he is somewhere
around five per cent lower in his perform-
ance than the average male negro who
comes into our courts and I don’t feel that
the tests we use can be too strictly applied
to individuals who haven’t had the benefit
of a high school education and who haven't
had a better social environment than his
has been. I think he makes a lower score
than his native intelligence would indicate
and even taking that, as I say, he is not
much lower than the average who comes
into this Court.”

[2] In that testimony there is no ade-
quate basis for a doubt that the defendant
was mentally capable of making a volun-
tary confession and of appreciating the na-
ture and consequences of the crime of
which he has been convicted. Further sup-
Port for such a conclusion is afforded by
his own testimony when he was first ques-

tioned as to his two statements and when
he was later called as the only witness for
‘the defense. :

[3,4] In order to be entitled to have ad-
mitted as evidence the defendant's self-
incriminatory statement, it was incumbent
upon the State to prove that it was made
freely and voluntarily and was not obtained
by any improper inducements. Nicholson
v. State, 38 Md. 140; Biscoe vy. State, 67
Md. 6, 8 A. 571; Ross v. State, 67 Md. 286,
10 A. 218; Rogers v. State, 89 Md. 424,
43 A. 922; Watts v. State, 99 Md. me 57
A. 542; Toomer v. State, 112 Md. 285, 292,
76 A. 118;- Birkenfeld v. State, 104 Md.
253, 65 A. 1; McCleary vy. State, 122 Md.
394, 89 A. 1100; Deems y. State, 127 Md.
624, 96 A. 878; Cothron vy. State, 138 Md.
101, 113 A. 620; Rasin v. State, 153 Md.
431, 441, 138 A. 338; Markley v. State,
Md., 196 A. 95. The evidence in this case

proves without contradiction that the con-—.

fession of the defendant was not procured
by any threats or promises, and that, ac-
cording to his own testimony, he made the
statement voluntarily to the officers who
questioned him, and that they treated him
fairly.

[5] Reference was made in the argu-
ment for the defendant to the recital in
his confession of a warning that anything
he would say might be “used for or against”
him, and certain Texas and early, English
cases were cited in connection with the sug-
gestion that, because of the defendant’s
nervous condition and limited intelligence,
the use of the word “for” in addition to
“against” in the phrase quoted from the
caution given him might have induced him
to hope for some resulting favor. The
Texas cases were governed by a statute
specifying tiie form of warning to be given
before a confession is received, and it is
frankly stated in the appellant’s brief that,
according to the later English rule, the use
of the words “for and against” in such a
caution to tite accused does not render his
confession inadmissible. Rex v. Baldry,
5 Cox, Cr.Cas. 523. The confession in the
Present case not only recites the warning
in the form quoted, and admits the absence
of any threats or promises, but also states
that the defendant made the statement of
his “own free will.” Upon the evidence in
the record we could not justly hold that the
rulings as to the admissibility of the con-
fession and the prior statement were er-
roneous.

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There is no contention that it is not the
province of the Court to pass upon the ad-
missibility of the confessions. Rasin v.
State, 153 Md. 431, 432, 441, 138 A. 338;
Biscoe v. State, 67 Md. 6, 10, 8 A. 571;
Lubinski v. State, 180 Md. 1, 22 A.2d 455.

After hearing the officers and the defend-
ants, the Court admitted, first, the state-

_ ment or confession of Holton, but, before

it was read to the jury, the Court, repeating
what had already been said, said, “The Court
has already taken care of Jackson and Wil-
liams by telling the jury that this statement
of Holton made out of their presence does
not bind them or affect them,” and again,
on objection by Williams’ attorney, said, “I
will tell you and the jury that there is not
a thing in that statement that can involve
Jackson, who wasn’t present, or Williams,
who wasn’t present part of the time, unless
Williams admitted that it was true. If he
remained silent or denied it, then he is out
so far as his statement is concerned.. He
was not a free man. He was in the control
of the police. He can’t be responsible for
standing mute. If he denied it, then it is
not admissible against him. If it is admis-
sible, it has to be affirmatively shown that
he assented to it as being the truth.” The
record does not show that Williams was
present when Holton’s statement was made
or signed, but Jackson’s does show that he
(Holton) was brought in when his (Jack-
son’s) statement was nearly finished.

When Jackson’s statement was offered,
but before being read, the Court said “As
regards your client, Holton, a statement
made by Jackson would not bind Holton,
and is not proof of any offense mentioned
in the indictment against Holton. But ad-
missions made by Holton are admissible as
against Holton.” Although Williams was
present when Jackson said Williams “had
shot the man”; the Court said “nothing
that appears in that statement binds Frank
Williams.”

Although the evidence was heard out of
the presence of the jury and the Court
alone decided its admissibility, the defend-
ants were permitted to present to the jury
their version of everything that happened
at the police station when Jackson and Hol-
ton made their statements, so that the jury
had the same opportunity to pass on the vol-
untariness of the confessions, and whether
induced by threats, promises, and induce-
ments as had the Court, and by their ver-
dict, gave the same answer.

Md. "26 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

[5] The Court could have stricken out
the confessions, at any time after their in-
troduction, “if satisfied, in the subsequent
progress of the case, that it was not a free
and voluntary confession, and may instruct
the jury that it is not to be considered by
them in determining the question as to the
guilt or innocence of the prisoner.” Biscoe
v. State, 67 Md. 6, 10, 8 A. 571, 573; Rasin
v. State, supra.

{6] In arriving at this conclusion, the
trial court was bound by the decision in
Markley v. State, 173 Md. 309, 318, 196 A.
95, 99, wherein we said: “As to the ad-
ditional objections of Markley and Wheel-
er, it is, of course, a rule that admis-
sions or confessions of coconspirators out
of the presence of the objectors, and in
no way authorized by them, would not be
competent evidence against them, for they
would not be statements or acts in further-
ance of the conspiracy. ‘One who makes no
confession must be found guilty, if at all,
only upon proof independent of a confes-
sion by a co-defendant.’ 3 Wharton, Crimi-
nal Evidence, 11th Ed: 1215; People v.
Fisher, 249 N.Y. 419, 164 N.E. 336; State
v. Huckins, 212 Iowa 283, 234 N.W. 554.
But when on trial the confessions are ad-
missible against the confessing codefentd-
ants, those not confessing are entitled only
to have the jury directed to exclude them as
proof against themselves. It may be that
the practical value of such a restriction is
small, but it is the only remedy practicable
on a joint trial, And here, Markley and
Wheeler sought, as stated, to have not only
the confessions, but other evidence along
with them, excluded from the case entirely.
The trial court’s refusal to do so cannot be
held erroneous. United Railways & Elec-
tric Co. v. [Henry] Wehr & Co., 103 Md.
323, 337, 63 A. 475; Packard Iron & Metal
Co. v. H. P. Pearl & Co., 139 Md. 498, 505.
115 A. 761.”, and unless we overrule it, we
must follow it, and we see no reason tc
overthrow it.

[7] Another exception is to statements
made by the Assistant State’s Attorney in
his closing argument to the jury. By stipu-
lation the following is inserted in the rec-
ord:

“Mr. Curran and Mr. Mason argued that
it was a matter for the jury as to whether
or not they believed the so-called confes-
sions of Holton and Jackson in the light of
their repudiation by Holton and Jackson

JACKSON vy. STATE Md. 819

26 A,

and the testimony of Holton and Jackson
that they had been obtained by force and
threats.

“Thereupon Mr. Sharretts in the closing
argument for the State argued to the jury
in substance that the burden of proof was
on the State to show that the confessions
had been procured without duress, threats,
violence or fraud. He further argued that
the admissibility of the confessions in evi-
dence was a matter for the Court to pass
upon; that what weight was to be given
them was solely for the Jury; that the
State had produced its evidence before the
Court while the jury were out of the room,
and that the Court had likewise heard the
testimony of the defendants also while the
jury was out; that the Court, after hear-
ing the testimony, ruled that the confessions
had not been obtained by threats, violence
or duress, and that without this ruling by
the Court, the jury would never have heard
the confessions.”, to which the defendants
objected; and their objections being over-
ruled, the 30th exception was taken.

The remarks of the State’s Attorney, ob-
jected to, are fully supported by the case of
Biscoe v. State, supra, and Rasin y. State,
supra; Jules v. State, 85 Md. 305, 313, 36
A. 1027; Deibert v. State, 150 Md. 687,
695, 133 A. 847.

In this case the jury had the same oppor-
tunity to pass on the admissibility of the
confessions, without objection from either
side, as had the court out of their presence.

[8,9] The 31st and last exception was
to a statement of the State’s Attorney, as
follows:

“The State’s Attorney is bound to make
certain proof to the Court before it is ad-
missible, and that is this—the Court of Ap-
peals has said: ‘The question of the admis-
sibility of Testimony, is always for the
Court; and the rule is where a confession
of a prisoner on trial is offered against him,
the Court, and not the jury, ought to deter-
mine whether it is admissible.’ The rule is
thus stated in Taylor, on Evidence, Section
22, ‘If, says the author, the question be
whether a confession should be excluded on

2d 815

account of some previous threat or promise,
the judge must first decide, whether the
threat or promise was really made; and
secondly, whether if made, it was sufficient
in law to warrant the exclusion of the evi-
dence.’ Is that clear, gentlemen? I can
read you more pages if you want to. I will
read you one more. Here they were dis-
cussing a civil rule. ‘That rule cannot ap-
ply to a criminal case, for in passing upon
the preliminary question of the admissibil-
ity of a confession made by a prisoner, if
the Court considers it doubtful whether it
ought to be admitted, it should be reject-
ed.’”

We do not consider this an unfair or im-
Proper argument by the State. In this
State, Art. 15, § 5 of the Constitution, the
jury are the judges “of law as well as of
fact,” in all criminal cases. The judge may
tell them what he thinks the law is, but he
must tell them it is merely advisory and are
not bound to follow it, and any erroneous
advice or opinion given or expressed by him
will be ground of reversal,

[10] Courts in this State very infre-
quently advise or instruct the jury in crim-
inal cases, and juries generally must depend
upon counsel to give them the law, or their
view of it. As Judge Johnson said in Wil-
kerson v. State, 171 Md. 287, 291, 188 A.
813, 814: “it is difficult to understand how
they are to know the law in any particular
case if counsel are to be denied the privi-
lege of stating it to them, for the court will
take judicial knowledge of the fact that
most jurors are laymen, and therefore do
not possess knowledge of the law,” in spite
of the theory or maxim that everyone is
presumed to know the law. Davis v. State,
168 Md. 10, 12, 176 A. 281.

The exceptions here discussed were those
on which the defendants, in their brief, and
at the argument seemed to depend, and, as
indicated, we do not disagree with the rul-
ings of the trial judge, and as to the others,
not so strongly pressed, we find no error.
The judgments appealed from, should,
therefore, in our opinion be affirmed.

Judgments affirmed with costs.

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26 A.2d 815

JACIXSON et al. v. STATE.
Nos. 9-I1.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.
June 17, 1942.

1. Jury €=33(1)

Whether negro defendants were preju-
diced by exclusion of negroes from trial jury
cannot be determined from composition of
one panel, but depends on whether large list
from which juries are drawn shows exclu-
sion of negroes because they are colored.
Code 1939, art. 51, §§ 1-5.

2. Jury €=33(1)

The mere fact that negroes’ names are
omitted from jury list does not establish
prejudice to negro defendants in selection
of trial jury, but there must be substantial
evidence that manner and practice of select-
ing jurors shows intentional exclusion of
negroes, in which case prejudice is inferred.
Code 1939, art. 51, §§ 1-5.

3. Jury €=33(5)

A challenge to array of 52 prospective
trial jurors by counsel for negro defendants
on ground that only two of them were ne-
groes, though about one-sixth of population
of city in which they resided was colored,
was properly overruled, in absence of evi-
dence of prejudice to defendants by exclu-
sion of negroes from grand jury or remain-
ing list of 700 or more selected by lot, Code
1939, art. 51; §§ 1-5.

4. Criminal law @=673(4)

In trial of three defendants jointly for
murder actually committed by one of them,
court’s admission in evidence of police offi-
cers’ testimony as to other defendants’ con-
fessions after taking evidence outside jury’s
presence on question of voluntariness of
such confessions and instructing jury that
each defendant’s statements were not bind-
ing on other defendants was not error,

5. Criminal law €674

The trial court may strike out accused’s
confessions at any time after their introduc-
tion in evidence and instruct jury not to
consider them in determining accused’s guilt
or innocence, if court is satisfied in subse-
quent progress of case that confessions were
not voluntary.

6. Criminal law €=422(6), 673(4)
Co-conspirators’ admissions or confes-
sions outside presence of and not authorized

by other conspirators are not competent ev-
idence against them and defendant making
no confession can be convicted only on proof
independent of codefendants’ confessions, but
when confessions are admissible against con-
fessing codefendants, those not confessing
are entitled only to instruction directing ju-
ry to exclude such confessions as proof
against themselves and trial court’s refusal
to exclude them from case entirely is not er-
ror.

7. Criminal law €=720(1)

In murder trial, assistant state’s attor-
ney’s remarks in closing, argument to jury
that burden was on state to show that con-
fessions of two of three defendants were
procured without duress, threats, violence
or fraud, that admissibility thereof in evi-
dence was for court to determine, that
weight thereof was solely for jury, that
court heard state’s and defendants’ evidence
while jury was out of room and ruled that
confessions were not obtained by such
means, and that, without such ruling, jury
would never have heard confessions, were
proper.

‘8. Criminal law ©717

In murder trial, state’s attorney’s argu-
ment to jury that Court of Appeals had said
that court, not jury, should determine
whether accused’s confession is admissible
in evidence, and that author of book on evi-
dence said that if question be whether con-
-fession should be excluded because of previ-
ous threat or promise, trial judge must de-
‘cide whether such threat or promise was
made and, if so, whether it was sufficient to
warrant exclusion of evidence, was not im-

proper.

9. Criminal law 790, 1172(1)

A trial judge may tell jury what he
thinks law is, but must tell them that his
opinion is merely advisory and not binding
on them, and any erroneous advice or opin-
ion given or expressed by him is ground for
reversal of conviction. Const. art, 15, § 5.

10. Criminal law @=304(2)

The Court of Appeals will take judicial
knowledge of fact that most jurors are lay-
men and hence without knowledge of law
in spite of theory or maxim that everyone
is presumed to know the law.

Appeals from Criminal Court of Balti-
more City; Samuel K. Dennis, Judge.

HOLTON, Freeman, and WILLIAMS, Frank ("Zipp"), blacks, hanged at
Maryaaynd (Baltimore City) on June l, 1943.

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Wilbur Jackson, Frank Williams and
Freeman Holton were convicted of murder,

and they appeal.
Affirmed.

Before BOND, C. J., and SLOAN, DEL-
APLAINE, COLLINS, FORSYTHE, and
MARBURY, JJ.

William Curran, of Baltimore, for appel-
lant Jackson.

Morton P. Fisher, of Baltimore, for ap-
pellant Williams.

E. Paul Mason, of Baltimore, for appel-
lant Holton.

Robert E. Clapp, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen.,
and Joseph G. Finnerty, Asst. State’s Atty.,
of Baltimore (Wm. C. Walsh, Atty. Gen.,
and J. Bernard Wells, State’s Atty. and
Douglas N. Sharretts, Asst. State’s Atty.,
both of Baltimore, on the brief), for ap-
pellee.

SLOAN, Judge.

This appeal is from sentences of death
imposed on the appellants, three young col-
ored men, Wilbur Jackson, alias Will
Jackson, Frank Williams, alias Zipp Wil-
liams, and Freeman Holton, all of whom
had been jointly indicted, and charged with
the murder on August 4, 1941, of Louis
Pertnoy. They did not ask for a severance
and were jointly tried. They were without
the financial ability to employ counsel, and
the Court appointed three able and experi-
enced attorneys, who could not have given
better service for any amount of compensa-
tion. Not only that, they have paid for a
large and expensive record at their own
cost.

The case was tried by a jury. Thirty-one
exceptions were taken during the trial, the
first during the selection of the jury on a
challenge to the array, the 30th and 31st to
statements made by the State’s Attorney,
during his closing address to the jury, the
others to rulings on the evidence.

[1-3] During the selection of a jury,
the jurors drawn for the criminal court had
been exhausted, and panels from other
courts had been called into the criminal
court; and when the panel from the City
Court, Part III was being examined on
their voir dire, counsel for defendants chal-
lenged the array, on the ground that the
composition of the jury was in violation of
the Federal and State Constitutions, coun-
sel saying that “Out of thé whole fifty-two

26 ATLANTIC REPORTER, 2d SERIES

so far submitted, there were only two color-
ed men.” There is nothing else in the rec-
ord concerning the personnel of the jury,
and from this we are asked to declare that
there was prejudice in the selection of the
jury. It is argued that prejudice can be
assumed from the presence as petit jurors
of two colored men out of fifty-two, or one-
twenty-fifth, in a city where about one-sixth
of the population is colored; and from this
alone, we are asked to declare that there
was prejudice in the selection of the jury.
Jurors are selected in Baltimore under and
in accordance with sections 687-711 of the
Baltimore City charter, sections 602-620,
Article 4, Local Code, and subject to the
provisions of sections 1-5, Article 51, of
Code (1939). The judges of the Supreme
Bench first select 750 “or thereabouts,”
from the tax and poll books. From these
twenty-three are selected as grand jurors,
of the remainder, 400 are selected by lot,
to serve on the several panels required for
the term, and in addition 100 are selected
subject to call if the business of the Courts
requires their services. The record does
not contain any evidence that colored men
were excluded, either from the grand jury
or from the remaining seven hundred or
more from whom the. petit jurors are
drawn. Where the jurors are drawn by
lot, no one can know what names will come
out or on what juries any of those drawn
will sit. In. this case the complaint, on
which the challenge was based, was that
the names of two colored men had been sub-
mitted out of 52 called to that time. The
composition of one panel cannot determine
the question of prejudice; it is whether the
large list out of which the juries are drawn
shows that colored men are excluded be-
cause they are colored.’ Bush v. Kentucky,

1070.8. 110,” 1. 'S:Gt.--625, 127 L.Ed: : 354;

Franklin v. South Carolina, 218 U.S. 161,

30:S.Ct. 640, 54 L.Ed. 980;. Lee v. State,

163 Md. 56, 64, 161 A. 284. It is not the

mere fact that they are colored and their

names omitted from the jury lists that de-

termines the question of prejudice, but it
must appear from some substantial evidence
that the manner and practice of selecting
jurors shows that they are intentionally ex-
cluded:| When this appears, prejudice is in-

‘ferred. Neal v. Delaware, 103 U.S. 370, 26

L.Ed. 567; Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S.
587, 55 S.Ct. 579, 79 L.Ed. 1074; Smith v.
Texas, 311 U.S. 128, 61 S.Ct. 164, 85 L.Ed.
84; Pierre'v. Louisiana, 306 U.S. 354, 59

‘S.Ct. 536, 83 L.Ed. 757; Lee v. State, supra.

JACKSON v. STATE Md. 817
26 A.2d 815

There is no evidence of prejudice in this

record, and the challenge to the array was
properly overruled.

Louis Pertnoy, the man who was murder-
ed, on August 4, 1941, was acting as cashier
at the Radio Theatre, on Eden Street, Bal-
timore, which was operated by his father.
He left about 10:20, with the day’s receipts,
and headed for his automobile parked near
the theatre. As he reached it, he threw a
bag containing the money on the front seat;
and as he was about to get in the car, he
was held up, and the. money demanded.
Whether he refused or resisted doesn’t ap-
pear, except that Williams is reported to
have said, that he had shot a man; and if
he had given the money, he would not have
shot him. Whoever did it was scared off
and ran without getting the money, which
was found on the front seat of the car after
Mr. Pertnoy had been shot, and escaped in
an automobile which was driven by Jackson,
and evidently stolen by him. Suspects were
taken in by the police as found, and it was
three days before the three defendants were
found and arrested. The defendants, and
other suspects, were all questioned at the
Northeastern Police Station by Captain
William J. Forrest, the questions and an-
swers being taken and transcribed by police
stenographers.

The statement of Jackson was interspers-
ed by frequent, brief, statements from all of
the other suspects, all of whom, including
the defendants, excepting two, one called
“Nusie Boy,” one, James Ruff, testified at
the trial. The statement of Holton was
confined to an examination of him by the
Police Captain. The first statement to get
into the record was that made by Chase,
the State’s leading witness, and was intro-
duced at the instance of Williams, obvious-
ly for the purpose of reflecting on his cred-
ibility, and to contradict statements he had
testified to. Objections were made by the
other defendants. The Court then said to
counsel objecting, “So far as your client is
concerned, the paper is not in. It could not
be in as to any of them, but Williams could
not object as it was read into Chase’s evi-
dence, at his (Williams) instance.”

[4] The major part of the contentions
of the defendants, and most strongly urged
at the trial and in the argument on appeal,
was to the introduction of the confessions
of Jackson and Holton. Before they were
received in evidence, the Court, out of the
presence of the jury, took evidence of the

26 A.2d—52

officers, of a police stenographer, and of the
defendants, as to the voluntariness of the
statements made by Jackson and Holton.
They both testified that they had been as-
saulted by the officers with a piece of rub-
ber hose, and cursed at and otherwise abus-
ed. Williams, who did not confess, said,
“I had marks and scars on me (indicating).
Jackson’s mouth was bleeding. * * *
have marks now on my forehead, over my
nose, on my right cheek, and a big scar on
my right eyelid. The only time I saw Jack-
son was at the Captain’s office. I don’t know
what they were doing in the Captain’s of-
fice. The lady was writing it down.”

‘Captain Forrest, Sergeant McHale, Off-
cer Roche, and James T. Holden, stenog-
rapher, whose evidence is all set out in the
record, all denied that there were any
threats or promises or that they had been
beaten or abused. As Officer Roche said,
“it wasn’t necessary.” Sergeant McHale
said of Holton, “This boy just opened up
and told everything.” Two other sergeants
and two other officers, whose testimony is
not set out at length, according to the rec-
ord, “testified that no threats, promises, or
inducements were made” to Jackson, and no
violence committed on Jackson, while in
their presence and custody.

A reading of the statements of Jackson
and Holton shows very clearly that, because
neither of them had fired the gun by which
Pertnoy was killed, they were not as guilty
as Williams, on whom they seemed to be
anxious to fasten the murder, and they were
not backward in telling all they knew.

The first defendant arrested was Holton.
When he was brought into the Captain’s
office, according to the Captain and Ser-
geant McHale, the Captain said, “Freeman,
I am here to listen to anything you have
to tell me,” to which he replied, “I didn’t
do any shooting. Can’t I be State’s evi-
dence?” the Captain saying he had “nothing
to do with that” and “couldn’t promise him
anything.” He “persisted that he didn’t
shoot the man.” Asked if he knew who did,
“He said Zip.” Jackson made the same ac-
cusation in his statement.

It has been held in this Court and many
others, that it was not an improper induce-
ment to tell a suspect that another had al-
ready made such a statement, even if not
true. The innocent do not confess crimes
they have not committed. As a rule, they
only make them when they think they have
the evidence of their guilt.

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BU PORT EXPRESS! REVIVED. «J isto neny pest: ands it wus coneeqsentiy se Thonad Jackson |

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¢. Mar t; @ Albert han. low or ebattered by the actiou of the fire,
j ders “Wu Calvert Joumiy—Scemes om J reward of $40) offored by the county du- . Albert Sanders |
i the Scamtold, &e, ¥ ' thoritioe for the t of the murderor, and two '
I Weaterday wae appointed for two exeentions § colored mea we ret arrested, charged with

the murder, areon and robbery, but one wae dis-
Bt. Mary's county, Thotne Jecteon sadered tho J SRa"Kd, Jackson ouly being put upou trial wth
extreme penalty of the law for the murder of § ‘2¢™ JACKSON'S ANTECEDENTS. Bots 8
James Schoticld in April last, and the robbery we condemned man was visited in his coll

arso! a Sun reporter jate on Thuraday evening. He Bi
and n of hig store, Schofield was snorthern er Githy Gulati, Hee: feetusix inches‘ Executed at Leonardtown.
comire at Pris wong hg atte beater of height, wrelgniae about 135 pounds. He was 49
Fomalys ped erick: Albert ere had been married twice, leay- ; H
wasexecated for the murder of the clock cleaner, ager rs hare Bite “eomntenagce wee Weare Prince Frederick > Calvei
Eugene A. Burdell, which was committed ia De- Jf and inflexible, betraying no ¥ 6 sign of emo-
| fi cember Jast !n Calvert county. Sanders was ff tion up tothe night previous to hie execution, J uly llth 1873
| HH trieg and convictcd at the May term of the Cin f When ee te ear - mariety Ready
i cuit Conrt of Calvert county. He was a young Noeeed ro tke late ‘Hear Sewell, Es ., and hay-
map of about twenty two years of age, and pow- ft in oh raised and trained ase walter by, Dr.
erfully bailt. At the time of his conviction he elen’é family. Jn e remov' oin 4
HM strongly’ protested bis  Feasserting ff Lookout, where he remained until the close of Reported in The Baltimo |
| the came on the scaffold as regards the murder,  t8@ War when he opencdasmall store o

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though admitting robbery. In order to lay the pbk ap teeter y Hen? donee,” Here he page 1 column 3-5

Getaile of these executions before the readers of # secmed to be doing sthriving business on a |
The Sun in the next iseue after their occurrence, §* smal! scale up to the time of the murder. i !
ff {fom two of the most oat of the way places of f , Since ae ee tet ears latioenetis : |
| # Maryland, bavioy neither tolegraph or raiirosds, sarhe dactlae circumstances, and whilst strongly |
| ff it bas been requisite to dispatch special report § proteating bis iumocence he never positively de-
E ere to the scenes, in the case of Prince Frederick § nied bis guilt. A few evenlnze previous to bis
necessitating travel by horees 33 milcsafter the f execution he ‘was visited byan emineot ied
execution, and 67 miles in the case at Leonard- ‘
town, with the use of the railroads from the
nearest accessible point. Ja receiving the dis-
patches from both points the old and famons = :
“pony express” of The Sun had to be revived, La inner bat nothing additional
and by availing of this with relays of norees, tat be was innoc ry ontle-
] the work hd. Weassesteley acdonplished, and eould: be evteie wih oe ont Jack-
the matter all in The Sun office by last midotght. ; aad
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The rom Herta in Ned, Mr, Holmead. MB get Byer non | quietly awaited hie death. ‘The reverend yen- ing epon the allows,only se window divid! |

- ‘A " ret. Then,” said Ja 3 tleman descended from the scaffold and was fol- from that hi engine of death. Imac |

(Specially Reportod for the Baltimore Sun.) more to say. i that “he bad ff lowed by the sheriff, At oxnctly twelve min- § astion with bim, he replied tu tho ‘quest |

Lroxanprown, St, Mary's cp., Md., | Laven to The Sun ‘reporter Potaeal utes pavt ono o'clock the trap was aprong. and § the gentlemen presem in a reepectfal te |

: Jply lith, 187%. ¢ Ledger py if rgd dar Pea vipatec ry foaw | Thomas Jackson was lanucbed into eternity.— Jf in the cuurse of bis roisrksstatca that be |

Thomas Jackson, colored, convicted and sen- WH thar te tc 4 the ae for hogs 4 Sake cher Hie neck was not broken by the fall, the knot § “That tho God bofore whora he was eoor |

| tenced May 17th, of the murder of James Scho. M be was gence en @ Daving slipped to the back of his peck. He died I pear would forgive bira for the
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field in April and therobbery and arson of his

A Bats of strangulation. After being snepenuded twenty *
JACKOON'S Laot STATEMENT. :

minutce the body was taken down and placed the murdor, aud
marreat of the “Goveruor: ‘Sherif Abel come Ppp ee me emcee in pine come. do Tar i the day was on | Udy ths condemn man bad bee

. je vey to St. joyeine Church, near Leooardtown and yy ¢ ss a:

pinsed om we peccesery piticninar 7 for the en gt en Dg ogg und w&s there interred according to the ritos of 9 Reve. L. M. Gardner audQ. Mansey who:
ereciad in the ter of he bere hoses, whete the asked to writo a letter to bid wife, who had pre- "J tue Catholic “eee MES SS : Lacey Aaviacty paitdioy oy ee pon
coudemnod man was tried, convicted and sen- bara 4 Pent Ae Bogemage Mr. Rdelen -ex- The Execntion in Calvert Connty, jj conrt-house.’ it is, aithongh rather «

teuced. A line of post to procare writing, material Gaus cos {Spectally Reported for the Baltimore Sun.) looking building, neverthelers secure and | |

nected with ropes, gu » ‘ TNE GaLLoK

teak apetak's the the. Sh ececttion, heyhey pala thos he wlonee Bre to pollens bee ic oy Calrert ieenty, ak sduly 11, i878. Le neg Sona bees isto no oe, 3. care |
owding upon the ofticors and atte: . wig ; ung Spon September lut 1, COuvE |

ants whilst in the perfurmance of their dut ote. Write down, aud’ have peblished trae bis | Th colored man Albort Sanders was exe- I committing @ rape upon Mra, Granda, |

Phe privoner left the jailat about one o'clock MM execution. cuted at thie place shortly after noon to-day, fur J vert county, Md. It was erected by Mr |

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the trap rests. with a cord Pawling tar: {
Pujly down to a treadio at the foot of the |
which whon touched by the foot of the |
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thie afternoon, and was hanzed inthe prescuce
ofa large concourse of spectators, inc uding a
large PRESren of colored perwous. He made
no addresa from the scaffold, and left a etate-
| ment making no revelations to throw additivnal
light apon the myetery that et!ll euvelops many
incidents of the tragedy. There were about
2,600 persons in and around the court-Duuse,
witnesses of the execution.
MURDER, ROBBERY AND anson.,

Tue crime for which Jackson sutfered tho ex-

The with an ex: the murder of the clock-mender, Eugene A. Bur-
Of sincerp and heartfelt thanks to tho two ff dcll. There wasa large attendance from all the
rede are i Ps ye Bagg A bre nage Pore country surrounding, including’s great many
{og religiogs consolation and instruction to him. | C!ored people. who swarmed from the farine,
Ho also retirne gratofal thanks to bis coansel. phe, tel yg ae wn. dtredet prrtunee ent

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oeruos Combe and Wilson, for their to prove quire thete « services, aan ee arid oes his dep-
his tonocence," and especially to the family of # Utie® quietly and’ etfoctively car to elect
Dr. W. J. Edelen, and to Mre. Kdolen partica- the core gpa hb dh NEws.

larly. To the sheriff, B. R. Abol. Keq.. he ex-
treme penalty of the law was committed on the I ten for the * consi hey + ind bgt? ed heneneny Dante Wronndacyad
8d of April, 1873, at Fairfield, St. Mary's county, tend f a ele eck e Roy oe sane | eens oe Mee and the reperiet experienced the

Md., where Schofield, who wae tho etmaster, the etri F greatest difticalty in securing conveyahce he- ency or a reprieve, which he had don

kept @ store, Between 12 and 3 o'clock on tho fh Suncete? Uscardtewe “uaa ‘Se returns [| tween the two points, the ros pens found tobe If totbe time of-execution.

night of the 8d of April Schofiuld’s store was thanks for their many sets of kindness to him § Yety heavy. The route hither is throuyh parte On Taeeday he was visited by bis |

| set on firo, aud on tho morning of tho th bie during bis impriscoment. of the three counties of Prince Georgo, Anne Mother ang others of the family. ‘Tbe |
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romaine ‘were found in the ashes of the burnt To bi . | Arundel aud Calvert. Although the execution takinz fs eald to have heeh quite affectins
building, Goods. belo glug to Bthofleld were Flag rerotbere he next add ¢ bit” | came off with promptitude, time Pressey sv c'use y
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found tu the house of J J 1e wan’ proved foe eye po TE man be F that it 18 necessary to utitize a relay of incr [Ml bad taken hor onches Ge woald not havet |
| by uh Sor Mev sock n had, some time before that of his race goneral ond felt satisfied Mirela Ae iis cosaty, wales hee ate } P ro Later Pgenagy st i, ple !
I the 3d 0 ri!, made re: . heither raij. Hi and one child, the former of |
| partica to Join him fo q éepusaes road bor telegraph withio its border, in under him pat vnce stuce Hipcontierlons Tbe. }
ollering ae {nd ts that bchofeld bald killed them § teach the moderna “handmaidens of Jozrna.isni,”" MIGHT BEPORE THE EXRUTION |
a colored wamed Thomas, that he bad not th. belied and § Steam ang electricity. The Drom’ Polut rail- the moon salle! throngh acloudiess sky, a |
been proper! paoleshed fur it, het he had plenty e watts people. "Every one knew, road bie ter ghia gelled odhomgy : Seageratare wae quite cool ang Pleasant. |

of muncy, t 1 ee : 3. e h ’
BED “had remarkel that he Gouid ace Rote ta RATE peters | bo pon tee aergigned and con: f On the 2th of December last the villageot I view only ahect se "hucneed sorte’ |
/ fi) because he was adraitichofield would bhrt him, ople, whose ‘evidence would shortly deprive Sunderlandville, Calvert county, was rtartied by fm Sanders cou'd be dis inetly heard etngt: |
| fi] Jackeom repHed that he would make 4u casy im of life, and leave his wife and childrea deso- | ‘he murder.of a clock-cleancr uamod Evyeue A. lymne of devotion and pralse. About h< |

Burdell. |His body was found a few days after. Jadge D. R. Magrudor, before whom howe |
wards lying in @ gully beside the ruad with; bis and convicted. went over to take a last jot |
skull fractured. Ho was seen about sundown oa and fervwell of bim. He sald iv substance |
. the evening of the 2th of December in company Judge that whisky and idievess bad b !
with the prisoner, Albert Sanders, Sanders met him to his doom. Jie said if be did kill F |
nected link by Nuk as to leave no doubt aa to him at the store of Mr. E. L.. Howes, in Sunder- it mast have boen done when he was la |
the guilt of the prisoner. The jury were uit landvillo. add, a» was proved to evidence at-his under excitement. Yonr correspondes |
only twenty-five minutes, rendering «verdict of tne.— |] tial, went ont with rdell to show bim the others visited him ehortly after the judge |
murder io the first degree, May 17th. reday |] Tesideuce of Mr. John 8. Dowe!), abont half a. be remarked that bie thouchts were no |

AN EXCITING INCIDENT. in hiecell. Tho fa- |] Mile distant. He was heard toask Bardell “if thie world. He seemed to be truly penite |

y thing of it by rappiog bim up and etrikjng bim and alone.
over the head as he came to the duor to dpen it, Ho did not Jadge of the rectitude of the
THE EVIDENCE AND VEn@ICT. nor did he harbor any unkiud thought
The evid against Jack was majnly cir- them, but be left it with that I
cometantial, nevertheless it was eu clore!y con- bet

On tho laet day of the trial aud during the clos- be had any stampe, if so he was bis man.” Sus. to appreciate his melanckoly condition |
ing argument for the defeneo. the prisoner. iciun’ rested upon Sanders as the mardcrer bf cofliu was placed on Thursday afternoon
Thomas Jackeon, was noticed to }; he crim. rd by J. J. Jar- ardell, and he was captured on the 3let of Ie- passageway beside his cel), ard on seeing

jual box, and immediately crice of him! db helyht ps thirteen J] Comber, five days eomeoruent to the tragedy. He wretched manu remarked that it Was he:

‘Ptop him!” “the court-house 18 falling! ; bad only been released from the penityntiary on an to see bis own coftin while alive and) |
graud jury is coming throug teeounded cokalt eit tar oe af aoe the 15th of November, 1872, where he had been aneaens THE CaLYERT CAVALRY,
through the court room, and for mument the THR EXECUTION confined: for one year upou conviction of steal- At abontii o'clock the same evening |
sreatest imaginable excitement and cvafusion was the first one which had taken place in St, | !uzs hog. He is sMo said to have committed. mm rion ring of the bugle was ond, Wick | j
Prevatied, niany persous supposing that the Mary's county since 1844, and early {0 the morn. {| Other larcenies.. His general character aud repa- out to be forty meh of Captains ut ap
prisonor was about to Hol:ohamize eome one ing & large number of persone began to arrive at | tation has becn very bad. are cavalry, M. N.G., of Calvert cour |
aud make ao attempt to cecape. When order Leo: Sanders was tried at the May term 11877) of IM dered by the sheriff, Mr. Sterling Smith.
was restored, it was ascertained that the graud the Circuit Court of Calvert conuty, held at lace of execution for guard daty. Bar |
jury was safe; that nothidy was falling anc that Prince Frederick, sudge D. R. Mazrader.apon ‘aupily seemed to havo deserted him, as bir |
the prisoner bad Ivft the culprits box. not to the bench, and Joseph A. Wiieun prosecuting wap dog lato on the night befure theexecu
excape, but iff response to a eapposed eign to attornoy, wted by T. J-C. Williame, of Cam- & corner of the ja!l yard, aud besiie that o
hiw from an officer of the conrt, which tho prie- beriand, Md He was defended by Messrs. Jas. banged nuarly tures years eince for comz |
over interpreted as a cali to him to leave the box T. Briscoe and D. Clinton Lyics, of Calvert 8 rape. '
aud come where the oficer was standing. conaty, The trial, lasting two dare, ended ‘ TNR Last oF #antH.
GENTENCE OF DEATH. s in his conviction. As a slave he furmeriy be- Shortly aftor 8 o'clock this (Friday) m
ckeon was sentence: to doath May 17th by [i Friday morning t longed to Mr. Geo. Robinson, of Calvert county, the mansclue were taken from Sanders’t
Ford. When asked by the judge what be and crpshed by th mpending | *24¢ afterwards was @ servant of Mr. Samuel aud legs by the jailer, Mr. Hindray. He;
y why ecntence of death should not be I fate, Bie, howev Hed slightly after conver- | OWings. of Anne Arendel county. Ho was 23 IM a reeticse night. Previoas to this hie

upon him, Jackson made a rambiing

reaponso Tawhich he denied his guilt and ac-
c d for Pp of the goods of Scho-
fivld found in ‘uis house by the etatement that
he bad bought thom of two strange men passing
the road, ro the grand jury, aud pre-
vious to h nn the chargo of murder,

he good:

atence Jackson pro-

servo. a stoical demeanoh and accepted his
doom with great nerve and se

ig’ ;

sing @ few minates with the jail officers. ap years of age, of mascular build. and bad what upon tho lid of which wae bie ehrond ar |
atierwates recelved } Say ight be called « repalsive cquntcnance, : black on . were brought into hisceil. &: |

THE VicTIM . surveyed the robes of death with appare |
ogg. . Barde!l is sald to have beca a man of more concerp, Ho held the chisel while the |
5 his spiritual than ordinary intelligence, fpomeeneiny Mterery knocked of bis shackles, after which all? |
n : psec * Lydon ooo nly rd ee arty aud Hoey ind ore make Le aged me i f
‘en minutes before one o'e) j y reo! : e with all. time on earth. Ati) o'clock his spiritc
guard of twenty-eight tek someath mite none He claimed to bes relative of Dr. Borves Bar- vieore entered bie cell, and eugaged fa rei
closure and formed a double line about ten fect f 2°!). of Ba soak mye notoriety. His re- exercises for about one hour. The pr |
apart. An soon asthe preliminary arrangements | Aine werelipterred in thp burying-grownd of fm joined with a full, uusbaken voice, ins
wote completed, Bheriif Abell and bisassistans, § Al! herr (F. BE.) Charch, near Sundcriandville. the bymu,

x THE MURDERED M # . Mr. Yaton. accompanied b . y was subsequently exhumed and bu. *Rock of ages, cleft for me,”
Schofield, the murdered m Nortbern San, the New Yore Hove are e Westisices ried with Masonic honors in the same grave. avd prayed with much fervency, ae did th
er by birth. He wae 82 yea and at ove Star, proceeded to the ceil of the d n COxr AND ATTEMPTS To xecapR. leters. The eervicce were pro onged be

time bad resided at Hampton, Va. Le was last
seen by Mr. F. M. Goddard, about half-paet ten
dclock on the nightofthe murder. He was
thég alone and engaged in writing, and he told
Goddard that he was writing a communication
to the dqunty paper. The same night, but pre-
vious to tyis, however, be fe known to have sent
hie little Wanghter, who wae in the habit of
pate i withNgim atthe store for company, to

mau. The sheriff spoke kindly to him. H Sanders confessed to having robbea hi singing aud prayer up to the last wome: |
then proceeded to remove his vest and pions | bis satchel, the comfort about his neck, onas condemued man ope upon, bis knees |
black coat, with a deep rolling collar, Jackeon J. chaged sliver watch, with Masonic embieme on time. At the hour of 12 Sberiff Stirling |
seoming A ebierincd unmoved. To a remark of ravedin the coutre, but denied having kilied entered the ce!], and we jailer paced hiee H
the sheriff's, “that be fearea hie shirt collar was im, It will be remembered, however. that pre- and cap upon the condemned man. and pit
too tight," bo said “Nothin sie to® tizht for my ff vious fo Bis trial be made @ fall confeasion of fm bis arms. Ho way attended to the scat’
neck how.” | Aftor these arrangemcuts had hevn [| both the robbery and murder. He made three fm the sberiffand his deputy, Frauk Cox, F
oue through the three gentlemen who bad de- |f attem: tocscape. The first attempt was whea M. Gardner, ofthe Baltimore Conference

ended hita: J. %. Downe, J. H. Wilson and R. up the floor of his co im ©. Mauzey. of the Baltimore M. E. Conf |
pdaingenn, ar See thet et tir: Boothe pt noe Cc. coe. came in and said “Jackaon; thay Hh bod to work himpelf out. Hie shane earkbaeae. fm South, and Rev. W. H. Draper, colore
dent of the nelzhodcbood, Intended to pass the come to bid you was (rustrated by the jailer. A. J. Hinary. ped it ney gears FINAL BCENE.

GOUD-BRE FOR TOE Last Timur.” fo yeald that in minutes later would have

Me lge witb him, Boothe seems not tohavecome. & - tore, fur the firet and only time, Jackson jf made hie escapade @ success. The second at- The twdcumpanies of cavalry were dra)

it ie tolerably certatwthat Schotield retired broke down, but on! é r bh i ina hollow square. A fervent prayer w
for the night ay opr Tne bxact ot ns poate filled with teare and "be cules teen Lise a Si We board from the petty Seer, feet ne fered by Kev. L. Manzey, The leave takin;
nee oie ne ltee oe Compete as Waheed reget hich jg De eald Good-byo.": It wanted a couple of min. ff pose of burning the of bis coll down, his ig the winivters, sheriif and Jailer wae both s |
Goddard left bim aud three o'clock the follow. gf Dtee to the Sppetsted time for leaving the cell, | window ‘being by bdisakets, ing and impressive: ‘ho condemned man,

ere
wihdo stood to the face of death, rubed in gravoc
Bony Fond feu ein ite _— and pinion. nite tora mob pe Ho
pra: ucessantiy and sce rm fo |
essed on Wi Bight these facts to the wis ; Wo ventared afew remarke rot th. |
form, advising the spectators tu keep awa) |
Upto within few euye se baa'at ides of Kote [Mf Hauer andcvilasrociatens te”?
hung, and wes of se a a 7 REASSERTED M18 INNOCENCE i
the moet desperate criminal ever Genet of the crime of murder, and eald he bad |
the Calvert coenty ‘jail, has offered im peace with God and was prepare] to gc |
Bin fyb ey sNabarsda bic siecnens to fight 12.38 the Diack cap was placed upon bis he |
oer are, the jailer, wheu Sagders called out: “Good. |
dren, two boysand a girl. Twoof these were Upon the scaffold he said “that he hoped all i I wish you all good lock." The warden |
in his dwelling on the night of tho murder; the Bf present would pray for bim."* Fath icinanzy tonched the spring and Sanders fell: lie gr
other was absent at the North, it is believed, in — said that the prisoner trusted tb reacnt [mq ardsca, gery my! several times and with buta etrugule ort: |
New Haven, Connecticut. Schofield had neither J wonld take beed of the lesson of his present po- par eorreepood o passed intothe epirit land. Hie neck wa |
his goods nor hie e:urvhouee insared. Hiqac- § eltion. The noose was piaced around h e neck, peas ken, After hanging for twenty minutes bj
count buoke are lost, and, with the exception of J the knot being behind the right ear, and ihe cap ireacd. Wy decinred dead. Mie rematas were taken inc
the gold referred tu above, all bis money, note was drawn over bis face. Nota le evidence by dir. Hardesty for burial. *

lug morulng. tt the latter hour the house was b pede Paced wiitiue es eee he was only iu

_ discover jo lam i YOR THE PRO Baal

| “When ‘the neighbors arrived they found the Bs ‘Tho sheritf lod the way with the prissuer and
buildiag about AY fall 1u, the pee! Cran or. Father Vicinanzy, followed by the re rtere,
badly scorched by the fire, gone thirty prde rom) @ counsel and Dr. Spaldiu, Jackson follow ng the
the buliding, and the ko} the ehere fag ial reverend yentleman in his prayers iu @ steady
locked. Some gold, which he i aby eeg ave Band audible voice. Heascended the scaffold ua-
bad and deposited in an uppe t of the store, B concernediy, without auy faltering, aud louked
was found among the debris of the burned houre. calmiy around upon the crowd.

Schofield was a widower and bad three cbil- REMARKS ON THE ACAFFOLD.


Tissicsh PAYS: PENAL

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At Dawn In Annapolis. et

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Executed at Annapolis on July 12th 1918

Reported in The Balttmore Sun issue of 7-13-18
page 3 column 4

Rmttendants and xfoutly pro-

plored track walker, ¢on-
murder of Mise Dora
tracks of thé Peanuyl- |
near (hlentog on April
Hin the iail yard at An-
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pounced the -man dead. The a an
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he atrae tt The body wan then
laeod iy! yon. and turadd over to
i locw)  webele: rtaker, who buPled {€ in |
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JACKSON, John, black, hanged Maryland (Baltimore County) 1-31-1930. |

THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD YEARS

“DUDDING’S
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: “ILLUMINATING AND STARTLING
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OF ETERNAL DREAMS,’ AND NUMEROUS OTHER VITAL SUBJECTS”

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1932

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GET THE
BUM

(Continued
from page 17)

place. They must not overlook a thing.

Outside, a man’s blue suit coat was
found—with a beer bottle cap in the

ket. By a tree were two empty beer

ttles which the cops handled gingerly
avoid damaging what could be a vital
clue.

It looked like a tough case to crack.
“The bum must have been a sex
maniac,” snapped an officer, and as any
detective knows, such cases can be
real puzzlers.

Almost automatically, the cops
launched a dragnet for the killer. De-
scriptions and the license number of
the Bopst car were broadcast to 13
states, and announcers with a note of
horror in their voices told a shocked
community about the killing.

Mental institutions checked

Police threw a cordon around the
house as streams of sightseers started
driving by. The nearby Sheppard and
Enoch Pratt Hospital was checked to
see if any of its mental patients were
missing. State mental institutions also
were notified of the tragedy, and one
reported that two inmates were at large.

While the fingerprint boys scattered
their powder about the house the in-
aw sent patrolmen on a plodding
detail. Every house in the area was to
be checked. The object: To discover
whether any mysterious strangers had
been seen.

It was slow, tedious, fruitless work.

While newsmen pressed for reports of.

a break in the case, Deyle shrugged
them off. There was nothing.

As midnight approached, and with-

out explanation, Sergeants Georgé Ban-
gert and Norman Heim jumped into a
patrol car. They headed out of the
well-to-do neighborhood toward the
slums of northwést Baltimore. Their
destination was Longwood Street, but
on the way Bangert slammed his. foot
on the brake. .

There, in the 3700 block of Grantley
Road, about a mile from their destina-
tion, was the Bopst car. Empty.

They ran to a callbox and telephoned
Deyle to give him the news. But for
some reason the captain seemed : dis-
tracted. He ordered them to tow it to
the Parkville Station, with care to
avoid smudging any prints that might be
in or on the car.

Deyle had a good reason for having

his mind on other things. A police de--

tail including Lieutenants William
Powers, and John Eurice, Sergeants
Charles Rockenbaugh, Henry Kone and

William Gibson and Patrolman Ray- .

mond Wilson had just wheeled away in
a high-speed caravan from police head-
quarters at Towson.

They had a definite destination this
time. It was a shabby rowhouse in the

'

_ They arrived within minutes and as
_ lawyer's wife racked her min e

- 2900 block of Westwood Avenue. They

had orders to pick up Carl Daniel
Kier, a 21-year-old ex-convict who was
later to be déscribed as a good parole
eo good a risk as comes down the
€.
While the neighborhood slumbered
they quietly covered the house from
front and rear, then moved in. Upstairs
Kier was asleep in his cluttered room.
As the police barged in the suspect

surrendered quietly and was led off for .

questioning.

When Deyle learned of Kier’s arrest
he relaxed for the first time since he
had driven up to the house with the red
fox on the roof. It had been a lucky
break. L

The people living in one of the
houses two blocks from the Bopst home
had been away when police stopped by
on their neighborhood canvass. A
Baltimore attorney and his attractive
wife had gone out for the evening. They
had noticed the excitement around the
Bopst home as they drove by, but
thought nothing of it when a policeman
hurried them along with the comment
that there had been an accident.

The couple returned home at about
11 p.m. and the lawyer flipped on the
radio. The airwaves were full of the
Bopst murder, and as she heard the
grim details the lawyer’s wife started to
remember.

‘On Monday, the day before the kill- '
ing, a slim ng man had come to her
door and asked if there was any handy-
work for him to do.

“I was in the house with my two
daughters—one ten and one seven
years old,” she recalled later. “We had
just returned from~a swim at the pool.”

“My neighbor’s dog was outside—
and he’ doesn’t particularly like
strangers. —

“I asked the man if he could run a
power mower. He didn’t answer.

“At the time I thought he looked
suspicious. He was slender, though,
and I thought I could handle him if he
should attack me. ~- .

“My husband had mentioned some-
thing about. getting a man to work
around the place, so I asked the man for
his.name and address. He gaverthem-to
me, and I wrote them down on an en-
velope. I asked him if he had a tele-
phone, and again he didn’t answer.” _

The woman said she saw the man
later that day as she drove with her
children to the swimming pool. He
waved at her‘and shouted, “Hi.”

No work for him

At 6 o'clock that night he telephoned
the housewife. But she said she could
not give him a definite answer. When
the laborer showed up again late the
next morning, the lawyer’s wife sent
him away, telling him she could not
use him, The envelope—with his
name and address—had been crumpled
and discarded.

All this flashed through the. neigh-
bor’s mind-as she heard of Mrs. Bopst’s
death. She told her husband what had
happened and he called the police,

up with one thing “Longwood Street.”

After the street flashed into her mind
the report was transmitted to Deyle,
who sent Bangert and Heim on the mis-
sion that located the stolen car.

But events were to show that the
lawyer’s wife was only half right in
the name of the street. Yet, paradoxi-
cally, Longwood Street was close to
Westwood, which was to prove the cor-
rect address.

With the help of police, the couple
frantically searched their house for the
elusive scrap of paper. It was not on
the desk. It was not on the mantel. It
was not in the wastebaskets. But in
the backyard, at the bottom of the trash
can, she found it.

The writing still was legible. The
whole direction of the investigation
changed with startling swiftness. Police
had the exact name and exact address
of a prime suspect.

Deyle needed no prompting. Even
before the report of the stolen car came
in, he had dispatched a platoon of po-
lice to Kier’s address. The young man
was hustled off to the Parkville Station

‘ police station, where cops quizzed him

relentlessly for seven hours.

The interrogators confronted the sus-
pect with damning evidence. In his
room had been found blue pants that
closely matched the suit coat found near
the Bopst home. At the bottom of his
toilet bowl were found the keys to the
stolen car.

Under the impact of this evidence,
Kier started to give ground. Yes, he
had been at the Bopst home that day.
Yes, he had seen the body of the mur-
dered matron. And yes, he had stolen
her pocketbook and her car. But he
adamantly denied slaying the woman.

Charged with homicide

Despite this last-ditch denial police
charged him with homicide, and he was
taken to county police headquarters at
Towson for fingerprinting, photograph-

‘ing and further questioning.

By late afternoon—just 24 hours
after the killing—Baltimore newspa-
rs screamed in black headlines:
ORER CONFESSES SLAYING OF
MATRON. County detectives had an-
nounced Kier had given them a “signed
statement” admitting he criminally as-
saulted and killed the Charles Street
housewife.

This statement, said authorities, was
made in the presence of Dr. Charles F.
O'Donnell, county medical examiner,
and two county officers, Sergeants Ross
Gagliano and Hugh McCusker.

The news of Kier’s arrest immediately
set off a loud rumble against Maryland
parole policies. To head it off, a parole
official appeared before the Grand
Jurors Association that very night.

“No one is more grieved than I over
the atrocious crime that has been com-
mitted,” he declared. But he said that
Kier had been a good parole risk, “as
good a risk as comes down the line. If
today I was given the same type of
man, with the same kind of record, I
would parole him.”

‘the’ *~- Another member of the parole board,

was less positive, saying he was “de-


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release of the man.”

He said the case may require a “re- .

study of the whole function of parole.”

The parole officials: reviewed Kier’s
record. He was an illegitimate child,
born in Roanoke, Va. By the time he
was eight years old his mother—who
is now a semi-invalid—brought him to
Baltimore, where he did well in public
school. But at the age of 12 he got in
his first trouble with the Jaw: A minor
burglary case for which he was placed
on probation for four years by the
Baltimore County Juvenile Court.

When he was 17 he got a steady job
in a paint company, ant his employers
described him as a “quiet, attentive, ex-
cellent worker.” Two years later, how-
ever, Kier again was caught in a bur-
glary, and this time he was sentenced
to not more than five years at the State
Reformatory for Males.

On August 7, 1955, he was released
on parole and went back to his old job
with the paint company. He held it

until March of this year, when he was
fired after an argument with a fellow
employee. The next day, Kier found
another job at $1.35 an hour working
for a fertilizer company. This job he
held until the Friday before the Tues-
day afternoon slaying, when he was
given a seasonal layoff. As always he
reported dutifully to his parole officer,
authorities said, and was advised to
search for other employment.

It was while on this search that he
started canvassing the area near Mrs.
Bopst’s home.

In the first flurry of public resent-
ment against the young parolee no one
was more bitter than Mrs. Carrie Riley,
the 63-year-old mother of Myrtle Bopst.

“How I'd love to get my hands on
that man for a minute,” she cried.

But then, in a heartfelt second
thought, she said:

“Oh, what’s the use? That wouldn’t
bring back my girl. Why did it have to
happen to her... ?”

By G. M. WALSH

BERRIES ‘N’
BLOOD

(Continued
from page 35)

there, either.. Days passed. Hundreds
of tips trickled in, and police checked
as many of them as they could. One
concerned a report that a black Stude-
baker, a ’47 or ’48 model, had been in
the neighborhood at the estimated time
of the crime.

Detectives took.on thé tremendous
task of checking all such cars registered
in the-city, but they could not develop
the lead any further. A 43-year-old
city water meter reader named Robert
Lyons, who'd been seen near the house
the day of the murder, was intensively
questioned.

He admitted having gone to the house
but said that Mrs. Pugh was alive when
he left_the house.

When a month had passed, the case
began to take on the look of a “perfect
crime.” City Safety Director Oris
Hamilton, top man in the police depart-
ment, told reporters that: the case was
unusual because of the ; complete
absence of clues.

“Only: a woman’s body and a small

_pool of blood near the front door—
period,” he said. “No weapon, no finger-
prints or missing links or inconsisten-
cies. . . . It’s the most baffling murder,
bar none, in the city’s history. Ellery
Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart to-
gether couldn’t have written a greater

| mystery than this one.” '

Dramatic break

A dramatic break occurred on May
26, when police acted on information
given them by the maid at the home of
Dr. W. O. Ramey, the Pughs’ nearest

neighbor. Lyons, the meter reader, had

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come directly to the Ramey’s after leav-
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recalled that Lyons had worn a jacket
ger a sweater when she let him in.

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ment, he had feft, but this time he had
the sweater on outside of his jacket.

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had switched the garments to cover up
bloodstains on his jacket. He was grilled
steadily for 12 hours and this time the
results were far more conclusive than
those of the lie-detector test. He con-
fessed after being caught in a tangle
of lies.

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cept at face value, was incredibly slight.
He said Mrs. Pugh had bawled him out
for knocking too hard on her door and
he had become afraid she would lodge
a complaint with his superiors. They
argued, and he picked up a paring knife
in the kitchen, chased her and stabbed
her repeatedly. He was charged with
her murder. Though Lyons later re-
pudiated his confession, police were
satisfied that the case was solved... .

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Now the McCrocklin murder also
gave promise of being a tough nut to
crack, for once again investigators were
faced with a paucity of clues and no
definite leads. After concluding their
questioning of the caretaker, Stagen-
horst and Moore drove to 12 East 13th
Street, where her parents and brother
lived. Bob Mohrhaus was not at home,
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father looked on, the officers gave the

youth’s bedroom a quick once-over. In
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wet from having been washed. It was
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963.
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By Paul S. Royall

Detectives examine murder site
near chalked outline of body.

HE SAW HER THROUGH THE WINDOW, BEAUTIFUL AND UNSUSPECTING, AND NOT

EVEN HIS TERROR OF THE GAS CHAMBER COULD QUIET HIS RAGING DESIRE

* IF EVER a woman had it “made,” it was Myrtle Bopst.
Wealthy, attractive, happily married to a husband who
adored her, with four children, she was a leader in Baltimore
society, which still retains enough old Southern tradition to
be genteel, cultured, leisurely for the women of the family.
No woman could but envy the life Myrtle Bopst led—unitil
that afternoon of June 12th when it was climaxed by a few
minutes of sheer horror—then murder.

Myrtle hadn’t the slightest intimation of impending
danger when she returned to her sumptuous home at 6520
Charles Street in the Murray Hill area of Towson, a
Baltimore suburb. She was thinking that it was remarkably
hot for so early in the year and that the ice cream and
cakes she had just bought at a local store would taste mighty
refreshing. Parking her car in the garage at the foot of the
hill, she climbed the terraced flagstone steps to the front
door of her split-level home, entered and because of the
heat left the door open, securing only the screen door.

A few minutes later, at about three-thirty, she was seated

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comfortably and secure in the den, the, ice cream on her lap
and a current novel in her hand.

The book she was reading was a gay romance of love,
laughter and life—all with a capital “L.” Then she heard a
furtive noise at the front screen door. Looking up from the
pages, she found herself staring into the face of a stranger.
She had no chance to cry out. Violence silenced her swiftly
and forever.

At five-thirty that night, her husband, who was an
engineer with offices in Baltimore, returned home from
work. Parking his car at the foot of the hill he climbed the
terraced steps only to find the front door of the house
locked. Believing his wife was out, he crossed toward a mat
on the patio under which the house key was often hidden
when members of the family were away.

On the way he chanced to glance through a picture win-
dow—and saw the body of his wife on the living room floor.
Thinking she had fainted, he ran to the back door, kicked
it open and hurried to the living room. One glance at his

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wife told him that she had not fainted. She was dead. More
than that, she had been murdered. Staggering to the tele-
phone, he called the police.

A few minutes later, the house and the surrounding
neighborhood was swarming with officers. Captain Gilbert
Deyle, Baltimore County Detective Commander, who was
in charge of the investigation, called it the most brutal crime
of the generation. And with good reason. Gentle Myrtle
Bopst had been beaten savagely with a ten-inch brass figu-
rine of Oriental design, stabbed repeatedly in the chest and
throat with two butcher knives, then mutilated with the
scabbard of Japanese ceremonial sword. Later, the county
coroner was to testify that she had also been criminally
assaulted.

The sumptuous home was a shambles. Blood was every-
where, attesting to the terrific struggle the comely matron
had waged for her life. Reconstructing the crime from the
gory evidence spread out before them, Deyle and Captain
Cyril Baumiller, Commander of the County Police, judged
that Myrtle Bopst had returned home shortly after three
o'clock. Apparently she had locked the screen door at the
main entrance but had left ajar the heavy front door, which

’ was equipped with three locks.

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Once in the house, she had placed her handbag on a chair
in the kitchen and her red topper coat and white gloves on
a chair in the dining room. Then, serving the ice cream on
a dish, she had retired to the den with a novel.

It was while relaxing here, police theorized, that she
probably heard the first suspicious noise at the screen door.
Suddenly aware of some unknown peril, she had jumped up,
dropping the dish of ice cream and the book to the floor.
The shattered dish still laid on the floor, in a pool of melted
cream.

bier a blind man could have read the grim story. Ap-
parently, with ever-mounting fear, Myrtle Bopst had
run from the den to the hallway in an attempt to reach the
telephone there. She never made it. Before she could snatch
up the instrument, the slayer was upon her.

The blood-spattered walls attested to the fury of the
initial assault. Somehow the woman had monmentarily
broken free of her assailant and staggered to the’ kitchen. It
was a fatal move. She had led the killer directly to the death
weapons—the pair of butcher knives.

How had the slight 48-year-old matron found the
Strength to resist her attacker for so long? From the blood-
spattered kitchen the crimson trail led to the hallway, down
the steps into the den and on into the living room. Here
tables and chairs were overturned.

It was here that the killer had finally accomplished his
purpose. Snatching up the brass figurine, to which strands
of Myrtle Bopst’s hair still clung, he had finally beaten her
into submission.

Captain Gil Deyle, in a hushed voice, expressed awe,
glancing around at the shambles. “I’ve never seen such a
mess. She must have fought like fifty wildcats.”

Deyle’s first move was to broadcast an alarm for Mrs.
Bopst’s stolen car. It was described as a 1955 gray Chrysler
hardtop—license number Y-26-40. Next, he detailed a squad
of men to canvass the county’s mental institutions on the
possibility that a maniac killer had recently escaped and
was on the loose in the community. A second Squad was

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Police cars parked outside entrance to wealthy victim’s suburban home during search for clues to her killer.

ordered to begin a door-to-door check of the neighborhood.
“See if any of the neighbors saw or heard anything,” he

delivery man. Don’t miss a bet, no matter how small.”

These routine steps out of the way, the captain assigned
the score of technicians and photographers to their various
jobs, and questioned Mr. Bopst briefly. He then accom-
panied Baumiller in a search of the landscaped ground
around the house.

Almost immediately they made a find at the rear of the
dwelling. It was a man’s suit coat that had been tossed un-
der the shrubbery that masked the back door. Made of some
cheap brown-striped material, it smelled faintly of moth-
balls. In the right hand pocket were two beer bottle caps,
three pennies and a stone about the size of a man’s fist.
Rolled up and stuffed into the other pocket was a magazine
with a semi-nude girl posing suggestively on the cover.
Similar photos decorated the inside pages.

“It’s a cinch the coat doesn’t belong to Mr. Bopst,” said
Baumiller. :

“No,” agreed Deyle. “Probably the killer. He came pre-
pared with this,” he hefted the stone in his fist, “and then
decided to use the knives and the figurine instead.”

In the kitchen of the house, Mr. Bopst glanced briefly
at the coat, then shook his head. “It’s surely not mine,” he
said. “Where did you find it?”

“Under the shrubbery at the back door,’ Deyle replied.

“Ever see it before?”

“Never.”

A closer inspection of the garment under the light proved
rewarding. The right sleeve showed fresh bloodstains, but
that only reinforced what the officers already suspected.
More important was what they found inside the sleeves.
Printed’on the lining in blue ink was the name and address
of a Baltimore cut-rate store.

Deyle sniffed the coat. “It still stinks of camphor balls,”
he commented. “It could be they just sold it in the past
couple of days.”

They were lucky. Located at home in the midst of supper,
the operator of the shop recognized the brown-striped coat

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growled. “A stranger in the neighborhood—a salesman—a’

at once. “Yes. I marked it myself. See? That’s my. hand-
writing.”

“Fine, fine,” said Deyle patiently. “Now all we want to
know—who did you sell it to?”

“I can’t remember. But it’s written down at the shop.”

With apologies for interrupting supper, the officers loaded
the operator in their car and sped down to the shop. There,
after thumbing through a neatly kept record book, the shop-
keeper pointed a finger dramatically. “Warren August
bought the suit. I put in this system myself.”

“Yes, indeed,” replied Baumiller fervently. “Now does
your system tell us where this August lives?”

“Of course it does. What good is a system if it doesn’t
tell you that?” The owner referred to the records again and
gave them and address.

“When did he buy the suit?”

“Last Saturday.”

“Know anything about him?”

“Only that he’s a nice young man. Has a family, I think.”

All other questions Deyle decided to put to August him-
self. He and Baumiller piled into their car and a few min-
utes pulled up before an old, dilapidated wooden tenement.

Ty A three-room flat on the ground floor rear, the August
family presented a scene of domestic bliss and content-
ment. Seated in a broken rocker at the kitchen table, Mrs.
August, a young woman in her 20s, was. holding a robust,
six-month’s-old child. Her husband was stretched at his ease
On a cot at the far side of the room. He was reading a
magazine.

His eyes lit up when he saw the coat slung over Deyle’s
arm and he swung his shoeless feet to the floor. “You got
my suit?” he asked in pleased surprise.

“This coat yours?” queried Deyle.

“It sure is. Never thought I’d see that old suit again.

“Where did you lose the coat?”

“You the law?” asked August.

“Thats right. Tell us about the suit.”

“Something wrong?” i

“Tell us about the suit.”
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“Are you in trouble?” asked Mrs. August. He shook his
head. ‘“‘Not that I know of. About that suit, there isn’t much
to tell. Bought it last Saturday at a shop downtown. When I
got it home my wife said it smelled up the place of cam-
phor balls. So she hung it out on the line to air that night.
In the morning it was gone. Never wore it once. Cost me
six bucks. Where did you find it?”

His story was told so naturally and sounded so casually
true that the officers were impressed. “You got a job?”
asked Deyle.

“Sure.”

“Where do you work?”

“At the paper plant.”

“Doing what?”

“I’m a sweeper.”

“Were you on the job today?”

“Yes, All day, from eight to four.”

“You came right home from work?”

“Nothing else but.”

Deyle turned to the wife. “Is that right?”

“Yes, that’s right,” replied the young woman.

Deyle turned back to August. “Better put on your shoes.”

“Where you going to take him?” asked his wife.

“Don’t worry,” Baumiller said. “We just want to check
his story. If he was on the job all day, as he said, he'll be
back in a little while.”

August was taken to the Parkville police station and held
in custody while efforts were made to contact the personnel

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Suspect flanked by Sgt. Henry Kone, |., Lt. Wm. Powers.

director at the paper company.

Meanwhile, a dozen fingerprints lifted from the various
weapons used in the crime were dispatched to the FBI in
Washington for possible identification.

Then, one by one, Deyle’s men reported in with gloomy
faces, All their efforts had met with failure. Thus far they
had been unable to find the stolen Chrysler and the check
of the mental institutions had revealed all inmates secure
and accounted for. The canvass of the Bopst’s immediate
neighbors had been equally futile. No one had seen or heard
anything that seemed suspicious on the afternoon in ques-
tion. :

“There’s got to be a lead somewhere,” growled Deyle in
disgust. He turned to Baumiller. “Do you think August is
our man?”

Baumiller shrugged. “He didn’t act like a man who's just
committed rape and murder. But you can never tell.” The
phone on Deyle’s desk rang shrilly. “That might be your
answer now.”

But it was not. Deyle answered the phone but instead of
talking to the personnel manager at the plant he found him-
self in conversation with a man who said he lived only a
short distance from the Bopst residence.

“I wasn’t at home when your men called a little while
ago,” he began. “My wife told me about their visit. I may
have something that might be of interest to you.”

“Good. We could use some help,” Deyle replied. “What
is it?”

“Well, it might not mean anything at all, but last Sunday
morning a man stopped at our place looking for work. An
ugly looking fellow.”

“Did. you get his name?”

“Yes. I jotted it down—and his (Continued on page 64)

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slain farmer they had learned absolutely
yothing that might give them a lead.
Poffenberger, a former county com-
missioner and leader in social and civic
affairs in his community, had been one of
the most popular men of the region, ac-
cording to what they had learned. Thus,

The mere fact that the two had left
was not too important in itself. It might
be expected that farmhands would change
jobs occasionally. But Baker soon learned
that an unusual comradeship seemed to
have grown up between Loveless and
Miller who was ten years his senior.

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“There remains but one thing for us
to do,” declared Sheriff Baker slowly as
the conference came toa close. “We must
keep a close watch on every person who
had an opportunity to commit the mur-
der and be alert for any lead the killer
might unwittingly furnish.”

“That’s well and good,” returned the
prosecutor. “But according to your own
investigations no one we've questioned
had such an opportunity. Not if their
stories to you were true.”

Sheriff Baker stood up to leave. “That’s
just the point I’m making,” he concluded.
“If their stories are true.”

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Sellman, “You mean we'll keep a watch-
ful eye out to see who’s spending money
suddenly? Maybe trace some of the ar-
ticles that were stolen from the house?”

“That’s about it,” Baker replied. “Not
much chance of tracing any stolen ar-
ticles, however. Seems the old man had
a habit of giving small things of value to
the people he liked. There must be a
dozen former employes and neighbors
who have watches, rings and similar ar-
ticles which Mr. Poffenberger gave them
from time to time.

“But we can watch the movements of
the men who were on the farm on the
night of the killing. Sooner or Jater the
criminal is bound to do something that
will lead to his exposure.”

For long weeks, Sheriff Baker, his
deputies and Investigator Sellman kept
an eye on the Poffenberger farm. When-
ever a former employe left suddenly they
made a note of it and found out exactly
why he did so. If a friend or neighbor
decided to purchase an automobile or take
an unexpected vacation, the county of-
ficers investigated to see whence came
the money to pay for that luxury.

Again and again the witnesses were
questioned but always the sheriff's men
heard the same stories that had been told
to them on the night of the murder.

Then, early in February, nearly. four
months after the crime, Sheriff. Baker
on one of his regular checks was startled
to find that Earl Loveless suddenly had
slipped away.

The youngster who had discovered the
body with Al Brown had declared ‘he
was leaving his dollar-a-day job to seek
employment elsewhere.

Quickly, the sheriff went back over his
records. Loveless had been born on the
Poffenberger farm and the boy’s family
had been with the elderly victim for years.
He had always seemed exceedingly fond
of his employer.

His investigation soon turned up an-
other surprising fact. Also missing was
James Miller, the older employe who had
substantiated the youths’ story that they
had been with him for an hour before
finding the body. Apparently, Loveless
and Miller had left together.

left willingly or had he been forced to go oC “ten

with his older companion?

Sheriff Baker determined to re-ques-
tion young Brown. Surely, he believed,
if Earl Loveless had been taken from the
farm against his will by the older man,
there must be some reason for it. There
must be some reason for the strange in-
fluence Miller exerted over the youth
who had never before associated with
him. And Al Brown, the lad who was
with Loveless when the body was found,
should be able to throw some light on
that reason.

Brown underwent grueling hours of
questioning at the sheriff’s office the fol-
lowing day. Again and again he told the
story of the finding of the body, always
repeating it as he had told it on the night
he had gone to the telephone on Loveless’
orders to call the sheriff's office.

“So you didn’t see the wrench when
you entered the wash house that night?”
asked the sheriff again. “You saw nothing
but Mr. Poffenberger lying there with his
head beside the gas drum?”

“IT tell you I couldn’t see anything,” the
youth persisted. “Earl sent me out to
telephone as soon as we found Uncle Rol
was dead. He told me to round up the men
to hunt for the killer. He said he would
stay to watch the body, so nothing would
be disturbed.”

“Where was Miller then?”

“T found him at Earl’s house a few min-
utes later. He was washing his hands. I
told him what had happened and he said
he’d join the search as soon as he changed
from his work clothes.”

HERIFF BAKER’S eyes narrowed.
Here was something they all appar-
ently had overlooked before. Why was
Miller washing up? Whywas he changing
from his work garments at the hour of
milking time when he should have been
preparing for the one job on the farm for
which he would require those clothes?
Suddenly the sheriff believed he had
the answers to those questions—the an-
swers, too, to other questions which had
bothered him from the night he first had
questioned young Loveless about his dis-
covery of the crime.

Earl Loveless, the sheriff reasoned, had
seen something during the time he had
waited there alone with the body that
told him who the killer had been. But
by the time the sheriff and his men ar-
rived, the slayer had got to the youth and
through some kind of threat had insured
his silence.

Then, in order not to be questioned too
closely until he had an opportunity to
regain his composure, Loveless had
jumped into his automobile and driven to
the daughter’s home to inform her of the
tragedy.

Immediately after questioning young
Brown, Sheriff Baker broadcast a mes-
sage to every police station and sheriff's
office within a thousand miles asking that

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still far from having any proof that either
of the two was guilty of participating in
the crime, but he was confident that
once they were arrested he would be able
to get them to tell what they knew.

Weeks passed, however, and nothing
was heard from the two missing men.
Loveless had not written to his parents,
and although the story of their being
wanted appeared in newspapers through-
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of their whereabouts came to the atten-
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Then, on the night of Feb. 28, 1941, the
coldest of the winter, near the little town
of Halfway, Md., the trail was picked up.

Two salesmen, returning to their
homes in Hagerstown along a lonely
country road near Halfway, slowed when
a pair of shadowy forms loomed up on
the roadway directly in the path of their
automobile. The driver slammed on his
brakes to avoid striking them. The next
instant a blue steel revolver was thrust
into his face.

“Stick ’em up!”

The man behind the gun was dressed
in a threadbare overcoat and his thin
hand shook with cold as he growled his
order. The men knew better than to at-
tempt resistance. They could read stark
murder in the others’ hard gray eyes
and pinched, bloodless lips.

The salesmen were robbed of the few
dollars they had with them. Within a few
minutes the bandits were driving away
in the victims’ automobile. It was several
hours before the salesmen managed to
reach a telephone to inform the sheriff’s
office at Hagerstown,

Descriptions of the bandits tallied ex-
actly with those of Loveless and Miller. If
the men now had a car, it was likely they
would speed to some place where they
could prepare for a longer flight, Sheriff
Baker decided. Accordingly, he quickly
dispatched deputies to all places where
he previously had figured the men might
appear under such circumstances.

”

H keenness was rewarded. Deputy
Sheriffs Clingan and W. H. Horn
came upon the fugitives in a hideout as
they rushed preparations to leave that
part of the country. From Miller, they
took the holdup gun.

The suspects were questioned for hours
about the slaying of Poffenberger. Both
clung to their original stories, however.
Miller denied emphatically that he had
been changing his clothes when informed
of the slaying by young Brown.

Sheriff Baker decided to bide his time.
He knew that the state had a foolproof
case against the two for highway rob-
bery, so early in May they were taken
before the circuit court and tried for that
crime. Found guilty, Miller was sentenced
to serve ten years in the Maryland state
penitentiary and the passing of sentence
upon Loveless was deferred.

Both men were returned to the Wash-
ington county jail. In the meantime,
Sheriff Baker learned that Miller had
previously served time for a burglary
committed five years before.

It was while the men were in the
county jail at Hagerstown that Sheriff
Baker decided to call in Lieut. E. J. Chap-
man, a railroad detective and expert dic-
tograph operator who had aided the civil
authorities in the solution of more than
one major crime in the past.

Miller was supposedly awaiting his re-
moval to the penitentiary. With Loveless,
he was put into a cell in which two other

prisoners already had been confined. A
dictograph had been secretly installed in
the cell. Then, for days, Lieut. Chapman
and the sheriff’s men waited.

Their vigil was rewarded soon after
the former employes of Poffenberger had
become acquainted with their new cell-
mates. To resist boasting of their crim-
inal exploits was more than either Miller
or Loveless could do. Before the other

prisoners were removed from the cell, the.

whole story of the murder and robbery
at the Keedysville farm came out.

Miller bragged about how the thing had
been planned as the perfect crime. He
told how they had parked Loveless’ auto-
mobile near the wash house, gone to the
old man and asked to borrow gasoline
that they might get into town that night.
He told how Loveless had stood in the
doorway to watch against any intruder.
Miller picked up the wrench and as their
benefactor stooped to open the gas drum,
he brought it crashing down on his head.

Miller then emptied the old man’s
pockets, while Loveless went to search
the house. Together they obtained about
$300 in cash and a few trinkets. Miller
went to the barn to hide the wrench and

later to the room he occupied in the Love-

less home to wash the blood from his
clothes and hands. Loveless sought out
the innocent Brown, whom they had left
not long before, to help him “discover”
the body.

‘On the night of the murder, Loveless
had taken the wrench from,the barn to
the chicken shed after officers had
searched the latter place. On that same
night, the two managed to steal a dozen
chickens from the yard. Although un-
familiar with the region, Miller had driven
the chickens in Loveless’ car to the home
of the old man. It had been his intention
to make the slaying appear the work of
a chicken thief who had been caught in
the act.

Unfortunately for their plans, the police
had never suspected chicken stealing as
a possible motive because of the fact that
it was immediately learned Poffenberger
was carrying a large sum of money at
the time he was slain.

Before the two men were brought to
trial, their attorneys asked for a change
of venue because of the feeling that ex-
isted against them throughout Washing-
ton county. The motion was granted and
during the third week in July, Earl Love-
less went on trial for his life before Chief

udge D. Lindley Sloan and two asso-
ciate justices in the Allegany county cir-
cuit court at Cumberland, Md. Miller
was granted a separate trial.

Loveless pleaded not guilty and denied
the damaging statements heard over the

dictograph. After listening to Al Brown, ”

one of the state’s star witnesses, and a
dozen others including Lieut. Chapman,
a jury of 12 men found the youth guilty
of murder in the first degree. 6
Following the trial Loveless said:
“We killed Uncle Rol; the jury did
right.”
A week later, Miller went on trial, his

fate already sealed by that statement.
He appeared in the same courtroom be-'

fore another jury. Two days later, he was

found guilty of first degree murder..On
August 1, 1941, the two were sentenced:

by Judge Sloan to die on the gallows. «:

Governor Herbert R. O’Connor of
Maryland immediately afterward an
nounced he would set a date for the carr
ing out of the court’s decree.

(In order to protect the identity of a person
nocently involved in a murder investigation, ¢®
name Al Brown as used in this story ts not real:
fictitious.—Ed.) 3

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| BY TED COOPER

O ONE thought, at first, that it
would turn out the way it did.
Perhaps that’s what makes a de-
tective’s life so interesting. Of
course, interesting isn’t precisely
the right word, for a detective's

life is anything but interesting when
he finds himself tangled in a maze of
seemingly hopeless complexities. The
interesting part comes only when he’s
been successful and can afford to look
back. and grin.

You see, Raleigh Poffenberger once
had been a county. commissioner in
Washington County, Md. That means,
for one thing, that he had been a
politician, and for another, he had
been a man of substantial means and
wide acquaintance. There was hardly
a resident of the county who didn’t
know him by name, and a great many

knew him well enough to call him -

affectionately, “Uncle Rol.” 5 ;

A man like that becomes, in his
later years, a sort of legendary fig-
ure, and the principal legend about
Raleigh Poffenberger was that he was
extremely wealthy, a little on the
miserly side. People would say: “Aw,
he’s rich. Why, I hear he’s got gobs of
dough hidden away in that house of
his. Sure, he’s rich!”

Well, maybe he was and maybe he
wasn’t. It all depends on your defini-
tion of wealth. But he certainly was
well off. His farm near Keedysville,
in the Cumberland Valley in the Blue
Ridge Mountains, was no small time
affair. A sweeping expanse of fertile

fields, it was well tended and profit-

able. Thousands of Americans .prob-
ably have seen it, for it lies very near
the famed Civil War battlefield of An-
tietam, a shrine of American bravery
that yearly draws patriotic tourists.
One night Raleigh Poffenberger was
found dead on his farm, murdered in
cold blood by someone impelled by
the most insidious of homicidal mo-
tives—personal again. ,

T HAPPENED on October 11, 1940.
That night Poffenberger’s two hired
hands, Jack Sisk and Earl Loveless,

had been away from the farm since
supper time. They’d left the 76-year-
old widower alone, but that wasn’t
unusual. It was usual, too, for the
farmhands to do what they pleased
with their time once their day’s work

. was done.

They returned to the farm about
10:45 p.m., in Earl’s car. It was a
black night, with only a dull glow in
the chilly autumn sky to tell the
whereabouts of a waning moon. When
they’d parked the car in the garage,
they started toward the house. No
lights showed in the windows.

“He ‘must have gone to bed,” Love-
less commented. they reached the
back porch, Loveless stopped short,
his hand reaching out to halt Sisk. In
silence for a moment, he peered in-
tently into the blackness of the farm-
aad “Huh, that’s funny,” he said ‘at
ast. “The wash house door’s open.”

“Ts it?” Sisk peered, too. “What of.

it, anyway? . C’mon, I’m sleepy.” He
turned to enter the house, but Love-

less stopped him again.

“No, the door is open. We better
close it.” He started toward the wash
house despite Sisk’s. protests. Sisk
reluctantly followed.

The wash house was a small frame
shed used chiefly for the storage of
farm tools and supplies. It got its
name from the fact that the farm-
hands washed there before pati
the house for meals. It was some 5

yards back from the house, between
the house and a chicken yard that,
adjoins the barn.

veless had been. right. The door
was open. He stepped inside and
seized the hasp, feeling his way in the
darkness with the sureness of one who
had been there before. He was about
to pull the door shut and lock it when-
he stopped short.

“Hey, I smell gasoline!” he ex-
claimed. “Smell it? There’s some-
thing wrong!”

Sisk stepped to the door. “Gas, sure
enough,” he said. “Let’s have.a look.”
He groped in his pocket and brought
out a packet of matches. Loveless
struck them from his hand.

“Hey! Want to start a fire?” .

Groping his way gingerly to the
center of the shed, Loveless reached
up and found the pullcord of an over-
head ay What they saw made them
gasp. e light revealed disorder.
Tools that were usually hung on hooks
or stood in corners had been knocked
about. A large can of gasoline, usually
corked and on a shelf, was on the floor
tipped on its side, and gasoline
dripped slowly from its spout. An-
other smaller can of gasoline stood
upright. beside the large one and be-
side the smaller can against the wall
and partly hidden behind the door,

-was Raleigh Poffenberger, face up,

sightless eyes staring ceilingward—
dead!.  . !

For a terror-struck instant the two
young men stood there rigid with

orror.and shock. Then both turned
and ran, leaving ,the door still ajar.
A minute later, in the house, Loveless
was telephoning excitedly to the -
lice at. Hagerstown, Md., and to Dr.
I. cs Zimmerman of nearby Williams-
port. }

HE arrival of officers within a half
hour launched an investigation that
was set to last for months. Sheriff
Joseph D. Baker and Washington

County Investigator Wayne Sellman:

were the first officers to reach the
scene. They found Dr. Zimmerman
already conducting a preliminary ex-
amination. Sisk Was standing nearby,
speechless and bewildered. Loveless
was not there. c

Sheriff. Baker took immediate
charge. He knew Poffenberger well,
and was deeply shocked and grieved
by the murder of his: friend.

“TY'd_ say he’s been dead about four
hours,” Dr. Zimmerman said.

“And the cause of death?”

“Fractured skull. No doubt of. it.
Multiple fractures, from the looks of
it. e’s been beaten. Nothing but
head wounds, except for deep cuts on
two fingers of his right hand.”

Sheriff Baker bent over to examine
the wounds closely. Even to his un-
professional eyes it was obvious that
Poffenberger had been clubbed heavily’
several times. At one spot above the.
right temple the scalp had been
ripped by the. force of a blow, and a
ragged triangle of skin lay: back like
a flap over the eye. There was a silent
question in the sheriff’s eyes that Dr.
Zimmerman attempted to answer.

“I don’t think it. was a club or a
hammer,” he said. “The wounds are
too sharp for that. The instrument.

with which he was hit had mca’

cutting edges.”

Now Baker and Sellman began a
slow, deliberate search of the wash
house, hunting for the murder weapon
and at the same time hoping to turn
up other useful clues, But they found


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THE GALLOWS IN TOWSONTOWN.

Exedution ef Hawkins for Rape— |
Coetness of the Prisoner on the |

‘ Seaffold—His Last Farewells and

Requesta—Death by Stranguiation.
{Reported for the Maltimore Sun.) |
Janjes Roseberry Hawkins, colored, was exe- |

} cuted|yesterday morning in the Jail yard at Tow: |

sootomn fora criminal aseault, April 25, npon |

| Altes jida Schaeffer, 13 years old, an orphan,

living|near the Relay House, Baltimore and Ohio

} Tailroad, thirteenth district of Baltimore county.

A DISMAL 6CENE,

The weather was damp aod dreary, with @
fine, fold, and drizziiug rain, the sky betog
thickly overcast with clouds, and nota ray of
sunlight, Owlug te this fact. coupled with the
early iour at which the executign occurred, the
mambjer of spectators was compitratively einai),
and so crowding about the jail occurred from
the pxcellent arrangements of the eheriff.
Within the jail inclorure, there were probably

P¢ravns, about aaozeu of them colored meu,
adinifted by tickets, while outeide on the rieing
grougd about the prison were about 4 huudred »
more] one or two women being among the
uumiier. ;

- ‘Lhq@ inevitable small boy wae perched inan |
overbanging tree ny the fence. almost on a level
with the platform. A special car from Baltimore
brought out a number of spectatore, but the ma-
jority were from ‘fowsontown, a few comioz
from kbe thirteenth dirtrict, where the crime
was qoummitted. Snerif P. M. Snowden, of Bal- }
timote city, was prevent, and among other wit-
neases from the county were ex Sneriff Samuel
tlary Pleasant Hunter, John C, sae Ge
yipr, R. 8. Nedrick, C. B. MéLean, J. F.C. |
Taingtt, Adam D. Talvott, Harrison Waileon,
Wa. |E. Post, C. &, Fendall, Cheries F. Smith,
A. Cale ot L., W. Hl. Ruby. 8. C. Tomay, J. Law-
rencg Urban, and representatives uf the city and
county press. Aspecial force of thirty deputy
sherifie aud anumber of county pulicemen were

} OD duty within the inciosure.

TUK, PRIPONKK 8 LAST HOURS.
Hawkins, the condemned man. slept eoundly

| = Divtt before, from 10 P.M. till 5 A.M. Kev.

i. FL B. Rice and Kev. J. W. Gray were with
him' fhe pjytit previous till near 10 o'cluck. Dur-
ing theirstav a number of colored frienda of the
prisoper were admitted to the cell, aud a £en-
eral prayer meeting was beld, in which the ex-
ions of emotion were loud and demunstra: J
and resounded throngh the building till
ai} rang with “amens.”” Hawkins was,
bis a geet at 7.30 A. M.,eatinz beartily

two foiled @rxys, saneace, bread aud batter,
acup of coffee.

4 TEMPURAKY BREAK DOWN.,
f an hour afterwards Kevs. Gray, Rice,

} and Jpaniel, colored, entered the cell, remaining

with the prisoner until hia death. They prayed

hipiting considerable feeling and joining with

} themiio prayer. He sang several bymas aloue,

them, “Just as I am.withont one plea,”
here 18 @ fuuntain filled with bloud.' ‘The
ber's voice wae alwars loudandfirm. fle |
ned on hie kneee nearty all the time, the
rolling down his cheeks. About teu min-
befure he wae taken out his epirits seemed
@ way, and it wae feared he woul: bave to
rried to the ecafuld. He, however, eoon
ered his former alr and mood and became
retly calm.

FEMALE PRISONERS.

the jail to a Jock-up in ‘the court-house
bets Hawkins, the eister of tue condemied
man,| who had connived at ber brother's ercape
and dttumpted to amugele him a hatchet under
her drces.: Am ther female prisoner was sent

-with|ber as“a°cumpanion. Tue shemfi, at the

headjof his posse of special deputies, marched to
the jail from the court Louse. and detailing his

Gepufies for theirepecial duties, he made ready |

forthe carrying out of the death sentence of the

ed #UROTD AND BLACK CaP,

“The sheriff. accompanied byf Deputy William
Rietdau and epecial James Hi. Linzey. eutered
nl, where Hawkins was efill with the cler-
gyman, baving Juat fiuished singing the hymn,
bave merce ov me.” Ase the officials en-

. the eberif carryingtheebroud mad black

cap ip his hand, Hawkius sent up a jon cry for
merdy, but soon became calm, and exhibited
ecardely any emotion while the sneriff placed
the dhroud upon: him and the: deputies pinned
ims With aemalirope. At¥.15 A. M. they

ged fromthe cell, the cleryvmen, Reve.

Kica acd Grav at the besd, the eberif following
the prisoner and Deputy Kieteau. ‘She
which was No. 10, w-sumtbe right corri-.
aor,|two trom the main entrance, from which a,
slaincase of Afteen eteps leads to (ue jail base.
. ip which there are rows 0% cel:s on each
#idelavd a heavy dvor opentpy frum the r, to

By the corridor the prisoner was lea downy the
wev.etoppiog for & moment to say goud-
othree or four colored prisoners it} the
ir tier of velle. a

MOTNTING THE SCAFFOLD,

> onter door was opened with the noley grat.

{ boite and hinges, aud the prisoner, as'cool’
ected as could be imaiued, followed
lergymep aad the sheriff up the steps to
latform without assistance, Hawkins topk

his $tand upon the drop, looking curiously
arouhd, as if carefully examining the con-
strudtion of the ysliows. Kev. Mr. Rice stoud
atthe rizhtef the criminal, Rev }ir. Gray on

.the Ibfi, the sheriff aud deputy in tbe rear. Just

ythe men reached the ecaffold the rain, which
nad previously fallen Jn a desultory way. caine
down in quite a heavy ehower,. which continaed
null] the execution was completed.
WORDS FKOM THB GALLOWS.
Rev. Mr. Gray was the first to epeak upon the
ecafipld, and read a few verses from the fifty-

i fret] Pealin. Rev. Mr. Rice fuliowed with an

e@aruest prayer, and to bis petitions Hawkine
time. responded loudly" Amen.” There was

a dead wilence for a moment, which wae broken
i by |Hawkius, who with perfect composure

spoke jn atone of voice clearly beard by those
pean him, and said: “My friends, if f never
mort aco you inthis world T hope to meet ron

1

all gp the sunny bavke of Jordan. This is the
last hime I willsee you. 1 em going bome to

i ace God for myself. 1 say farewell. I hope to

| ovet the crowd in front of‘biu. looking to the [fm

mee} you in giory.”
WARNING A FELLOW-PRICONER.
The doomea man then cast his eves around

} weat, and said “Where's, Dorsey? John Dor- |

seya colored prisoner. fo whom Hawkins re- |B.

ferred, is servirg an eight months’ sentence for
an attempt to commit the crime for which Hsaw-
king was about to euffer death, and haa been a

} particular companion of Hawkins daring his
i confinement. Dursey, who was etanding di-

H looking over the crowd called in @ ‘loud tone.
| and thiked with bin over an hour, Hawkins ecx- ff oo . }

rectly in front of the scaffold, said. “Herel am:"

when Hawkins saia to him, "l've bees a warn-

ing |to you, Dorsey.
REMARKS OF. A CLERGYMAN.

Rev. solddigey etill standiug at the left of
the/prieuner, sald: “i've been requested Ly the
mah now about to be execated to say that hic
acknowledgts the crime for which he eufer:
Helis earnestly repentant, and believes ne bh:

Deen forgiven, and basa hope of Heaven.”

iter v, Mr. Gray bad ended Hawkins

“Wibere's Mr. Mitchell!’ referring to Perry W. |
Mitchell, special constable, who arrested Haw-
kiuvk for his crimes. Mr. Mitchell, whd was near

| thelscaffoid, answered the call, and Hawkins re-
H qudsted him to see that his body was given to

hisifriends for burial. Mr. Mitchell cepled that
hisluncle was thereto take the body. Hawkins
ed satiefied and attered as bis last words,

se
1 “Ghod-by, good-by.”to which a colored man iu

rif Worthington bad previously removed |

thal crowd responded: *Good-by, Rose.” which
w the name by which the prisoner was
familiarly known.

TAR LAST ACT. ZF
The clergy and deputy descended from the
platform, leaving the e erlf alone with the
prigoner. A few seconds safficed to draw the
black cap over Hawkins’s cyesand adjust the
podse around bis neck and to bind his feet with
acerd. This was done, and the sheriff descend-

ip
H 9.39 o'clock A. M., when the drop fell 15 feet to

tha soft ground, and the body swung in mid air.
Thp fall wae aboat four fect. As the rope tight-

i endd the knot siipped from under the left ear to

} the back of the neck, where it remained. A

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t convulsive motion of the legs, arms. and hands
A todk piace just after the drop fell, but. ceased in

afew moments. Kight minutes after the fall
the boay appeared perfectly stiffand rigid.

At 9.50 o'clock, twenty-one minutes after the
fall. the body waa lowered and life was pro-

} noditced extinct by Drs. J. A. Jarrett, A. W.

h Cafpenter, 8. W. Hunter, Thomas Galloway and

Joseph Galloway, of Baltimore county aud Dr.
Pre sto . ofthe Washington University. Hospital,
Baltimore. Death had resulted from strangula-

| tion, and the peck was not broken. ‘I'he body

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was lowered intoa plain pine coffin, which lay
under the scafiold waiting to receive it. and was

| talen immediately in charge by Hawkins's

untle, the only relative present at theexecution,
who pone it ip @ wagon and drove off for
burial.

HE CONDEMNED MAX AXD H1é CONFESSION.
fhe conduct of Hawkins upon the scaffold
was remarked by all spectators of his death for
thé coolness and utter readiness with which he
se¢med to meet bis fate, and the lack of any ex-

thie strap to bind the victim, and also freely ad-
mittiog that he spat tobacco juice in her eyes,
A belore stated, Hawkins’s execution isthe
fourth that has occurred 1n Towsontown jail, al)
of the condemned having been colored men—all
suffering deay for the same heinous crime upo

young le

the etairway, placed hie foot on the lever, at |


Philip Hawkins

Executed at Frederick on January 29th 1858

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 1-30-58
page 2 column 2

Execution of a Murderer, |
Frepkrick, Md., Jan. 29.—Philip Hawkins.
the negro who was convicted of the murder of
another negro. man some months since, waa exe-
cuted here to-day, at twenty minutes past twelve
o’clock, in the presence of an immense multi.
lude, probably numbering 20,000. The body hung
for twenty-five minutes. His neck was instantl
broken by the fall, and animation was extinct in
six minutes. 7 :
Before his execution he addressed the vast mul.
titude in acalm and clear voice, betraying no
emotion, but looked pleasantly on every one and
ff] Maintained the firmness of a hero to the last. He
- has made a confession, in which he acknowled ves
committing the crime whilst under the influence
of liquor. There was no accident or disturbance.
_buta plentiful sprinkling of pickpockets plied
their dishonest craft upon the throng. The con-
duct of Sheriff Elberts on the occasion was hu-
mane but firm. | a e


See. Big Crowd On Hand. .
5 Leng before: day the crowd began to |
‘gather, and by 8 ‘e'tlock » probably 1,000 |
Persons were, congregated about the place
of execution, The-Bars. were. closed to ald |

in preserving ores 2)” ats
2; °The Sherif had the following epecial |
Meputies sworn in last wight: |  t

. Walter T. Nason, J, Arthur Price, Geo. |
Collins, D. H. Lewis, Asher CampbeQ, |
Jerry Campbell, George W. Truitt. William |
Be Clapp, James Shockley,:Chas. L. Sho F
; = ; @ ley, James P, Johnson, Ernest Mille, WA-
= * ; _iam G. Davis, Albert Collins, Thomas J,

John Henry

Executed at Snow Hill, Worcester Co. on

fapatch tothe B “ Jon. :
oe Ma. daly “pargss — Archer. and William Test July 27th 1906
ath i dead. Cane Sepa ee ei cae if The crowd was very orderly and thete |
$.86.9'clock 0 opti gobagtoent owas no disturbance of any kind. None of |
ey Fy hes Stransh an “Biley pro= ip Henry's family was ptesent. His brother,
i the ’ John Henry dea elt Charles ‘Benry. visited him to Jail. lage | i

vmtght. It is considered fortunate that his |

B. eres X6e .
the: Ity for his-crime of XNo< } not made public untti aftite |
n ; iJ

finder - 905, wht be feloniously as< |} Confession
ggnited para, Weodericn “Gethpe of Berlin: £ if. he execution. ok]
es publicly hea always asserted bia jf < Promptly Tried ‘And Convicted.
lessee, and it became known only thie The evidence at Henry's ttial in- May
‘that aa long ago as last May, Just jj 188t showed that oi the night of Novembér j
‘eentence of death was pronounced, |: 22 Iact, between 6 and 7 o’tlock, Mra. Fred: |
joseed his guilt. The confession wad |] ¢fick Belby, a highly reapected young wom: |
made under promise of secrecy tj}. 88 of Berlin, was going from the businege |
Gordon Bowes, wife of Warder |] esetfon of the town to her home on the out- |
. of the county jail. It Was subse: f° Mets. when in a dark place ete was seized |
made to Rev. L.,A. Bennett, of }i ‘Pomeone who had approached from be-
Hill, In the presence of Mrs. Charles f end, though struggling violently add |
.. Henry was very much afraid ag ing ae loudly as possibly for help, she |
mpt might be made to lynch him if the a dragged across the etreet to 4 still
‘ie knew that be had confessed. Ha deserted spot and assaulted. Two lit. |
7, Sapiessed to Sherif’ Anderson thié Sirls heard the cries for help and gere
ming before starting for the eceffold;

nie! i before assistance ercives
About 9 o'clock last night Sheriff Ander man sappeared. Mrs. Selby ald
took him the duit which he wore today, § eer husband and described her assailant,
)teted It on and acemed to be entitelp Bo Menry was: scon located and positively
afied with It. He wore the shoes which §> Mentifed. dy Mrs. Selby. Strong circum-
ret ty the trial of the case, the tracks # Stantial evidence developed against hip.
“@ehich showed peculiarities that aided g° He was promptly indicted at thé next ees.
“Sety materially in locating the guilty man, lom of the grand jury and tried befare
He. morning he arose about:5 o'clock and f° adges Page and Lioyd without 2. jury.
ster Greeting ate a light breskfast. - Sentence was pronounced by Judge Page.’ ~ |
She Trip To The Place Of Death.’ 7 : é
“At 8.20 Sherif Anderson, with Deputies
stees. MeNesi, Campbell, Shockley, John:
Ané@ Archer, led him to the hack stand |
the jall entrance. A few yards-from |
‘Sail tha hack was stopped td wait for |
Ber guards to get in carriages. Hen
the floor of the hack, and wi
« BE. J. Henry by bis side, sang alone |
“God Be With You Till Wi
." . His voice was orm ant |
sign of nervousness. ae Z|
@ scaffold was erected on the alm&

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 7-28-06
page 10 column 1

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z on the same spot where stood the |
: on which Asbury Dixon and Suny

__ 1 was bullt by George W. Truitt, af! : ;
‘HU, who aleo built the other twd. soe :
‘Dering the three-mile drive Henry sald iit : ee ae p 4

“tle. and ghowed almost no sign of nervoud- | : ;
“mess. At the scaffold, in reply to Sheriff |
Anderson's inquiry as to whether he hail |

(sby Gibbs; Colored, Unable Fo
Walk To The Scaffold.

B) junted by Deputy Sherif’ J. G. MeNeal, dt
| Berlin. The rope which held the drop was
“cut. by Bheriff Anderson in person i

draggen

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HENRY, Jon, black, hanged snow Hill, MD, July 27, 1906

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stout knife, with « blade about) four
commonly called ‘a Spanish enife,
buaght’ in New, York, at/ the
Hutwn ; they had no
sthe first night”
an old leather cap, and Hull had's mask m
aa of the same :
on about his neck and ‘chin more like @ handker-
chief ‘than a mask; when they went oat of town
they pat on other cloathes over”
they were out again on
Jadelphia road, with.wd )
ht miles from the 5 CA a in all respects

hada eval ivolscrew barrel pocket

back ofthe cock’ Waa broke, which
Hittoa y.and each of them had
itches long,
$ which’ they
the recomnjendation of
stickayschubs, or other weae
Hutton had « mask made of
ade of

cap, which wae put

those they had on,
Thursday) last\on the Phi-
eign to rob the mail, about

when the mail wagon
in it; they heard
; they then:
‘returned ta
‘coming

as.on the first occasion)
atick to walk with,”

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bheek aud the Bank, trvers owns Lequyeped @ ivek ald

‘tyhis Cavudr, after bis dette should tt patina
the then proceeds Ws: din joes, hit Hoatcwplate
‘Might, and the Cease of it, 7h feelihg.¢ Apressiota,
of which the following isa COFKECt Efipy i
ST keep no book of accounts, and fhiv is aa near
the state of my affaire.as 1 can recollect them.
shall in a few days leave thie part’of the world,
and when to return God only knows, My conduct,
know; will be condemned, ‘and myself with it
1 The motives which induce me, no man knows but
myself. 1am sorry forthe effect that will be pro-
duced upon the church, of which Ihave been a
member—but it injures not the réligion of others,
and every one has to render an account for him-
self. J am sorry for the ‘families that will suffer
in feeling—Dbat they have not me alone to blame.
I have for a Jong tine been innocently attached to
this female, and never should have thought of any
ether kind, had I not been driven'to a different
\course by the menaces of my familyand their sa-
telfites..: I have left property sufficient to pay all
my debts, and have a large sy left to support
my fami. I take with mes dails. the clothes
back and one change, two bores and my
“With this scanty amount, |] seek a new
{country and a new emp pyinent. ~The place to
which Iam going is distunt, and unknown to any
human being, and in al! probability J sball not be
heard of for several yeare:
4 | leave a Power of Attorney for Mr. A. Ward,
to transact my business and scttle my affairs, by

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employ: in New-York, where, about five weeks
ago, he’ met with, ‘and, for the first time, became
e . Hutton} about two

+1 York for Baltimore. together ; Hutton complained

“| that he: was out of money, and

:dto come
to Baltipiore, where,as’ s00n" as he dtrivedhe
could lay: hig hands on as. much as he wanted im:

mediately; he did.not say. how it was.to be gt

buti¢xpresecd | confidence in getting it. 4

ether: baeraw.ed| of Miles Hitchcock, his tahior’s cousin,

mall “étage. i thente to

five: dollars, with which he, bore. his
) and: Hutton’s. éxpenses—they. travelled
trom: Nee xo: to: Philadelphia in the

pledge for, Hutton’ s debt, ne yore Of his (Hull's)
Elothe at At: the rest of -his e6 being put
into -Hutton's trunk ; the kcys of the. two trunks

MP | happened ‘tobe alike; but which he did not dis-

ammo
ment waa di-

ade of old soft
one rab
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it " ey

rivts thal og: ee ad
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cover, until they :wrriveth, in Balllineres ‘Huttog |},

Hmington in the steam- |
} boat >. veg to Newportin the stage? Hallleft |”
this” trunk; under a pretence that it. was, Hutwon's,

in: New-York; at: CaptiJames: Whelpley’s,: in

tlon and ¢
and that/1
by me il
ta being
tarify s

in my pred
Given As,

proposed, for the first time to hini, (Hall) in Wils [%

‘Ralagtons to’ stop and rob the ‘mai; but specified |.
of nothing distinctly as to tine, place or manners fo.”
then -it,wis) that Hull first suspected that Huttoo

had all along alluded ta the: mail robbery, frum pore

Newport: «They (Hull Hutto) travelled toe
gether, of foot: is Baltimore, and, is the course of

r joutney, the subject of the mail robbery: was i :
frequent spoken’ of ;: Uutton said he knew of 3.71

places for he purpose; If they could
OFS toe a ecateap late near Hatre. de Grace
was ment todtd § Hull bey he would leave the

vee éntirely to Hutton, as he knew the country.

ot: had tnade up theie.minds u erin ober ‘i .

of the. ‘wail’ before ‘they. reac Baltimore, and

greed: that it should ee ‘perpetrated beyond tle)

alls of Gun vier but recollecting that there
was Rh: pein
wea atoll bridge, over ‘which they would not, hw
dily make .& retreat, it; was given Wp, and

the’ way, which Hatta believed: } i :
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MOP | happened to bevalike; butiwhich he did hot dies | Ih my presenceh pare

auyidan

Mic. Kick 's, when the following. plan
a: Kes Agered that. as Hotton: was
goth qeat : of old. soft
or

pres
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are
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be (Hull's) and. Huttoa’s: expen
together, from New-York to

tin New-York, at

Timington, to step und tob the muily but speeitied |. (Signed)

P t ® md ; é *
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coef gS * ete wet eM Me tie hes Ree y edr aa ye pL NI, ta ips PSS
ACPI MER AL Can SPLIT RL Farha BIEN WGN do oF of em ek
1s rhe ops CAD RE ees a ype 3 Sat ARMS, Swept a ae
» nary pees. git & ork , » a : r
. % af 48 “ ‘ . : : : ’ wR hag i
eo owe aed ® » erates hee ae i shoe wy y wR ba aay ; poe ty {he | F

sver | the jumped up, hall
4 | then fell and se 0 - > Hutton volt Hull to go. Up |.
and feel his pils¢,which he did, and fot
him still alive.: Huttod then went up. ta him, and?
stabbed him twice with his knife, and kittedibim,
Hutton agd Hull then mounted thelr horses. and
role on towards Baltisiore an’ far ad the wood 0G
thie aide of the milly Where they tied the horses
and left them;: and theit came into Haltimore sintle-

‘ing minute gms to be
beat tu: rave, #
sould het be found ot
with oud Uraits of
flied his fellow: crt
they, teal iss

¥ * % . Saget?
seal, this twenty-:
n hundred and
Oe es amet
BLAND, 3 i at '
tu and for the § before sunrise, and on the same day, in the alters:
of Maryland, | NoCD, were apprehended in Bridge street. They
cat counted the monty in their room, at, Reck’s, afd
ngten City G ! there was about tive thousand dollari la good holes, | =
naaidl besides the post notes und cut notess. After they pi:
1 had counted the noney, Hutton suid he wowtd wait
until they had lighted & fire ownd then they would
burn the cut notes: Some of the good note th
pit into cach of their pocket book $,. and. the test ps oe INCHES
} with the post notes,’ he put into his trunk. Afferd searealfin neght. Y
| they were arrested, urid prought into. the fails tar in whieh « Kuhbery a
ton was examined, ,and on finding we SO.Goll atte) tempt be roby frist is
in his pocket book, pome one remarked 10108 [00 } fore leat, here 44
fe notc, when Hult mepped up car him, aid D ede ta force 4
utton struck Hull's hand and slipped inte ENG De aay ak Rage
twebty* years of 1 cut notes, which he thought h d been putty the \— bigs Somes.
and |w thunk, Hull,, not knowing.w hat to wo wih thei, ml ecaled tbe'te mead
slipped them into his paataloons, where they Were | SET cote spares
found: Hefore, and after they had ropiedd the | ocly Wimtae oo. ‘
mail, Hutton propdecd that they should yo wn (hed temee, the wet, sau
doutbward, to Petersburg, in Virgitias and there bar whieh paseci 04
set up the Druggist and Grocery pidinces, ORNEY Pon thas, ditegapa
had disposed of none of the multy before thie yt) a! fae
‘aa per i att wees vt
were apprehended Phe over-ciothes I AShich oh Gilad bly
they per petrated the robbery, and iferr bhives, ese «tenes
|. were all throws away. Hutl ued" stose: th itt fj hearly oadey enttent
clothes, and theewathewn into the fatia,: at The tipir Aw BR a eg me
per side ct M arketoatfeer Breage. 2 Hit gays
was sentinrom Newportto dew © hed
Paltimiian ta the stew:

peta CUE

mediately 5 he ty
butexp ib}
4 brought te

twenty-hve

4 | borrowed | ' Gat ne
h dér from Hot, bp de tie Kame of Nort,

he'then assumed, |

Hutton, 5%

© (pigned) 4

#1 do hereby ce ;

tion and Confesbadh: Was writtes
ter (be adic wan ofthis y Fe

at Capt. James.
ledge for Hutton’s debt with some e sald AEN By Hat, RE ast
‘hades : } bh }
tthitude out, acd [Pes ates \

clothes’ in. it, the, rest of ‘his cloathe
into -Hutton's ‘trunk } the keys of th sg ow ith bla ohh pth

nd alse by ce orcer f

niall stage j- thente to’ Wilmington, it
boat ;.;thence. (6 Ne wpo
his’ trunk, undér’u pretence yn aaa es

Pie Gee tay a

cover until hey: arrived ih Baltittiores: JHatton
d, for the: frst time ti him (fail) tn Male

fit Aired seal Chia twee
pee hundred ard
HHODUORTIED ib. 8 2
nothing: distinctly as\to, umes place of manner ays PG ee Le Sah Ba Liatrier Care
thei it was that Hull first Suspected that Hutton poo © ity Boa fur, the U.siteh af Mary lie
had all along alludedity the’ avail robbery, Hrym | a: et BE A
Newport... They (Hull, afd Huttus) traveled lo | UFrem ce Mcaters Cibsca. content di, Piss, AR So

SGiven ander ko

Pees? das of Marth

ss :
% ftve iad ee
ther on foot to Baltimore land, m the course of}. ike A pa ah cumetan end
ph journey, the su liject of the mail robbery was ¥ we feel a great fobie! a pi pity tx) :: % awit yer PSS ft bi
Hutton, sald he khew at 3 pecting the hare astim eho g ewvemn gat. te IMI Cy ta nda
or @ good places for: the parpuse, they could Wm orrect VeTived Reetae of Chae 6 AP STE ie MF
make waufe retreat—a place near Havre dt Grace ‘ebroad, the pi.vlec. seem to Gr i arah of ma 8 5 ENE
was mentioned ; Hull said’ he would: Jeave the | satezpe ot of tectay gam we (gree RE lore RATT:
i entirely to Hutton, as he knew the Coulltry. | nne who habia ninaeeM Feapocar sie on every wth hate

hey had made up their minds upoo the robbery |'ugined theres, and. ‘saan will be Qeraiee MAP
of the mail: befure “they ‘reached Baltimore, 40d | proper sppicatinans ; ia:

reed that it should’ be perpetrated beyold the.) ntg. sie
Falls of Gunpowder; buttecollecting that titre te ee
wis wn. dridge Ja the way, which Hutten believed

wea atoll bridge, over \which they. womid bot rea- Mae Ree adden pireads
dily make: « Shea it was cine tp, and tt a citizen of she tee fh, ding Castutt of cne ( DEshel ahau

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te | Bank, feft beamed ‘ta

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leading Negro school, announced today.
This was one more than in the first six
months of 1932. Two of the six lynched
were white men.: Officers prevented four-
teen attempted lynchings.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico.—Unless the
Governor of the state of Pueblo inter-
venes 4 commutation of their death sen-
tence, the two men convicted almost nine
mere ago for the murder of Mrs. Rosalie

vans, British ranch owner, will be exe-
cuted in the next three days. The mur-
derers, Francisco Ruiz and Alejo Garcia,
have resorted to every legal means to
avoid the death penalty.

JULY 3

NEW YORK, N. Y.—Four of the United
States Government witnesses in the in-
come tax evasion case against Irving Wex-
ler, popularly known as Waxey Gordon,
have been murdered since the prosecution
began, Assistant U. S. District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey stated today.

EL RENO, Oxra.—Three convicts, Cal-
vin Lee, Glen Park and S. M. Gralian,
escaped from the Federal Industrial Re-
formatory here.

NEWARK, N. J—Gaspera Balsamo, 34,
of this city, was formally booked on a
charge of murder in connection with the
death of Mrs. Wilhelmina Simon, 39,
mother of seven children. An autopsy
showed that Mrs. Simon had _ been
strangled to death.

JULY 5

PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Dominick Pic-
cola, 41-year-old machinist, was held for
questioning today on the strength of a
statement by his four-year-old son that
“papa hit mama.” Piccola’s wife was
killed with a hatchet.

RICHMOND, Va.—Four civilian con-
servation corps workers from the Rox-
bury Camp near here have been arrested,
two being charged with murder and the
other two with assault. The charges are
the result of an investigation into the
death of Clifford Crist, 35, of Berkeley,
West Virginia.

BROOKSVILLE, Fra—Twenty  na-
tional guardsmen were called from Tampa
today to quell a twenty-four-hour riot at
a state prison camp, Tooke Lake, twelve
miles from here. The riot followed the
escape of five convicts, two of whom were
afterward captured. Several sweat boxes
were burned during the uprising.

OSSINING, N. Y.—Mrs. Anna Antonio
is spending her last hours on earth making
clothes for her three children, Warden
Lawes having provided a sewing machine
for the purpose. Mrs. Antonio is under
sentence of death, together with Samuel
Feraci and Vincent Sacetta, for the fatal
stabbing of her husband in a plot to col-
lect his life insurance.

CLINTON, S. C.—wNorris Bendy, 35,
colored, arrested here for striking Marvin
Lollis, white truck driver. He was later
taken from the jail here and lynched by
four unidentified white men. His strangled
body was found in a churchyard. Gover-
nor Blackwood described the killing as
murder and has ordered an immediate in-
vestigation.

- KANSAS CITY, Mo—E. C. Reppert
of the police department stated tonight
that Verne C. Miller, a former sheriff of
North Dakota, and William Weissman of
Kansas City, are being sought as the
identified slayers of four. officers and
Frank Nash, bank robber, in front of the
Union station here on June 17th.

RICHWOOD, N. J—A savage murder
of the revenge type was uncovered here
today with the finding of the body of a

man about 35, with his head crushed in
and his body mutilated with knife wounds.
The man is unidentified but had the name
Marico tattooed on his right arm.

JULY 6

CHICAGO, Inu—While a ransom for
$100,000 or more was said to have been
paid today for the release of John Factor,
his kidnappers, with Factor still their
prisoner, were reported to be speeding
toward New Orleans, en route to Mexico.

ATLANTA, Ga—A new trial was re-
fused today for Angelo Herndon, Cincin-
nati colored communist. He was con-
victed of attempting to incite insurrection
and was given eighteen to twenty years by
the jury.

JULY 8
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Four bandits, one
wearing a policeman’s uniform, robbed the
Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company
branch at 110th Street, near Broadway, of
more than $23,000 today. The bandits
escaped.

JULY 9
LA PLATA, Mp—Armed guards pre-
vented a mob lynching of Page Jenafer,
colored farmhand, here tonight in connec-
tion with the murder of his employer,
Mrs. Evelyn Reifschneider, on her farm
near Waldorf, Maryland.

JULY 10
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The long heralded
anti-narcotic treaty which has been rati-
fied by thirty-six nations became effective
today. It is regarded as the most smash-
ing blow ever struck against the dope
traffic.

ALTON, Ixu.—August Luer, well-known
78-year-old banker and _ packer, was
dragged from his home here Monday
night and carried off by a band of extor-
tionists. Ransom money for the return
of the aged and ailing banker was ex-
pected to be paid.

ALBANY, N. Y.—It was learned here
today that John J. O’Connell, 24, member
of the O’Connell family, prominent in Al-
bany County politics, was kidnapped early
last Friday morning, and is being held
under threat of death for $250,000 ransom.

JULY 11

KANSAS CITY, Mo—Mrs. Frank Nash,
widow of the convict killed in the Kansas
City Union Station massacre, has been
placed under arrest on a charge of ob-
structing justice. She is reported to have
been the mysterious woman who made the
telephone call and plane trip to Joplin,
Missouri, prior to the killings. .

ALBANY, N. Y.—Ransom money
amounting to $50,000 is reported to have
been collected by the politically powerful
O’Connell brothers in an attempt to ob-
tain freedom of their nephew, John J.
O’Connell, Jr., who has been held by the
kidnappers for five days.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico.—David
Emeno, General Manager of the Bank of
Montreal in Mexico, was shot and killed
here tonight at a bank board meeting.
.C. H. Whalley, a former employee of the
bank, has been arrested.

NORFOLK, Va—Police have arrested
four men charged with an attempt to
kidnap Cecil C. Vaughan, wealthy Frank-
lin, Virginia, banker, and extort $100,000
from his relatives.

MILFORD, Conn.—Charles Wysocki,
17, of Union City, was arrested today,
charged with stealing a locomotive from
the company yards.

JULY 12

ALTON, Inu—The wife and sons of

August Luer, kidnapped last Monday

right, have given up |
alive. The wealthy ba
two men and a woma
palatial home, cut th
pushed Mrs. Luer int«
ried off her husband ir

ST. PAUL, Minn —
of Police Thomas E. I
pers attempted to mw
Engberg, prominent ;
geon. Dr. Engberg \
napped to perform a
tion on a Dr. W. H. }
refused, the trio dru;
him in an automobil
the Northern Pacific ]
He miraculously esca)
train tossed the car fr
ditch. Dr. Hedburg,

discovered shot throi
cruelly beaten. Both
to recover.

JULY

ALBANY, N. Y—
ample of the Lindber;
were to-day contactin
in the hope that thr
members: they would
the release of John J.
has now been in the h
for more than a week

JACKSON, Micu—
was sentenced to the }
for selling a pint of li
from prison this aft
served five years and

PARSONS, Kans.—]
Alva Payton, two of th
from Lansing, raided t}
Bank at Altamont.
and seriously wounded
the cashier, as the two |
ing the bank with their
McCarthy’s wife and us
but nothing daunted,
up a rifle, and gettin
convict shot him throug
died instantly.

PHILADELPHIA, P
to-day invaded the off
Kid Company here, ro
a@ policeman who was
payroll,

BOSTON, Mass.—Gi
special message to the
requested authority to :
sion to investigate cri
Boston. :

ST. PAUL, Minn.—}
there were four men in
napped Drs. Engberg a
case has several weird
a theory that a maniac
recting the attack. Al:
Police Dahill is uns:
stories told by the inju

MADRID, Sparn—A
dor Bowers was to-day
Spanish Government t]
bail to the five Ame:
June 5th, on a charg:
civil guard. Premier
tention to the fact t
does not permit bail
nature.

CHICAGO, Itt—Acc
here to-day, three other
marked for kidnapping
that abducted John Fa
are said to be: John
president of the Yellow
Otto Lehmann, son of t!
Fair department store
Wright, former presiden
Park Board.

ATLANTA, Ga—T!
preme Court to-day up!
tence given to the Rev:

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Cuesday,

October

Horsley, 36, em-
stant, phoned po-~

rs

he, 35, had been
arrived at his
ipurb of Los An-
rsley

explained

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that he had been asleep when Maudie,

' who also worked at the plant but on a

different shift, had returned home. A
scream awakened him and he ran to the
_kitchen, saw, a man bending over his
wife, who lay on the floor. Horsley

© grapvled with the intruder, but the man

fled. In the brief battle the husband’s
face was bruised, his shirt torn. He
could not, however, describe the un-
known assailant.

The autopsy disclosed that Maudie

-Lee Horsley had died from asphyxia-
-tion due to manual strangulation.

Her
throat had been crushed by powerful
hands

Finding no clue to the missing stran-
ger, the husband was arrested and on
October 23rd a coroner’s jury held Fred
Horsley criminally responsible for his
wife’s death.

At his trial Horsley stuck to his story
that he heard his wife scream, ran out
and grappled with a stranger who fled.
And on January 17th, in the court of
Superior Judge Clement D. Nye, a jury
after five hours’ deliberation found
Fred Horsley not guilty,

MURDER IN THE MANSION

(MD October, 1956)

The most brutal slaying in Baltimore,
Maryland, history for the past 50 years
occurred on June 12th, 1956. When Mr.
John Bopst, vice-president of an en-
gineering corporation, returned to his
home in suburban Towson, 12 miles
nortn of Baltimore’s business center,
that afternoon he found his wife, Myrtle,
47, stabbed and beaten to death on the
floor of their living roorn. Furniture
was overturned and broken. The killer
was thought to have fled in Mrs. Bopst’s
car, which was missing from the garage.
A blue coat, believed‘ to have been
the slayer’s, was found in the driveway.

Police got the name and address of a
handyman who had been in the area
seeking odd jobs, and found the Bopst
car abandoned near his home. A pair
of blue trousers found in the man’s
home exactly matched the blue coat
left in the Bopst driveway, and the
man, Carl Daniel Kier, 21. was promptly
arrested and charged with the murder.

Kier, who had served 5 years in the

Maryland State Reformatory for bur-
glary, confessed the crime, but later
claimed that the confession had been
extorted from him after hours of re-
lentless questioning. On September

18th Kier was convicted on the charge
of -first-degree murder and sentenced
to die. On October 2nd his attorneys
filed an appeal for a new trial.

On December 19th the appeal was
denied and the court upheld the guilty
verdict and sentenced Car] Daniel Kier
to die.

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WHO WAS THIS MAN THEY Onn /f iste?

‘What fascination
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despite themselves?

) Who was he... that men
fought... or feared.
or followed?

And what was the secret

he left behind... buried
in the shadows of
Sangamon Street?

TONY CURTIS “MARTHA HYER
CHARLES BICKFORD - KATHRYN GRANT

with

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Adan, Carl, Daniel, black, asphyx. MD SP (Baltimore Co.) 1/21/1959,

A Japanese saber, still in its
scabbard, had been one of the
weapons the woman was slain with

Mrs. Bopst and the home in which
she died, almost hidden from the
road by thick trees and shrubbery

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It Was Just a Scrap of Paper, But on It, Detectives in
Towson, Maryland, Believed, Were the Name and Address
Of the Killer of Mrs. Bopst. Where Could They Find It?

HE town of Towson, Maryland, just
two miles north of Baltimore, is a
suburban area. At 5:30 on a week-

day afternoon the main roads running
into and through it are jammed with
the automobiles of city workers home-

is Charles Street Avenue, an extension
of Baltimore's busy Charles Street;
congestion is at its height on Charles
Street Avenue at 5:30.

That, strangely enough, was the first
thought to flash into the mind of Ser-

10

OFFICAL

ward bound. One of the most crowded’

geant William Kelley in County Police
Headquarters when he got the frighten-
ing phone call from John Bopst, III, at
5:30 the afternoon of Tuesday, June 12.

How could the authorities buck that
crowded traffic to reach Bopst’s home
on Charles Street Avenue in time?

Speed was vital, Kelley knew. For
Bopst had told him over the phone,
“My wife’s been killed! Please send
someone over!” ‘

Kelley picked up the radio micro-
phone.

1, sIJZLVIWE STOVE SS

Octokr, /95¢

- Seven!”

“Car Sixty-Four and Car Sixty-
he shouted into the mike

Officer Joseph Gomeringer in Car No
64 and Sergeants Fred Rosling an
Harvey Brinker, in No. 67, respondec
almost instantly. Kelley issued the rar:

- “S, D.” call—“sudden death,” a sus

pected homicide of unusual scope.

As soon as these officers were on th
way, Kelley telephoned the Detectiv
Bureau. Then he directed several othe:
cars to the scene to prevent a hopeles:
traffic snarl.


KENNARD = Towson, Md.,

. LOCAL MATTERS...
Execution ef the Negro Peery Kenmard.—Th-
First Execution at Towsontown ~The axecation
of Perry Kennard, negro, for an ontrage on the
erson of Mrs. Oromie, in Middle Rivar Neck
itimore county, on the 9th of Jaly, I=. took
place at Towsontown, shortly after ore 0 tincy
yesterday afternoon, In presence of an im .
Mense throng of paople. At the timeof the
commission of the outrage the must Intense
excitement yailed, and fora time all hopa
of apprehending the guilty party seemad 1 sr.

The negro was, at the time, in tae employ of av:

Dir. Galloway, and perpetrated the horrible
outrage on the premises of Mr. Cromie, while
on his way tothis city, where he resided. So
great was the excitement ia Baltimore county
that his coamsel deemed it prudent to re-
move his trial to the Circuit Court of How.
ard county, where he was convicted on the
2th of March last, and sentenced to suffer the
dea'h Pieek He wis immediately retarned
t> the sul at Towsottown, where he was con.
fired tu the tame of Lis execution ©

For some time past the wretchei-man has
been attended by severai clergymen, among
whom were the Rev. Messrs. J. F. Hoff and
Galbraith, and Messrs. Tnom:s Balbirnie and
E F. Charles. Gn Thursday night Kennard
vas attended by a deputy waridea of the jail,
and slept soundly tor ek Berd part of the
night. Orace he awoke, and when the warden
spoke to him of biscrime, and the perialty he
Was about t suffer, be protested his inno-
cerce, that he kairo bopeuf Executive clan.
eucy, and placed his traustonly in(+aj. Y-«
terday morning he partook cf 4 light break.
fast, after which his spiritual advisers temain-
ed with Lim until his execution.

To all who were permitted to visit him, he

rsisted in @ declaration of his innoceuce.—

e expressed a readiness to die, and appeared
confidect in the mercy of (sod, though it was
thought by some that Kennard expected afur-
ther respite from the Governor, who had
twice befure postponed the date of his execa-
tion.

Shortly after ll o'clock, however, thaf dela-
Bion was expelled by the arrival at che jail of
Rev. Mr. Hoff, with a telegram from the Gor-
ernor, saying that he would not interfere with
toe course ofthe lawandthe judgment of the
court.. The prisoner was then le:t alone in his
cell for a ehort time, during which he was pb-.
served to walk to and froin his cell, and siog
withaclear voice. the stanza beginniog with.
“For, Ihavea Right up Yonder,” A* noon
the sheriff, with Rev. Mr. Hoff, again went
into the cell of Kennard, when tne latter per-
formed the duty of pinioniog the arms of the
coudemned man and preptred him for death.
The sheriff then bade him farewel, and Rev.:
Mr. Hcff continued his supplications t2 the
Torone of Graoe for the pirdon of the slus of
the dying man. At quari-r aftrone o'clock,
all things ready, the prisoner was candacted
from his cell, and passiog througo the lower
port of the prison entered the yard where the
scaffold was erected for his execution, The

allows WAS A massive structare, and thescaf-
fold was reached by a flight of steps. Ken-
nard was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Hott,
Sheriff Walker and Deputy Allison. j

The doomed man walked with a firm step,
nor did the appearance of the terrible instrue
ment of death have any visible etfect upon
hito. He wore a suit of common clothing,
with a blagket thrown over his shoulders,
and the white esp on his head. Assoon ashe
reached the'ecaffuld he beckoned tu s9Rg aR?
in the crowd and Nps.” Netinara took hold
or'toe hand of Mr. E. and remarked, ‘youn
have been afriend tome, sir, God bless you,
Gcd bless you.’ As soon as Mr. E. hatdp-
.sceened from the scaifoid, E F. Charch, a‘ the
request of the prisoner, read a statement of
complaint against a!l who had participated in
his conviction, declaring his fanocence, and
expreseing 4 wish for the well-being of those
who hed prosecuted bin. Assoon as the reai-

marked degree of
knowledge gt any relations but one, who is now

11/22/1861

»Thus has fided the lite of anegro whose
w ole jife has,from his own account, been one

Of diseatiefagtiou. Perry Kenna'd. was born:
du Elkton, Md, in 1519, and at the time of his

xyecution Ws forty. two years of age, Hla was
born the smve of Mr. Na'haniel. Chew, of

Orcil county, who willed him to be free waen.

he became fbirty-five years of ag-. He fre-
qnectly changed owners. He was twice mair-
rted, both wives atill living, with neitber’o
whom he maintained friendly relations, . H
was txl), of good Agure, dark. but not repulsive

countenance, and was slightly bald. In con.-

versation Dp was ee Hertee and exhibi‘ed a
telligence,: He had ony

inthe Maryjand penitentiary paying the penal,
ty of beating one of Kennard'a children, by his
firet wife,sq severely that it subs*yuently died,
lie stated. that be was never before arrested
tur any offense. oly “
The outrp fe upon Mrs. Cromie was of ths
most horrivle character, He called at her
houge, and After a few words of. conversation,

| felled her @ the: ground, perpetrated his in.

——$—$—$—$$—$— rn

ing of the statement wis concluded the sheriff §

adjusted the fatal noose. Rev. Mr. Galbraith

then cffered the last prayer,and while he was |

invoking the Divine mercy Kennard jjinedin
prayer und was: heard tosay, ‘Jesus, receive
my soul’) ©

‘Those on the scaffold then bade Kennard a
last farewell, and the sheriff readjusted the
necse,. Then, for the trst time a look of da-
sy air appeared. on tha face of the prisoner, but
the cap was suddenly drawn over bis fuce,and
ina moment more the drop fell and the body
of Perry Kennard: was saspended tn the air.
For an inetant the body hang motionlasy but
only foran instant, It was atonce digcovered
that in the 1all the Knot Dad slipped tothe tront
ofthe right ¢ar, throwing the head back and
€x(osing the reck and A part of the tac-. Atter
au instant his contortious were fearful. The’
first was & Qontraction of thamuseles by which
the legs werp drawnup, and Nhe attempted to
eaten Dold them with bis hands, a: which
tive & gurgiing, suffocating noise was beardt>
issue from histhroa’. The motionsaf the body
ard limbs ‘do.tinued for retrly a nait-hour,
sf'er whichkhe bojy was examined by Drs.
T! ompron 4nd Tydinge, who prenounced life.
extinct, Thpbody was then cntdown, and by
orévrot the pheril! was property interred,

famous purpose, and then beat her until he
thought hef dead. For six. weeks hekept out
of the way of tte police, but was finally cay

tured ata qtore on Frederick atreet, where he |

called for epme money due him by Mr. Gallo.
way, for whom he worked iu Middle River
Neck,. Hejwas fally identified by Mrs. Oro-
miv, but svjserious were her injuries that she
the tia the time of the execation of her as-:
saulant. ‘ : eee re ee

This wasithe first execution at Towsontown,
and the peaple of a wide range of the surrouod-
iug country early in the morning flocked to
the countyjseat to witness the tragedy. After
the execatipa the people rapidly dispersed to.
thelr homes. hs


LEE, black, hanged Smith Island, Md., on July 26, 1906 = CONTINUED.

ville at 7:30 P.M, and their arrival there seems to have quited the strangers.
"(Special to the Times Dispatch.) Eastville, Vae, June 12, - A party of about 30
men from Somerset County, Md., arrived here today, along with Deputy Sheriff Chelton
of that county, for the purpose of taking a desperate negro now in jail here back to
Maryland for trial for committing an assault on two highly respected white women of
Kingston, in that State. The negro was captured in Cape Charles yesterday and
brought here to the county jail last night. On hearing of the coming of the mob,
Sheriff Sam A. Jarvis summoned an armed posse of citizens to help him guard the
prisoner. These have stood ready all day, but the Marylanders have as yet made no
move. it was thought, however, that they are staying here for some desperate work
tonight. The sheriff has a number of good men to assist him in keeping order, but
the sympathies of some of the people are with the lynchers, Gov, Swanson has tele-
graphed the sheriff to guard the jail at all hazards and ordered a detachment of

the State militia here. The Maryland mob is quiet but they seem to be determined
men. The crime of assault was committed Sunday evening and the two victims - Mrs,
Robert Barnes and Miss Frances Powell, of Somerset County, Md., were both brought
here for the purpose of identifying the negro brute, but left on the 6:30 train for
their homes without being allowed to look upon the prisoner," TIMESeDISPATCH, Rich-

mond, Virginia, June 13, 1906 (1:h.)

"(Special to the Times Dispatch.) Cape Charles, Vae, June ll, 1906, - William Lee,
a negro, was arrested here this morning on a charge of robbery, and is believed to
be the negro who assaulted Miss Powell and Mrs, Robert Barnes, of near Kingston,
Maryland, Sunday afternoon about l, o'clock, Lee entered the home of J. E,
Townsends, of Marion, Mde, about 3 o'clock, while the family#%was atXchurch, se=-
curing a gold ring, watch chain and small sum of money, and it is believed that he
went from Townsends to the home of Robert Barnes and committed an assault. One ring
and chain were found on him here. He will be taken to Princess Anne, Md., jail
tomorrow morning. There is much talk of lynching if he is identified to be the
one that committed both deeds." TIMES-DISPATCH, R chmond, Vaey 6-12-1906 (5:2)


URDERERS, thieves, ban-
M dits, arson fiends, petty

crooks and international
criminals—all these must have passed
in disorderly cavalcade before the
eyes of Detective Lieutenant John H.
Kratz as he sat in his home on the
evening of May 15, 1935. It was the
fiftieth anniversary of his appoint-
ment to the Baltimore police depart-
ment and he had faced every type of
crook during his years on the force.
For half a century he had served the
citizens of Maryland and the entire
eastern seaboard, devoting his ener-
gies to the capture of criminals and
the stamping out of crime.

Lieut. Kratz had just finished a
hard day at headquarters, but he was
not destined to spend his anniversary
at home. Early in the evening a phone
call informed him that a counterfeiter
had been spotted in the Lord Balti-
more hotel. :

A taxi whisked him to head-
quarters. On the way to the hotel
his partner, Lieut. Joseph H. Itzel,
explained the situation.

“The house detective says that

Feared by criminals, honored by
his fellow officers and grateful
citizens, Detective Lieutenant
John H. Kratz has a brilliant
record in police work. Early in
his career his ability to remember
faces gave him the name of “the
man with the camera eye.”

The Man

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By
JOE MASSAL

Anthony Barden of Trenton may be the
fellow shoving the ‘queer’ around these
parts. When he took a look in the room
he saw bundles of notes in the bureau
drawer. Under a newspaper on the bu-
reau is a pair of .45 guns. We'll have
to be careful.”

Piling out of the police car at the
Lord Baltimore, the officers examined
the room registry card and talked with
the clerk and the house detective.

“Barden is out but I’ve Jocated him at
the Southern,” the latter told them.
“He’s in 914 with a friend.”

The officers hurried to the Southern
hotel and rushed up to the desk.

“Who’s in 914?” Kratz wanted to
know.

The clerk consulted the registry cards.
“C. C. Algire,” he announced.

“Let’s go,” the detective said, heading
for the elevator.

He led the way, down the long car-
peted hall, stopping before room 914.

“Don’t take any chances,” he cautioned
Itzel, drawing his gun and reaching for
the door knob. Slowly, quietly, he
turned it. The door was unlocked.

Through the widening crack Kratz
and Itzel heard the voices of two men in
eatnest conversation. The room was
almost dark. What little illumination
there was came from the single electric
bulb in the bath.

Nodding to his partner the veteran
detective kicked wide the door and
bounded into the room, the muzzle of his
.38 Colt trained in the direction from
which came the mumbling voices.

“Don’t move, gentlemen. We're from
’ headquarters,” Kratz announced. In the
dim light he could see the shadowy
figures of two men, one tall and powerful
and the other a trifle smaller. Both
were reaching for the ceiling,

Fumbling for the light switch with his
left hand, his gun not wavering for an
instant from the shadowy forms of the
two desperadoes, Kratz’s finger finally
touched the button. As the brilliant
light flooded the room he started back,
fooked bewildered and lowered his gun.

“Very well, Lieut. Kratz, we are your
prisoners,” said the taller of the two men.

“But this—this must be a mistake,” the
veteran officer stammered. He stared in
amazement at the faces of his two cap-
tives. One was Gen. Charles D. Gaither,
police commissioner of Baltimore, and
the other desperado was Detective Cap-
tain John H. Mintiens, now police in-
spector.

“No, John, there’s no mistake,”’ Com-
missioner Gaither assured him. ‘“Cap-
tain Mintiens and I congratulate you on
your anniversary. Come along.”’

Flanked by the commissioner and the
captain of detectives, Lieut. Kratz was
escorted to the ballroom. There he found
a vast crowd of prominent men wait-
ing for him. Governor Albert C. Ritchie,
Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor,
the entire detective bureau and scores of
business and professional men rose to
pay tribute to “Honest John” Kratz.
They had gathered to praise one of the
most remarkable officers in the country.

Gold Medal Presented

“WE ARE not honoring you. You
are honoring us,” Police Commis-
sioner Gaither told him when he pre-
sented the veteran with a gold watch and
chain set, the gift of his colleagues.

On May‘15, 1937, two years later,
Detective Lieut. Kratz rounded out his
52nd year as an active member of the
Baltimore police department. The years
had been crowded with thrilling and use-
ful service, not only to the citizens of
Baltimore and the state of Maryland,
but to these of almost every city in the

Lieut. Kratz is credited in the
archives of the state of Maryland with
having outwitted the entire eastern
shore of Maryland in July, 1906, when
every man and woman in that section
armed and formed mobs to lynch William
Lee, convicted and sentenced to hang
for criminal assault on two women. On
June 10 of that year, Lee accosted the
women, one of whom was carrying her

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Police files dating back to 1890 are crammed with pictures of crooks spotted

by Lieut Kratz. He is shown above (wearing derby) on the scaffold with

William Lee whose secret execution he supervised. His brilliant career was

marked by the capture of infamous criminals like John Smith, upper right,

Ed Carney, right, and Wade H. Webb, lower right, whose arson plot was
exposed by the brilliant sleuth.

young baby. When they resisted’ him, he snatched the child irom its
mother’s arms and, whipping out a knife, pressed the blade against the
baby’s throat.

‘Do what I want or I’ll kill the baby,” he snarled.

Rather than see the child killed both women submitted to him.

Lee fled to the eastern shore of Virginia where he was captured but
feeling on the peninsula was so intense that he was taken across the bay
from Cape Charles to Norfolk and sent to Baltimore for safe keeping.
For the first time in the history of Maryland the court of appeals dis-
pensed with the usual arraignment which follows indictment and ordered
that the prisoner should not be returned to Somerset county but be held
in Baltimore. Judge Page at the same time ordered that Lee be tried in
Baltimore.

Twenty-five days after committing the crime Lee faced three judges
in the Baltimore criminal court and within three hours was sentenced
to death, Under the Maryland law a criminal has at least 20 days to live
after conviction.

Governor Edwin Warfield fixed the execution for July 26, but did not
announce it. However. the news leaked out and when the sheriff of
Somerset county and his deputies came for the prisoner, they brought

‘word that the entire section was armed and urged that the governor

order out the troops.

“There is no way to control the people,” the sheriff told the governor.
“Although I’m asking you to order out the troops, I don’t think it will
do any good. The militiamen seem just as determined as the mobs to
take the prisoner. I’m afraid the loss of life will be great on both
sides.”

Governor Warfield sent Lieut. Kratz to the eastern shore.

“That mob means business and if I order out the troops from Balti-
more and the western counties, there is no telling what will happen,” the
governor told him.

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back them up.
P| Loveless have

the most plausible motive—robbery.
And of those two, Loveless and o

Loveless knew that Poffenberger had
‘$400 cash the day before he was killed.

That makes it look kind of bad, on the
surface, for Loveless.

So let’s examine Loveless’ story. He
is the one who first made us suspect
Henry Withers. It could be that he
was trying to direct our attention to
him. ‘You'll. also recall that it was
Loveless who noticed the wash house
door was 5, and who made Sisk
accompany him when they went to the
wash house and found the body. This
might have been deliberately and
shrewdly planned. A-person who dis-
covers a crime is often the person least
suspected of having committed it.

“I believe that whoever killed Pof-
fenberger couldn’t have done so with-
out getting blood all over his clothing.
If you remember, there were blood
spots on the walls of the wash house.
It seems impossible that the killer
could have struck Poffenberger again
and again without being spattered. I
made a personal investigation and

tried to find some bloody clothing at -

Loveless’ home. I was unable to find
any. I also felt that if Loveless. was
the killer, his car might show traces
of blood. But we could find none.

_ “Nevertheless, for lack of better
leads, I am inclined to suspect that
Earl Loveless knows something more
about this than he is telling us. What
do you gentlemen think?”

LL the officers, including Lieutenant
A Richardson, agreed that Loveless
had been placed in a pretty bad
light by the sheriff's shrewd deduc-
tions. However, as Richardson stated

it, “It’s a purely circumstantial case,

and you could never get a conviction.”

State’s Attorney Charles Wagaman,
of Washington County, who also was
present, agreed.

So another two months passed. Al-
though the Poffenberger case was by
no means forgotten, although it re-
mained an open case in the sheriff's
books, the pressure of other business
forced him to pay less and less at-
tention to it.

Then, on Febuary 5th, 1941, almost

four months after Raleigh Poffen-
berger was killed, a truck driver was
held up on the Williamsport Turn-
pike outside of Hagerstown and
robbed of cash and his watch.
_ Two bandits, both young men, sped
away in a Chevrolet coups, but not
before the truck driver had spotted
the make and license number. Ss
a result police in Hageftstown sto ped
the car less than a half hour later
and arrested the two occupants. The
truck driver identified them both. One
was James Lee Miller, 26, a brother-
in-law of Earl Loveless.

The other was Earl Loveless!

Sheriff Baker, learning of the ar-

. rests, hurled himself into the case with.

redoubled vigor. Perhaps this was
the break he had been waiting for.
But he had to have more than cir-
cumstantial evidence. . Working with

Investigator Sellman and Lieutenant .

Richardson, he mapped a course of
action.

That night, .carrying a_ paper-
wrapped package, a pair of pliers and
a coil of insulated copper wire, the
three men niade a brief ‘visit to one
of the cell blocks in the Washington
County Jail. The visit was made late
at night, and they were not observed.

Next morning, Loveless and Miller

were moved into the cell block. . They
might as well have been in solitary;

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Bernard Sawicki, 19, slayer of four,
‘his own desire at the county jail in

‘SLAYER BAPTIZED

the electric chair.

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was baptized in the Catholic faith of
Chicago as he awaited execution in

no other prisoners were lodged in cells
within earshot. :

For three days the two prisoners
were ignored except at mealtime,
when tight-lipped jailers brought
them their prison fare. When they
attempted to engage the jailers in con-
versation, they were met with silence.
The everlasting solitude began to get
on their nerves. Both Loveless and
Miller were getting more’ fidgety,
more irritable.

On the fourth day a lone vagrant
was brought in and tossed roughly
into a cell next to the two men. Un-
kempt, dirty, with a heavy growth
of beard and a breath that reeked with
alcohol, the newcomer_reeled_.to..a.
corner and flopped onto his cot. Miller
and Loveless watched him with in-
terest. Anything was a diversion to

-them now... Their nerves r ged and

their minds dulled by fear, they were
glad, eager for a chance to talk with

oo
t eagerness was their own un-
doing. As Sheriff Baker explained. it

- later, triumphantly:

“The vagrant was no vagrant at all.
That was Lieutenant Edward J. Chap-
man, of the Western Maryland Police.
We used him because he was the only
officer we felt sure Loveless and Miller
wouldn’t, recognize.”

Chapman had played on the two

risoners’ eagerness of conversation.

y adroit pretense, he was able to
gain their confidence. He convinced
them that he, too, like themselves,
was in a tough spot. -It was no trick
at all to steer the conversation to the
Poffenberger case. The result was
everything that Baker had hoped.
Soon both Miller and Loveless were
confiding in Chapman that they had
killed Poffenberger. They even began

‘ warning each other not to “spill when
you're questioned.”

“And in a corner of their cell, be-
neath a cot, a police dictagraph was
picking up every word. We installed
it there the night before we put them
in that cell,” Baker revealed. “We
had a good circumstantial case but
we knew we needed more than that.
This was the clincher.”

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}}ARL LOVELESS was a phleg-
matic man. What emotions he
possessed lay deep down with-

him. He had a natural poker
ce and his heart was not worn
t his sleeve.
At eleven o’clock of this cool
ctober night, Earl Loveless stood
the wash-house of a Maryland
rm. His face was set in stern
tes and his brow was furrowed.
nder' the circumstances Earl
rveless might well have regis-
red anxiety but his expression
is impassive as he spoke to the
an at his side.

He said, “Holt, ‘you call the

eriff. I'll take the car and drive

er toward Sharpsburg and tell

2 Remsburgs.”

Tom Holt’s face was white in

: moonlight. As he spoke there

‘is a slight tremor in his voice.

“No,” he said. “Let me go to

arpsburg. I don’t want to stay

ce with that.” Here, he gestured
guely toward the wash-house.
ou phone the sheriff.”

But before he had finished the

‘tence, Loveless was halfway to

: garage. Holt sighed. He took

‘andanna handkerchief from the

*k pocket of his overalls and

pped a brow wet with cold

eat. Then he strode toward a

ge rambling farmhouse that

\ked black against the moon.

'HE telephone that Tom Holt used
to communicate with the police in
serstown was listed: under the name
Roleigh Poffenberger. The expensive
se and the rolling farm lands which

Stretched across the Cumtberland Valley
toward the Blue Ridge Mountains be-
longed to Poffenberger, too. But Ro-
leigh Poffenberger would have no use
for these things any more.

In Hagerstown, Sheriff Joseph D. Ba-
ker listened to Holt’s excited voice on
the telephone, said, “I'll be right there,”
and hung up.

Then Baker made’ two calls himself.
Qne was to Dr. I. M. Zimmerman of

Williamsport, the other to Wash-
ington County Investigator Wayne Sell-
man. To each man the Sheriff used
Precisely the same words.

He said succinctly, “Roleigh Poffen-
berger’s been murdered. I'll meet you
out at his place as soon as you can
get there.” :

He slammed the receiver back on its
hock. He buckled on his gun belt and
struggled into a Mackinaw. He jammed
his hat down on his head and loped
from his house to his sedan. A moment
later he was tearing over a deserted
rcad toward the town of Keedysville
just beyond vagich lay the Poffenberger
farm.

Within half an hour of the original
call, Baker, Sellman and Zimmerman
were standing in the hallway of the
Poffenberger home. Before them Tom
Holt nervously stuttered his story.

“Earl Loveless and I werk here. We
hire out to Mr. Poffenberger. Tonight
was our night out. When we got back
we saw.that the door of the wash-house
was open. We investigated.”

*Holt paused and wiped: his face with
his handkerchief.

“Se,” said Baker, “what did you
find?”

“Poffenberger,” said Holt. “And he
was dead.” ;

“Wait here,” said the sheriff. “Sell-
man, you and the doc come with me.”

Using @ flashlight to show the way

Woe ;

By JAMES BARLOW

THE LAW SET A CLEVER TRAP AND BAITED
IT WITH PRIDE. TWO KILLERS ROSE TO THE
BAIT AND TALKED THEMSELVES INTO A DATE
WITH THE HANGMAN’S HEMPEN. NOOSE...

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The case took a new turn when officers discovered that
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Later, confronted with this startling
revelation, Loveless confessed. He
said he and Miller had gone to the
Poffenberger home after Sisk had
been left at Boonsboro, and had asked
Poffenberger for some gasoline for the
car. In the wash house, they had
beaten the aged man and taken his

HEADQUARTERS

DETECTIVE

work downtown with Mr. Sheridan.”

“Do you know their addresses?”

Mrs. Phelan’s jaw clamped tightly.
“I do,” she said, and Martin detected
a tense undercurrent in her voice as
she gave them to him.

Martin turned to Costello. “Call the
precinct and have them send out cars
to pick these people up. and brought
here.” After Costello left he spoke to
Mrs. Phelan ay :
' “This Miss agan, did she come
here often?”

Mrs. Phelan was silent, apparentl
weighing her answer. “Yes, she did.
Sometimes she stayed overnight, too,”
she finally said decisively. :

Martin’s face registered his aston-
ishment. “But you said Mr. Sheridan
was 68.” {

Mrs. Phelan nodded doggedly. “Miss

Reagan came here many times,” the .

woman persisted. “She’d sleep on the
couch.” The detective tried to draw
the housekeeper out on the subject,
but Mrs. Phelan had evidently de-
cided she had spoken enough. The
detective reasoned it would wiser
not to press her but to wait until

the cops sent for the pair brought:

them in.

Detective Stanley walked in then,
holding a. pair of women’s rubbers.
“Found these out in the foyer,” he
held them out to Martin. “They’re
still damp.”

Martin looked at them closely. They
were only a little worn and the size
was clearly stamped on the inside. He
looked down at Mrs. Phelan’s feet,
mentally calculating her  footsize.
“These aren’t yours, are they?” he
queried mildly.

“No, they’re Miss Reagan’s,” Mrs.
Phelan said quickly.

Martin’s brows shot up, he looked
at Stanley as the same thought oc-
curred to both men. It wasn’t likely
for a woman to forget her rubbers
when several inches of snow covered
the sidewalks. “You don’t know when

Miss Reagan and Mr. Angers left, do -

you?” Martin asked.

“I left before they did,” she said
with a shake of her head.

“The. dog,” Martin tried another
tack, “I noticed he growled when I
walked in. Does he always growl at
strangers?”

“Indeed, he never takes to strangers,
he always barks at them.”

Martin nodded, got up from his
chair. “Please stay in the apartment
until we call for you again, Mrs.
Phelan. We may want to talk to you
later.”

Back in the living room, the two
detectives joined etective Ryan.
Ryan still hadn’t finished looking
through the other rooms, he said. “So
far didn’t find much of anything,” he

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$400. They had hunted for more
money in the house, but had failed
to find any. . They had forced Love-
less’ father and other members of the
Loveless family to lie in their behalf.
They had burned their bloody
clothing.

The two went on trial separately.

Loveless, who repudiated his confes-
sion during his trial, was pages a
of first degree murder on July 24,
1941. Miller, maintaining innocence
throughout, was found bo on July
31, 1941, and on that day, Judge D.
Lindley Sloan sentenced them both to
be hanged. .

CLUE OF THE HOWLING DOG

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15

reported. “In the old man’s room his
clothes are laid out and his wallet is
on his dresser. There’s some dough
in it. If it was robbery the money’d

certainly be gone.”

“I don’t know what it is yet,” Mar-
tin said. “You fellows keep hunting
around. I don’t know what you might
find but we still haven't got the mur-
der weapon. It might be around
somewheres. I’m going to question the
neighbors to see if they heard any
strange noises here last night.”

The first person outside the apart-
ment Martin decided to talk to was
the elevator operator. He rang for
the elevator and when it came to the
second floor he stepped into the cage.
“Pm Detective Martin,” he said to
the young man. “What time did you
come on duty?”

“Six o’clock,” the operator gulped
nervously. He stared at the detective.
“Wh—what’s the matter?”

“Mr. .Sheridan’s been killed,” Mar-
tin retorted. “Did you take anyone
up Fe down to his apartment last
n t?” ‘ 9

‘Sure. I took Mr..Sheridan up with
two friends, a man and a girl, around
7 o’clock. Then, about an hour later,
Mrs. Phelan, the housekeeper, came
down and walked out. Maybe 8:30
or soerthis girl and the man I took up

with Mr. Sheridan came down again. -

I guess it was around midnight when
Mrs. Phelan came back.”

“You sure you took no one else up?”
Martin queried.

The elevator operator. scratched his
head. “No, I’m sure of it.”

“Did you hear any noises coming
from the Sheridan apartment last
n r?.

‘Yeah, funny thing was that Mr.
Sheridan’s dog howled for a long
time,” the young man said, deeply
puzzled. “He never did that before.”

ARTIN left the operator after he
M had determined he could learn

nothing more from him. He as-
cended to the second floor and rang
the bell of the apartment next to
Sheridan’s. Presently the door was
opened a crack and a woman’s voice
demanded to know who was there.

The detective announced himself
and waited while the woman inside
fumbled with the door chain. A few
moments later he had explained his
presence there, and _ was ; asking
whether she had heard anything that
New Year’s Eve which might indicate
something was amiss in the Sheridan
apartment. _

“Yes, I did hear something,” the
woman said. “I thought it was strange
then but I forgot about it as we had
peut over for the evening. It must

ve been around 10.o0’clock when

Mr. Sheridan’s poodle began to howl.
He howled for 40 minutes straight.
I never heard anything like it.”
Aside from the animal’s cries, and
the time they had begun, Detective
Martin could learn nothing more from
the woman. He left her and made
similar inquiries at other apartments.
Nearly all the residents on that floor
had heard the poodle’s wails, but no

, one could offer any enlightenment of

any kind.

eturning to the Sheridan place,
Martin -found ye waiting for him
with'a bundle of clothing on the sofa
in the living room. Ryan held up a
crimson-stained pair of men’s pa-
jamas.

“Found these on a window ledge,”
he said. “They were wrapped in this
dress. But we still haven't found any
weapon.”

“The pajamas are probably Sheri-
dan’s,” Martin said after examining
them. “This dress is somewhat
stained.” ;

Just then Stanley came into the
living room holding several articles
of feminine attire. He placed them
on the couch beside the pajamas.
They were a al of silk stockings
and a corset. ch of.the items was

. Stained.

“Where’d you get those?” Martin
asked.

“They were in the bathroom ham-
per,” Stanley said.

Martin frowned, lapsed into deep

thought. Then he said, “Bring Mrs.
Phelan in.”
_ When the sngpenn ri 7p had come
into the living room Martin picked
up the undergarment and the stock-
ings. “Are these yours?”

‘Yes,” Mrs. Phelan quavered. “I
ut them in the hamper after I found
im—” her voice broke momentarily,

then she resumed, “I tried to lift him
out but he was too heavy. That’s
when I got the blood on my clothing.”

“How about this?” Sternly, te
showed her the dress. “Did you put
Mr. Sheridan’s pajamas out on the
window ledge wrapped’ in your
dress?”

“I—I hardly remember what I did,”
Mrs. Phelan was weeping now. “I
was so excited—yYes, I put them out
there but I don’t know why.” Wrack-

‘ing sobs shook her. .

All right,” Martin said quietly.
“We'll just take your fingerprints now
and then you can go back to your
room and get some rest.”

When the woman had left he ob-
served, “She did say she was getting

. ready for bed when she went into

the bathroom. A woman as distraught
as she was might do anything pe-
culiar under such circumstances.

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MARYLAND
LAW

Baker led the others ‘out the back
door, across an expanse of yard to the
cpen door of the wash-house some thirty
yards away from the main building.

A single bulb burned in the wash-
hcuse and illuminated a scene of dis-
order. A*gascline drum had been knock-
ed on its side ‘and liquid dripped from
its spout. Tools which were usually hang-
ing neatly on_ their designated hooks
were strewn about the floor.

Against the wall, half concealed by
the open door lay the mortal remains
of Roleigh Poffenberger. :

Baker regarded the corpse and his
brew corrugated. He, in common with
the entire county, had known Poffen-

berger well.

Who hid this wrench, the murder weapon, in the
chicken house, after it had been searched by cops?

However, he held his emotions in
check and said with professional ©
ness, “Take a look at him, Doc.’

Zimmerman crossed. the room and
knelt at the side of the dead man. A
he conducted a cursory examination,
Baker and Sellman carefully examined
the interior of the wash-shed.

Doctor Zimmerman touched the pulse
of the dead man. He studied the once
grey hair which was now crimson with
Pcffenberger's own blood. Less than an
inch abcve the right temple ‘the skin
had been vicicusly torn off; it hung
like a patch over Poffenberger’s unséeing
eye.

Zimmerman glanced up as he heard
the sheriff's footfall behind him. Baker

The wash house gave mute

from the dead man's pock

oe his eyebrows inquiringly and said,
“We ?” t

“Off hand,” said the medical man,
“I'd say he’s been dead for three and
a half to four hours.” . y

“How was he killed?”

“Multiple fractures of the skull. He's
been severely beaten’ about the head.
There are a couple of deep cuts on two
of his fingers which he probably ac-
quired defending himself.”

“Beaten with what?” asked Sellman
who had joined the others. .

Zimmerman shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t know. It certainly wasn’t the
usual blunt instrument. The wounds are
tco sharp for that. Whatever it was it
had a cutting edge.”

“Okay,” said Baker. “Use the house
phone, doc. Have the body taken away
for a post-mortem. In the meantime,
T'll talk to this Holt. Sellman, you go
over the place looking for whatever
weapon it was that killed him.”

IHE sheriff and the doctor returned
to the house. Tom Holt was seated
in the living room. His face was pale

and his fingers moved restlessly on the |

arms of his chair. Zimmerman went
to the telephone to get in touch with
the mortuary at Williamsport. Sheriff
Baker addressed himself to Holt.

“Now,” he said, “what time did you
find Poffenberger’s body?”

“About a quarter to eleven. We'd
been out and—”

“Who's we?” )

“Earl Loveless and myself. We work
here. This was cur night off.”

“Where's Loveless now?”

“He went off in his car to tell the
Remsburgs what happened.”

I emer are tee acidemia adenine eneneiintiaenimenmemmmanadiaed

—

Laat |
evidence of murder. Missing
et was $400.00 in cold cash.

The sheriff nodded. “You mean Hi
ard Remsburg? The fellow who m
ried Poffenberger’s daughter?”

“That’s right,” said Holt. “Earl t
me to call you while he went off
notify them.”

“What had ‘you been doing f1
the time you left here until the ti
you returned?”

“We left the farm about seven o’cl
in, Loveless’ coupe. We went to Bo
-boro. I got out there and spent
evening drinking with some. friends
a bar. Earl went to visit with his f
for a while. Then he drove back
picked me up about half past ten. T
we came out here.”

There was a scund of slithering t
on the drive at the front of the ho
A few moments later, Mr. and }
Howard Remsburg came into the li
room. The woman, Roleigh Poffenb
er’s daughter, was white faced and t
streamed down her cheeks. Her
band’s arm was around her shouk
He shot a swift glance at the sh

“Is it true?” ;

Baker nodded. “It’s true enough.
two had better remain here ton
There’s: nothing we can do until tor
row. The doctor, here, is removing
body..I think it best that Mrs. Rems
doesn’t see it.”

At this point Sellman entered
rocm. In reply to the sheriff's unsp:
question he shook his head.

“I found nothing,” he said. ‘The
nothing which could have been use
a murder weapon. However, I also |
ed over the house and. it would :
that robbery was the motive.”

“Why?”

(Continued on page 47)

VER a See ee eee oe


eit

was highly enjoyed by a good sized as-

| white and. preseeted @ lovely picture.

dead in her tracks, the load taking effect
la her throat, Toe merderer deliberitely
: left ber lying oa the groead, and walking
| te Justice Denton's office, told bis story
, , end gave himself up. The breech lead-
ing gen had one empty shell, aad in the!
other berrel s loaded ene, showing coe- |
clusively thet Heady west prepared to |
do the job complete. As sore as possidie |
“| the prisioeer wes brought to Salisbury ‘
{aad bodged ia jel!. He was coul aad’
“leollected when he reached Sallsbary, |

| amd seemed satisfied with the deed, al-!

though be said if he Bed more time to:
: think the matter over he might pot bave |
t committed the awful act. eels
Is aa-interview with Hasdy 0 short!
time after bis errival ia Sullebary, be.
6:id to a Nawe reporter : “I am 87 years |

ieee

live in Crisfeld.. Last May my wifs,;

. ]hco to plek berries, bringing our. lie!
> \enlld. I ran over from Somerset in my;
cance Wednesday aight aad caw my:

per wife. Asking her why ene bed deserted |

oer child and goieg to ber trunk to fod)
the child's clothing. I came scross come |
letters written by aman who lives in)
Crisheld. 1 took the letters with me and’
,| reed them over. On Thersday aad thie:
morning I left my boot, taking my abot-
| ges, to coafroat my wife with the jet-
[tere If be bad acheowledged thet she:
|| aad the man had been guilty of wrong:
“4 dolng I might have spered ber life. But:

| received. letter from him, a0 J lifted |
my gun aad.shot her. She fell dead Is
her tracks, | suppose, ehhough I never
looked af ber after abe fell. I shoaidered
my gun aad west te Squire Destos’s
Ofice and told him what 1 bed done and.

eveniag, by the pepils of Mre. Tressel,

appeared ia group scegs, all eled 0 j tery 1 cannot say 1 am sorty, bat I
real suppose If I bad net bees mad with s
These alec appeared in the Miksde 0086 | saser feeling I would sot have killed
sad fen drill, dressed ja highly colored ) :

settled quite a nies little sum.

Heedy wes
-| gentleman: Pores a, .

Cane

old, was bore in Bomersst eoanty and |

she lied to me and ‘said ehe had never;

mere, Chesepeake & Atlantic Rallwsy
went lato effert last Setardsy morning,
giving frequent trains between Baltl-
more and Ocean City.. The service ts
the best this rosd bas ever given the
peblic.”. . ae x a o ig a BES es

“The schedule gives train from Selie-
bary to Bahimore as follows:  Deily
except Sunday, 747-4. m; 8.18 a m.,
4.44 pm; Sueday caly, 5.00 p.m.
4 Traiss arrive ot Salisbury from Balti-
mote as follows: Lally except Sunday,
11.47 a m .7.19 ond 7.36 p. m; Sunday
only, 12.48 pom.

In addition to the above trains, there
is sa accommodstioa train leaviag Sal-
bebary at 7.12 3. m., dally, sad 1.45 p.m.
dally except Sanday, fur Ocean City.
Traine sleo arrive ot Salisbury from
Oceans Cry daily except Seeday at 1.08

pean, wed daily ot G08 p.m.

The through train service for the ane

comacdation of Washingtos and Baiti-

more pesseagem gives fast {ime bet ween
Claiborne and Ovesn City. Dally e3-
cept Sanday two traine leave Claiborne,
one at 5.50 p m., making but two stops,

eoked him to seed me to jail In Salie- toe.

daria
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SALISBURY, MD., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 190s.

12 PAG

Fae Rational Biscalt (0's

BREAD:
Buns and Biscuits.

Guow Fisgs Loar
Aguv Barsy's Loar

eee

Wensow 4th be

Harry C. Fooks,

SOLE AGENT.
. WHITE STAR COFFEE.

@"Phoes 5

BAS saghe eo qanertet

+ $3.20.

“nee et Gate ate or

‘| Uinan & & Seas,

6. W. Pratt St ‘RALTOet,

Sxmteerm

Acton Sales.

MANY FARMERS

rhea tan nen portend g

their receipts

some one caahl bout & Bee
then.

a Bank Account aad you
will Gad the account keeps it-
_ self, without exptase. :

Your checks are always bop
of date and the amount
- and your deposit book
. iitamibuad et oper eeiped. 2
It ia mot tequired that a person
have a large bulk of besiness
to Opes am account.

Hf you have never dose besiness in
: this way, and are not familiar
with this plas, come to a6 gad

we will get you started.

weet HE.oe

hme’ & Merchants

aun IK:
~ WKOMKO COUNTY

‘mmeY 4 MANDY, COteneD, WHT
| © MURDERER, EXIGNTED AT
SALISBURY, MD.

There Was Fe Disorder 404 The Eseeo-
ttee- PasseS OF Wisheant A Bitch.
Heady Exhibited Weederful Nerve

| _ Cotih The Neoese Wes Adjected, And

Thee Broke Dewn—Mie Kosh Woe Not

Broken Aoé Be Died Of Mreaguie-

thes Ja 13 Migetes. ‘

bop J. Bandy, cvlured, who shot

‘mst

killed bie wife in Tyaskin dist:
on September 93 last, was hanged
ist 6.18 o'clock Friday morsisg iat
Wicomico cuunty jall-yard. The ¢xecu-
tiow was conducted early with a view to
avoiding the large crowds, bei
wandred sightseers quickly tore dows
the sizteea-foot fence thet hid the gal-
lows and witaessed tae bangiag. The
throug otherwise was orderly.

‘Thirtees minutes after the drop fe

was pronounced dead by the jail
pbysiciaz, Dr. C. R. Traitt, hia death
bav.ng been caused by strangulatios.
He walked quietly to the gallows aad
made a statement saying that he was
sorry for what be hed dene and warned
alt eT Ubose present te be guod citizens.
"The arrangements for the hanging had
all Been wel] arranged, and it passed off
faa quiet manaer. Duriag the aight
there wee a crowd of 100 or more per
eons arouad the jail outside the stockade
which had been erected, aad, while the
people were orderly, there was sows
complaining that the authorities bed
batlt such abigh feace. Sheriff Gillisand
Depaty Sheriff Waller, together with
Chief of Police Wovudland Disharoos,
had ewora ia 15 depaties, who patroled
the faciosare during the aight. Up ts
the jail Handy wae singing and praying
with the bree colored ministers whe
had been with bim al) dering the evea-
ing.

Att o'clock Friday morsing Sherif
Gillis, accompanied by Depety Sherif
Waller and Chief of Police Disharoon,
went to the cell sed told Heady & was
trme to dress. The prisoner qeietly pat
om the bieck sult of clothes provided by
the county and ansounced bo the Sheriff
thet he wae ready. The procession etart-
od for the scaffold, the three sttered
ministers Jeading.

Just at this period there waiadien
disturbaace from the outside, sad the
procession halted te find out the esuse.
The crowd in frout of the fall, pumber-
ing about 400 perscas, were tearing
dows the stockade. When the Sheriff
and bis depety had gone np the stairs to
fet the prisoner ready someone had ee
cuted an 62 and broke 8 bole le the
fence. This wes the signal for the crowd
and they tore the fence to the gruend.
The guards protested, ‘bus: they \eooid
not stop the caslaught. Werd had beep

to be fired; that the:erowd was to be
se degg te Lgecmap hr a0 one was to.
be abot. The ot tearing down the
fence wae catried om whhout « werd,
ang by the time the Gherif with the
prisoner arrived on the outelide the gal-
lows was in fall view of all. The etowd
wae orderly. - The tope of the howses
Wore Aled with people, aad standiag os |
a pler built into the Jake were s¢veral
women. There's Heh s Sevan |
persons in the crowd.

peaced to the guarde that no shots were)

-F ITERRIFIC STORM. SATURDAY {CONSOLIDATION OF Of SCHOOLS IMPROVEME

THE LIGHTNING PLAYED BAVC @
MARY SECTBRS,

The Meavicet Downpour ot Rate tn thot
eta! Meathe Hireeis Wore Flewded lo
Some Sections Of The ity, The Water
Revaing Jate Osite re Boas. Demag-
phn heara sh Deacraer =
Balisbery was trely’ ®& storm centre

Sasarday afternoon. From 1.30 1c 8.0

there was a succession of thunder storms

of wapeun) vivieacs, The wied biéw

with great velocity, accompanied by 5

dowapoar of rele which flooded the

streets from carb te card. It ie estions-

ted that the ralafall was 8 laches. Divi-

sloo, William, leabelis ead Park Sts.

wore eatirely pder water, thé sewers
being enadle to eariy off the great
volume of. water. Several geliars on
these streets were flooded. Some idea
of the vast amount of water which fell
may be gained from the report of Seper-

some baildiags ia
The brick enderpianing of Mr. G. J.
Heern’s residence on Park Bireet was
bedly damaged, siztees fest of it being
washed awey. The brickwork on a new
dwelling for Mr. Frank Dennison Cam-
dea Avenue was so badly injured that it
will have to be dose over.

The storm was accompanied by is
most vivid fashes of lightning aad
dvafeniag peale of thander, which
apreed cossternation among the inhabi-
taate of the city.

Lightaiog played havoc io many parts
of the tows. A bolt struck the sjz-room
dwelling om Fooks Street, South Salie-
bury, owned by Mr. Elijah J. Parsons.
and damaged it $100, The bolt came
down the chimaey in the centre of the
froat buildiag, keocking a great bole
out of the chimney. The Auld spreed
to all taree roome up stairs, tipping of
the lathe and plastering aed several
pieces of weatherboarding. It also
passed to the three rooms below, cavaing
the same damage a9 to the rooms oe
second Boor. The bouse was cogupied
by Mra, Pollitt, but fortunately at the
time 9@ 906 wat sibome. Mrs; Pollitt,
being alone when tbe storm came ep,
hamened to the home of a neighbor.

before it waa streck by the lightaing.

-} to larger and betser sebools, some of

She had left the house but a few minutes |.

A veeant dwelling of Vine Strest,}
owned by Thomas H. Mitchel] wea bad-| . gee
ly damaged by & bolt Of lightalag. The} ©

bolt came down the chimacy and burst
out lato the Ballway, scattering bricks,

Nearly every foom was: damaged, ‘sad
the roof sad one eorper at ihe building

amouat to 675.

“he sebooner Corbett, owned bp 8.
Aduine & Co., which wee lying ia the
harbor peer the pivot bridge, bey Seng
The topenact was shivered...’

Beveral lorge pieces of slate esd the
paper sheathiag were knocked from the
eoery napee eens =e « bol a: -.
alag. = %

see obiti enversd tua 6 eampuban
ly small aren, extending sot more than

Ariting on tbe veal, Handy took | ie

‘perite svt Wal Be StCuRD,
BY TRE GlAN

\Seheolars From Fhe Small Seheels Will

|S eaxsie Tat

‘Bet & Cumaitive

Get The Ad yy }

Conugr

tue Many t

Of Graded Sonecle—The Cost Of Saroil |

Hoheots Jn Yoo Expensive Fer The
Heowlts Atialacd From Them.

Mach time was epes. by the Behoo!

Board Friday {2 considering the con,‘

solidlatios of small sedvols in the conaty,
The matier wes discussed ia all its
Phares, sad the codciveion was reached
that the benefits te accrue te the pupils
would be many, asd would outweigh all
the wbdjections urged by paresis. In the
first place, the smal! school ie not want-
ed by the best teachers because af the
wmall salary attached, and ig con-
sequence the scheo! is seppiied offen by
& teacher who is pot ap ig the best
@meibuds of tastractiun. In the second
place, the expense of the smal) school
le too great for the resalte attained.
The per caplia cost is mech greater
smal? than ta large schools. In the!
third place, few papiis of small

are luconveniened by being transf

which sre graded. All these things
were considered by the Board, aad
was the evanimogs opinion that
would be tothe advantage of all coe-
cerued to consolidate small sebools {a
all parts of the county, Acting upon
thie conclusion the Board, Friday, order-
«2 Melson’s Schoo! in Reckawsiking
closed, the papils to be absorbed
Hebron, Charity and Rockawalking;
Deep Branch School was also discog-
tinued, the majority of the pupile to go
to Tyaskia, & graded school.

Mr. Thomas W. H. White resigned as
trestee of Bhad Polat School; & P.
Jenbins wes eppoiated to Sil the
vacancy. Jobs W. Insley was appointed
trustee of Bivalve School Is place of W,
B, Daun, declined te serve. Hoary W.
Roberts, Thos. L. Messick aod EB. J.
Taylor were appointed trasiees of the
new schoo! district in Nanticoke Election
District brought about by the copsalt-
dation of Salles and Trinity Sehouls,

Applications for life certificates ef
Prof. J. Waher He@sgios and Miss ©.
3 fess smo were endorsed at tue

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ROOK 10 RURTLAN.-

i Mecared The
ot The

Vatted Btates Ko.
Salisbury Tuesday
provements to be
river. A commitioe
sisting of Mosars.
Staton, Joba D. Wi
mis, A..F. Beaja:
Fred P. Adkies, @
R. B. White, and M
Mr, Cochrane ot
man Jecksos, and +
situation. The eng
with the statistics s
of the city and the
pete since the fi

Zan the river in the

The present pre
priation of §5,506.0
cutting away ef
io the harbor srven¢
way and “Goose Iai

the Greet Sboals
Pojat is also toe be &:
business of the cow:
press opor tre eagi
of making a resem
feot chaaee!l at jo
Great Shoals to the

by | gressman Jackson

working for thie
slace I bave deen In
believe thers isa eb
It was tbe opinion of
present thet if thi

be made, there

pansion of the.
Mr. Cochrane took
channel Teeaday,
to the Great 2
eiteation there, |”
Af the meeting
monestrated that fest
pete of Salisbury
$2,500,006, and 1
there was shipped in

18,008,000 feet of
nal, 100,000 cases of
2,508 toms of brick,

=" |one of merchandise
“| thoesanda of tons

of
to to look Lato the land prop

While the Westerners, Mr. Badenh:
aid, are pleased with the Badd
cogditions in the Woat, ihe majority ‘of
thom feel that. they would rather be

Bact, and accepted thianeppotanity ie

come, Many ofsthem came prepared to

bay and broughs their moway with them.

i | ieeseeces
for se¥

tn Lowes Maryleed, os both the Raters

] $0 aloes the Gesls this or bens week,
« Sevetal of the Westereers have oom

and Western Bnores, 904 that be expects |

were badly baneredy a see exitions that tha barese has been adver. abber merch

ting any of thes

to Wicomiee eousty, where they have

Wicomico River tesa

"i

—Miss Irma Grabam gave sa music: | | electricity aad giviag the moot

J there is at least one complete epeci- :
ne ! | Friday night in honor of Mise Margaret service, The Mala Street }

Professivea! men of Salisbury have bees
mea of as adult man, The etcavatious

@f Ge mes! Deskeble, Maney Making
Terms i Mayland and Dewar

FOR SALE.

tess Farms, truck

mee. | bave the
pale of all the above farms.
Avenue we my piece of

my éweliiog and mw 4 stabies.
ve alwayeat my piace business
horess aed carrieges. ready tw drive

Callers, to ebow my farms

Dr. J. Lee Woodcock,

406 Camopen Ave.,
SALISBURY. - MARYLAND.

Ta.epnons 310.

en eit nnn ne

DEOL PF OCO69 09055 6-69-0000 04

MANY FARMERS

* Would like to heep an account of
thew receipts and expenses if
some one would keep it tor
them.

a Bank Account and vou
2 wil nd the account keeps t-
* self, withoot expense.

Your checks are alwars cridence
of date and the amount pax’.
and vour deposit book shows
the amount of your receipts.

It is mot. required that a person
bave a large bulk of business
ftv open an account,

it you have vever done business in
this wav,and are not familiar
with this plan, come to as and
we wil get vou started. |

..- THE...

Farmers & Merchants

BANK,

Salisbary, Maryland,

L. Ev WILLIAMS, President.
SAMUEL A. GRAHAM, Cashier.

If Your Teeth

BED ATTENTION you should
py AL Grieg, eho the matter—but at Saee

Seocantow our work to be the

Very Best

our PRICES REASONABLE.
—— oe hg

Prisccee

W.G & EW, SMTi,

D. D. 6

omg ene eames

OFFICE-MAIN ST., BALISBSURY.

seat to Goveraur Warfield argiog the
| Chief Executive to exercise bie preroge-
itive aed save sabe megro’s peck. The
| barden of these appeals bave been that
‘the negro committed the crime while la
‘ee excited aed maddened couditiva ;
while broodiag over the wrong dune bie
 mousebold by savther negro maa, and
i uhat Handy was aut responsible for his!
deed althetime. Up to the time this;
arlicie was writtea (Moaday afternoun)
bo werd bal been received from Guy-
fernor Warfield as to bis intention te
‘interfere with the sentence of death as
| Fropouaced by the judge last September.
| Preparations for the execetion have
| Seco made and the scaffold is ready for
}s deadly work. It ie located ta bee |
|fear of the jail oo Water Street. Aj
[board fence {6 feet bigh sarrounde the
ecaffoldl on all sides, and it will be im-
possible for any one tu witness the ex-
jecutiva from the outside. But few per-
Jeous wilt be allowed on the Ineide, it
being the loteatioh uf Sheriff Gillis to
Make the execution as private as pos-
sible.

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HENRY 3. HANDY,

pe re eee

If the semteuce is carried out, it wil
the firet execution that every took
ace in Wicomico county. Until within
@ past few days Handy has persisted
iQ saying that he would escape the gal-
idwa He seemed to have an abiding
faith that the efforts of his counsel
would result in a commatetion of sen-
tence, and because of this belief Handy
bas given bat little coacern about bis
spiritual conditiow. Por several months
after bis sentence be refused to see a
minister, bat within the past three or
four days bas exhibited some concern for
his soul's condition aad has been visited
by ministers at bis request. Handy has
now come to the conclosion that be will,
have to pay the penalty of bis dreadfal
crime on the gallows, and is making
preparations for eternity.
It Is expected that Salisbury will be
crowded with people next Friday, the

Dr.Annie Colley

DENTIST.

Parte la Williams Belling
200 N. Division St.,
SALIGBURY, MD.

ees

PROMPT AND CAREFUL AT-
TENTION CIVEN TO ALL
DENTAL. WORK.

day of the execation. If reports are
true buadreds of people are coming
from the adjoiniog counties and are
expecting to witness the executloe, but
they will be sadly disappointed The
officers ate determined te have the
execution a8 private as possible, and to
maintain perfect order.

Mery Of The Dreadfal Crime.

The crime for which Heady was con-
victed and sentenced wag committed ia
Tyaskio District om Friday morniag,
Beptember 23, 1004. Broodiag over the
fact that bis wife, Cecilia, bad left bis
home, and believing that the was antrue
to him, Hasdy, armed with s double
bersel shot gan, left bis veseel, which
was aechored is the Napticoke River,

PALAGE STABLES,

AB. €. LOWE. Propmsren.

EEE RS

towed ashore in a yew! boat sad walked
nearly two miles to commit the dreadful
crime of mardering hie wife. The wo
man was io the field gathering fodder
when the murder occurred. The wit-
pesees to the crime were to emall child.
rea of Carl Haady, colored; Bat tew
words pasqed betweeg the Finns aed
‘wife, before Handy reloed. ble “gna aad

eee

were ln progress for monihe, sad tae
discovery is considered ove of the most
Important, fromthe standpoint of an-
thropology, ia Maryland to a mamber of
years, The remalos are beliewed to be
at least 1,000 years old.. The formation
of the grouod sbove and the location of
the gravee give every evidence of this
Duriog the excavations the remains of
the camps of later Indians were reveal-
ed. These consisted of oyster shel!
heaps, charred aod burned earth and
fragments of cooking utensils. These
discoveries were made fully ten feet
above the graves which contained the
gigantic skeletons.

There bave beea other discoveries ia |

Hallowell, of Rilzabeth City, N.C. Ani bees
luteresting program = was rendered, :

eo

—The work of insteiling a hot water
heatiog plant te the Pealasula Hotel ts;
progreselag favorably. Biddle Bros. }
are dolug the work. and erpect to com-
plete ltin about tendays, Nearly the
eotire botel will be heated. The work
will cost about §1,200.

—The foilowing Salisburisus are visit- |
lay friends abroad: Mra. W. A. Trader
jaad Miss Nellie Trader, Weehauken, Nj
|J; Mise Ora B. Disharove, Clevelaud,
1O., Mise Ediub Weisbach, New York,

Maryland of remains of men of tremen- | | Mies binma Day, Elisabethiowa, NY.

| dous statue. A skeletoo was discovered |
at Ocean City several vears ago which
measured a fraction over 7 feet 6 inches

| This skeleton was toterred ina tegular

burying mound, aad beads manufactured

by white men were found spor ht. This

dead Iudiao was probably one of of tbe

tribe mentioned by Captaic Joba Smith,

who ts Jaly 1608 mades voyage uf ex-

ploration of the Chesapeake Bay

At the polat on the Choptank where
the remains were foun: there are steep;

shelving cliffs of sand and gravel that)

extend to the water's edge. Beneath
this bak is a layer of mar!. The graves
arein the sand a few fect above the
bard mar), snd bave deposits of between
20 aod 30 feet of sand and gravel above
them, A peculiar feature of the dis-
covery is the chaared state of the bones
of the women and children. Those of
the men are untouched by fire. This
seems to indicate that the ancient lo-
disos cremated the bodies of all except
their warriors, The wet resting place
of the booes for su many centuries bas
made them very soft an} fregile, and is
was with the erent diMiculty that they
were removed.

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TUAGTERS TAKING sume COURSES.

B cone. -

Seme At Marvard And ia At Colum-
ible Rite iat

Several Wicomico teachers left Mon-
day for the purpose of taking special
summer courses in Northern educational
institations. Prof. J. Walter Huffiog-
ton, principal) of the Salisbory High
Rchool, went to Harvard University
where he will take a course in pedagogy
aad voice culture, Mr. Goslee, assistant
to Prof. Huffington, went to the same
institution for s course in mathematics

Mr. Thomas 8. Truitt, principal of the
Pittsville School, and Miss Beatrice P.
Robertson, principe! of the Bivalve
School, also left Monday for Harvard.
The former will take a codree ia lan-

/gaages ; the latter in bistory.

Prof. Virgil, Ward, principal of the
Seow Hill High School,  sccompanied
the Wicomico cootingent to Harvard,
and will take a epecia! course,

Prof. Wm. J. Holloway and sister,
Mies C. Nettie Holiowsy, lef Monday
for Columbia University, where they
will take summer cout ses.

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30 Baste's Of Wheat Te The Acre.

Mr. 8. E. Gordy threshed the wheat
crop ge bis “Orchard Hill Farm” lest
week, sad from 83 acres seeded got a
sleld of 927} beshels, or ac everage of
28} bushels tothe acre. The whest was
seeded in three separate fields of 5, 16
and J2 acres respectively. From the $
acre field, which was as old orchard aad
bad produced erope of scarlet clover
for fiftees years, he secured a yield of
oaly 100 bushels, or 23 bushels to the
acre, The 16-gere field, whieh prodeced |’
8 Grey of 984 bushels of whest last yeas,
yleided this year 697 bushels, or an aver-
age of a little over $1 bushels to the
The 19-ecre which wae ia
clover, peas

Oi

tothe sore, Mr. Gordy reports 4 splee-
cuehienee whoa - bss |
gig arp

wheat Inst year, ia
year yielded 891 besbeia, or 964 busheis|

—The “Piae Grove” farm in Coul-

Oliver D, Cutline, attoruey-at-law, The

chaser was Lev. Traitt, colored,
bid was $4,116

—Mrs. Jobo D. Williaws gave « party |
Thursday evening at ber home oo Park’
Avenue fp honor of the visiturs of the
town, Mre M. A. Austio, Mra. C FL}
Leviness, Misses Margaret Hallowell, |
Marie Shelmariine, Lillian McAtee aod |
Mary Harris About twenty persons
were present. Miss Halivwell won the
prize

Miss Ada T. Krebs, of Salisbury,
aod Mr. Joho D. Ayers, of Berliv, were
quietly married Wednesday eveniog
Jone 2th, atthe Methodist Protestant
parsonage at Salisbury. Rev. 8. J.
Baitbh performed the ceremony at 7
o'clock, after which (be happy couple
boarded the B,C. & A. train for their
future home, vo William 8t., Berlin.

—Io apotber column the Mayor and
City Council call attention to the fact
that the Ordiaances against riding
bicycles ou the pavements aod without
ligbts, the driving of teams and avto-
mobiles faster than the limis set, the
collecting of dog tases, wil! be strictly
enforced after tbe present date. The
ofticers hare been tastrocted to arrest
ali persons disregarding these Ordi-
Bances, without fear or favor,

+ —Mr. and Meo. Charles W. Morse, Jr.,
and Mrs. Lawrence G. Edgecombe, of
New York; Mr. dod Mre. W. 8, Bell
aod Mise Ruth Clark, of Philadelpbia ;
Mr. Fred. Bell, of Bayonne, N.J., aad
Mies May Hodgias, of Baltimore, sre
visiting at the bome of Dr, and Mrs. L,
8. Bell. They left onTuesday on their
yeobt “Cactus” for a foar Saye’ srip
dowa Chesapeake bay.

—Mrs. Louisa Graham celebrated he
Ttth birthday Fridey at “Cherry Hill,”
the summer home of Mr. aad Mrs. L. W.
Geoby. Surrounded by ber numerous
childree aod grandchildren Mrs, Gre-
bam apest a mont delightful dey and was
the recipient of bearty congratulations
that time bad desit so gently with ber.
Mrs. Grabam ie = most lovable isdy aad
enjoys the reepect and esteem of bosts of
friends, who hope to see ber celebrate
many more birthdays.

At the quarterly meeting of ihe
directors of the Diamond State Tele-
phose Co., held Friday in Dover, the
Gna! morger nad consolidation of three
telephone companies ia Maryleed, two
ia Virginia aad one la Deleware, was
coufirmed snd made ateolete. The
sumber of directors waa increased from
coven to ten, eed large appropriations
were voted for the further extension of
the line to Cape Charies. No change
Fit seen 14 The Moers bi the eo pecy:

Dt. Lee Peavel, of Letebdorg, Va,
who te vieitiag telatives ta ardipee A ae

boarp's district was sold Tuesday by |

fa
entirely rebaitt with,
‘and 000 wire. Theare lampe bat

About Gry ladies ang geatiemen were | changed from wireg Mretched

t etrest lo ihe latest Improved ¢
mast aod arm. An entire a
| een beilt om Division Street
| adelphis Street to the porth
j cemetery, with new fine on OF
'Thie extension bes three
| Nghte on It. New street light
been placed in frout of L. ¥.
| & Co's office o8 Camden A
| on Malm Street extended bey
a8 Bro’s store.
Mr. Rrodes baa aleo pat o
owiag new lines: Op Wicor
| trom Camden Avenue to
| Street ; ve Winder Street fron
1 Avenue to sear Riverside Chy
| side lines to Frantiia aed
Streets. These lives took over
| of wire and 14 pew poles, add

tract contains gbout 300 acres of leod, | fights.
aod isvery desirable farm The par- |
whose |

Meavier wires were erecte:
following streets; Newtos St
' Camden Avenue to Locost Btre
Street frum Newtoao Street to
Avenue; Newton Street fro
Street to the shirt fectory and
Division Street lines, formin
‘between Divisiun Street asd
Avenue. Thie work touk &
i feet of copper wire aad 75 pol

Lives redullt were a follo
bella Street weet of Division ;
Street from Division to Rallr«
Broad Street frum Division ¢t
Hill Avenue ; Soath Division St
Main to Locust Bireet; Camide
from: W. H. Jackson's to Wied
aleo from Wiador Street to enx
pear Boulevard

This week the company wil)
the lawn of the new Trioit
Chureh South an orvamental i
with a 24 candie power lam
Will also be sterted this w
pew distribating Buse bar pen
atthe power house. The cop
will bave a carrying capecity o
peres to the square isch. Mr
also @xpects to start work o
boiler house within a few day
improvements are iu cuntemp!

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WIPROVEMTATS 16. BRK

Mew Kime Ad Other

The Pesinesis Brick Co. of &
ave just completed improv:

They beve installed a wew b
ching with a capacity of more
000 jn tea hours. They have
8 carsystiem which carries $1
direct from the machine te rec
drying shede.. The same "
for carrying ihe bricks from
to the Kline. To take care of
jacreased qutpat a new dows
of 400,000 capacity has bees bei
iraprovements lecrease the
the yard to nearly 100,008 bric
Ta edditiog to these improvec:
Company are installing tile
making draia tile up to 18 }:
To operate thie pleat ts
services of 36 or 2 men. The
rem the plant it cappiied by « 1
power boiler and» 88 horse 1
gine. The company have nat
car eyviem for hauling clay
beak to the machines, thus doi
with the mule aed cart system
The Pentussle

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CAECUTION OF WHE MURDERER Wii
TAKE PLAC FRIDAY.

Calees Governor Warheld Commutes The
Seatence Teo imprisonment For Life—
The Gailews Mas Beeu Erected Iu The
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Valaable Additica te Science.

ans, pearly 8 feet tall, hare bees dis-
vered along the banks of the Chop-
eok River, ia Talbot county, by em-

risoeer wtll ow Friday cext pay th
malty for the murder uf bis wife on
@ gallows. Streseous effurts have been
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‘letters from prominent business aod
| professivaal men of Salisbury bave beeo
sent to Goveraor Warfield urgiog the
| Chief Executive to exercise his preroga-
jtive and save .be megro’s neck. The
burden of these appeals bave been that
| the segro committed the crime while io
len excited aod maddened cunditivn;
while brooding over the wrong duve bis
household by auother negro man, and
that Handy was act responsible for his
jdeed atthe time. Up to the time this
; article was written (Monday afternoun)
‘oo word bad been received frum Gov-
ervor Warfield as to bis intention to
juterfere with the sentence of death as
Fronovuoced by the judge last September.

Preparations for the execation hare
been made and the scaffold is ready for
its deadly work. It is lucaied in the
rear of the jail on Water Street. A
board fence 16 feet bigh surrounds the

~ MANY FARMERS

* Would like to heep an accoant of

their receipts and expenses

some one would keep it Tor
them.

a Bank Account and you
rill find the account keeps it-
“self, without expense.

Year checks are always evidence
of date and the amount paic,
and your deposit book shows
the amount of yuur receipts.

It is not required that a person
have a large bulk of business
to open an account,

If you have sever done business in

” this way, and are not familiar
with this plan, come to ns and
we will get yoo started.

..- THE...

Farmers & Merchants
BANK,

__ Salishary, Maryland,

Ll. BE. WILLIAMS, President. _
SAMUEL A. GRAHAM, Casher.

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possible for asy one to witness the ex-
ecutive from the outside. But few per-
sons will be allowed on the Inside, it
being the Intention of Sheriff Gillis to
make the execation as private as pos-
sible. ?

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MEXNRY J. RANDY.

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wet eid component Doatee. We

| SPEARS

If the sentence is carried out, it wil

the frst execution that every t

lace in Wicomico county. Votil withlo

¢ past fow days Handy has persisted
i} enying that be would escape the gal-
lows. He seemed to have an abiding
faith that the efforts of nis counsel
would resalt ta a commutsting of sen-
tence, and because of this belief Handy
has given but little concern about his
spiritual condition? Por several months
after bis sentence be refased to see 8
minister, bab within the pset three or
four days has exhibited some concern for
his soul's condition and bas been visited

senq)
;oce, A lengiby petition and or)

loyes of the Maryland Academy o

| ploration of the Chesapeake Bay,

! {the remains were found there are steep

burying mound, and beads manufactared

lence.

The collection comprises eight ske}
as, of which some are women an
hildren. They are not al] complet

t all the larger bones hare been fousd
aod there is at least one compiete epeci-
men of an adult man. The excavations
were lo progress for months, sad toe|
discovery is considered one of the most
important, from the standpoint of an-
thropology, in Maryland ip & oumber of
years, The remaine are believed to be
at leabt 1,000 years old. The formation
of the grovod above and the location of
the graves give every evidence of this.
Duriog the excavations the remaine of
the camps of later Iadians were reveal-
ed. These consisted of oyster shel)
heaps, ebarred aad brraed earth and
fragments of cooking gtensils, These
discoveries were made fully ten feet
above the graves which contained the
gigantic skeletons. é aS.

There bave been other discoveries fa
Maryland of remains of men of tremes-
dous statue. A skeletos was discovered
at Ocean City several years ago which
measured « fraction over 7 feet 6 inches.
This skeleton was interred in a regular

by white mes were found upon it. This
dead Indian was probably one of of the
tribe mentioned by Captain Joba Smith,
who in July 1608 made's voyage uf ex-

At the poiat on the Choptank: where

shelving cliffs of sand aad gravel that
extend to the water's edge. Beneath
this bank is a layer of marl. The ; reves
ere in the sand a few feet above the
bard marl, and bave deposits of between
20 and 90 feet of sand and gravel above
them. A pecaliar feature of the dis-
covery is the chasred state of the bones
of the women and children. Those of
the men are untouched by fire. This
seems to indicate that the ancient Ia-
Gians cremated the bodies of all except
their warriors. The wet resting place
of the bones for so many centuries bas
made them very soft an! fragile, and it
Was with the greatest difficulty that they
were removed.

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TEAGHERS TAKING SUMMER COURSES.
Howe At Barveard And fame At Colum.
ble Ueiversity,

Several Wicomico teachers left Mon-
day for the ‘perpose of taking special
summer courses in Northero educational
lastitutions. Prof. J. Waher Huffiog-
toa, principal of the Salisbury High
School, went to Harvard Ustversity
where he will take a course In pedagogy
and volce culture, Mr. Goslee, assistant
to Prof. HaM@ngton, went td. the seme
inetitution for g course in mathematics.

Mr. Thomas 8. Truitt, priacipsl of the
Pitisvilie Bebool, sad Miss Beatrice P.
Robertson; principal of the Bivalve
Bebool, also left Monday for Harvard.

BUSY RIPORTERS.

Shet From Ambuch,

aless Governor Warfield ivterferes, Piignatic skeletons of prehistoric Io-] —Miss Mary Collicr is home from |

SHOTS OF LOCAL NEWS IMPROVING LIGHT S

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Bowe Of The Skeletons Noarty Kight Peet jCotvbrated Mer Seventy-Seveath Birth- , Theameads  Peunde Of
day—BalteBurtans Visiting Friends ia
Other Stateo—Diamend Mate Te Kx- |
(ond Liecs To Cape Charios-Twe Men 3

Vivre Have Meoe Stresg—Be

Lativety Redetit, ved Addie

Lampe Put Up— Week Ue A

er Mease Will Beoa Bogia.
, ‘ak UR

ln addhion te severs!

Dover, accompanied by Miss Mary Cas- ,lere expended s few moethe
row, who will spend some time is Galis- | building sad equipment of the

bary.

| Ligtt, Heat & Power Com

!
—Mra. L. 8, Bell, who bas bees under, York of restoring the tees
treatment since Christmas for ber health | ‘#¢ city has bees going om fe

jo New. Havea, Cogn., was brought to!

weeks under the managem

ber home Ia Salisbury Friday, in ¢ some. | Ralph Rhodes. When thie

what improved condition.

present.

—The work of instailing s bot

Progressing favorably. Biddie

entire butel will be heated. The
will cost aboat $1,200.

—The “Pise Grove” farm tn

Oliver D, Cullios, stioruey-at-law.
tract comtalns abuut 300 acres of

bid was $4,116.
—trs. Joba D. Williams gaven

town, Mrs. M.A. Austin, Mra.

water

beating plant in the Peatosula Hote! is

Bros,

are doing the work and expect to com-
plete it in about ten days. Nearly the

work

—The following Salisbarians are visit-
ing friends abroad: Mre. W. A. Trader
and Miss Nellie Trader, Weebaukec, N.
J; Mise Ora B. Disbaroon, Cierelead,
O.; Miss Edith Weisbach, New York; |
Miss Emma Day, Elizabeibtowa, N

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Coal.

bourn’s district was sold Tuesday by

The
land,

and is very desirable farm. The. par-
chaser was Lev. Truitt, colored, whove

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party

Thureday evening at her bome on Park
Aveune fs honor of the visitors of the

C.-T.

Leviness, Misses Margaret Hallowe)}!,

Marie Shelmaruine, Lillied McAtee and
Mary Harrie Aboot tweaty: persons
were pteseat, Miss Hallowell wos the
prize. re

—Miss Ada T. Krebs, of Salisbury,
oad Mr. Joha D. Ayers, of Berlin, were
quietly married Wednestay evening
Jane 24th, at the Methodist Protestant
Parsouage at Salisbury. Rev. 8. oo
Smith performed the ceremony ot T
o'clock, after which the happy soaple
boarded the B., C.& A. train for their
fature home, ow William St., Berlin. :

—Ie avother column the Mayor aod
City Council call attention to the fact
that the Ordinances against riding
bicyeles ‘on the pavemeote and without
lights, the driving of teams and auto-
mobiles faster than the fimit set; the
collecting of dog tases, will be strictly
enforced afler the present ate, The
oficers have been ‘jastrucied to arrest
all persons disregarding these Ordi-
hapces, without fear or Yavof. :

Mr, apd Mrs. Charles W. Morse, Jr,
and Mra. Lawrence G. Edgeounde, of
New York ; Me. dad Mrs. W..8> Bell
ond Mice Ruth Clark, of
Mr. Fred, Bell, of Bay
Mies May Hudgins. of fmore, are

perell

j pleted the lines will be in the t
| ble conditiog for carrzieg the

—Miss Irma Grebam gave a musical | electricity and giving the
Friday night in honor of Miss Margaret tory service. The Maiz
Hallowell, of Elizabeth City, N.C. An!been entirely rebollt with
|Nwteresting program was rendered. ‘and (00 wire. > The arc temps
Abvat finy ladies ena gentlemen were,

changed from wires sretcbed
Street to the latest improved C:
mast andarm Agentire ae
bees built on Division htrea
adelphin Street to the sorts.
cnnvtery, with sew jine o8 O11
This extension bas three
lights on tt. New street e.
deen placed la front of Ii 2
& Co's office on Camden

op Maia Street ex ed |

& Bro's sore, 55

Avenue to near Riversidd’ Ob
side lines to Prasklin. aed
Bereets. These tines took ‘over
of wire aad 14 mew poles,” addi
Nigtite,°2y «ako sy “et
Heavier wires were
following Streetes New 3
Camdea Avene to Locus: Str.
Bireet from Newton Btreestg
Avenue; Newioa Gtreet” fro:
Street 10 the sbirs and
Division’ Street Hues, formis
between Division Bireet nad
Avenue,” Thie work took
feet of copper wire ang 5 ¢
Lines rebailt weee aa. $6
della Breet west of Ditvintde ;
Street from Division tg) Ralirc
Broad Street from Divisies ‘4,
All Avenue; South Diviabos §
Asis to Locust Streets Ones
from W. H. Jackson's io Wind
slso from Windor Street to sad
near Boulevard.” 0p) 2 ¥.

This week the company “wit!
the lawn. of the now ‘Teigh
Chureh Bouth a6 ormamental
with oH candie power? las
@ill also be sasied thig See
oew distributing Bose bar pas
at the power: house, Tae Bop
will Daves cartying capa
petes to the square inch.” iM
aleo expects to sary w
boiler hopse within a few “day
improvements are ia conterp!

. Se arg

cs £ ere — ag

The Peniosaia Birigk Co, of
ave just

visiting at the home of Dr. and Mrv. L.
8) Bell. They left og Tuesday on their
yacht “Cactus” for a four days’ trip
dowse Chesapeake bay. ©

The former will take a coarse ip tau-

‘Mra Loviss Graham celebrated be
ry i rt hs rid 4 new EFTDE YP

improy
heir plant which make Ht ©
Host extessive on the Raste
They have installed a sew
chine with s capacity of more
800 In tee hours. They have

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oa SPELT ALIS
aoe ee

'
dkkk Indicates a case in which the
detective work was of outstanding
and exceptional merit.

dick Indicates a case in which the ar-
resting officer captured the criminal
under circumstances showing particu-
lar_gallantry.

tk Indicates a case in which excellent
cooperative work among several of-
ficers or offices solved the crime.

* Indicates a case presenting some
difficulties to the police.

No star is placed before cases in which
the criminal gave himself up without
resistance before being suspected.

* Victim—Walter Runge, Chicago, Tlli-
nois. Method—Shooting, revolver. Held
for’ trial—Alban Simons. Remarkable
featwres—Police allege shooting fol-
lowed brawl at tavern, in which another
man was also shot. That Simons said
he had quarrelled with Runge over a
common-law wife, who described the
former as “a snake when drunk.” Arrest
by—Policeman Edward B. Kennedy.

#k Victim—Lewis L. Silvers, Trenton,
N. J. Held for questioning—Dack Hill.
Arrest by—Police Lieutenant Sullivan.
Remarkable features—Silvers, 75, woke
at night to find an intruder in his room,

grappled with him, died of heart attack.

Hill, a giant negro, police say, was seen
hurrying from place, later picked up by
Sullivan. Pipe and shoes found in place
were identified as his. Tip off.

tek Victim—Edward H. Ireland, Troy,
N. Y. Method—Shooting, © shotgun.
Held for trial—John Ireland (son.)
Remarkable features — John Ireland,
shell-shocked world war veteran on pa-
role from insane asylum, beat father
and mother, shot former, also shot State
Troopers . Fitzpatrick and Konior, who
were called by neighbors. Arrest by—
State Troopers Rose, Galvin, Clow and
Morris, who closed with Ireland and
disarmed him although he fired another
shotgun shell into their car.

*k Victim—Joseph Litwin, Newark,
N. J. Method—Blow with lead pipe.
Held. for trial—Stanley Kukas and
Stanley Wnorowsky. Remarkable fea-
In Wnorowsky’s
confession, teported by police, he says

of pipe and went out to kill somebo
When I hit him Stan_said ‘This J is
fun’” Detective work by—Detectives

Conlon, Staats, Boland and McNally,

who learned of another affray thejtwo
had been involved in the same n ght,
traced them through the Newark stfeets
by various witnesses.

_ Victim—John_F. Arlan, Los Angel
Cal. Method—Shooting, - revolver. R

markable  features—Arlan had been

* handy-man.

ticle dae Mae’

drinking with four friends during after-
noon, in evening was found shot in
room with one of them, Mrs. Marie
Hidalgo, who, arrested, police assert,
said, “I shot him because I loved him.”
Two days later her 14-year-old son,
Richard Hidalgo, appeared at the sta-
tion, saying he had done the shooting.
Officers say his story of how he got
revolver, hid in closet, seems to check
with facts.

‘ Victim—John Burroughs, Philadel-
phia, Pa. Method—Beating, iron bar.
Held for examination—James_ McCul-
lough. Remarkable features—Both em-
ployees at Pennsylvania insane asylum.
McCullough, who walked into station,
saying “I just did a little murder” in-
formed police he wished Burroughs to
go to heaven, and as he had to kill
somebody, chose him.

thee Victim—Mrs. Gussie Dieshler,
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Method—Beating with stove shaker.
Held for trial—Conwell N. Leitch. Re-
markable features—Leitch was local
Detective work by—De-
tective Lieutenant Gifford, Detective
Casazza, who covered all Leitch’s
known haunts and friends, picked him
up after 4-day search. They state they
broke down four different alibi stories
by checking. Confession reported.

kk Victim—E. J. Albright, Colum-
bus, Ohio. Method—Clubbing. Held
for examination—Louis J. Kotz. Re-
markable features—Albright was guard
in insane asylum, Kotz inmate. Capture
by—U. Grant, Los Angeles shooting
gallery proprietor, whom Kotz ap-
proached in that city and handed a
note, demanding money and a gun,
then snatching up the latter. Although
covered, Grant picked up rifle, fired four
times, wounding Kotz severely.

* Victim—Michael J. Sherry, Little
Rock, Ark. Method—Shooting, re-
volver. Held for trial—Granville Got-
cher, 14. ‘Detective work by—Chief
Detective O. N. Martin, who says he
found gun on Gotcher when he was
arrested in act of a holdup, examined
barrel, found very little rifling, recalled
that bullet with which Sherry had been
killed showed puzzling faint rifling
marks. He questioned Gotcher on
whereabouts on night of murder, .s¢=

* Victim—Mrs. Mary Gunther, Lipin’s
Corner, Md. Method—Knife. Held for
trial—Irvin Howard, negro. Motive—
Robbery. Remarkable features—How-

—ard, arrested for vagrancy, became seri-
ously involved, when bloodstains were
4ound on his clothes. Detective work
by—State’s Attorney R. C, Rowe, who
found witnesses who had seen Howard
near place of crime. Remarkable fea-
tures—Police report Howard saying “I

_ didn’t do nothing but just nick her neck

a little with my knife.”

* Victim—Domingo Aragon, San An-
tonio, Tex. Method—Beating, iron pipe.
Held for trial—Jose Munoz and Valen-
tine Rivera. Motive—Believed robbery.
Arrest by—Constable S. M. Meeks.
Remarkable features—Aragon had just
been released from jail on robbery
charge; believed he flashed roll of
money before Munoz and Rivera, who
were also in jail at time. Police assert
a confession; tip off.

Victim—Whitman C. Hank, Cleve-
land, Ohio. Method—Axe. Held for
questioning—William Grand. Remark-
able features—Both men, picnic grove
caretakers, had been working together
for several years, but kept up a feud
throughout the whole period. Police
received mysterious phone call that
there was “trouble,” on arrival found
Hank dead and Grand sitting beside
the body. Self-defense plea.

tek Victims—Isadore Handelman and
Mrs. Fanny Handelman, Ellenville, N.
Y. Method—Beating and fire. Held
for trial—Charles Brown, negro. Mo-
tive—Robbery. Remarkable features—
Bodies of couple were found in room
on upper floor of their burned home;
thought accidental death from fire at
first. Sheriff Schoonmaker discovered
iron bar with fragments of hair adher-
ing, suspected murder, was confirmed
by state police laboratory. Brown, who
police state, had fled, was captured
through Mrs. King of Orange County
Welfare Home who identified him when
he came begging, gave him food and
called police while he ate. Confession
reported; suspect believed insane.

*k Victim—Mrs. Mary Flannery, East
St. Louis, Mo. Method—Beating, iron
bar. Held for trial—Elbert Lamb, 16.
Remarkable features—Lamb, odd-job
boy, who worked one day at Flannery
home, was sought by police, picked up
in Eldorado, Kansas, by Sgt. Harry
Newton, who identified him from news-
paper photo as wanted for killing. Con-
fession reported by police.

Victims—Andrew Freak and _Ste-
phanie Olesky, Battle Creek, Mich.
Method—Shooting, revolver. Held for
trial—Antonio Marco. Remarkable fea-
tures—Shooting took place at Polish

picnic, where, witnesses say, Marco
nd Freak quarrelled after drinking.
3s-Olesky was bystander. Marco

\WVictimn—W. W. Baker, ‘Topeka,
is. Method—Shooting, revolver.
Held|for trial—Alfred Power and Rob-
ert |Suhay. Remarkable features—-
Baker was a G-Man, planted in Topeka
postfoffice to intercept some suspects :
killdd as these suspects made getaway.
Artest by—Homer Sylvester, Platts-
th, Nebraska, sheriff, who crowded
their car off road, arrested both and
Accused Power and Suhay of the crime.

7\


fore? In aheaaine? A faint memory
of my newspaper days knocked at the
door of my consciousness. I tried to
concentrate.

The matter worried me. I finally
decided to get away from the whole
matter by attending a movie. I’ve
often found that the knottiest problems
untie when one gets away from them;
then one gains perspective and clarity
of vision. But the pounding emphasis
of those words refused to let me es-
cape. They were a haunting voice,
calling to me out of the past.

I saw watching Douglas Fairbanks
and a capable cast flicker across the
silver screen in The Three Musketeers.
Suddenly, before my mind, flashed the
memory of a Kansas cyclone that
struck a house in which an expectant
mother sat reading Dumas’ novel,

The Three Musketeers. That cy-
clone had occurred twenty years
earlier when I was a police reporter.
During the storm a frame house had
crumbled to the ground, burying sev-
eral families jin the debris. I had ar-
rived on the stene with the police in
time to take part in the rescue work.
Among the injured we had found a
— woman and her three chil-
ren.

HE husband, she told us,- was in
Spain helping a man out of prison.

At this juncture the movie theater
faded into nothingness. Memories
smashed home with terrific sharpness.
Spain! To help a man out of prison!
Other angles of the memory picture
became more clear. A hunt through
the ruins . . . the discovery of a letter

in a dresser drawer which the woman
had read to me ... The husband’s
address at Barcelona.

Heedless of indignant stares, I raced
up the aisle and telephoned the banker.

In my office the next morning 1
handed him a brief typed report I had
compiled the night before, following
my departure from the theater. Ten
minutes later he laid the report down
on my desk with the words:

“Well, I’ll be damned! Some stunt!”

A businessman of unimpeachable
standing in a community was chosen
because he possessed money to make
the trip abroad and because he could
not afford to go to the police when
he found he had been victimized—he
always was made to believe that he
had violated the law.

When the victim arrived in Spain

with the money to bribe the jailer he
was arrested immediately by bogus
officers and threatened with a jail sen-
tence for bribery. Naturally he paid
any price to get out of the mess, figur-
ing on his social standing and the
trouble that would follow an expose of
his act. Then he would be placed
aboard a home-bound train or boat to
hurry him as far from Spanish shores
as his income permitted.
‘I talked later with Postoffice Inspec-
tor Cookson and learned that the
banker’s letter was about the thirtieth
received in thirty days.
My friend’s appreciation of my
“ounce of prevention” was easily un- |
derstood when he said: “If you can
find Douglas Fairbanks for me tell him
his picture plus your memory saved me
a helluvalot of money?”

A Fortune from the Living Dead (Continued from Page 23)

“And that isn’t all,” Boyle told
Madden. “Look at this.”

He produced a photograph.

“That’s a picture of Bottger made at
the hospital,” he said. “They make
pictures in these cases to help the
doctors in future studies of the dis-
ease.”

“Boys, we're getting somewhere
now,” Madden said. “I think that this
racket has been going on for years.
God knows how much it’s cost the in-
surance companies!”

Then, suddenly, everything stalled.
Plenty of discrepancies cropped up in
the stories told by witnesses but no-
body would admit anything.

But Boyle and Meehan kept on plug-
ging. They checked and rechecked.
They investigated every detail. They
questioned every statement made by
every witness, analyzing, tearing apart,
studying.

One detail, casually mentioned dur-
ing the Forsters’ examination, was that
the person who first suggested the in-
surance was a roomer named Thomas
Rolo.

The detectives delved into the life,
habits, friends, relatives of this man.

Back in the Summer of 1934 Bott-
ger, just discharged from the hospital,
took a room on Pacific Street. Sor-
rowfully he told the Forsters and
Rollo that the doctors had given him
up, that he couldn’t live much longer
because of his disease. Presently
Rollo sounded out the Forsters regard-
ing what he termed a “foolproof prop-
osition.” His idea was to insure this
man who was so soon to die. He told
the Forsters a friend of his knew all
about insurance and could arrange
everything so all concerned would
profit handsomely without the slightest
chance of being caught.

At FIRST the Forsters were skepti-
cal, They didn’t believe it could
be done. Who could fix it?

“Never mind who he is,” Rollo said.
“He knows the racket inside out and
he’s been operating for years. He’s
taken those dumb insurance companies
for plenty!”

The main idea, Rollo said, was to
insure very old persons or incurables
like Bottger. Then somebody who
was healthy and young posed as the
prospect and took the medical exami-

nation. Rollo confided that the boss of
the racket obtained names of prospects
from lists supplied by physicians,
druggists, hospital attendants and
others. As a rule some member of
the insured’s family would be drawn
into the scheme to make it all the more
foolproof.

“The thing started years ago in the
West,” Rollo told them, “and worked
so well with the small companies that
the boys branched out. Now they are
knocking off the big companies regu-
larly. It never fails because every-
body is taken care of and nobody sus-
pects anything. There’s thousands in
it for you!”

Bhd Forsters agreed to take part in

Anita Forster posed as the insured’s
sister. Her husband, assuming the
name Ewald Rottger, underwent the
medical examinations and passed them.
The apartment house janitor agreed
to fool the insurance investigators for
$200 and Pensabene promised to do
the same for a like sum.

Thus they began taking out policies.
In eight months they took out no less
than forty-three term insurance poli-
cies, with a total face value of $80,000
and premiums of almost $1,500.

Insurance investigators at first had
questioned their ability to meet these
premiums. But the Forsters proved
that their restaurant business, small as
it was, could produce enough revenue
to take care of the premiums.

The Forsters agreed to pay all the
premiums in return for fifty per cent
of the profit, about $40,000. The other
half, Rollo explained, would go to the
head man, who would “take care of”
all the others who aided in the con-
spiracy—the janitor, butcher, doctor,
undertaker and all the rest.

And so, while Ewald Bottger sat
despairingly waiting for death the
scheme moved forward. Nothing had
been left to chance. Not a whisper of
suspicion had been aroused. This was
truly a “foolproof proposition.”

Then Bottger’s brother suddenly ap-
peared.

“He knows his brother is dying,”
Forster frantically told Rollo. “What
are we going to do? We can’t afford
to lose all the dough we’ve sunk into
this!”

Rollo said he would consult the head
man. When he returned he said that
the only thing to do was to cut the
brother in on the profits. This sort
of thing had happened before, he told
the Forsters. All one had to do was
to sit. tight. In this particular in-
stance, all Paul Bottger had to do
was keep his mouth shut and accept
his share.

A day or two passed and Rollo in-
formed the Forsters that Paul had
agreed to become a party to the
scheme. :

Finally on January 25, 1935, Ewald
Bottger’s sufferings came to an end.
The plotters rejoiced. Those eight
months had seemed like a whole life-
time to them. Rollo hurried to bring
the. news to the head man.

Soon Doctor Bonta arrived. He
filled out a death certificate for “Ewald
Rottger; aged forty-three; cause of
death, pneumonia-influenza.”

Next came Gelosi, the undertaker.
Within a few hours the wasted body
was quickly reduced to unidentifiable

ashes.

“What did I tell you?” Rollo said
when the excited Forsters collected
the insurance. “It’s absolutely fool-
proof!”

Bur Rollo was slightly mistaken.
Clara Bottger heard of her husband’s
death and started her own little inves-
tigation.

Then Ryan and District Attorney
Geoghan tackled Rollo. Who was this
“head man” he contacted after Bott-
ger came to Pacific Street?

Rollo swore he didn’t know what
they were talking about. They pointed
out to him that he might as well spill
the story, because the others had begun
to talk. His only chance of getting a
break now was to name the man.

While Rollo was protesting that he

could tell them nothing Boyle and

Meehan arrived.

“We've made a little discovery,”
Boyle said. “Rollo here has a friend
who used to be district superintendent
for two of the biggest insurance com-
panies in the country. His name is
Harry Goodman.”

“AW he’s the head man,” said Mee-
han. “Ain’t that right, Rollo?”

Rollo hesitated, then nodded slowly.
“Yeah. Goodman’s the boss, all right.”

Boyle went to the door, spoke to
someone outside.

“Bring in Goodman,” he said.

An officer came in with a chunky,
dark-faced, partly bald man. He
glared savagely at Rollo, apparently
knowing that he had confessed. Then
he quickly assumed a defiant air, a
sneer on his lips.

tty] OOKS like they got us, Harry,”
Rollo said.

“Shut up!’”? Goodman barked at him,
then turned to the others. “You guys
are nuts if you think you can pin any-
thing on me. You can’t prove a
thing!”

Then the detectives began to tell him
just what was what. They reeled off
the evidence they had gathered—the
discovery of the policies, the testimony
of insurance agents, doctors and inves-
tigators, the picture made in the hos-
pital, the admissions obtained from all
the witnesses.

“Goodman,” Geoghan said, “we’ve
got very thorough information about
your racket. We are, right now, inves-
tigating cases involving ten deaths,
forty-seven persons and forty-five in-
surance companies. We expect to
learn that you were the man behind
all these frauds.”

Before long Harry Goodman began
to realize that his number was up.

The first group indicted, in connec-
tion with the Bottger case, included
Goodman, the Forsters, Rollo, Doctor
Bonta, Gelosi and Louis Coucci. The
last mentioned had been Goodman’s
right-hand man and was involved in
many cases, whereas the others had
been connected only with individual
ones. Coucci, who knew many resi-
dents of the Italian settlements, had
uncovered numerous prospects.

The specific charges against the ac-
cused were violations of Section 1202
of the Penal Law, a felony embracing
“false and fraudulent claim,” and Sec-
tion 580, “conspiring to commit a
crime,” which is a misdemeanor. Each
defendant was liable to a minimum
term of five years on the fraud charge
and a maximum of three years on the
other. All were released on bail rang-
ing from $2,500 to $7,500.

In all, forty-seven persons were in-
dicted. On January 21, 1937, thirty-
nine of them entered pleas of guilty.

In the Crime Spotlight (Continued from Page 29)

and Louis Babick, 18, were jailed
pending an inquiry..-

With no explanation other than
that she was “disgusted” with her life,
Mrs. Rose Titus, 31, of South River,
New Jersey, confessed that she had
stripped naked her’ two-year-old
daughter, Irene, and tossed her into
the Raritan River. Police dragged the
stream without finding the body. But
two boys located a dress and under-
garments belonging to the missing
child.

In New York City three youths all
under 21, Alexander Makar, Michael
and Joseph Frey, robbed a grocery

40

store and took $200 worth of loot to
their furnished room. Mrs. Catherine
Miggins, 70, a State pensioner, who
lived in the adjoining room, was
found a few hours later bludgeoned
to death, her skull, jaw and ribs
broken. Police charge that she y

killed because she walked in
division of their plunder.

York’s ultra-fashionable Hotel
monico on Park Avenue, were
timized by a trio of holdup men, who
stripped them of loot valued at more
than $16,000 in cash and jewelry. The

thugs forced their way into an eleva-
tor with their victims and held it be-
tween floors. They fled in an auto
put A alert cab wget 4 took down

iam abandone e ext morning
and proved to be a stolen one.

In Annapolis, Maryland, James I.
Howard confessed after 15 hours of
questioning that he had killed Mrs.
Mary Gunther, mother of nine chil-
dren. i oy robbery . .

h Jackson, -, was killed
and Deputy f

ously Sounded near Chehalis, Wash-
ington, when they halted a car be-

. Deputy A

lieved to contain two suspects in a
$120 robbery .. . Andrew Greenafege,
holdup man, was_ convicted in
Queens, New York, on unique evi-
Shot in a scuffle, he escaped,

g they questioned John Fletcher,
36,/an ex-convict, in his shanty at
thol, Massachusetts, two policemen
vere fatally blasted by a sawed-off
shotgun hidden behind a newspaper
the man had been reading. A third
cop shot Fletcher dead.

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death warrants’ Join Howard, alias Kvaue, PB Regen Pinte ae yp ubete & ORNTENCED peaiia 8INa.

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‘aptain New W ; . eut on

of Captain New Woodro'y, formed atthe armory, } jo sume Ipstanced it was commented Opou WIND F poard with set rigged the tller for them.

and at Jt o'clock proceeded to (he county jail. verity, iuvulving Innocent partios.} see) cf \

: NiGnt PE NONNTSA HOUR, wert was etated, however, that St was customary’ gerd toanen made their excapo aud were

The privoucr was attended during the morn- jj to adiminteter stimnlants to prisppers: previons Ad Q |

Ing byeiiv spiritual advirers, Kev. Henry Nice, || to execution, 1p consequence of their pervous <iaad the salseoend? deforé.my time was ap

of the Methodist Protestant Charch, aud Rev, |} syeteme givin away. aud to enable them-to sup- . jebbperspidiipes

MH. C. Holloway, of the English Lutheraa port hemeelves phyeically-daring the feartal with the ald of @ et ON FIRE

Ciurch, who offered to bim the consolations of || ordea, but whether too targe 8 quantity wae al- stroction.. The & on aie of thelr own coa-

reitzion, aud he profeescd to be reconciled to his Jowed the prisoner in this cage, ab bis own earn; 1 AM Th sted ke ont about 4 o'clock

faie, avd to have obtained pardon of the Al |, eat ddeire, ie bert kuowa to the vificers who bad expirel Leora allewadine \olemnpe Ny Aabts bearly
4 T ee . e extino-

Liguty for bie sine. He ate Weartily lavt nigat Lim ip charge a qavebthe fire. 1 was ef fe Satsber bara vn

county in times past. A band of music ac- the “speculation confession,”’| 10 which How: rd’ fl sentence,” :.
companied the military. ‘The prieoucr was ie made to figure as @ very extensive and senea-
Prouvht out about noon, Tustead of placing the ie of villain. The paper purporte to be

ul
of sewed vysters, With which be was treated, ; : try to esca The
4 t i Tho body was ehort!y afterwarde taken to the pe. account books were barnt,
| ria gent 8 "soutdy ae if uncunacions vat |, 20% Walrad heen nxcavated op te oppe:| S13 et work ‘One man, who was seutenced
site side of the bili of the county a} hoowe prup- y r man, who was sentenced
MuviINu TO THR OCAFFULD—A OTREET PROCES: Ff erty. | ppg yentes aaet s Lever gp doliars; his j
PlON-- MILITARY, ETC, " et . ? ae wearly up, I remained at Siug- |
The programme of the execution was laid Phat “Specuiation Confession.” two yeare sad three moothe—belng pi on H
dowu in accordauce: with the custom of the In. the subjoined will be fdnnd extracts from| f out three momthe before the expiration of my |
|

‘|MORB BCROE ARIES. ;

ce drt then states that he retarned to New
Ter where he joined bis old pals.’ “Charlie,”
~pogh joned defore, and one “Jimmie.” The three
_ e oat made to fgare in'a‘borgiary at Yon-
oan dea ned om which a good deal of “swag”

a je .
ed. The next nemeeeh of Se ieee wenoroe
ging one watchman, o

-bim upon bis coMu in @ wagon, with hie §f the’ Iife and Confession of John Howard, aliae
shroud upon him, as had been the custom, he Shorty Evane, slides Jobo Lewis. coudem ned for
wore s brown coat aud bat and aehaw!, and was § (he muriler of Neary Miller,” &c.. “written by
placed ip s carriage, with hie two spiritual advi- bimeelf,” This document 18 jo pamphlet form,
sere, aud Wun. Sheffer, the deputy sheriff. on the bearing the imprint of the Camberland Allega-
peat with him. This change was made in defer- § tian press. and makes about twelve ordinary
ence to public {eentiment, a prominent citizen pages. ‘lve cobfeesion, it 1¢ said, was written
uf the town having offercd bis own carriage for out by the: prisoner. Black, who shot McKaig:
the ure of the prisoner, toavoid an unseemly § tue signature of JoLo Howard is appended, aud

the trio was drug-
wering another,

New Orifane,sveemer
e 13
New York! After they ity Plas |

ine ttacie, Alihongh the offer was declined by | the naimce of emael Willison aud George |. &
the sheriff, the desired change wae made. Layman are ‘sapjoined a6 witnesses, and is @ this pis Howard says “the Watchwan on th:
‘fhe procession left the jail at 11 o'clock, bead- seemiogly iu sathentic form, howvver “ro- |@ steamer discdtered we and He Shot me in
ed by Sheri Layman aud a frievd. The carri- mancy” the text may ap . The desiga is the right thigh aed Chariie|rm the kaos, Wa
age with the prisoner followed, who bad a nand- | evidently to make|a sensation. | drove off, however, and the follewed ix
Kerchlof to his eyer, aud next the band of music BAD FOM BOYHOOD. aotreet car. We aband ew d jos
and military goard, and then an open wagon with | - The narrative etarte oot with the declaration and goods. After this wens over
a haudsome waluut coftin.and a large proces- that Howard was born jn Augusta, Us., in May, to Jerecy and on my owa heok.
tion of persons. the widewalke in the mean- | 1542, his father being the owner of a large saw CRACKED A mouse.
time being crowded with persons, among whom mill and othdr property. Numerous lyouthful 1 got to the house that I head made ap my mind
wore many women, apparently from the country ecrapew—oue Of them @ stabbing afiair-are de- enter, went inte the back yard, clim Bp ca

around. {nthla manner it proceeded throngh tallied, showing that from the very begionin: arbor, seleed lado

the principal streets until it reachod the county Howard was © promising young candidate for dined i nes o* by chai bai
prontdes abouta mile distant. . | the gallows, He then says: ; . are
TAK ACAFFOLD—ITS PICTURESQUE LOCATION, ETC “When the war broke ont my father's sympa- tt Re, ry

The scaffold was erected ina large ficld, on a | thies wero with the people OF ine North. ‘The fg andar it to hold it sd echt ie ve msc damiie

hillside, overlooking a vast amphitheatre, 1n- | troops of the Confederacy burnt down bis house (g raiee uf $100 and a lady's go beheaghsl &
clading the city of Cumberland, skirted by | and afterwards his mill, The family gatbered
mountains, and from which the view presented | up what we bad left and went to New York city.
was bigbly picturesque and attractive. A large L jeft the South to avold belng drafted into the
pumber of persons were present, and it is ewi- | Southern army. After we reached! New York
mated that four or five thousand persons wit- | my father opeued a stove store, bat not succeed-

- noseed the execation. ing very well in that,be bought out an cetablieh-

and lawl there aick @
with inflammation of she jonge. Afver Thad re-
covered 1 esbipped ‘as ao ‘extra band’ with
Harry Miller from Georgetown, and came to

Ceriand. 1 worked at the latter place with

The military, upon {thelr arrival, immediately | ment forthe sale of furniture) 1 acting 10 the Com il oure. After

| roreda aire evening ths gutoe, to | capaci of pulnman. | Bi icane, welptng Wet gty a, Moore

sone the eneri@. ree scstea was & rp . My TURNS BORGHAR ‘ seat Owuer end Lhada £zbt about my wazer,

design—that of-ilally’s patent drop. ' “After living in New Yorkeome time! gotinto | aud I je’ bim.

ARKIVAL AT PLACBSQF EXECUTION—RELIGIOUS arather rough crowd of men, drank convidera- L THEN JUIRRD WITH MARKY MILLER

f SERVICES, ETC. re t bly, gambled ang contracted bad habite yeneral- | for the second time. I made one trp with him

Nigar ly. ' One day I wae drinking ina saivon. when & @ and came back to Cambariand. We wl ere

: i

along pleasaptiy and bad ee .
told ihe negro Joe that he Wou'd Buock me over:
board some day, at feast Joe tad ine 60- Severs |
other dificaities with bis employer are detailed, ,
which angered Miller, the captain, who made @ |
Anal complaint about barucewias mules. Howard |
adds: “Ltol! iim tt waa the Ce aaicrer aod |
not mine to barnere toe yon'es, | weut vat ood }
!

\

The carriage drew up to its steps, ‘ 4 - °
Rev. Mesers. Nice and Holloway alighied, fol- erackimnen, Al el: he ae yoo" Nee oe ant
eet the prisoner, supported, by. the depaty wanted me to help him through with it, 1 was
See ecbaa ke eee eel unneak fest touched | considerably under the 1nfciice of 1iquor at the
Cn oe een nee reek ccattold. the | wee aud asseutes. He told me that be know of
fis. Srthicated atena te Arto vrns ot | e's fest n'youge nn ltt ere
scoeaaee Mane Le Noving “kinduess; according to 08 MAfricd in a few days and bad new clothes,"
unto the maltitade of ‘Thy tender mercies, blot pen owe tg ng Dine coe prnowtnl son
Pee sine a Rot ond Henley hap wiry | -f we should enter the house that nigat. After in-
” : apecting the premises tee we left

the bow-lignt, placed at op the bay-capin aud
pa ot the releeior awards the berm bauk.
told Miter to autvie with 16 andl would leave.
(bea owed me eome ven dolare.» Me said, *1
wou'teettic wit you.” 2 theo

1 RANTEKED MIM Fo & View?

He sald it wae too dark. 1 toid him it wae ne
jight for Lim ‘ae it war jor me. We were both
then on the berm baux. 1 got on ths boatsaa
-he followed me 1 told him not to follow me,
and he then turned Away 1 picked op a epreader-

ein. ;
and returned about? o'clock in the morolug. I
On reaching the platform, prayer was offered 1 44 furnished with a pair of ‘nips’ aud went

Rev. Mr. Holloway—the prisoner, whose

lt . y
Vey Gown by the bench, the ministers gre eoeey | key in the] lock and easily turned it with the

his elde. The prisouer frequentiy made audible’ {

‘ me i responses of amen. At the Moaciuvion of the | #descriptipa of the incide arrangement of the

H prayer, the sberiff, with bie assistante, proceed- . 1 opened the front door, went Up ihe g stick and bid 1 behind me wud be called mes | |

AV eC. } c4 to put ou the prieouer bis shroud, which en- nd péned the door fat the head of the § p.o0fa v—. Ile stepped up on the cabin and J | |
hs } veloped hie eutire body. eat} 3 steps; | uncovered a dark lantern that I bad pro- @ after him. I ra:eed the etick and eaid“‘Take that |
D J vided myself with, and looked aroand. ‘here § you soo of a b—,' «wp were then facingeach | |

i} The ehroodiug and the fixing.of the rope
aroued the neck of the prisoner occupied eome  W8e4 ped iu the room occupied by two yoang § otber,) aud -

. ime, the prisoner freq ropeating the § meu. pair of pants was hanging on achair. TPTRUCK HIM ON THE IFAD, , i
, words, “Ldies good mau,” “dies Christian I ‘wounded’ the paute and got two dollars in § tte dropped yo hie knees avd tried topick op | |
f ; ‘ meu.” 3 moncy and @ gold watch. 1 thea looked around § 9 hatcnet ths laid near oito, J etruck him again | |
L. , SOLEMNITY OF THE CCENR. forthe trguk 1 saw it io the corner of the f aid ne called for he:p. Jue bad gut on the boat
The scene wav very soleun aud impreesive,  Toom. 1 went up to it. and found it locxed. 1 and etuod by the cabin, I eaid to Jue “Let ue | |
. The noise and conversation of the thousanie of started to baui it across the floor, when the noise ff |get out of this.’ Joe was onthe running plank | |
Z epectatore were hushed, the jutercet having artially awakened one of the occapante of the nd J fell against him and drppped intu theca- | |
reached ite utmoat limitof tension. The pri ed. Idrewabilly that] bad with me, 60 that § Ina). Te regained the towfpain. jaomped over | |
over, a8 be etood auder the drop, lookiug his if l was discover ¢ould silence him. He | a fence and yot mired. Tex cated myself with |
-— last apon the meridian sun andy the fair scene merely turned over & d contivacd bis deep sleep. | difficulty. and tovk to the woods. I beard some | |
oo before him, seemed to gace for a moment 'at I then shouldered the truuk aud carried it to the | one after me, and I picked up a stove, sod asked | |
some puint lo the mid-beavene, ae if front door to my|tpal,’ who had been on the jf who }t wad, Joe answered, ‘It jie me. Wo |
«Hie eye was acanning tn doubt aul fear «ff look out for the|tcops.’ Charlie and -myself cuptiqued our fight together, and got lost lo the
. Whe path of the spirit's unknOWD. carers.” carried the tronk toa Wacant lot that wae near | woode thatday. J jouked at the sao aod tovk
Z ¢ | REMARKS OF REY. NR. NICE. and J broke it open with the aid ofaetope. We | an easterly course and came out on the Balti
1 After the co: bad th : adj enh b found in the trunk two eulte of clothing. a pair | more pikea few milée from Cumberignd. That
t her, d nou @ in’ adjusted by the Mf of patent leather boots, .tc., and two hundred | evening we came into town and webt down to
| ehenti, daring whicb the prisoner comnpisiued §f and-fifty dollara in monev. We divided the } the Coal and Jroa Company'e wharf.| I bad teu
that t war too tizht, &c., the Key. Mr. Nice, ad- mouey &! ver our othefu.""| cente aud hought come cakes from old Bouhert H
| Sreetug the myectnors a nat: [olot then derma ts te Hey towne nooee, | th EAN? Rd won men approucted se and cx
: : Pa eee nm determined to go back tothe houre. || tue wharf dud sume men approached ve and en-
$e SIE we G89, Bie 18. Me Be F fo dissuade me from tered into Konvereation with us. They recog. |

bie auger hae all surned away; that be har faith § doing eo; he howey

me,
in the mercy of God to wave hie soul. He wishes | and we went back ‘er agreed tp accompany nized Joe, ati arked ns what we were doiog

1 entered |the house for the f. ’

tue to warn you not to vee intoxicating drinks, 20d we Tras scnie time I w9nt iDto the room | Une of Hirao Bee A eatatsae cewee
MP apts all other vices, and to make prepara: | occupied by the mother of the/young man I bad | y gaiq twok MMe ‘ancwered there waa a man burt
tion for a future life; and that he believes he f already robbed. I got her pogket book coutalo- | Gown the canal, Jaeked who it was? He vaid

ent ‘poeition, that though sear trie

ja fully prepared to meet bis God. He also § ing sixtecn dollare in money, od a gold watch. |.
propuece to make a few remarke himeelf."’ These two articles 1 took out of Ler dress pock- <aulller, 80d the pulled benier leet : When.
. THB PRICONER'S REMARKS, et. Llouked on the bareag aud aw a dreesing- | ang Joe Piiowed me, That bight we elept ao.
“Well, the few remarne. I bave to meke are | c#0e,, it War Bot locked, aad frame it I got anoth- | 1119 o'clock under s bay stack, and then started

these: A man who convicts another er gold watcb. I then started down stairs; and pet “ e he pike |
‘ wart oc any,ciher, may he never bare couawe Wee Junt leaving the, tae ea evaaslight, mare gach the woods or rote had woking oa |
| faints boota’ [This aliades to the old Eugiieh, ff ith, Je was then Just about daylight, and ebe }® APPLES AND CORN Tu BAT,
} story of s curtom observed by those desiring to fad come to the houseito wash (a8 Tafterwarde | 4+ stoaian Spring’ I saw Diller's alster-in-
| be ae witmesses.). But thie man who learned.) She sald good moraing. sud Lae, jaw. She hed just Guished wasbinz tne blood


made on January 2) at the Bel Alr

‘ast. disclosed the buried hiding

rline of Graham's wallet. The

wav @fter Chat confession they
vest an directed ta the Deal Inland
torher navigation Nght and, ex-

‘thy as described, found the wal-
ut and Graham's registration ear!

yscuet in the sand.

Weldon” stubbornly denied | that
hat -ever made any statement
“the officers, tle denied that he
enf ever had a .22 caliber rifle
fie defense attorneys objected, in
vfoss examination by the state, to

“s question as to whether he had
cen Kenneth Willing, Deal Island
the day Graham was slain. In sep

indictments, not before the
oort fy this case, Weldon is charg

owith shooting and. wounding

“thong that day with a .22 caliber

othe Weldon denied seeing will

vy chat day. :

Denied Seareh

denied that, when he war

hed at his home. upon arrest,

( nny other time, that officer:

found .22 caliber bullets in his

easion, or that they found $10&

-possession: He said all they

from him waa $15 in-cash, his

-- Wallet sand. tliree packs: ‘of
(ees

pias i eclared® that ‘he. had: not
‘een to Graham’a oyster packing

ae on ithe day or night of the

- Song. denied going to Princes:

“Aree on! the day of the slayins

eclared that he-had been at 2
Island store at the ume the
Ting Look place.
ie entered a complete ental to
runing any statement to the of-
ysand to the accuracy. ‘of any
ements — contained in -any of
confessions... He maintained
atthe had not signed the confes-
which bore his signature.”
state ‘completed - ita ‘case at
—with the testimony _ of First
J. Re Buckworth that he, with
‘aul R. Randall and Trooper
as ‘Vedits, acting. upon the
mit pair of confessions obtain-
i+ at Bel Air on January 21, ‘went
Island. and ‘found. Gra-
wallet buried at the beacon
opposite the -harbor from
Gam's< packing house.” :
: Wallet Identified §
wallet— was _ identified by
Graham, the” slain man’s
ae as offe she and her bro-
nd sisters: had. Riven him
birthday last) Nov. It
med checks kde out ie fin
onraft: ‘classification. farses and
identification.

ross examination” eof
; our way when court. reces-

SO opm. :
oe Samuel Sherwell: “who

“Vrooper Veditz obtained the
-{:aet of “atatements from
Ve On ‘Jan. 21,

“this version of the shooting:
wyn had. firat forced: their

“Into. the packing plant. short-

fier. 8:30 p.m. by prying open
1 wtih @ rifle barrel. ‘
acked the office, taking

Ke. ‘six packs of cigarets, am-

gasoline stamps.

te

naete

*

+ through the pay window. -
“they - started. to leave the

testified they}

House ‘Committee | Passes
It Without Change

Washington: Mateh 22. 3 AP
The House military committee .
day unimously approved- a
year extension of the Tae la
without changes. ee .

~The action wus: taker afer

brief hearing during. which Arrg.je:

spokesmen asked that no restric
tions be. placed sgainst the curr
policy of sending men into com
five months after their Anduc
when necessary

Some members had soug
ban the sending of teen-age:
ductees into combat without a
cified period of training.

Chairman May (D-Ky) said”
would seek House consideration
the bill early next week.  U
Congress extends it, the p
draft law, enacted in: 1940,
become inoperative on May 15

“Major Changes —

Major. proposal oe ae
include: ~ :

A prohibition . sghinet ‘sent
‘teen-age inductees, inte? con
without at least u full. r
training in. this country.

A requirement that
now at fighting fronts’ be
furtoughs under a ‘rotation s
which would consider. the |
: t °
of. existin
emluclen é

‘ A /tightening
strictions against

lar to separate? Hegistaor
deadlocked . because * of ise
ment betwee n

House.

“Twith: he

time draft law:

“The administration is.

Capt. Fichnor Fre reed

From German Prison

“Capt. ‘John T: -Eichnor, 25
metly held'in Germany in ap
er of war camp, hax been rel:
and the Wur department has
Vited his aunts, the Misses: Bla:
and MaBelle Tamlinson. of:
bury, to write a message | AO hiew

Capt... Eichnor: enlisted a
cember, 1941. and served - fo
ears in Hawaii, In January,
he was shipped to t

can “Theatre, wher

¥ | wounds.

He survived: “the Heke ore
transport, and swam for: sexerte
hours in the ey. waters. of the
Atlantic Ocean.

Hia brother, George u. aX
Jr, is in the Navy. : :

Mr, and Mra. George H. Ex tinor,

cb tive inf La

5 Soldiers Hurt In

that

VClark’s

‘Krause, native

Shore and f

inbury and

mother was the bate

ford of Prineesa Anne. HB
rapending 4% rs in CR
treasurer

Methodist Mission, He

penis on furiou

three yearn.

of farat. prisoners

Fap’s attack on Pearl H
ek rause didn't disclose

nad teen taken after

jut the letter was writtes
tionery.

uspension Follow

Vir! Hitchens:

odie last night on F
1s

ie which two. bolle

thé Burch Paint Co.
yor Hitenens woul
any details: other
Officer’ Long “hb
te aome trouble” dast f=
Chief of Police Whe

; Chatham also ‘declined

anyvidetal ils. saying he h

ithe matter over to May
‘tens. He had telephoned

vfter the shooting and.

The shots were bea

Pe yesterday by S

"troy Brewington and sev

policemen stationed he

“ireuit Court...
’From ; rehable’ out
res” it was learned

Ach

rant. following. a distu
restaurant

Now Total 859,58

Washington, March 23
army and Navy combat Bra
since. the begianing of
have reached 859,537, +
Vices reported today —
Y Undersecretary of W
son teported Army

Q

‘TBRO “on the basis of

tiled tn
4
.

Washbingtoe
The Nes

tre@se of tebe over

} report.

New York
On ek


fe County Fair Asso-
= 4 the Carrcll County
ys and Fair Association.

“lo the Senate.

ao bill after some de-

for stricter licens-

and providing for a
» fee for barbers.

an Calls On
Switzerland. March} The boys then gut in a skiff|tieed the boys around her store
Prince Juan, son of

Alfonso and hey to
n-existent . throne of ling

to the As-jh
of the end of the
i the

and|his bed when they went home.

no one‘ to rebellion,”
: 1 would wish to re-
Fi who support the exist-
} regime of the tre-
sponsibilities they in-
buting to prolongation
Ation which inevitably
the country to irre-
n.”

Mareh 22—(AP)—
the

DAY EVENING, MAB

——— “ —— _arenarona

Continued From Page One something into the river and later UMW. Operators
iS . bend over the slain man. R
JONES BROTHERS Coulde's ‘Find Rifle Resume Conferences

k dant. oached
packing Mant. a car approache First Sgt. od <5 Beck worth

Washington, March 22

, td Holbro« o . .
a when pite ies Ricopertnd pant rtied ie ~— ap intensive! Conferences between United Mine
. search and dragging of the harbor Workers and bituminous operators

the coal bin

Ive got a 22 rifle!the fle nad not been found.
resume today to determine wheth-

and we'll see whose coming.” . apa
Citizen’s Report Helps |r present obetarles cr

Weldon recognized Graham and)

come thus making further meet-

shot him, Sherwell said the 1%" Poli - >
ot hi erwell sai Police Catch Runaways jing. worthwhile

year-old negro youth admitted in Y cltizen'h pt report to po-

A dimming hope that the two 8

the confession. The boys waited) jice of suspicious characters en-| parties somehow could
for a few minutes then went over abled authorities here to appre-leontract agreement prom
to the body. Graham turned over|hend three runaway youths[t) resume conversations despite
and Weldon jumped back because|from the training school at Stoek-| predictions
he was frightened. Graham didn't}ley, Del. vention wou

move’ anymore, so “we took his] Chief of Police William J. Chat- the

that government inter-
ld be necessary before
resent contract expires oO” |,

pocketbook.” ham said Mrs. V. L. McCready no-} Mare

and Holbrook rowed them across} on West Main St. trying to take ha th United Méne!
the river. They walked to a blink-| some clothing from the McCready’s waexecs! Pradds nn Bohne pe

er

Weldon picked up the “gun[police and yesterday Chatham ap-

i and yplit the money. ¢iv-|car. She appeared and the youths yj t
ae olbrook $30. They buried| scattered. NS arabcent ait Fer
upon Francisco Fran-jthe wallet at the lighthouse inthe] She immediately reported it tolfalty. .
would make

sand.
ofjand they walked home at Chance.|prehended the youths who haveljook like a piker.” path oh Gecree

Weldon said he put the rifle and|been turned over to Delaware au-}Cumpbell. [Hlinos operator. refer

bullets in a dry ditch near his: thorities. ring to thé royalty demand whet

although two stolen shotguns were

caaeek pene hmeorcingy ey a ; has been calculated te net the -un
‘Rails Lead Slow ion $60,000,000 a year.

Jt. js piracy on a grand/osc

found in a locked room of a va- Recovery On Market ; adale worse than Captain Kid! @

cant house.’ Holbrook, in his con- Z . :

Sat eee i reall vaatified Stee Soo leans look ak ale

Weldon had placed the rifle unde Rails today led the stock. market i!
on a snajl-like recovery. —

Dealings were sluggish from

Robin Hood ever conceived shi:

An indefinite recess was calle
yesterday while private talk- be

Coal Fought the start. While many issues tween key operators, Lewis, an

Weldon and Holbrook, weént on} fai}. nae oa
the witness stand yesterday after- Peon pe Fygeorin paren 1
noon to fight introduction by thel4y,.tributed near the fourth hour
state of confessions to the slaying. BAdiy : :

Weldon testified that State Dividend hopes motivated  as-
Police Cpl. T. A. Short, in Salis- sorted favorites ang bids were re-
bury, took off his coat ‘and gun instated on the ide the three-day
and said “If 1 didn’t confess that decline had resulted in an. over-
[ shot that man he was going to sold condition that warranted at
beat the truth out of me” leaxt a moderate comeback. Num-

Later, enroute to Bel Air, Short crous customers, however, held
told him he would ‘part my fore- aloof as the good war news con-
head with a blackjack.” Weldon tinued | to xtreas reconversion
testified. He entered a denial doubts.
that he had signed the confession. NE en

Cpl. Short, called in rebuttal,| HANK STATEMENTS ASKED
testified that be had not threatened| Wachington. March 22 (AP)
Weldon in Salisbury or anywhere} The comptroller of the. currency
else. At the barracks here, heltoday issued a call for a statement
said he took off his peacoatt coat of the condition of all national
and gup and prepared a can of| hanks wt the ‘close: of busines»
soup and was eating it when called! Tuesday, March 20.
to take the two Jones boys to Bel Be asia OA ag
Air. WAS FIRST IN ENGLAND
Enroute, he testified, Weldon Accord to F Tuatier: Queen
fell asleep, resting his head on the! Elizabeth owned the first mahox-
officer's shoulder. I woke him] an, known in England. Sir Wal-
up. 1 said I've lost enough sleeplter Rualeizh, the sea-faring court:
over you tonight. You'll have toliie,, presented het with a table
_[stay awake and keep your head off} made of it.

O'Leary were conducted
was decided tentatively ¢
formal negotiations

“<SSMAN DIES
Phoemx, Ariz. Maren <2
—Rep. James

fibrosis of the longs

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my shoublers.” 5
Holbrook Jones admitted signing

a separate confession but insisted

that he had not been told what he

was signing., A series of State

Police officers took the stand to

testify they witnessed the reading
of the confexmons and the signing
by the two boys.

Defense counsel attempted to
have the coofessions exclu ed The


ay

&

ent of Poles
nd abroad. ~

by the two boyz.

state of confessions te the slaying.
Weldon testified that State
Police Cpl. T.. A. Short, in Salts-

a@id said “If 1 didn’t confess that
1 shot that man he was going to
beat the truth out of me.”

Later. enroute to Bel Air, Short
told him he would “part my fore-
bead with a blackjack.” Weldon
testified. He entered a denial
that he had signed the confession
Cpl. Short, called in rebuttat.
testified that be had not threatened

else. At the barracks here, he
said he took off his peacoat, coat
and gun and prepared a can of
soup and was eating it when called
~ take the two Jones boys to Bol
Air.
Enroute, he testified, Weldon
fell asleep, resting his head on the
officer's shoulder. “I woke him
up. I said I've lost enough sleep
over you tonight. You'll have to
stay awake and keep your head off
my shouNers.” ;
Holbrook Jones admitted signing
a separate confession but insisted
that he had not been told what he
was signing. A series of State
Police officers took the stand to
testify they witnessed the reading
of the confessions and the signing

Defense counsel attempted to
have the confessions excluded. The
court® finally excluded all refer-
ences to “er:mes except to the
person or property of 1-Rayno
Graham.” ’
/ Weldon's .confession,. as adnit-
ted in -vidence, statéd he had
drank some beer in Princess Arne
and returned to Deal Island. visit
ing the (Graham oyster packing
house. He saw a car in front ot
tae oyster house and # man at thi
entrance to the building.
“[ put the ges roomy shoulder
aimed and fired. 1 theught he
was Gene Taylor 1 saw hin fall
We walked. up to where the man
Jwas laying and took all the moneys
we could fine He aot cup ard
tried to get to his car. We snwiat
was Mr. Graham
“Lam sorry tec wnat Ive done.
I'm sorry Mr: Graham died.”
The confession explained that
Weldon had had trouble with Tay
lor The contession said that
after the shooting, he threw) the
99 caliber rifle overbonrd at
Graham's wharfand the two boys
went home.

Holbrook’s confession differed

Graham's oyster house and saws
ear coming. Weldon stood by the

fired at the man from the car
thinking “that it was anothers
boy.” The confession said that

Ras Lead Slow
-|Recovery On Market

the start. While many = issues
Wekion and Holbrouk, went onlegited to get ahead, advances of
the witness stand yesterday after- fractions to 2 points were well
neon te fight introduction by the distributed near the fourth hour.

sorted favorites ang bids were re
bury, took off his coat and gun instated on the ide the three day

decline had resulted ino an over-
sold condition that) warranted at
least a moderate comeback. Num-
crous customers, hewever, — held
aloof ax the good war news con
tinued — te stress terconversion
doubts

declaring that they had gone to

coal bin of the oyster house and

Holbrook look a best and rowed
across the harbour As he rowed
away he saw his brother thiow

Dealings were sluggish from

Dividend hopes ‘motivated s«-

BANK STATEMENTS ASKED |
Washington, March 22. (AP)

Weldon in Salisbury or anywhere}|The comptroller of othe tren sl

today msned a call for a statement!
of the condition of all national
banks yt the close of business
Tuesday, March 20.

WAS FI IN ENGLAND
Accord't to tradition, Queen
Elizabeth owned the first mahox-
any known in England. Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh, the sea-faring court-
tier. presented her with a table
made of it.

jon $60,000,000 a year.
1. “Jt ie piracy on a grandiose
acale worse than Captain Kidd or
New York, Marcy 22—(AP)— Robin Hood ever conceived,” nnid
Rails today led the stock market
on a snail-like recovery.

Campbell.

tween key operators, Lewis, ane

O'Leary were conducted Later it

caku d to net the un}

|

An indefinite recess was called
yesterday while private talks be

UMWA § Vice President. John

was decided tentatively to resum
formal negotiations voday ]

CONGRESSMAN DIES

Phoenix, Anz, March 72 ‘AP
~Rep James V Heidinger, ¢K
Hip, 62, died at Got Samariter
Hospital early wday. Chrome
fibrowis of the tungs caused ber
death

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a ounty Circuit

\udator to punishment

a] “ly ae its”

“tourt Gives Verdict. In

Slaying Of Somerset _
_ Seafood Packer

eee tana Vr

W oton Jones, Jr. 18, was sen-

“feweat to deata by hanging and
bes, brother,

Holbrook, 15, to life-
“prisonment today in Wicomico
Court — for the
saying of I. Raynor Graham, 39-

oe ar-ald Deal Island oyster: pack-

plant: eoperninrs one the’, plight
an. 12...

The slaying. was a ‘dimax: to an|
afternoon and evening of assault,

sobbery and attempted | rape. of
‘taoe women. Other | indictments
corainst: the Jones boys, charging
n with those. “crimes, were
huarked nolle prosse -by the state
fter sentence. was imposed for

sefore imposifig’ ‘seritence,
evin Claude Bailey warned the
acked courtroom, “This 78

: court of justice and not a show-
“*yoom_and there’ must he no, dem-
-onstration of. any kind - or char-

“yeter. Every person must. re-
-a.ain in place ‘urtil-eourt adjourns, |”
yy ‘violation will | subject. -th
fot con:

In

sage
Jaidge Bailey said) that. the. ‘ra-|
: A’ “card - of. Raynor}

automobile

nd syaltook Speed! that
-ame e night. It was farther found
hat their persons “contained cert:

“tain 22-caliber. bullets which we

tieve were taken from Raynor
office.”

t of the same “caliber,

ound in Graham’s

F St was found in

e eval din’ of the Graham plant.

‘The ite access to the .22-

riffle” of Kenneth a een
bee!

td calfenat! fact” he
al) waa that State. Police offi:
questioned the two. boys 1
Q Air on January 21 and, the
: ext day, went to Deal, Islam and

se “moat

ered Graham's pocke
‘automobile regiatration card
baried in the nd near 8 blinking
igation light... eee
He said it: was “inconceivable
it the boys to have known the ae

tion unlese they were. the one
aho extracted those items. ‘von

“of Raynor Graham
dence

Evi

S/Sgt. Marion E. Stanfield and Sgt. dummy Blair, featx
cista on the WAC Caravan. which ¢amea to Salisbury nex
“day, for two radio broadcasts and» special stage show

muditorinnl of the Mate ee G

uence that n

vocal and instrumental arti Ls: and
the recruiting ‘show “This Woman's
Army,” is) coming’ ta ‘Salisbury
next Wednesday for two radio pro-
grams and an evening show at the
Salisbury. State Teachers College.

» The special presentation of the
caravan: is being: sponsored wes tie:

Senate Gets Bill.

Washington, March” 93 <(AP) =
The ‘House. passed ‘unanimously
and sent to the Senate today legs
lation ‘extending the draft law
one year beyond. May 15,1945

“The measure’ was discussed les:
than five minutes and passed with
out a ‘record. vote under procedur:
requiring unanimous consent.” Onc
objection’ could have: blocked | at
but there was none. 7. >

The legislation extends the 19.40
Selective. Service: Act and tts im:
plementing amendments until Muy
18, 1946, or until the end: of che
war, whichever comes ‘first. Shoul!
the war not’ be over by May 15
1946, @n additions! extension woul
have to -be approved by” Congress.
However, should it: end on® al'
fronts. before then. the “draft daw
could expire.

* Oppoaition_ "Dinsolves
~Opponition to. unrestricted,

tension of the law dissolved ty the) Cyravan:

a need fo
uctions” be-

face_of figures showin
more than 405,000. {
tween now and July 1:

Prospects. thereafter, however

are for a 81 percent drop an. the) wor

draft: rate= from 138, le to BR, er
men. a month. -

“ft took the. Hou
mittee little more than iwo hours
yesterday to approve ‘unabimousls

Ja one-year atari wt the law

military Soir: :

af the Salisoury Kiw
Se Hilary M. Tay
hrough. coope
ecruiting b

Third: = 4

: petite 23-y
Stanfi

hihunde,
Marion — by

var Cer: for

+ eens. A native of
urban Royal Oak,.

took the’ oath “of
the ‘Women’s Arm
twenty: first as]

“Lever, Manon hearing
Shot LUN Marvin, p

>, was holding

dided*to sit in on 1s
When she got. to
learned that) Marvin
ng girl’ singers to
band. She was audi

dhiret on the spot.

engagement with M

he Wanriman. Park
ington, Marvin was
duty with the Army
disbanded
turned to” her home.
Shortly after ahe
ganiation of Denny
which she toured thd
aliasing she coukd do
country, now at War
from the band, and
WAC ‘in’ September
“(Co starned, with hel
ia Sgt.
who claims he. new
easy it waa to p
his en ter wnul se
‘ labeled him


hat many preferred walk
snd Mra Wateon, who ao
fered the ase of their lawn

entertained charmingly,
ty body feel at home. “The
Host successful in every de
receipth will neta tidy
he church. Some of the

able — No, 1— Miss Naor:
‘* William HH. Morris aud
Small, Jr., and Mra. J.

t

able No. 2.—Miss Margaret
id Mrs. Bash.

Cable No. $—Misses Cora
Myers, Misa Emma Morris
larry Basil,

mery Table—Mrs. Joseph
Misa: Westbrook and Mie.

a Table No. 1---Mixa Mollie
iss Rath Wells and Mies
vlor.

1 Table No. 2-. Miss Grace
Etta Oox, Miss Margaret

‘Table No. ¥—Miss Maggie
ae Edith Morris and Mies
Slinghausen

lon Staud—-Mr. J. Guest

{feature of the lawn sup

lumoustration offifty-reven |

Hod) Heinz & Co.'s pick
avete, by MOL JS. Painter
er Was Very pleasant t
and took adelight in show

i (erita of the Heinz va
“di batedga large pumbe:
fr. meistiog of cans of

‘ Lottles of pickles, book -
hie shape and tiny green
teoebcharme, Some orders
ved aod all were pleased
‘moustration,
2 ee -—--

og Firemen’s Meeting.

cus and Chief Fire Mai
Vt. Bellis, left: here today
veto attend the executive
theeling of the firemen
be held in that city today,
wand Mr, Bellis are mem-
Hitenien's executive eom-

PeOkOKOhOKOLOKOKOKe

OUR JULY

aring Sale

000 YARBS.

out Bros.

wll for CASH only
six thonsand yard-«
of fine

2GANDIES,
\WHS,
2ENADINES,
tEPES and
JILES,

formerly sold for 10,
id 15 cents, you can
‘ind take your choice

Jcts. per yard,

sale will continue for
ek, and every lady in

SRSORSKOKSOEOHESESHSESFSKORSESESOECESEOE KEHOE KO RERE KROHREEO TE KO

jis and Anne Arundel @
should examine this ry
vou wil never havea *
like this again” this %
*

a :
DOUT BROS., °
in Street, Annapolis, Md. 5
onehenohekokenonone

Herve aol Ted PAMBLY. WATS gee

made on final atatemont on the gal:
lows toc gaards this morning and
dant oot the marderer atill told) the
ror ry of) the shooting of McNa.-
1K saying that the policeman's
dint bad not been intended by him.
Hie sponta quiet night, retiring at 1
o'clock and sleeping until shortly be-
fore 5 o'clock thia morning. Ho ate
only a light) breakasft and spent the
rest. of his tine reading’ his Bible,
LEAZER's LAST NIGUTIN JALL,
Although witnessed by one. of the
largest crowds ever present on a.simi-
lar occasion, the execution was car-
ried out without a hitch and the S00
persons inside the jail yard were well
bandled. Last night at about 11
o'clock the jail officials failing to
find n barber, it was necesary for them
toshave the condemned man, This
wae dove by night watchman George
Tasior and Depaty Reaben Small.
wood After reading his Bible for
ac hour or so the man retired to his
couel at 1 o'clock and went to sleep
almost immediately, Ho slept well
without any apparent thought or
dream of the fateful morrow, and

) voke Cais morning apparently refresh-

wo in good spirite.
ifis first words were to George Tay-
or Oight death watch, to whom he

iawid, when hoe awoke at 4.53 a. m.:

(iood morning, Mr. George. How
aro you this morning ?"’ In reply to
a ore as to his own health, Lea-
zer then said: ‘I never felt better in
wy fife!" Shortly aftar 5 o'clock
ho wad asked what he wanted for
breakfAst aud was given what he or-
dered, which consisted of an egg and
acupof tea with oa piece of bread,
This light breakafst he ate of sparing-
ly, alter which he gave to his watch.
man a letter which be requested to
be delivered to Mr. Harry Lewis, the
oght watchman at the jail. his

cter is as follows :

**Anpapolis, Md., Jaly 20, "05,

‘These ure the words of the Lord,
‘If ye keep iy commandments, ye
shall abide in my love, even as I have
kept my father's commandments and
abide in His love; this is my com-
mandment, that ye love one another,
asf have loved you. Greater love
hath po man than this, that’ a.mav
lay down his life for his friend; if
ye know thee things, happy are ye,
if ye do them, may the love of the
Lord restin you and bring you to

everlasting life.
W. R. LEAZER.”'

On the reverse side of the paper,was
written : '

‘*And also to the kind treatment of
Mr, Lewis, will say that I am highly
pleased indeed, ax he has been so kind
tousall, I eay that I am well pleased
with his kindness, aod I will say may
saccess follow him."’

These two were written in ink ina
fairly good haud, and showed Leazer
to have been an edocated man for his
station. At the same time that this
letter was given to Watchman Taylor,
the condemned man handed him an-
other communication addreased to a
Jady in Baltimore, who had called to
see him on Satarday of last week,
The young lady, whore name is with-
held, is a friend of the death watch.
man and had talked with the condemn-
ed man for some time while in his
cell. Leazer explained that he had
taken a fancy to ber and asked that
his letter of farewell be mailed to her
today. This was done by Mr. Taylor.

Aftor delivering these letters, to
Watchman Taylor, the murderer took
his Bible and with the {suit case con-
taining the clothes he was to wear
when hanged, moved close to the grated
door of his cell Here he took his
seat, saying that he was ready when-
ever they wanted him to dresa. At
9.30 o'clock he dressed himself, saying
as be did so that he was perfectly re-
nigsed-and felt that he-kad becn for-
given. Ateight minutes of 10 fhe
start was uratie for the gallowa. Asa he
stepped outside of his cell into the
corridor, he asked permission of Dep-
uty Sheriff Bryan to say farewell to

the other prisoners in cells next
to his. his was ted, and he
went to the door of ‘No. 85 first.

William Mereer, a white man,c

with bigamy, was in this cell, and
duridg the farewell was much more
affected than the coloied murderer.
Leasor said to him to try and be good

i pn Ad PNR ay ne i
but he did not take the commanion
Following the short) servieo, whieh
was withoskod only by the ropresenta-
tives of the prosk. and those atroady
montioned in addition to the jail otti-
cials, the uan who realized fully the
Dearness of hin end, told hin friends of
the Guild of Merey and hin brother
goodby. Vothem all he suid he had
been forgiven and ‘‘by. the grace of
God he would mect them in heaven."’
He merely shook bands with hia
brother ; Walter, who remained in the
fame room where the service had been
held until after ‘the execution was
over. ‘
MARCH TO SCAFFOLD,

At six minutos past ten the maroh
to the gallows was reramed, The pro-
cession was headed by the minister,
immediately behind whom came Chief
Deputy Sheriff N. W. Bryan and
Depnty Sheriff Sinallwood, who were
joxt in front of the marderer, who had
rallied after taking the communion
and walked with a firm tread between
his night and day death watchmen.

WM. R. LEAZER.

The gallows was reached after about
three minutes. No time was lost, once
the party were on the scaffold. The
murderer took bis stand on the trap
withont assistance and, by hia motions
assisted his executioners aa much as
possible in pinioning him. Hia legs
were ‘strapped by Deputy Sheriff
Bryan, while the black cap and rope
were adjusted by Depaty Smallwood.
At the same time the minister, re-
peated the benediction. Inside of one
mipatezafter the stepa leading to his
last earthly stand had beea reached,
the trap was sprang by Sheriff Hardy
and Leazer plunged to enternity.

THE TRAP SPRUNG.

The scaffold was given a final test
early this morning and found to be in
perfect working order. The timbers
used in its erection,and the rope were
both the same as those which did aer-
vice at the recent hanging of Jalius
alais ‘‘Tots’’ Cooper. A rope had been
stretched across the jail yard about 2
feet from tha base of the gallows, and
beliind this the crowd was held back
by Ohief of Police George Hahn and
a sqoad of patroimen. The crowd,
however, was perfectly orderly and
everrything was carried through with-
out the slightest hitch.

Although this is only the second
hanging doring his ministration,
Sheriff Hardy and his depoties man-
aged it ia a most commendable way,
not slono for the succeas of the execa-
tion, but in the quiet and grderly des-

Ernest Fortealexeented April ised

Robert Wyatt, cvecuted duty
14W) /

'*Froggy'' Johuaon waste have beou
executed January 15, [Hil, but was
reprieved at the Last moment aud son
tonce commuted to life diriwonimient

Juliug, alias Tota’? Cooperexecut
ed January 27, 105,

Thia is the firvt time in the uistory
of Anvapolia that there have been two
hangings in leas than Kix tmonthe Tt is
an upusrual coincidence.

HISTORY OF TILE CRIME.

The murder of Patrolman John G
McNamara, for which Leazer today

id the full penalty demanded by
aw, Wea a most brbtal and ontirely
unprovoked one, growing out of the
propensity of members of the mur-
derer’a race for carrying concealed
weapons.

Ono the night of March 21, last, Lea-
zer, Who war thea employed at the
plant of the Maryland Oar Works at
Ourtis Bay, with a number of other
negroes, was wtealing coal’from cars on
the Fuirfleld siding of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. In company with
John Leazer, David Horah and Will-
iam Harris, three colored men, Lea.
zer was returving to hia home, each
with a bag of atolen coal on his sheul-
der. McNamara, who Was a memter
of the Fairfleld police force, came up
with and attempted to arrest Leazer,
while the other three negroed tad be.
hind a tree,

According to ‘thea testimony of tis
companious, Leazer had previously
indicated that he had a pistol and that
he would shoot anyone who attempted
to arrest him or interfere with him ia
any way. Upon being placed under
arrest he went «afew steps with the
officer and then drawing a Ss-calibre
revolver from his pocket fired upon
McNamara, The ball entered thie ofti-
cer's right breast, causing instant
death. A search was at once started
and number of suspects wore rounded
up in the Coutral Police Station in
Baltimore by the Cartis Bay police
aud Sheriff Hardy, Deputy Sherif!
Bryav and Chief George Hahn, of the
local police force.

Leazcr was captared two days after
the crime opon the statements of Id-
ward Harris, who ,had met abe mar
derer shortly after the coal stealing.
At firat Leazer protested that he knew
anyting whatever of the shooting, but
later broke down and confested, say-
ing that the shooting was entirely ac-
cidental. This plea he stood by when
on the witness stand durivg his trial
Excitement was inteuse immediately
after the murder, aud for this reason
the aothorities, fearing a lynching,
kept the accused inan in the Central
Police Station in Baltimore. He was
brought to thia city for a hearing on
March 2, and was then given op pre-
liminary hearing by Justice John N.
Davis, inthe Anne Arandel county
jail, where he was executed today.

Leazer was then returned to Balti-
more, where he rumained antil April
18, on which date he waa formally
arraigned betore the Circuit Court for
Apne Arundel county. He entered @
plea of not guilty and was remanded
to Baltimore jail ontit April 27, which
day was set for his trial. The trial
occapied two days, but the verdict was
practically a foregone conclusion, so
damaging had been the testimony of
all the witmeases. State's Attorney
Nicholas H. Green conducted the
prosecution, while Leazerwas defended
by Ephriem Jackson, of Baltimore,
and George L. Pendleton, of this city,

about an hour and late inthe after.
noon of April 28 retarned a verdict of
murder in the first degree. Un Friday,
May 5, the condemned murderer was
bronght into court and sentenced, the
sentence of the court being passe] b
Ohief Judge 1. Thomas Jones. The fol-
lowing week Governor Warfield set
Friday, Joly 24, av the date for the
exzecntion.

Since that tise Leazer has been con-
fined in Murdere:'s Row, in the third
tier of cells in the county jail. He hax
been mn good prisoner, causing little
trouble and seeming to want bot little.
He haa been constantly attended by
the Rev. J. M. Simons, rector of St.
Philip’s Protestant Episcopal chapel,
and several. weekg ago professed com.

ete repentence and wae baptised in

ia cell in the jail.

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sist ; William Leazer

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echelon Executed at Annapolis on July 21st 1905
sibeine Reported in The Balttmore Sun issue of 7-22-05
page 10 column 3

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He Was Conv ed 08 of: ‘iting 2
| trolmanm John G. MeNamara
~ Anne’ Arande! County. | :

‘(Special Dispated to the Daitimore ‘
Annapolis, Madi, July 21.—William
Leazer, colored, was havged in the
| yard at Annapolis'today for the mu
of Patrolman John Geotee McNamara.
| trap of the gallows was apyane by Sh

} a half hour Inter the dead man was low
into the, coffin. { Venaer’s neck was }
broken and his denth was bs strangulation.
Heventeen, minutes after the drop fet! gol-

f Bationa of the wrist ceased, but to. mpke

i certuin of his death the officlal phystei ns

F let the body hang for 13° minutes cabape

| «The pretiminaries to the execution
carried oyt in a moat expeditious man cr

t Leazer, althourh somewhat ‘nervous be
the marctt to ets oe hore the o

L caimiy and a

d | unasaisted.

| feet, and aie 8 the neck was not

| it is belfeved he was imuediately re

| uncanselous by the fall, and expetienced no

| snffering whaterar, At feast 490

packed the jMil yard and witnessed fhe
| execution, while those outside numb

OOO more, Several women wer admitt

one of the back windows of the prison.

wie v » . ¢
ee sid a At. § o'clock In the morning the pr
secant eal he we ee dressed in a wilt at plain black, white
dehleibiee tabaisss , gee -shirt. with collar and small. tie,

tack shoerx At 9,40 o'clock the condemé@
man wag escorted to a small room fa
‘ matn corridor: where Rev. J. H. Sim
colored, pastor of St. Phillip’s Chapel, .
spiritual adviser, conducted the religi=us
service. There were present at the se
two members of the Guild of Mercy of St. |
\ Anne's Protestant Episcopal Chureh gnd |
Walter Leazer. « younger brother of phe |
condrmnel maw. In going to the scapid }
Rev. Stmons led the way. Leazrer was ie-
companted by Deputy Sheriffs Nichalas
i Bryan and Renben Smallwood. He walked
Pup the steps to the gallows bravely.’ The |
nonse ant cap were soon adjusted by the |
; deputies. The Sberlf! pulled the ropel te, |
p | the trap @nd the, prisoner fell to bia degths
} The medical moa im attendance were Ipra i
me WR. Walton, J. d. Murphy and J, 0, Fin
vis, of Apnapotia, and Charles Brahe wn
a Kobinaon. of Hrocklya, Anne Arundel ¢
ty. and tieorce Y. Everhart, of Battle
J connty, The coryee wae buried iin B
pHi Cemetery, fot enlored seaple,’

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MEHAMARA'S MURDERER

MAN WHO KILLED OFFICER
HAS BEEN CAUGHT.

a ne es ae

Says That The Shooting Was En-
tirely Accidental And Can-
not Understand
The Cause.

After ao seareh lasting less Chan
twenty-four bours the self confessed
murderer of Policeman Jolin George
McNamara has been placed under ar-
rest. he story as fold by the arrested
man and corroborated by withesses to
the atfair Jeave no doubt in the minds
of the officers that thes have the right
man under arrest.

He is William Lowcer, colored about
30 vears of age.and has been cuployed
for the better part ot four sears at
the plant of the Marviand Car) Works
at Curtis bay. Leaver states that. hie
did not knowingly shoot) the police
map. Hesays that the billing was
entirely an accident. The arrest was
made by Chief of Police MeDonald,
of the Anne Arundel county forea, of
which McNamara was a member,

Every member of (ie Anne Arundel
police department, roany detectives of
Baltimore, ShertY Samuel Bo dardy
and Depaty Sherif! No W. Bryan, of
this county, and Cloef George Haba,
of the Annapolis city police force
wore at work on the case. After the
police Fad been working an Che case
for several fours the ball penoan Che
Qentral Station in Batliniore was well
filled with suspects These were
Closely questioned and their stories
investigated, each roan being turned
loose as he was thooght te be inne
cent.

John Leazer, David Hora and
William Harris were among the men
arrested and they told stories which
ceomed to throw the blame on Leazer
At first he demed any knowledge of
the affair and was put) through oa
course of sprouts, which incladed the
tharts second degree, Xt Inst hie told
tae odicers that he was guilty of the
shooting, but that it was entirely peel
dentel, He said that he had been
taking coal and was approached by
she officer who grabbed liam by the

coat. Lhe prisoner pulled lis revolver

and to his surprise it was discharged.
Herd that he did not know ull

morning that the officer was dead,

—

aaa

Leaver has been charged with mur-
der pad the other three prisoners will
be held as Witnesses. State's Attor
ney Niholas H. Green and Depaty

i Sheriff Nicholas W. Bryan went to

Baltimore this morning to secure at
first band the statement of the prison:
or. He will be brought to Annapolis
and jodged in the county jail today.

isuch is the feeling in the matter that

the zrand jury, which under a recent
enactment, ie never finally discharged
until a pew jury Is sworn 1h, will be
called together to take action 1D the
ease. If Leazer is indicted he wall
then be placed on trial and the Care
disposed of at once rather than watt
until the regular session of court.

Of course ,this is merely conjecture,

lbut the chances are very good that

this will bo done, it being the yeneral

Fopinion that in a case of this kind @

speedy trial and positive results ere
better than waiting a great length of

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MURDERIN THE COUNTY

Patrolman McNamara Brutally |

Assaulted Sy Negro.

Patrolman John G. McNamara of
the Curtis Bay police, was brutally
wardered last night supposedly by a>
nakoown negro.

A 15-year old boy, David Horak, war
es witness who saw the police.
man fall, and saw ‘women running.
hat being dark he conld not identif)
them. He,ran to Mr. Wililam Don.
nelly’s house, about two squares off,
who rushed with a lantern to the
ecene of the murder.

He foond McNarcara lying in th:
pnd, He was unconscious and dic:

ery ehortly without having spoken
A ballet wound from a 38-¢alibor ro
volver was in his right breast. rem

appearances the murderer must havc

been hidden behind 2 poloand tock th:
policeman unawarc3. Four bag3 co.
coal in the vicinity, evidently stolc:
from the Ealtimore & Ohio Railroad
give rise to the cupvosition that for
men were perhaps concerned in th
murder, and that rorhaps MoNamar:
was about to catch thom.

Glesk to the county ccmmimicns: |
Charles Himmeiheber, was personal!

acquainted with tho murdered petrc!
man, who. was a good, honest, con
scientions officer. asvery effort is bc
ing made by the Anne Arundel authe:
ities to apprshend the murderer. Ocp
aty Sherif? Bryan, who received o to!
egram last night apprising him of {>
marder, ig cow ont on the case.

a ey

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ass
ancy
cted.

embar-
y one
s. Ever
iink of
‘rr harm
is mind

changed

closely
ars, and
irls and

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ier, “he
ith him
around

I think
vith us.

placed
‘r men,
called
a, Miss
singled

case was set for the November term
of the district court. I

In the interim, Mrs. Hibbs pre-
vailed upon. her son to enter a plea
of guilty. And so, on November 28,
1929, Hibbs threw himself upon the
mercy of the court and received Dis-
trict Judge Frank Clark’s sentente
of 20-years with stoical indifference.

EN oy passed. Then, heralded
by the screams of frightened wo-
men, another series of attacks and
robberies swept over Oklahoma City.
On the. night of September 2lst,
1938, Miss Kathryn Wood was ac-

costed while. walking from the Wes-

ley Hospital to her home.’ She re-
buffed the man twice but he con-
tinued to follow her, and finally she
broke into a run. He overtook her,

‘slapped her across the nose and

mouth, but then he was forced to flee
by her screams for help.

On September 27th, 17-year-old
Elsie Ritcher was the victim of an
attempted attack while walking on
Classen Avenue. The man ran away
when she screamed for help, and
since she was uninjured Miss Ritcher
said nothing about the matter.

But two weeks later she was again
accosted by the same man. . A few
blocks from her home the . man
jostled her as if by accident.

“How about .going places, baby?”
he invited, leering at her knowingly.

The girl’s answer, as soon as she
recovered from her surprise, was a
scream and a blow that sent the
would-be attacker racing to a car
parked across the street.

“This time Miss Ritcher told her -

story tothe police. Detective C. E.
Riggs was assigned to following her
home each night, on a chance that
the attacker might make a third at-
tempt. But nothing pre uc a In
fact, despite a cme tightening up
of the police force, the mysterious
assailant eluded every attempt to

HEADQUARTERS

DETECTIVE]

Hagerstown when the young man re- -

appeared.

Then Baker set out with Sellman to

check Sisk’s story. Taking Sisk with
them, bend drove first to Boonsboro,
where Sisk pointed out the tavern he
had visited earlier. It was still open,
and the proprietor confirmed Sisk’s
statement that he had been there for
several hours during the early eve-
ning.
The next stop was Loveless’ home.
Loveless, 23, lived on a farm beyond
Boonsboro—lived there, that is, when
at home. Since working for Poffen-
berger, he had roomed and boarded
with his employer.

William Loveless, Earl’s father, an-
swered Baker’s insistent knocks. It
was nearing 1:00 a.m., and his first
reaction was one of anger at being
awakened. But when he learned who
his callers were, and saw Sisk, he be-
came apprehensive at once.

“What is it? Anything happen to
Earl?”

Assured that nothing was seriously

phar

iy eee teen

capture him. ;

matters stood until October 7th,
1938. On that night, Miss Frances
Cole noticed a strange man sitting
on the porch of the home of her
neighbor, Miss Oleta Knight.

As she watched, he rose stealthily,
fumbled with the door -a few mo-
ments, and entered the house. Miss
Cole knew that her friend was ‘not
at home. Hastily, she summoned her
father. :

“I just saw/a man break in over
at Oleta’s!” she exclaimed. ‘“You’d
better—”

Mr. Cole. did not wait for her to
finish the sentence. Running to the
Knight residence, he arrived just in
time to hear the back door slam. He
dashed through the house, noting the
broken coin bank that’ had been
dropped on the floor, and Age oso
through the rear door to the alley.
A few yards away a man—obviously
the one who had just left the house—
was walking rapidly toward the
street. ;

Mr. Cole followed him.

Reaching the street, the man pro-
ceeded to a nearby drugstore where
he went in and ordered a bottle of
beer. Cole, after a moment’s: hesita-
tion, followed him inside.

His beer finished, the man offered
tax tokens in payment. The drug-
gist declined them. He frowned
puzzledly as the man threw a dime
yi the counter and slammed out the

oor. :

“Now, that’s funny,” he declared,
turning to Cole. “He had a whole
pocketful of those tokens.”

“Nothing funny about it!” Cole ex-
claimed. “He just broke into a house!

‘all the police!”

As the druggist hurried to comply,
Buster Keeton, another customer in
the store, dashed out the door. “T’ll
get him!’’ he shouted over his
shoulder.

Less than a half block. away he
sighted his quarry. But the burglar,

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MYSTERY OF THE BATTERED CORPSE

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‘ who declared him to. be sane. The ‘ hearing the sound of pounding feet

behind him, broke into a run.
Doggedly, Keeton increased his

speed and gradually the distance be-

tween them lessened. At last, when

he was only a few feet away, he -

flung his body forward in a flying
tackle. The burglar went down—
and out.

C. E. Riggs, who had served as
county evidence officer in 1928, was
the first to identify the prisoner.

“Why, it’s Chester Hibbs!” he ex-
claimed. “The ‘gas hawk!’ How come

ou’re not in the penitentiary,

ibbs?”

“Out on parole,” Hibbs unted.
“Got ten years off for good behavior.”

“And I'll bet you’ve been behaving
real well since you got out!” Riggs
vouchsafed. “I think I know of some
young ladies who’ll be mighty glad
to see you—here in jail.”

Riggs’ hunch proved eminently
correct. At showup time the follow-
ing morning, Hibbs was _ identified
from a line-up of six men by Miss
Wood, Miss Ritcher, and Miss Cole.

“That’s him!” Miss Wood cried.
‘T’ll never forget that face as long
as I live!”

Hibbs was held without bond. On
‘October 12, 1938, Assistant County
Attorney John Eberle filed charges
against him of burglary and at-
tempted assault.

At the December term of the dis-
trict court at Oklahoma City, Hibbs
attempted to plead “not guilty by
reason of insanity.” But the State’s
physicians again pronounced him
sane. He’ was simply a dangerous
character with a morbid propensity
to commit crime. Citing the record
of the defendant, Mr. Eberle de-
manded and received the extreme
penalty for the prisoner.

On ‘December 7, 1938, Chester
Hibbs was-sentenced to 99 years in the
State penitentiary at McAlester. It is
not likely that he will be paroled
again.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23

wrong, and shocked at the news of

Poffenberger’s terrible death, he’

sobered Quickly.. When Baker ex-
plained the purpose of the visit, the
elderly man said that Loveless had
been at home all during the evening.

“What time did he get here? And
what time did he leave?”

“Well, let’s see. I guess it was about
7:30 that he got home. Maybe a little
before that. And it was around ten
wh€n he left.” This corresponded with
Sisk’s story, Baker realized. Apparent-
ly the boy was telling the truth. At

t-he had had.a hunch that Loveless
might have skipped. But now he be-
gan to think that Loveless really had
gone for Mrs. Remsburg.and had been
inadvertently delayed,

When Baker, liman and Sisk
reached the sheriff’s office in Hagers-
town, Earl Loveless was there. ith
him was Deputy Bender, Mrs. Rems-
burg and her husband, Howard.

“They arrived right after you left,”
Bender explained.

Mrs. Remsburg, grievéd and shocked

and sobbing disconsolately, could aid
the officers in no way. She hadn’t seen
her father, she said, for three days.
She knew of no one who would want
to kill him, and she could think of no
reason for the crime.

“Your father was a friend of mine,”
the sheriff said gently. “I promise

ou that I’m going to do everything

can to apprehend the persons re-
sponsible for his death, and I’ll need all
the help you can give me. Personally,
I believe he was killed by someone
who attempted to rob him. There al-
ways has been a lot of talk, you know,
‘about your father hiding money
around the house.” .

Mrs. Remsburg shook her head at
this. “That isn’t so,” she said. “He
kept his money in the bank. He was
not a miser.”

“Yes, I know that. But the very fact
that people thought he had money
hidden in his house might cause some-
one to try and find it. If there was
some way we could determine what
is missing, it would help.”

rN Re

dL itip dln

the murder case
C. F. Wagaman;
Wayne Sellman.

in view of the gossip about Poffen-
berger’s wealth and hidden hoards of
money, the robbery theory was a
likely one.

‘During this part of the investigation
Sisk had been ignored. Sheriff Baker
approached him. -

“You the fellow who phoned?” he

asked,
Sisk shifted uncomfortably. He was

obviously frightened. “No,” he re-—

plied. “That was Earl who phoned.
I was with him.” :

“Who’s Earl?”

“Why, Earl’s my buddy. Earl Love-
less. We work here on the farm.”

“Where’s he now?”

“He’s gone to tell Uncle. Rol’s
daughter about this.” ‘Sisk looked ex-
pectantly toward the road. “He ought
to be back by now.” :

“How far’s he have to go?”

“About six miles. It’s down the pike
toward Sharpsburg.”

“And when did he leave?”

“Right after he called you and the

- doctor. He told me to wait here, and
he got in the car and left right away.”

.Baker did some quick calculating.
The phone call from Loveless had

‘come about 11 p.m. It had taken of-
ficers half an hour to get to the farm,
and they’d been there about another
half hour by this time. Yet Loveless
had to drive only six miles to the
daughter’s home and six miles back
again. Even if he’d had to wait a

while, he should have been back.

Baker turned to Sisk again and

‘asked for the details of how the two

young men had discovered the crime.
He learned that Sisk and Loveless had
left the farm about seven o'clock,
after ‘Supper, in Loveless’ Chevrolet
coupe: They’d driven to Boonsboro,
about ten miles east, where Sisk had
gotten out to visit friends a while and
“have a couple of drinks” at a Boons-
boro tavern. Loveless had gone on to
his own home, making arrangements
to pick Sisk -up later. About 10:30,
Loveless had re-appeared at the
tavern, and both men had returned
to the farm, where they’d found. Pof-
fenberger dead. Poffenberger - had
been in the house reading when they’d
left, Sisk said:

AKER studied Sisk’s face carefully
as the youth told his story. He
seemed to be open and aboveboard;

he didn’t seem to be withholding any '
information. :

“All right, son,” the sheriff said.

“You stick around here. We may need
your help again.” ce

The inside of the house, which

Baker now investigated, gave further
proof that Poffenberger had been
robbed. Desk drawers had been yanked
out and their contents strewn. In the
second floor bedrooms, bedding had

been pulled aside and mattresses ob- -

viously. searched. The glass door of a
grandfather's clock, standing ajar,
showed that the invaders had not -

overlooked anything in their search

.for hidden money. :

“They must have had plenty of
time,” Baker said to Sellman, “to do
all this.” Thoughtfully, he added, “It
looks like it must have been someone
who knew Sisk and Loveless were

-away and that the old man was home

alone.”

Baker particularly examined the
house for indications that Poffenberger
first had been attacked there. But no-
where could he find anything to bear
this out. No bloodstains inside the
house, for one thing;-nor signs of a
struggle in the house. The attack,
then, occurred entirely in the wash
house, and Poffenberger probably had
gone there of his own free will, or
so it seemed.

Three deputy sheriffs, Robert
Clingan, Robert Miller and Byron
Bender, arrived while the inspection
of the house was ‘under way. Baker,
explaining quickly, immediately sent
Clingan to the home of Poffenberger’s
daughter, Mrs. Florida Remsburg, to
determine if Loveless ever had ar-
rived there and if so, what had de-
layed his return to.the farm.

By this time, it was apparent that
nothing more could be learned at the
farm until daylight, when the farm-
yard itself would be examined. Baker
eft Bender and Miller on the scene
with instructions that one of them
should take Loveless to the sheriff’s
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Loveless explained that his delay
in returning to the Poffenberger farm
was due to the fact that he had diffi-
culty in arousing the sleeping Rem-
burgs. Howard Remburg nodded con-
firmation.

Loveless seemed as deeply shocked
over the death of his employer as any-
one else. He told how Poffenberger
had given him a job about three years
before, and how gradually the Poffen-
berger place had become sort of a
second home to him. He was paid, he
said, a dollar a day, plus board and
room. In addition, Poffenberger al-
ways had given him clothing, ciga-
rets and occasionally some spending
money. He called Poffenberger
“Uncle Rol.”

Sheriff Baker was frankly puzzled.

- Talking the case over with his depu-~

ties and Investigator Sellman. later,
he admitted it. “Both Loveless and
Sisk tea aha are telling straight
stories. Every angle checks. The only
peer is that Dr. Zimmerman was
wrong when he estimated the time of
death. If Poffenberger was_ killed
earlier than the doctor estimated,
things will look different.”

autopsy report, made by Dr. Kurt
Lande, laboratory director and
fever, sa at the Washington County’
ospital, and Dr. Samuel 'R. We
deputy medical examiner, showe
that. ecb 75 ys had died pperne:
mately at 7:30 p.m., after Sisk and
Loveless had left the farm.

“Any chance that the estimate is
wrong by a half hour or more?” Baker
wanted to know. “Could he have died,
say, at 6:30 instead of about 7:30?”
But the doctors were firm. The chemi-
cal reactions that follow death are
invariable, they stated, and their esti-
mate of the time of death could not
possibly be wrong by more than a
few minutes. ‘

Their report also stated that Poffen-
berger’s death resulted from three
separate skull fractures, caused by
blows of terrific force.

Discouraging as it was, the. report
clarified one point—that before any
headway could be made in the in-
vestigation, the murder weapon would
have to be found. Baker ordered an
inch-by-inch search of the farm.
“We've got to find it,” he said. “It's
our best bet.”

The two gasoline cans, meantime,
had been examined carefully in the
laboratories of the FBI at Washing-
ton, having been turned over to Edwin
S. Deiss, an FBI agent, by the sheriff.
Three latent prints were found on the
large can, and none on the small one.
All three prints were Poffenberger’s.

Deiss, aided by county detectives,
also attempted to find fingerprints on
the door of the washhouse and on
woodwork, drawers and doorknobs in
the Poffenberger house. The wash
house door carried two latent prints
identified as Loveless’. No prints were
found in the house at all, Loveless’
prints had gotten on the wash house
door, of course, when he had first dis-
covered the crime.

Futile, too, was the day-long search

Bie the doctor had been right. The

of the farmyard. Deputy Bender re- -

ported to his superior that night: “We
searched every inch of ground, five
of us.” He gestured with a spread of
his hands. “We found nothing.”

The news was disconcerting. The
officers seemed to be bucking a stone
wall. In the hope of turning up some-
thing new, Baker and Sellman re-

questioned Sisk and Loveless, and also

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- Bender responded. “It was buried -

talked with the Remsburgs. Mrs.
Remsburg had taken stock at the
house, and agreed that the place had
indeed been looted. She thought, but
wasn’t sure, that some silverware had
been taken. If so, the robbers had not
taken-all the silverware, a fact which
cast doubt on the theory that they
had taken any. As a gesture of friend-
liness, she gave a gold watch that had.
belonged to her father to Earl
Loveless. ‘
Loveless, questioned again, offered
ons pone lead when he recalled that
on
berger had sold some machinery for
00-to another farmer named Henry
ithers, who lived acrdss the Potoma
River in Cumberland County. Withers
had. paid cash. ;
Sellman was immediately dispatched

to interview Withers. The man readily -

admitted he had bought the machinery
and had paid $400 cash for it.

This, then, bolstered the robbery
theory. But who knew of the $400
cash transaction? And did Poffen-
berger have the money when he was
slain? Did that explain the turned-
out pockets? ;

Withers denied having spoken to
anyone of the deal; Loveless did like-
wise. Sisk didn’t know of it. Then
babi age and Loveless were the only
wo.

Sheriff Baker grasped at this lead. _

He immediately called Poffenberger’s
bank and inquired if the dead man
had made a sizeable deposit either the
day he was slain, or the day before.
The bank revealed that no such de-
post had been made. Then Poffen-
erger did have the cash with him
when he was killed! ;

Loveless, however, according to his
father, had established that he was at
home at the time of the murder, and
could not have committed it. How
about Withers?

Baker decided to go a little slow.
_At first he made inquiries and found
out that Withers was a respected and
respectable farmer, active in com-
munity affairs and a devoutly re-
ligious man: Certainly not the type
you’d expect to commit any crime, let
alone a murder. Baker investi-

ated the man’s financial status. He
ound that Withers was fairly well-to-
do. Certainly he had no motive based

. purely on robbery.

Moreover, Withers and his wife had
been visiting friends the evening of
the murder, a fact which the friends
corroborated. Withers, then, could

. not have committed the crime.

“How about the neighbors?” Baker
asked Loveless. :

The young farmhand shook his head.
i ape any trouble I know of,” he
enh }

The search at the farmyard, mean-

time; continued. And, on the third -

day after the murder a surprising
pe happened. Deputy ender,
wandering through the chicken yard
hoping to find something. overlooked
in: previous searches ere, kicked
disconsolately at a heap of cut weeds
stacked against one of the coops,.and

his foot struck something hard. He

reached into the weeds and pulled out
a 14-inch pipe wrench. It was stained
darkly, and several short wisps of
iron gray hair elung to the

edges of the steel bite. Bender
hastened to Baker’s office and laid the
wrench before his boss.

“sapHERE’D you find it?” Baker
asked.
“That’s the funny part about it,”

-

e.day before the murder Poffen- °

in a heap of weeds in the chicken
yard, and I swear ‘that I searched
that pile of weeds myself, by hand,
twice before. I know this wrench
wasn’t in the pile of weeds then.”
Baker was inclined at first to be :

incredulous. The wrench must have
been merely overlooked. But Bender
insisted, and Baker began to believe
that his aide was right; that the
wrench had been placed in the weeds
after the chicken yard had been thor-
oughly searched. And probably by
someone who knew the yard had been
searched, and who- figured it wouldn’t

be searched again. ;

T. D. Beach, another FBI agent, was
called in to examine the murder

_ weapon—for there was no doubt but

that was what Bender had found. His
tests, however, uncovered no finger-
prints. Beach could only report that
the stains on the wrench were human
blood, of the same type as Poffen-
berger’s.

It was an ordinary, cheap pipe
wrench such as plumbers .and auto
mechanics use. Not a chance to trace
it. Baker showed it to Loveless and
Sisk, and both denied having seen: it
before. It hadn’t come from the Pof-
fenberger farm.

Days passed; weeks slipped by. But
not for an. instant did Sheriff Baker
relax his incessant fight to solve the
murder of his friend. The search
gradually was broadened to cover the
entire corner of the county in which
Poffenberger lived. Persons were
questioned who before were thought
to live too far away to have known
anything of the crime or to have seen
the killers. These efforts were un-
availing. But not-:once did Sheriff
Baker give up. Not once did he ac-
knowledge himself beaten.

‘Two months after the murder, at a
conference with Deputy Bender and
Investigator Sellman—a conference at
which Lieutenant C. C. Richardson of
the Pennsylvania State Police sat in—
the entire case was discussed. Lieu-
tenant Richardson had been asked to_
sit in because of his fine record as a
criminologist in the neighboring state.
It was thought that his practiced mind
might see something in the tangled
skein that the other officers, being so
close to the case from the start, might
have overlooked.

“T’yve done a lot of thinking about
it,” Sheriff Baker said. “I would like
to remind you of several pertinent
facts. Separately they don’t mean:a
thing. Together they may add up to
something. I'll tell you what they
are. I want to know if you reach the
same conclusions I reached.”

The other officers nodded.

“First and foremost,” Baker said, “is
the fact that the wrench used to kill
Poffenberger was moved from its.
original hiding place into the chicken
yard by someone who thought it would
thus never be found. That means, to
me, that the person or persons re~
sponsible for the murder were still
around Poffenberger’s farm three days
after the killing. Right?”

Heads nodded in quick agreement.

“Second,” the sheriff continued,
“there are only a certain number.of -
dene who fit that description. Earl

veless, Jack Sisk, Mrs. Remsburg
and Howard Remsburg. All of them
have what appear to be airtight alibis.
And all of the alibis are the same.
All four place themselves somewhere
else at the time of the murder, and all
four have witnesses to back them up.

“Of the four, Sisk and Loveless have

the most p
And of tho

Lovel kr
‘$400 tk
That ES
surface, 10)

So let’s e:
is the one
Henry Wit
was trying
him. You
Loveless w
door was
accompany
wash hous:
might hav
shrewdly 5
covers a cr
suspected

“TI believ
fenberger
out getting
If you rei
spots on t!
It seems
could have
and again
made a }
tried to fi
Loveless’ |
any. I ak
the killer,
of blood.
’ “Nevert
leads, I a
Earl Love
about this
do you g«

LL the «
AA Richar<

had be
light by
tions. Ho:
_it, “It’s a
and you c
. State’s
of Washi:
present, <

So anot

though tt
no ‘
a
boom—ae.h
forced hi
tention t
Then, «
four mo
berger w
held up
pike ou
robbed o
_ Two bz
away in
before tt
the mak
a result }
the car
and arre:
truck dri
was Jam
in-law o
The ot
Sheriff

. Tests, hu

redouble
the brea
, But he
cumstan’
Investig:
Richards
action.
That
wrapped
a coil o
three m
of the c
County .
at night
Next
were mc
might a


i
|
ft
i
i
t
;

-nothing in the wash house that could

have been used to inflict the wounds
that caused Poffenberger’s death. Nor
were there any clues, except possibly
the two cans of ‘gasoline.

These puzzled the sheriff. Poffen-
berger, he knew, was too careful to
allow open cans of gasoline to lie
around his wash. house. Were they
knocked from the shelves during Pof-
fenberger’s struggle for life? That

there had been a struggle seemed.

obvious due to the disorder in the
small shed, and blood spots on the
walls. Then, too, there were those two
cuts on Poffenberger’s hand. Poffen-
berger had been attempting to shield
his head from blows.

Or had the cans of gasoline been
taken from the shelves, either by
Poffenberger or his assailants? The
presence of two cans, one large and
one small, indicated that Poffen'
might have been filling the small can
from the large one when attacked.

Then another thought occurred to

pomeetarse

the sheriff. Had the assassin, or
assassins, intended to set fire to the
wash house in an attempt to destroy
Poffenberger’s body or to erase evi-
dence? Perhaps they had been scared
off before being able to complete the

job. 4

Baker lifted the two cans gingerly
and handed them to. Investigator
Sellman.

“Careful of these,” he commented
tersely. “They yA turn out to be our
best evidence.. If there are any finger-
prints on them, we don’t want them
smudged.”

The sheriff turned his attention to
Poffenberger again. He noticed that
the aged farmer’s trouser ockets
were pulled inside out and were
empty. This did not necessarily mean

-that robbery had been the motive for

the murder. Sheriff Baker knew of
other cases in which the killers had
deliberately attempted to make their
motive appear to be robbery, in order
to throw detectives off the track. But

TWO OFFICIALS——

who helped break the murder case.
Above, Cty. Atty. C. F. Wagaman;
bottom, Cty. Inv. Wayne Sellman.

in view of t
berger’s wea!
money, the
likely one.
‘During this
Sisk had bee
approached |
“You the !
asked.
Sisk shifte:
obviously fr
lied. ‘That
was with
“Who’s Ear
“Why, Ear
less. We wo
“Where’s I
“He’s gon
daughter abc
pectantly tov
to be back b
“How far’
“About six
toward Shar
“And whe:
“Right aft:
doctor. He t

, he got in the

Baker did
The phone
come about
ficers half a
and they’d |
half hour b)
had to driv
daughter’s |}
again. Eve


Wome a Witnesses.
fj Henging Of Negro

yy > oe

i perenne fic tes
' xeeution 10 Balttmere
es ‘Sd wane -

. For the froth fn in the sekany of
Rajtiargee City Jail, acceding to War
dea Bernard Lee, a womnss today -wit-
| ‘nessed the henging of Bishop Hawkins,
sche was convicted of mutter

i Her at the execution caused
| much /excitement among the female
« whe had been locked ip their
celle ahd who ssw her walk across the
jail yard among the line of spectators
following Hawkins.
. More than. 100 spectators and police |
; men were present. Prisoners of . the
| Maryland Penitentiary lined the vwin-
dows o7 the Workshops and watched
Hawhias as he entered the chamber to|
B| Mount the scaffo'd.

olle faith yesterday by Rev. Joseph J.
Ay, of. Loyola College, and this moen-
| ing before be. death received commun-
fon. . ¢
‘Hawkins, following his arrest on the
day the body of the women was

at 319 Forrest street, was attacked by
&@ crowd of negroes who attempted to

lynch . him. | He .wan. stabbed: .weveral
times ‘by negroes in the crowd.

| ba coumon law wife, Edith Ster i

Hawkins was baptised in the Cath- .

s€/ Qc

‘ or 4a
€26T ‘9 Trady ‘puetAsey ‘eadowyp3 Tee “NAS

| pes ‘yostTq *doustg *‘SNIMMVH
‘feeogT fua9 TTudy uo *‘pueTéuey feuowyt4 Teg pesusy *HO8Tq

DOE & MEANS

‘Hanged 11-23-1877

apace — CITY OR COUNTY

th
a -
. “James Rosebury Hawkins ("Rose")

‘Towsonton, Maryland

i 008 OR AGE RACE OCCUPATION } \ RESIDENCE GEN
(19) 20 Black \
CRIME DATE OTHER
Rape le 25 -1877 © J
Bes —_ Schoeffer, school girl on 13 | Waite ees

+ MOTIVE

Sex

SYNOPSIS

Miss Schaeffer was . orphan 1
irteen ric re county.
ing from school at is 30PM when Hawkins met e as ‘sh

iving near the relay house of the Baltimore and Ohio Railrwad, HAYKX
ived with uncle on sulphur Spring oad, § return=
e was —— a ane” of baudied about 2 mile

; a change of venue to 5 Howard Comty and poovicthe on 9=27 and reared to renaton to await "execution
Gallows erected in inclosure at southwest corner of jail building near basement door, Wis allowed

+ run of jail corridors until his sisters attempt ted to give him a hatchet to use in escape on Apr.

‘19th and confined ig cell thereafter. On 11-22 wrote letter to parents in which he meen crime

~ and said sentence was just. Said previous prtes ons 0 ocence were false, SUN,

November 23, 1877.

Cikecution).. ee aagerge| og rie eee aaalys 200 wines ses cone et anuetbes by t

—

cell were she was ; helt held to 1é0kup i court Saues: vhen Sheriff cared cell vith ahead and
“=, cap, he screamed "Lord have mercy," but soon became calm and showed no emotion as shrowd placed on [%
%> him and arms pinioned, From scaffold asked for fellow prisoner serving sentence for attitempted rape |.

he said: 'Ive been a warning to you, Dorsey." Then asked thatt body be

_ and when man answered,
sured his uncle was there to claim and bury it. Last words: Goodbye,

properly buried and was as
Che sacha When trap fell, #4X knot slipped — — behind ear bi back of eats Neck not

: of pach semepe ye chruch of which he had imeen meade? for three years
77

APPEALS

LAST WORDS

EXECUTION

“SOURCE

PRANK NEWTON OFFICE SUPPLY-DOTHAN


OF et enmeteen ar

i HENRY HANDY RANGED
“i Ga SS ee

! ERED HIS: WIFE
#€ On fleeing Hangiag
mee Awa ye—Gathered
kia -The Meriing.
spate to the Baltimore Sun}!
| Md, July. 7,—Heory \J. Hane |
‘oO WhO murdered file wife, was |
the) Jallyard bere this morning
O'clock. This was the first:
take plaice fi Wheomico county,
ments for the hanging ‘had all
arranged, and it pansed off in a
ner.| During the night there was
bf. 109 oF more persons around tha
the stockade which bed been |
and, while the people were orderly,
as £Ome complajat that the puthert/
lad built) such aihich fence, Sheriff
teh . end Derinfy YY Waller, together!
Mite Chief of [Pottce, Moodiand Didharoon,
DAG aworn tn 15 do , who ‘patrpled the |
pht., Up in the Jali
a praying with the
who. had tena with

Morning Sheriff Gillis,
ty Sherif Waller and |
iBaroon, went to ithe ceil |
Ron {€.wap time to dross. The |
buer quietly put on the black /autt of |
Bee ‘provided “by the county and an- i
ted to Sherif that he wn¢ ready, |
Ry procession eturted for the scaffold, the |
fitee colored ministers jeading,
‘femUst at this pefiod there waa a slight dls-
pance from the onteide, and tha proces.
bm halted to fwd out the cause, The crowd

ya i

Henry Handy

Executed at Salisbury, Wicomico Co. on
July 7th 1905

ey

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 7-8-05
page 10 column 1

ei

0

Ne

Ex

ed ag Annapo]

in The Bail

y
‘

sandstan@ing on a pler bollt into the
rebut a

h were several wotoen. There

tolored parsonetn the crowd. [5
‘ing om the scaffold, lel

Gn a benth while the ministers offered
Aftes;the prayers Handy took jhis
a apon the trap, and the noose and
cap. were about to he adjusted when
f ie a mation to speak. He saifi: “I am |
otty for what T-have done, and I hope you
Gpld. will all take, warning ‘an that, ft
bhai be“the last man to suffer death on. the
old in this county, -I hope you al! will
ve me and that God will have mercy on
eoul.” The cap was then adjusted. nnd
Mt Gillis and Depoty Sherif Waller |
; ¢d down the steps, One of them cut the |
trip rope'as| they went. by, and the trap |
rem sprung ét 5.13, Twelve minutes after |

“@rop ae wan dead... Undettaker C.

z

oO Mur-

HTS DEATH

ted Of Killing Pa-
G. MeNamare jin

lef Count y-/
Patch to ‘ae baie Suis.)
+ July” 24. William $B,

In the fait

i Merrick; of Btvalve, placed his body
Be coin and withiu 10 minutes It. was

Iman John Geot eNamara. e

the burying ground) a aliort

it¢ way |
ace from the scene where he kijied his trap of \the gallows was sprang by Sheriff |
ors a i sed Narr st p Samuel U. Tardy peT0.11% o'clock gnd |
y) ithe: elty, ‘was crowded with. pi 8 } a half howwister the dead was lowered
W'clock, as Iti was given‘out that. the: into th nearer’ ;
«fag would take place at 11 tn the Pee 205 Siegel ins ebay sg
re Sherif tut the-repe from 4 | bruken and his death was bs hs trangulat ion.
sade ae | Seventeen minutes after the drop fel! gel
wehald: | kations of/ the wrist md, but to mhke
res | certnin of his death th oficial physicians
| let the bddy hang f F743 minutes more. :
| The prailmigaties ¥@ thelexecution were i
She left - P CAST’ Out a mom expeditious manger. |
id 'in Somerset, Ip Septemier Handy h Leazer, althéuegh somewhAt/nervons befpre | |
‘to eeeiher and sald be foubd'in her f the march /to tra gallo are the oniral ||
written by, @ man in| Criafeld,. | Calusiy ani agrended the old entigely jj

; WAasaist $ AC lerst ersen

feet, and a ge beck wae not broken i
it is believed He was Immediately rendrred |
unconselows by the fall and experienced: no |
| snffering whatevar. At least 40) personne!

Ee Se dy

'
Sejletters, he said, caused him to shoot |
#, which be did.ob September 23 fant |
(Mat Tyeskin district, He ‘went immediately |
_ite/am bMicer'nnd told what he bad done.) |


None better te the Cafted States for

L Viman & Sous,

6 W. Pratt Su’ BALTIMORE, MD

638.00 worTus 50.00
060.00 woaTtns 76.00
878.00 woarTH 6100.00

MANY

FARMERS ©

Woeld like to heep an account of
thew receipts aad expenses if

some one
them.

woeld keep it for

Open a Bank Account and rou
will Rad the account keeps it-
self, without expense.

Your checks are always evidence
of date and the amount :
and your deposit book shows
the amount of your receipts.

It ia mot required that a person
have a large bulk of business
to open an account.

Ifyou have ne

ver done busiese in

this way, and are ovt lamibar

with this plan, come to us aad

we will ge

eee

t you started.

THE...

Farmers & Merchants

BANK,
Salisbury, Maryland,

L. E. WILLIAMS, President.
SAMUEL A. GRAHAM, Cashier.

Crisfield the

. Very Best

our PRICHS RRASONABLE.
antracied

ektifu
Princess Sone very feredae § |
r ‘Sret and taut ia

with «
Dy..yit r

ee te

G &EW. Mill,

OFPFICE—MALN ST. SALIBBCRY.

Porters ta
200 N.

Dr-AnnieF. Colley

- DENTIST.

Wittlams Baitéiag
Division St.,

SALIGBURY, MD.

eee nee

PROMPT AND CAREFUL AT-

-  QENTAL WORK.

Abd te tt th bh bt OO bn bt
acta a ain ada tha ia i i hin hin hi lilac tiadincdlts Madina died

PALAGE STABLES,

JAS. EB. LOWE, Paopmereos.

r

soas aroued the jail outside the stockade

which had bees erected, asd, while the

people were orderly, there was some
complaining that the authorities bad
dailt suck ahigh fence. Sheriff Gillisand

Deputy Sherif Waller, together with

Chief of Police Woodland Disharoos,
bad ewore Ja 15 depaties, who. patroled
the iaclosure during the aight. Up ie

the jail Handy was singing oad praying
with the tbree coloted ministers who
had been with him all deriag the eves-

jog.
At So'clock Fridsy morsieg Sherif

Gillie, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff

Waller aad Chief of Police Disharooa,
went to the cel} and told Handy it was
time to dress. The prisoner quietly put

oe the bisck ault of clothes provided by

the county and enacnaced to the Sheriff
that he was ready. The procession start-
ed for the scaffold, the three colored
ministers leeding.

Just at this period there wae e slight
disturbance from the coteide, and the
procession halted to find out the cause,
The crowd ia froatof the jail, samber-
Ing about 400 persons, were tearing
duwe the stockade. When the Sheriff
and hie deputy bed gone up the stairs to
get the prisoner ready someoge bad se-
eured ap as asd broke a hole ia the
fence. This was the signal fur the crowd
and tbey tore the feace to the ground.
The guards protested, but they could
Bot stop the ousJanght. Word had been
paseed to the guards that no shots were
to be fred; tbat the crowd was to be
kept beck if possible, bat no ose was to
be shot. The work of tearing down the
fence was carried op without a word,
and by thetime the Sherif with the
prisoner arrived on the outside the gal-
lows waste full view of all. The crowd
was orderty, The topes of the houses
ere filled with people, asd standing on
a pler bailt into the lake were several

women. There were bat a few colored |:

persons in the crowd. 3

Arriving om the scaffold, Haady took
his seat on a bench while the ministers
Offered prayers. Afver the prayers Han-
dy took his stend upos the trep, aad
the novee aad bisck cap were sbout to
be adjusted whens he made « motion to
speak. He said: “I am sorry for what [
have done, and ] hope you people will
all take warnisg and tha: I shell be the
last man (o suffer death on the scaffold
ja this couaty. 1 hope you al) will for-
give me and that God wil) have mercy
on my soal.” The cap was thea adjusted,
aad Sheriff Gilite asd Deputy Sherif
Waller passed dows the steps. One of
them cut the trip rope as they went by,
and the trap was epruag at 5.3%. Thir.

i
7

ie falle to case. BW. Qeove's
Won cash boa. 36 canta

at

deafening peals of thunder, which
apread consternation among the inbabi-
tants of the city.

Lightaleg played bavoc la many parte
of the tows. A bolt struck the six-room
dwelling on Fooks Street, Bouth Balis-
vary, owned by Mr. Elijah J, Parsons
aed damaged ft §100. The bolt came
dows the chimney {a the centre of the
froat buildieg, kuocking s greet hole
out of the chimaey. The fiuid spread
to all three roome ap stairs, tippiag off
the lathes aod plastering aed several
pleces of weatherboarding. It also
passed to the three rooms below, causing
the seme damage as to the ruoms of
second Soor. The house was occupied
by Mrs. Pollitt, but fortunately at the
time mo ove was at home. Mrs. Pullist,
belng alone when the storm came up,
hastened to the bome of a neighbur.
She bad left the house but a few minates
before it was struck by the lightaieg.

A vecent dwelling om Vine Street,
owned by Thomas H. Mitchel! was bad-
ly damaged by a bolt of lightning. The
belt came down the chimney asd barst
out isto the hallway, scattering bricks,
mortar and wood ip sil directioes.
Nearly every room was damaged, aad
the roof and one corner of the bailding
were badly abattered. The damage will
amount to §75.

The sehooner Corbett, owned by EB. 8
Adains &Co., which waa lying in the
harbor near the pivot bridge, was struck.
The topmast was shivered.

Beveral large pieces of slate and the
paper sheathiag were knocked from the
court house tower by a bult of light-
alng.

The storm covered but a comparative
ly small area, extendiog not more than
three miles in any direction from Salis-

bery. te ERP A

/ TE FREERY PROPERTY SOLD.

Mr. BR, Freak Willisess bes purchased
from the Freeny heire the. property oa
Camden Avenue adjoining L. E. Wil-
Hames & Co's property... Tne lot has 6
frontage om the Avenue of 106 fest aad
a depth of 800 feet. This property wae
owned and occupied for masy yeere by
the late Williem Freeny, one of the
wealthiest merchants of Salisbery back
ia the fifties, and after his desth by his

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Hebron, Charity and Rockawalging,
Deep Braech Schoo! wes sleo discon-
tinued, the majority of the pupileto go
ta Tyaskio, a graded school.

Mr. Thomas W. H. Waite resigned as
trostee of Bhad Polet School: & P.
Jenkins was appoleted to fill the
vacancy. Joba W. Insley wae appointed
trustes of Bivalve Schoo! in place of W.
H. Dune, declined to serve Heary W
Roberts, Those. L. Messick aed BE. J.
Tsylor were appoigted trnstess of the
pew schoo! district in Naaticoke Election
District brought about by the consoli-
datioe of Shiles and Trieity Schools.

Applications for life certificates of
Prof. J. Walter Huffington sed Miss C.
Nettie Holloway were endorsed by the
Boerd.

-s1o--—

FLOCKING T@ MARYLARD.

Prospective Perchasers From The West
Terieg Advantage Of The Re
doced Molireed Rates. ,

——

The State Bareaa of Im nigratios
ow very busy receiving visitors who
have taken edvantage of the low rates
of traseportation from the West to come
to Maryland to Jook into the laad prop-
ositions that tbe dDareea has been adver-
tistag. During the past fow days
vera! Buadred men have called st the
tate Baresu eed annvunced their is-
ation to purchase Maryleed farms.
While the Westerners, Mr. Badenboop
said, are pleased with the agricaltural
conditions in the West, the majority of
them fee) that they would rather be
East, and accepted this opportunity to
come, Many of them came prepared to
bay and brought their money with them.
Mr. Badenhoop seid that be is sow
negotiating fos several farm properties
in Lower Maryland, on both the Eastera
and Western Shores, and that be expects
to close the des!s this or nezs week.
Bevers} of the Westerners bave come
to Wicomico county, where they have
pevers) tracts of land. They
were {avorably impreqeed with our
covaty and the result of their visit will
no doubt be the sale of several farms.

—_ -—~— 2 oe

BONEMIANS 1@ CELEBRATE.

Bettiod Ow The Kactore Shore Of Maryinnd
Twe Handred And Fity-foor
: Yoars Age.

£

"A large meeting of the various Bo
hemian societies of Baltimore was held

Benday to maké arrangements for a
proper celebration of the two baadred

{aad fifty-fourth saniverssry of the

founding of the Srst Bohemian settlement
fa Marylaod, in the year 1651. After
considerabdie discussion it wes decided to
hold the celebration at Ocean City next
Beaday. This decision wes reached is
view of the fact masy Bobemiaas beve

loented on the Eastern Shore, sed that) |

Oceana City te withia easy reach of all of
them. ‘The exercises ot Ocsen City will
consist of addresses by prominest spenk-
ore and a banquet at ons ofthe Jending

¢ Mr. L Ly Price and wife left Gagar-
Gay morning for a viet te relesives in

1 %

js @eions, 80,008 ¢

$2,500,000,

tous of mereban:
thousands of to
ere of the Balti
lantic Rellway
shown that the
weccfactured

cords of wood,
t fertilizer, 30
toss of ice,
toss of mack
f other merch
uatiag any of B
f staff haodied
of the Baltic
lentic Rallwey Gy
rua up the toon” :
ead that it only &
sel to make Ba!
potst. In mak!
commitse cons &
to ibe lonsage
slove, and éi4
thon aay of there
potats below us.
Afver going of.
Mr, Coshrase
he could make

Cocstoriown, Betimere sad Washing

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HUTTON, Peregrine, and HULL, Morris, N. Be, hanged at Baltimore, Md., on July lh, 1820.

"Baltimore, August 3rd, 1820-A Coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday, in Happy Alley, (lst
ward), by James B. Stansbury, Fsq., over the body of Christian Bitts, a fine promising yout
about ll years of age, who, through an odd and fanciful project, attempted to imitate the
late Mail Robbers, hung in this city, whose deaths he witnessed; and, shocking to relate

a fatality, which was no doubt unintentionla, wes the consequence of this dreadful ex- :
periment; which should be a warning to parents never to suffer their children to witness
such sights. Verdict of the jury: 'That he came to his death by hanging by the neck,
Ce to be accidental." DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D. C., 8-5-1820

Baltimore, July 17, 1820-We observe that Dr. Amos G. Hull, the respectable father of the
unfortunate young man who recently suffered in our city, was chosen, on the lth of July
lest, President of the Medical Society of Oneida County, N. Y."* DAILY NATIONAL INTELLI-
GENCER, Washington, De Co, July 19, 1820 (3/1.)

"Richmond, July 1 - Hutton, who is todey most probably executed at Baltimore, for the

robbery of the mail, and the murder of Heaps, was last winter arrested in this city as

a kidnapper! Concurrent circumstances seem also to point him out as the man who robbed
id the mail between Milliamsburg and Houston or York, of certain letters, from one of which
a 100 dollar note was purloined." DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D. C., July
18, 1820 (3/1.) °

"Hutton and Hull, the mail robbers and murderers, were hung, pursuant to their just sen-
tence, on Friday last, at Baltimore, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, in the pre-
sence of a large concourse of people. Such punishment ever attend such atrocities!" DAILY
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D. C. July 17, 1820 (2/5.)

"From Baltimore CHRONICLE, 8-541820: With rega#d to the unhappy instance of suicide at
Fell's Point, by a young of 11 years of age = we deem it proper to state that a number
of boys had assembled for the purpose of exhibiting a mock executions boys who had
probably attended the execution of Hutton and Hill, The unhappy youth who personated
one of those culprits, stood upon a pile of stones, with one end of the rope around
his neck, and the other attached to a beam, We further understand that one of more

of his boyish spectators acted the part of a divine - while the unfortunate youth

was stending in this situation, his comrades removed the stones which formed the
pedestal, and alarmed by the struggles of the expiring youth, ran away and left him to
die the martyr of their own folly."

THE COURIER, Charleston, SC, 8-12-1820 (2=5.-)

"Baltimore, July 15, 1820"Peregrine Hutton and Morris N, Hull, were hung yesterday
morning for the murder of John Heaps, driver of the U. S. Mail, (they having robbed
the Mail previous to the commission of the bloody deed.) The malefactors were led
out from the jail between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, attended to the
scaffold by the Rev. Mr. Wyatt of the Episcopal Church, the Rev, Mr. Osborne, of the
Baptist Church, and others, After.the usual religious exercises were performed, Hull
a ddressed the spectators for a few minutes, He stated that he had been brought up
, with every care by his Father, and with a proper regard for religious duty, Bad
company, however, and those improprieties which are generally deemed execusable in
young men, connected with the flattering thought that when older there would be
sufficient time for repentance - these had been the causes which led him to the
commission of a crime for which he was about to suffer death, He addressed himself
to the young men, advising them to take warning by his example, and to embrage re=
ligion without delay, He then concluded by fervently receommending himself to the
mercy of the Redeemer, This, as far as memory serves, was the substance of his
add ress, Hutton said nothing - he appeared to be employed in sincere and silent
prayer during the whole period, The conduct of both was marked with great pro=
priety to the last - But Hutton evidently discovered a far greater degree of be=
coming sensibility than his companion, At half past eleven the platform s ank under
their feet ibiti i j
ee ree ten he ee rpat bation oF Rell Rohe eg ana Hirdee, AH Aby’ SURE CURBERE HER
the same scaffold erected for the pirates, Denny and Ferguson (hanged /20/1820,) =

AMERICAN." COURIER, Charleston, SC, July 22, 1820 (2/3.)


gist

86 sek: a, thie fan!
 sathitenhadelil can) Thi alice Holt!
‘fean Taree: acepncat td the

inl, the i Ui e i at /
wae ot we qaerre:, aye
wiicess, “tie: aftagr tern cry hes hat i

tye of tite unfurtan at: emtanghesients into Wiketh
me amaiable end erence mee sormet. nes toner ae
tery

sarily invelved, am) whith taloe pre te ox

in meuss of thett destruction. |

‘HERRINGS, si excel

Eos 244, By
ms 208 S BEEF, ty

PES, ke...
wiih canes

A wad sedpeiltation Fe Ac Crapes
sf ageig hy ei Ces oe»
Crape Shawls and Mantles”
st quality black ey pee,

‘ae
hes:
Mf Saain
bk Nankin
. ss csn

ab wcpeage 9
Calicoes, bslinw te he

: De eter:

ef t

bee

ea gral rire

; ica wn arouod the fund wife bom he w

4 both fell to the ground, s¢vercly woul

oe ae 4a

| companied by

Cam, Drcarea had “afranged 2 he
a a

ing to leave,’ all those friends whose Eecackras 42
Lar trea to soe ee Seamiyy: a be “!

They. waar tare Mood fice th fice vaind
fred wt the word: distinctly: given by Com. ‘Hain-
bridges Take cim—Gne fenat which’ Vattant oy
dy C Gin
Barros received his wound in the right hip, while
Com. Decatur received Ms "i the orien al eT

to be mortal.’ a

ae a a,

We have eG re il ee bile sariculete we hate

= Feceived bhoctahiedesth of the lamented Deca-

Tur...Why should an hunble ape pre ten, to
add its tribute of praisc tovthe dying hero?) His
name is stamped in indelible characters of glory
upon the history of his country.” We sibscril
one sentiment of the Editir of the bee th
ee t—we could haye wished py Fd ge i.
was for bis country he hud dived, he: had died ony
in his country's cause.” ‘Phe hero himself, inh
J dying moments, regretted he. did not die on his
own quarter deck. The, ‘Georgetown Messenger
says, it is ynderstood that an authentic account oF
the whole affair is to be hereafter submitted to. the
public.. We are pleased to Understand; from the
game paper, that “a perfect reconciliation took
lace between the parties, on the ficld, ‘after, they
ad fallen.” Bannon, itis hoped, will survive—
aod, may wo not breathe # hope, to serve his toun-
nA ? ae ai inane pongulee: :

Phang, the Mail.

“95 BALTIMORE, MARCH 97, ¥ fh

Saturday morning last, fron thé ‘hon-arrival
rtp the Eastern Mail, strong suspicions were enter-
sed of a robbery. . Mr dStockton, 6F the house:
4 0f. Stockton and
‘a zeal and prom pelle worthy of all”
a party of

ral

raise, ee
ntlemen on horseback

| scoured the road feuding roth Philadelphia to Bal-

* > Ftimere,

They had

te i ne the mail, from ‘foot prints and other eus-
§ appearances, they. were. induted to €x%
reat more earch the adj a rounds. About
one dundred; yards from. ES mall ree
@lscovered, accompanied: by Tet oken,
ae sobped of their contents, scatter rom
“The mail delver was foun
Binstances of: which will be nee par-.
d below. A robbery of the mail,

nd h ravating
Foe er Witt Hiclign t ched intesAle

of Jandary; and t Meena
if ane
BRoyue,  withia th oe Gitralta
cri- Tire .
. were th

neral burst.of.

Frac hce wrgehy
oe int rma! ape

5 Cap eee ik egy

"* t wath

Chirtidlpe wie

(Sin tas meme ache hee:

Na 4 wlteees of the: fate ie a letter oF
Re ore at Norfolk sayeet! The distance wai 8

‘ Hier

- | council of Ministers extensive
ty against persons charged with acts of conspira-)

kes, the mail contractor, ’ with re

at proceeded’about eight tiles |
; @ thie route, when, on behilding some Fbeshea pil.
in the road, apparently: of the purpose, of Sy

tue fen
marder-

* ‘ee tei a | Raga” eee

wy Sia

Mt ae the, Fett ot he

e bee Site Sh: erage hr
fei:
gutetes va vic)

fab ERE pete we qe)

i
by Met i. em nas

hat Pepe adc acuiry Sarhey %

ayes

2% yr
fen}

<even ja bie crucity.) |

New YORK, WAKCIEGS

‘blte: are rexvlved at Boat, Uy the
Captain Haskell. in 24 day's Trine Ric hcite. mend i:

tain Masked Feparts vertigily that: ‘ferns: the
Brencn Vein aay ‘ry hal’ hea Ventrpsoned. “aa jadi!
‘tion off being accessory to Khe Wasavsin ation gt the

Duk eof Berri. The beds ofcbe Duke wis re

Mmoveditu the Lourre,’ where it was Laid ui state,
‘and the, pals permitted: toWiclw iti A}L the Rey

al Faniily, pore the Kings had rreinoy ed 10 rat:
pal: MCG he Sie is
(Pros the eo Daily’ sAsfeersicer of Wedoeed ele

\. By the arrival atthis port last evening of theship:
Gabtin Capt. Haskell, in 23 Gays from Roehcile,
we bave received Paris | papers: + the 19th ult. —
five dats later than our previous advices front that.
citys. The Aristarque, of thé 19th, utter repelling.
the: suggestion of some ofthe (lira journals, that.
> | the assussthation of the Duke Of ‘Berri progecded. *
from u political ompirecyi observes, “the opinion,
which till now has gained the thost credit, iy That

, Sip é yes

ted for the man to whom Francé has owed all her
misfortunes; and whom) it is said, he followed to:
the island ‘of Elbs.”?
“® The same paper accuses the Mintecers: at tak-
advantage of the shock occasioned by this hor-~

ete

teration of the e Shirtere by a modification of the”
law. of elect’ The new law. of elections was
reported to the Chamber of Deputies Feb. iy At
the: saine time u law was presented, giving to the ’
wers proceed-

) aba the lng, or any; tnember of he, Froyal:

fa The Chamber of Deputies peesented to the king.

an address of coedolence, on the Sssaelhanod A 2
the Duke of Berri. 4 VL

4A member oa the right e os the House, ace,
cused a minister of being tH accomplice of an a-
‘| trociotis crime, and this minister persists, it is said,

| more Se ever, in the design of uniting himself |

to the | of. his accuser, °
himsel wk 90 much assurance.” x appege that
nt de Cazes ig the minister 1 si tone 4
We find little ggher news in these papers.
ae ‘had fallet three ‘or four per
te € per-ecnts Febe19, 70f. 25. ‘centimes,
: ; “MARCH 25.-
ved this morn
ea Deyoit, in 45 daya from
ig the bearer of slspatces from
Cat to: the. eter ry of State,
passehger meh un
Constitutional A

wibeat op

the ship

op div ;
[mes mar.

ery ae! % he

Pet
re Ar ed

‘crime, to bring forward their projects of anal.

pers did -ofé-ruin | kL

traltar. &

Tt Ric
beget

i jp ae nae Prancee tania Pape re os pte avtR 5

vi iy R

apis Mi ve iM, bene

* sowed Hes ot bile: ida, ee

Honltrs), | Me or AE t i A '

(sy! igh tye uy ys he gee uh a

hi. Piette tag nae dae &

he: sa fists vile ¢ aes | Mim | Son |

UN: ©) au have ye dimusel 1

wae aut hit this pr

the: i daeinge deh: 4) Ae

tne dont, Lath, ait jor Wek
EBchooner Per nabeliip, y

bay nyt! rat Wo? wa

ouvel comniitted this crini¢ only in consequence
of the fanatical admiration with which he is: thapi-

& vile, a; ydnsadcon: !
“MM Ncely ‘Behiitt & Wudlily Clie
pnd JS) Melteidy Jun, asset
hon, Sih Puge, John) De SHG
icrew. lute of thes sloop Marty
Left ship Adtiana, Ire Wy,
; nd brik Perveverut

strived The schooner
pre bailed the, day) before

Aierican produce. yery &
Bidy Rice, Sp ae
ag Schooner Susan, - Rushers :
‘from: Savaunah, 2 daya.s ‘Dees ’
Passenger, My. Jumes Deane, a
© Schooner, Enterprize,”
Ballasts: Tath® master,
Schooner" Salome, Shiveri
ton: ‘10 J. Fraser & Co, Di. Ad
WH, Parke ty. Riley & 4) ats 5
and the master,

A) Schooner Commodore’

Cotton and Rice) To Mugwog

pont aes & Oslidy

and ‘Cation. oto W. Blam
“Schouwer Johii &: Coorera

ra fer ‘Rice, To Deas & Br
Se cr Kitty, Watson,”

Cott spa Er tee “
on? d' a wr yi
8 Dythewepi. endl

SDB iz x3


$EK eighty three
ots Nanton; 996 38. ‘or, Bre hort of weight} were ‘eeized bythe City:

of this: tman was confuscd and cont
es | appear j h

Olging the corpse of the:
He declared himself Me bea
ton, bred ‘up. in) Maryl:

9 lace na
Mages a me ale anc paren -three dol-
foc dwndred dollars in histrunk, at bia lodgy
h was opened by a key; found inhis poe}:
five thousand in post:notes; « pistol py:
aidiscbvered 4 in his tranks” The testimony
rudictory > he
nsiderabty agitated, ahd wept bitterly’
natis eof WV ilining~
and, and addicted to habits.

person,iand ten ‘theweand

murdered man, |

Htatnce? troops

jel? and wet! Saripteesh eink:
‘any alhendvel of an attaca fro
They wereul well: ort bis ot
who. rendered wil the sichay thert

* Since the. abovp wen prepared,

Constitutions} Anuy Mad reached 9
U'Duinel had retired with! bis. tril .
the distatve fies. ch aX plage te Cabra 8
himsetf ih Gibralturon thd Shis Het F
to have loatall his former. gnene©
pected by uly (Wat bee wae beats, ty
OF the: Goustitucinisaly garty oA

Marshal 6 ou Satutday last. The Inte ndant eeromPanee
the Marshal on this waty ‘i x

fig fe bi Sis

a fipaty ipastot wind, ee Ay Monenttof
Rain and Hail, passed over this city about J1 o*clock f
‘Yesterday forenoon.” Many of the’ es stones were
ades pt Hale an inch in fength. : ;

omeneantn ac

toni) He bre
do. 164: yeas
bes B3t a 34,7
super.
a5

’ ae 8 s
ni,. Bum, 33 6 38.

trad just @y bi eitat Catal tar, aaas?
fee rcp dae ix eae a hee + att
that the. eA Aga pent Pwikh hay tg

ses

that: \would naturally lead to such’ ‘dreadful chor:
mities.. cake ri a

aT be other man; by thename of. Notrow. wus

uch more guitded and circumspicct in his eons cMecally te teegiak

fess an. He isa sinall man, well fornical, with re: } oF here: Mad: Wed cry, Shri f
gular features, ind he states that hecame fran ki MISTY ants, We MBA i os
the state uf New-York, that he lived -ab 4 drigs ; Mito the enh eh ee pes 2 gs
gist th’ Uticu, Kingston, &e He: went by shel e Eh
name of Norton atthe boarding: house where they
both resided) ).He was apprehended, ithe stree(,
inthe company of -iutten, - He Wiasy throug tay ; 4
| the whole of bi¥exa mination, guarded, gud main- ee é wml td igi
valnea eathre self possession, siaweniis promptly MhfD gts Miser
ti all Ainhiin ortant:queries,. but. tolthdyse which: Mets Tt AV as
tented tu, ne i 8 iticulpation, he refed teahaladibe rate: se at isi
lyy. aid hw most cuges’declined any ahswe Fat ull, ti
afd: particularly twahe wiguiry whery he wos yen,
the nightiof the perpetration af (he minder and’
robbery. /Six thousand dollars were fouhd on div 2 vb sage poets
person, and many vf them: were cut’ nptes YEE prec AP i dn el eA bar

He.
was tot afedted like his companioniat) he right § via ae _ % , “ fa eet

of the mare ncet-maa, ner did he betray apy sy wpe ese és
tons of coinpuUl ction or fear, Tt was prives: He sa mp i; wane all.
theevidence of the son of the Landlord, Wat they’ rat, alate wore ih jesse bine Be
both teft their Todicings about Fou loth yas Bday see Ar hiees its Me :
evetirig dust) aint that they “abd pot Pethen until | CN Te sy tig gia, fice or tie ag
day lig tthe neXt. Morning. The thick of «a4 <a. hy
shoes ff diferent sizes, discovered | rmab art he tatabt eae
Spotywas meusited sand wus found Sy orarrespeand BECP
in) fengthi, with ‘thei shee s ef ches Hel L! ey angen
have beet cumimitred for cial iy the dinitet states 6 ie
Cireuit Courty in May next, and (he Wat tit roc's aren
recognized.t appe af.

The letters received in this: ie rum: Philadet-
phia, New-York atid Boston, carréapond very 4
inearly with the Wilkowhich heve Rothe to Nand

ed

Pi Sh

Gr panion of the Letter Mail, sre bear Balti
more, (the single letters,) came to hand yesterday ——
Most in ¢ double letters were pct by the robbers,

th, Fae Mop eoae q mas
at Fi raestde of the Chairmen of the Mictent Wa ard
Goriraitaees for the relief of the Savaniiah sufferers, in
t }New.Vork, ‘on the 25th ult, called by ‘his honor, the
Mayor; it was resolved to recommend to, the General
| Committee, & return to the donors of. the Amount, pe
ih their subscription. ee PU nate Chas we
64 « Weenta |. Msi Nan ht ma

&y 18a 20 cents, The! Mayor of Savanna has sckndeladged tbr fe

ceipt of $192 50 es ftom the Nea Olficers on his

nage et:

;

b.—- Sperm. AS,
als , seit pes a AS. :

Mr. Wie Cercnt of Manha’s Vin yard, moo
qi ‘Wests ot the ship Concord, Capt: Storer, was drawn
> Lover the windlass of that vessel, by getting entangled
with the Gable, and crushed to death, as the ship we
getting ‘under way, in: 1 James Riv er, Aye) ait Pons Ay
Pdmsterdam. ;

%. Bas Fah

Ubes—none.
.13—Brown; 8a 84.
A3—soarce.) »

é 4 fe
ay

een RNY Wi ty)

Ai - FONERAL OF ca \ prearae.

On the 2seh ult. inthe a muon). the aiortal tee
friatis of the otice noble Decatua were conveyed
to the last. receptacle of the h«tian Pace—the |
i) (aldo oltre gent i darkent all te, i ‘It.is Pumoured, that une letter frund Mhoialetn tina, |

was of those p LS, fi A } ; Sits gid
of thetleccased enables hiseaccuturs to mock the | one te oe ¢ ea he ap
solemnitica of the. grave by vain cael reps vas boss ip kiery ro existof letters ce eins Nati co lye
Seanad, Neng weet [Man haem oe Gt fn

Ke NS 42
but ie was ane where the whole populace seemed iene oft PE hong Aguas chips! Dei Ss
Hiay | to follow the hore ta his Last tong huitiey with that expense j and afterdll, the céand wold wh all bun
deep fell woe, which the loss of so excellent a pris | ch: PEOPLE Pequlire ta he! o> su ie
vate s cltinen: asd 90 gallant 4 commander, would nthe Hite obitie, pale ser ;
‘Naturally exefte. The body owas carried to the by thie’ ita @ Wit hi fer Pele r fit ss Hea ae \
rauit at rama, the reswence of ithe late Jou! be ipipropar tele. Ce eh.
| Barlow; attended by a more numerous conciursé imdb tnial the wile! a vides! Si ace Mg Ne
than. was ever before witnessed :th tlie} | NHN Ribas He was an: danke
ear The same sound that he had often heart’ horilt askulnedl % ite Poh al dee ME
avid ‘Tumis the Phunder of battle, was’ the lam degui py casita fur tii ycary i. ae ay
t fehl comstes ® spirit. .. CAferapelven ‘public dicty. “THA spt, saint Rial

beat tight milbteiia Kacy on: ra
ing of the late ‘duel, the cuitor of the Ags hat Aye he “tae oe ha
( Messenger saye—Of the uahippy Huarrer titel srpabated Wy the bie
which led.to this fatal catastroph¢)’ we shal} aty
Present’ eay nothing: as ic ts undetetoed ‘that at)
authentic account of the whole wffain ts to be heree
after submitted to.the public. It ts but justice to
state, ho , that as far as we have Acard. the
foken of the survivor. is not accused of

* cash! bt the quarrel, of of wantonly
4 careed ae a ee the recent to hate
one of

of chéeé unfortunat: entanglements into
4 amiable and sensible

of.

bh made this ee

brings ut
Be ated. Fleur
Bsa low s as Nt ay

¢ are

Tpasiin Preduicte.) They
onl fliy Coarse
i tow as 4 a'46 cents,

oh

Tat do

44,

pie
ai tye Kiaks

wha Jet « tong
iy ioe wut

Ratt) a aN
mY :

T Str are pt, gd a nein sa 8 Pe aN fod tpn

by atAlet Ria aca we AB RETR mS.
tended dt fall lenzes, and Ra: rs Cooma tien, Gene: oF 4
by the Feitte e€ the Sores |
was inte: he wali, a 7;
edy ptt ah the reins Tene!
etal tea ndel pe nk

j nally. breatriged.! Ve hye iy “ay
the parpose el Wwirkatic.¢
We hase ct his Aylar gteak tawds. dae!
jeaueé ipa gities Wty she char a *« i

“>
bine, Se kok Bes dee i aie
matt. aaa Bl yh es «ST pea eda

RES Nb a aa

Pi et ed

hail ok. Mts st “dies s Mather
CAR eS 4 ts,
oe rent Mi,

t+ aie Lae,
5: sometimes Ket Unmece$+ he. antes
‘{aatily involeed, and which faloe pring readers the

‘means of their destruction.”


Se

THE GALLOWS, =
RE BMECUTIONS IN MARYDAND,

wo ralen und’ a, Woman ll

urtionlars of Thoir Crimes,
NFESSIONS OF TWO OF THE CRIMINALS,

' meng f
Neencn and Bncidemts, © a

\e heretofore etated, the Atovernor of Mary- i
| and the soul" of the prisoner was in the pres-
of ite God, 5

leosetn. Weeks age signed and eet to the’
riftg of the euunties named ‘the fullowing
th warrants’ John Howard, alias Evaue,

.  couvicted of anarder Iu the
in Aueyany coubty: Mary Watie,’
weal, convieted of murder fn the fret degree
iivee Cedorge’y county, and Joby Marth,
ced, convivted of vielence upon the pereon
a femae jo Frederick conuty. Yeeterday
‘the day eet apart for their execution, It
ometiing aow an the bietery of Maryland
theese pereons, ip different sections of the’
te. to ve hung ou the same ‘dave From our

fo cowhny partioniara Of the tri@a, cop vice,
sentences and confeRpioné Of tha’ cun-
ined, and their execution: : “mt aes
UARCUSION AT CUMBERLAND. ©

ath of Johu Howard on thé Gal-
we-—Gribering of the Crowd-—
cones and Incidenin— Last alours
fihe ¢ aA ae necenstai to the
vayld—Milifa Guard and Mua.
io—The Acatrold—Contession—The
vecution, &e, :

‘Correspuudenes of the Raltimors “an.}

nts beiug the day Gxed tor the execution of
u Howard, a!.as Shorty Evans, alias Johg
ria, convicsed In October Iast of the murder
‘sot. Megry Miller, near Oid Town, in this
uty, opthe Ith of August leet, the popula
of the wutrounding country bogan to pour
» the city at an early hour. f

CROWDS IN ATTENDANCE,

he ratiread trains brought large oumbere o!
ple, any of whom arrived last night, and
idrode arrived ty vebicle, op Hrobgeds and

mu'ew, nutil the wtrecte were throvged, The
wae ered the air ertsp and cold. Large
wus cocected in front of the jailatan early
ir, aud Femained there until the prisoner was
uvbt out, 4 detachment. of the military,
nthe Fiftecuth Regiment, M. N. G., unmber--
about one hundred men, auder the command
‘aptrin Nev Woodro-y, formed at the armory,
| at 11 o'clock proceeded to the county juil.
NIGHT ASD VORNISG HOURS,
‘ho prizouer was attended during the mora-
by tlw spiritual advieers, Kev. Henry Nice,
the Methodist Irotestant Charch, aud Rev,
C. Hulloway, of the English Lutherao
urch, who offered to him the coogolations of
‘zion, aud he profeescd to be reconciled to his
e, aud to have obtained’ pardoo of the Al
city for bie sine. Me ate beartily last nigot
sewed vynters, with: which be was treated,
1 elept ae soundly ae if uuconecivus that it
» bin lagt nlgit po oarth,

YING TO THR OCAFFULD—A STREET PROCES-
HON-< MILITARY. RTC §

he programme of the execation wae laid
wu in accordauce' with the custom of the
inty in times past. .A band of music ac-
upanied the military, The prieoncr was
uyht out about noon, lustead of placing
» upon bie coMu io @ wagon, with hie
oud upon bin, as had been the custom, he
res brown coat aud hat and aehaw), and was
ced tu 8 carriaye, with hie two spiritual advi-
s. and Wun, Sheffer, the deputy sheriff. on the
twitn him. This change was made in defer.’
to poblic fsentimcnt, a prominent citizen
he town having offercd his uwa carriage for
uve of the prisoner, to avoid an unseemly
ctacle. Although the offer was declined by
aberif, the desired change wae made,

‘he procersion left the jail at 11 o'clock, head-
by Sherif Layman sud a frievnd. The carri-
‘with the prisoner followed. who had a hand-
chief to hie eyes, aud next the band of music
| military goard, and then an open wagon with
audsome waluut cofMiu,and @ large proces-
© of persons, the widewaike in the mean-
16 belng crowded with persone, among whom
re many women, apparently from the countr

] bet mH re falve,

that mas is penry ezauprel . AY i
a y @

‘i iy ty ie As murder. Ido wot ter

baving kilied the mao, bat the man I murdered

id me wrong. Lie ewore agai

bo bas been dead tweaty years,

bat you cannot kill the soul.”’

4 Us
@ then drew Wl
8

Wea he name of

od, I

met My mother,
You may kilj

turoed her salatation and passed out of the duur,

| I rejoined Chariie, and we went over on the

Howery and wok the care for uptown, The
watches and clothing we touk to the pawnbro-

kere and ‘shovdd’ thom up."

TUB MENO OF 4 (DOO FIUKT,

“Some three months after the robbery. above

mentioned was commmittel I war druking io

the same raloon where Vharlie had fo'd me of

the ‘jJob'he fad patup. There were sume if
teen of aéassémbied at tha place to witness a
dog fight. "1 bad fifty Gollare staked ou the fight,
Nhe dog that Ifhad pus ll oney ou got the
other dog by the fore-leg. when the parties who
had bet on the other og whbed to a
fight, { jumped Aneide she ring, when a nian

" $88 DROP FELL,

le

"The emotion of the crowd wae ihanifest and
ik time oe maay Page a —
minutes of one snes wayed

jock. The o hal!
ig} convulsion of the chest and aboal-

| dere wae visible
ceased. It
| aed Pde
the paintn Q
often minutes the county physiciao.{Dr. Duvall,
examined tne body, aie
Cs ve fm Of iife.
cont reporters and other suurces we have ‘Yue length of the 40
wae permitted to bang
lowered soto alhandsome cofia placed beneath
old, and the rope removed. There wae
bloodsetain from the mouth, bat the
lance exhibited no| e'yn of eufering, the
f cy J, the cumplexion bad'the
ehme cadaverone hoe nee it [hestainer phot
T p reheat and gene 2
ron at pleriee adieated the peipabdess Bee Bt

re gently civee'

ance of the face
the animal propensities, and tha absenc 4
gree of those mnvra) facultica w fen are the at-
f a we'l-balanced TatbH; iss

NE CORPOR- AbAURD 4 "Be

Ae ARie as the body was lowered there wae &
Push of the crowd, the m.litasy nut excepted, to
iew of the corpee, The ahsird prac-
taining @ piece of the “haagman’e
arte to @ ridichivus ¢acent, Not
th Guing thelr knives to cut od picces
y@, Many were eeon to rub their piece
ainct the] gallows, the coitio. the
even to attempt to draw it acrcee-
‘The jam and crush was
eremotory orders of the

whe face of Heed age
only stoppe y we
shortite the In}litary|to reuove the Jotruders
aid to protect the badly.

One old lady forced
aylog. “abe wae Kolng byumwe sud maet sce ibe
body.” i

* I¢ fe due tothe sheriff to eay that a!) the ar-
rangemente of the execation were weli carridd
proper aqd bdcoming maoser. Ke-
marke prevailed that the prisouer wae uoder the
influence of liquor at the time of his death, and
. Jn eome instances it was Commented Dpou With
severity, iuvulving Innocent partier.}

Jt was etated, however, tha: it wae cus
to adininieter stimulants to prisoners: previous
to execution, 1p consequence of their vervous
syeteme givin away, and to euable them.to aup-
port themeelves phyeically~dusing the feartal
orde@!, bat whether too jarge @ quantity wae al-

the prisoner in this cage, at his own earn-
, cat dqeire, ie best kuowa to the oificers who bad
charge. , .

Th$ body was ehort!y afterwards taken to the
gravé, which bad heen excavated up the oppo-
eite side of the Lili of the county almboose prup-|
erty. |}

mancy”’ ree text may ap
evidently to makeja sensation. '

mill and othdr property. Numerous
scrapew—oue of them @ stabbing afiair

broken, and that he bad cacaped

ae evident that the neck of the
af by|stranculation.. At the end

u'G diecorer ne she

reef ander the -ecafloid,

THE GRAVE,

That “Specuiation Confession.”
In. the subjoined wi!) be fannd extracts from
the "speculation confeseion,”” ‘a

Evans, slide Joba Lewie. coudem ned for
the murder of Henry Aiiller,” &c., “written by
bimeelf,”’ ‘This document te in pamphiet form,
bearing the impriot of the Cumberland Allega-
, and makes about twelve ordinary
Tue confession, it 19 said, wae written
the: prisoner. Black, who shot McKaig;
tne signature of Joo Moward ie appended, aud
the namce of Lemael Willison aud George J..
Layman are eabjoined as witnesses, and is
seemingly iu aathentic form, however “ro-

» The desiga ie

BAD FROM BOY HOOD.

+ The narrative etarte out with the declaration
that Howard wae bora jn Augusta, Ua., iu May,
1842, hie father being the owner of a ‘hoa saw

outbful
are de-

‘nd. Tn this manner it proceeded throngh | tailed, showing that from the very beginning

principal streets until it reached the county
unde, about @ mile divtant.. wists
¢ @CAFFOLD—1TS PICTURESQUE LOCATION, ETC
‘he scaffold was erected ina large ficid, on a
side, overlooking @ vast amphitheatre, jn-
ling the city of .Cumberlaod, skirted by

Howard was s promising young candidate for
the gallows. He then says: ; :
“When the war broke oot my father’s sympa-
thies wero with the people of the North. ‘Ihe
“troops of the Confederacy burnt down bis house
and afterwards his mill, The family gatbered

untains, and from which the view presented | up what we had left and went to New York city.
» bigbly pictureeqgo and attractive. A large |. 1 left the South to avoid belng drafted into the

uber uf péreons were present, and it !s exti-
ted that four or five thousand persone wit-
sed the execation, © ,
be military, upon (thelr arrival, immediately
ned ® square covering in the gallows, to
ich pone were admitted without the permis-
oof the sberif. The scaffold was of a new
‘gm—-that ofilally's patent drop. Siete
VAL AT PLACENQP BXECUTION—RELIGIONS
_ SERVICES, BTC, ; BS
he carriage drew up to its steps, when the
. Mesers, Nice and Holloway ~y vere fol-
ed by the prisoner, sepperted by the de; uty
ig, Themoment the prisoner's feet touche
ronnd he exclaimed, Thank God, I die a
dman!"* Ao they ascended the scaffold, the
. Mr. Nice read alond the first two verses of
5ist Pealm, “Have mercy upon me, O, God,
wding to Thy loving kinduese; according
>the multitade of ‘Thy tender mercies bios
my transgreerions.” ‘Wash we thoroughly.
1 mine iniquity, aud cleanse me from my

1 reaching the platform, prayer was offered
Rev. Mr. Holluway—the prisoner, whose
© were pi d. isted to knee)

Ly4 .
aby the bench, the ministers kneeling at
ide,

The prieouer Li Take made audibie’
of Ameo. At the conclusion of the
‘er, the eberiff, with bie assistants, proceed-
> pot ou tho prisoucr bis shroud, which en-
ved hie eutire body. abit ar

re ehroodiug and the fizing.of the rope
‘od the weck of the prisuner occupied some
% the prisoner freqi { Topeating the
de, “Adies good mau,” “1 dies Christian

COLEMNITY OF TUR GCENE,

** Sfter living in New York 6
&@ rather rough crowd of men,
bly, gambled ang contracted bad habite yeneral-
ne day I wae drinking in s saivop, when a
in,’ Charles —— by name, came to
f dme that he hada ‘job’ put up and
wanted me to help him throagh with it, 1 was
considerably under the InBnevce of siqaur at the
time and asgentes, He told me that be knew of
upen Third avenue wher¢ we could
raiss,' A young nian living there was
ticd in a few daye and bad new clothes,’
&c., in hid trank and iso several huadred do
larein mopey, The ‘crackeman’ proposed that
we should enter the house that nigat, After in-
6pecting the premises and earroundioge we left
and returned about 2 o’c

wad furnished with a pair of ‘nips’ aud went
i door of the house. I found the

uncovered a dark Jan
vided myvelf with, and looked around. ‘here
was a bed inthe room occupied by two yoang
pair of pants was hanging ona chair,
I ‘eounded’ the pants and got two dollare in
moncy and @ gould watch.
for thetrguk. 1 saw it io the coruer of the
vent up to it, and found it locked.

1@ scene wav very solemn aud impreesive,
bolee and conversation of the thousanile of
tatore were hushed, the jntercet sbaving
hed ite utmoas limit of teneion. The pris;
+ &8 be stood auder the drop, looking his
avon the meridian aun andy the fair scene
re him, seemed to g for a moment ay
6 puint lo the mid-b . anit ; :
“Hie eye wan Wage | {n doubt aud fear

Whe path of the spirit's unkDOWD, carers,”

REMANKS OF RBV. MR. NICE, +t

ter the noore had been adjusted by the
1M, daring which the prisoner compisived
‘t war tuo thrbt, &c., the Key, Mr, Nice, ade”
rive the apectators, said:
\r. Howard devires me to say, on hie behalf,
him jn bie present ‘poeition, that
suger hee all turned away; that be bav faith
se mercy Of God to save hie soul. - He wishes
vo wart you not to use intoxicating drinks,
shun all other vices, and to make prepara-
fora future life; aud that be believes he
ully prepared to meet bis God. He also
veces to make @ few remarke himeelf.’’:
all Tet ymacnass BEMARKe, = *

ell, the few remarks 1 have to mak
‘eo: A Man who couvicte another man on tale
‘b OF any Other, may he never bave ‘straws
te boots.” (This afindes to the old Engiieh’

i,

inerely turued over a:

look out for the|tco
carried the trank tds
and I broke it open with the aid of a etobe.
found in the trunk two euite of clothing. a pair
undred
We divided the
f Our others,’
} | HE 16 A DAKING THIEF, :
{SI then determined to go back tothe hobee,
though my compauion trie

tent leather boots, .&c., and two
fifty dollars in monev.

accond time. ‘Th

already robbed.
ing sixteen dollars in money, g
These two articles ] took oust of Ler dross pock-
Tlouked on the barean and naw a dreesing--
case, it was vot locked, and from it I got anot'!
er gold watch. J then started down stairs; and

of a custom observed by those
card a0 witnesses.). Ba this suas

Southera army. After we reached! New York:
My father opened a stove store; but not succeed-
ing very well.in that,be bought out an cetablieh-
ment forthe sale of furniture) | acting iu the

acity of galesman.” :

Ub TURNS BORGHAN. . ‘
me time I got into
drank considera-

kin the moroiug. I

ip the} locw and. easily turned it with the
of the ‘nips.’ -Charlie bad given me
adescription of the inside arrangement of the
I Sa the frout jdoor, went up ihe
nd opér

ned the door fat the head of the

started to baui it across the floor, when the noise
artiaily awakened one of the occapante of the

. Idrewa pily ati bad with me, so that
if was discovere ; Gould aileace bim. He
id contivucd bis deep sleep.

I then shouldered the trunk and carried it to tbe.
front door to my|tpal,’ who had been on the
a.’ Charlie and -myself

fecen lot that 3 near

ing the hall when I. met a colored

It was then just about daylight, and she
had come to the houseito wash (a0 I afterwards
g moraoing,’ aud I re-

She aaid ,°

for a moment, and a]i motion

lwas 4 feet. ‘The body
minutes, when it was

tomary’

-he followed me

ern that I had pro--

I then looked around
i

We

to dissuade mo from
@ however agreed tp accompany me,
and we went back; 1 entered |the house for the
time I went into the room
occupied by the mother of the) young man I bad
I got her pogket book contain-
od a gold watch.

e the ralling agaluj I got ap
andj he drew’ hie revolver,,1 dlvo' drow. We

both fired. He missed me, but the ball from my |
] pistol took effect jo bis thigh.’ My fridnds pata |
H the doctor who attended the wounded Inan aud

the matter was hushed up.”
| @ENTENCED FO ING SING,
» “1 ‘etald abont the saloon all that iday. and
about dapk'l was: surprised to ree the colored
rl whom I had: met ‘coming out of the house

and arked for ton gollars, which | refused to

that I hi vie ih walk in. She came up to me |

giveher. She want out aud returned in a short |
time, Broom panied by a pcijceman and the
© stolen tronk.) ‘the ‘cup’ ‘at- |

owner of t
tempted to arrest me.’ I knocked him bim dowa
with a.biily and Jumped oat of the window, car-
trying the whole sash with me, Iwas badly cat
about the face and haude. rau ov, however,
but was eoao, caught and carried to the etation-
Douse. ‘They aleo ar soled the whoie party at
the saloon, and we were boon together again in
the station-houee. Some of the prisouere at-
tempted: to ‘cobb’ me. My friends interfered,
and we yt geoeral row, I was not hort. My
ball wae fixed at $2,000, which 1 did not'give.—
My trial soon caine off. Charlie etuck to me and
awore to an alibi, bat it wae of no use; the jury
found me goilty.. Wheb the Judge had me
drought'up for sentence, several girle in the
court room said it was a pity that euch

‘ & NICK, INNOCENT-LOOKING YOUNG MAN
ehould bq sent to prison. I thought myeelt that
they were rather pact totake me for au ‘inno-
cent.’ The Judge tdid me to stand up, and said:
‘I rentence you tot ids arg and’—le then elop-
ped for a moment—‘aud bx months.” J sald, *1

room laughing. 1 thaagot [oe would give me 4
years sure, : a J
i wae taken to Sing-Sing prieon, and went ti

am macb fobliged to you, Judges.’ J jefs t

pi

the ‘lifere’ (in for life) and nen who bad heavy

Sunlebces, to atteinpt anescape. J tuld them
Td 8KIZE ONE OF THR PCHOONERS

at the dock aud vai her over to {he mountaine.

Whea schooners were at the dodk they always

tovk the if out of the rudder head, and thue

reod¢red the schooner useless ae far ae sailing
Was concerned. Linauavyed to make a tiller in |

my shop,

schoguer. 1 concinded not to Go, but i weuton |

ud oue ad we made a rush ona

nevi r retaken. i
“About eight monthe before my ti
some of the prieonera wre rae eee
, ORT THE SHOPS ON FIRE
with the aid of @ siow match of thelr own coa-
stroction.. The fire broke ont about 4 o'clock
A.M. The men whose sentences were pearly
expired were allowed to go out and help extin-

board with ther aud Irizged the uller for them.
Twenty convicts made their excape aud were

gulch the fire. 1 was of the number, bat did not

try to esca The accoant books were barnt,

pe.
and J loet one handred dollare that I.had made |

by extra work. Une man, who was senten:
for fifteen years, lost a thousand atieras wos

time wae nearly up. I remained at Slug:Sing H
|

two yeare and three moothe—being pardon:
een)

‘|MORE B
Howard the: m4 tteirg ales

states tha

are next made to fi pom
kere, New where a oarpier? at Yon

ering another,

ry Ww
atealing @ wagon load *
all, from a New Ori ot alee “ave bone ia
tore red

th
steamer i)
the right thigh aad Chariie|:mn oe Tenant

drove off, however, and the
: etreet car. 4 cene ew.

joree, Wages
to Jerecy and om my own hook.
meuse.

Gater, went inte the beck yard, clim'

Work at the trado of.a turner. 1 had been in the
rea aboats jeatjwnen I proposed tu sume of |
ol

rom Miller's pantg. ‘Her back wae towarde me
and J thought thet'l could pase her eee A
Dut abe turned aod saw me, and IF ran to the
woods, 1 found Joe, aud we roasted eome corn
and apples and again contiuaed our fight, pape.
Jog through Mancock about daylight, “Ine adxt
evening we paesed through Clearspring, ana |
kept on for five miles the other side. We then

‘turned jo under a gt mse When we got

awake \t wae daylight. tack bie head out
and told me that there were some men outside,

|. We both crawled out aud rau, they pureuing ue,

J told Joe to suow fight, Heeaid be would, but
48 soon as they came near he

THREW DOWN HIM CLUB AND SURRENDERED,

I refueed to surreuder,and they snapped 4 pietol
at me twice. lasked Joe ff he had given up,
snd he said yes, J then threw down a club that
T bad and aleo gave up. ‘hey took us to Clear

epring, and from there to Hayerstown, where 1
stayed a week. From theuce I was brought to
Camberlaud. I was tricd ju October, The uegro
Joe perjured himeelf, or I would have been cyn-
victed of manslaughterjonly. which was the unly.
crime J'coimmitted, ro help mo God.”

It is proper toadd that the eevential. part of
this statement, viz. that giving the dete of
the crime for which Howard anflered 425", are
tautessy sue 88me As Published .yeetcrday
morning from the Civiliqga newspaper,

WILE EXECUTION AT FREDERICK: |

Whe Hanging of John Martin at
Frederick—Ilis Last Hours-Speech
from jthe Scaffola, &e.

[Corgespondeuce of tne Baltimore Sun.)

| Frepeaick City, Mp,, Feb. 10.

The execution of the young colored man, Joho
Martin, for the commission of a must heinous
Outrage upon & venerable lady, (Mre. Mary
Butchery took place here to-day, ip the jail-
yard, between oneand twoo'clock I’. M. -

Mid TORRTBLE CRIME.

The shockicg and movt revolting circum:
stances of the brutal offence of the yellow PBs
Wretch precluded all idea of eympatny ful his
fate. ‘Tne only redeeming fact in his last hours
ie that be coufesses the horrible crime, and ap-
parently repents of it, though he had continued
up to Monday last to deny al) knowledge of the
crime. As ae yesterday, hi» victim was 82

years of agp, and the outrage was committed
while her venerabie husbaud, over 100 yéare of
age. wae at her eidte helpless.

The foriner conviction of Martin for theft wae
at the February term of the Irederick Couuty
Conrt, 1868. and he was parduned by Governor
Swanunin May of the same year, upon the recum-
meudation of the judges and others.

NIGHT BEFORE THE EXECUTION,

On the evening before the execution of this
wretched map a nonmber of pereous assembled
in bix ruom at the jail. aud were ougayed in re-
ligtous exercises until ten o'clock, after which
he retired to rest and slépt well. ‘This morning

out three t
cael before the expiration of my

he retarned to New |
York, where he joined “bis old pals.” “Charlie,”
mentioned defore, and one Simmie.* The these

eal of “ewag"’
m & jewelry store and pawn-
ventare!’ ef the trio wae drug-

After this I went ever

: CRACKED A
eaten, ne ene eae tad mate Op my ming
@ grape wor, soleed 8 wiadge od pat p ice

ly with my booty., I next
tis somnan uP te, wasminorow cr
ry

and law there sick
covered I sbi
Cumberland,

aud I left bim.
1 THEN JURED WITH MARKY MILLER

‘ im
for the second time. I made one trip with h
and came back t2 Camberiand, We did not AP
oe that he would Asnock me over-
board some day, at least Joeta‘a inc 60.” Beveras
other diffica'ties witb bis employer are detailed, -
which angered Miller, the captain, who made &
“*fual complaint about becag espe Se ieee aod
7, rihim ¢ na the veg N

arr tiled ta pavaewe the weut vat aad
lit the bow-lignt, placed st oo the bey-capin aud

along pleneanitiy and had several quarrein,
told the negro

not mine to baruere the ron!ee.

torhed the reflecior towards the berm bauk.
told Mitier & wubii

wou't eettie wil you.” atbeo
J RANTEKED MIM FoR & Vier.

@ ea! was toodsrk. | tod him it was an

Hout tar iim ae it wee fo me one vere ae
he ber aU. ‘ot on the boat an

Borrowed nia J wid him HOt to follow me, |
and he then turpved away. | picked op aepreader-
etiek and bid it behind m6, aud be called me @
eonofa b—. He extepped up on the cabin and J
after him. I rained the jotick and said ‘Take that
you eon of a D—,’ (wp were then facing each

otber,; aud -
OP PTRUCK HIM ON THB ITPAD, ,

Me dropped in hiv knees avd tried to pick op
ao hatcnet that laid near nim. J ateuck him agaiu -

aid he cailed'for he:p. Joe batt gat on the boat

and etuod by the cabin. I eaid to Jue ‘Let us
et out ofthis.’ Joe was onthe running plank
ud J fell against him and napa intu the ca-

cated myself with
nd tov to the woods. I beard some
one, and asked

‘a fence and yot mired. Tex
diticulty
one after me, and I picked up
who jt wad. Joe answered

nal. | so regained the tow,

je me,’ Wo

It
contiqued our flight together, and got lost in the
woods thatday. I jouked at thé sun and touk

an easterly couree and came out on the Balti-

evening we came into town and wept down to
I bad ten

the Coal and Iron Company's wharf.
cente and hought come cakes from old Bouhert
and gave Jpe half of them. We were elttiug on

more pikes few miles from Sait That

the wharf dod sume men approached o8 and en-

tered into Qonvereation with us. They recog:
nized Joe, add arked ne what we were duiug
there. J aiting for my boat to come up.

One of them asked, ‘lave you heard the uewe!*
I eald ‘No’
down the canal, J asked who it was? He esid
“Miller, and the pulice are arrertivg all etran-

cere, Sat Ay feiiowe had better leav 1 jeg,
and Joe fullowed me, That night lept un-
til 2 o'clock under a bay etack, and then started

down the pike. I traveled on the pike and Jue

400k the woode for tt. We had nothing but

APPLES AND CORN Tu BAT.

At ‘Indian Spring’ I saw Miller's sleter-in- j
law. She had just finished washing

tne binod

infer it to hold it op. crawled to and made ®
ale of $600 and a ady'e gold watch, aod got off

+4
me time (eee poeple s or to
i jauge. After. é- Ht ‘the road. which pas:

ae ce ae hand’ with D

m Georgetown, and came to
er Ber Tee nod ative latter place with

Mr. B. Kane, helping to bdaild a house. Aer
that I shipped on the boast ‘Mary A, Moore.’—
The owver aud Lhada fzbt about my wages,

with neand Ll would Jeive.
(be owed me eome eleven Ailiare.) He said, *1

ath, jomped over

He anewered there wae a man burt

he pte very little for hie breakfast, and, in fact,
eal subeisted almost entirely for several weeke

onlapples and eweetmeate. After breakfast re-
ligious services were again held in his room, in
hich he appeared to take a great interest. Ile
profersed repentance for hir wine, avd seemed
rfectiy resigned to hie fate. ‘
CROWD AT THE EXECUTION,

Thourands of persons were in attendance to
witness the execution, and ali the trees, fences,
eheds, and elevated positions in the vicinity of
the Jail, were crowded. Shortly before leaving
hia room Martin sang a hymn and prayed fer-
vently fur the forgiveness of bin eins, and after
be had concluded Sheriff Bartgi« entered and jn-
formed hin that his time had now come. Uficer
George W. Lease then tied the arma of the cul-
pritaod aftized the rope aroand his neck, ana
the law ofMficere proceeded with him to the acaf-
fold, which he avcended with firm steps, the
mipieters of the gospel fullowing in the rear.

, A bymn wae then sung, in which many voices

olned. after which the Rev. Mr. Nummer de-

ivgred @ very toaching prayer. Daripg thie’

time Martin betrayed considerable agitation,

aud bie hands trembd‘ed like arpen leaves. Wheu

toe prayer was ended, Martin arose and said:
THE CULPRIT’ eregcH. — -

“My friends, all of you are gathered aronad
hore to wee the lavt.of me, I sappose. 1 see sume
standing on trace and bouses. f hope ‘you will
ail take warning from me, ava ehan the gallows,

ion y | farewell, and hope to meet you al)
el
., The Rev. Mr. Hummer then said: “I now at

the request of sits Prisoner give you his farewell
ponechgea tng, Wha Pap sie < reed from &
paper which beheld in/his bande his
words; a éondied

MARTIN'S DYING STATEMENT = *

Wae prepared’ yesterday by hie attorney. In
the outeet he regrets having to give op bie life
woile yet so young, only 21.yeare of age. le
declares empbatically that he ie not gailty of the
crime for which he must die, and says:

*I confess that on the morning of the 6th of
April last, between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock,
1 voftly stole from ‘my mother’s chamber! whilet
she wae asicep, and left home with the iutention
of going over to Mr. Derr's, After J got out into
® quite close to my house,

he ides¥iasbed across my mind that 1 ehonld go
downto Wir. Hatcher's. ‘I hesitated a moment,
and ¢ av if impelled by some evil spirit, {
directed my footeteps towards the house of the
aged coupic. _Ael drew near the house I con.
ceived amd nnreed the perpetration of the un-
hallowed crime. I entered the house through a
window im the back room. All was dark and
Bfeat uo noise was to be heard except the

eathing of tne aged couple, Mr. an Aire,
Jutcher, who were asleep in the front room.
There was a door opening fgom the room | was
ia to where they lay. It wa® open, and through
it L passed. I caught the old lady by the arm;
ebe e¢reamed, and bet husbaud awoke, askin,
what 9tranz 0 was in the house. She replied
that qbe did put know. but that it was some
large ‘inan. Iwas foiled by the lond screams
au {clabteoed off without accomplishing my de-
sign.’ He then states) how ho went back home
aud stule to bie bed, and was called in the morn-
joy by bie motber, who supposed be bad been
bome all nights. ;

Martin returoe thanke to Mr. J, C. Motter,
the lawyer who de(guded him on his trial:
to Sherid Bartgie and his officere for their kind
and humane treatment; to the ministers and re-
ligious frieude who were so Gnremitting io thely
attentions to bim; acknowledges himee!f a bell
deeerving sioner, but lopked to Chriut‘for mercy
aud died in peace and with good-will to all, ;

The ministers and sheriff and hie deputy bav-
ing left the scaffold, the rope wae cat at precise-
ly twenty-two iminutes pset one o'ciock P. M.,
and the culprit was ewinging between fleaven
and earth. A few convulsive atrugyles were a}!
that could be eeen.

After hanging for some time. Dr. W. H. Balt-
gel) announced that life wae extinct, when the
body. wae tax’en down and delivered to the rela-
tives of Martin, woo conyeyed itto Mount Pleas-

ant district for burial. i

The gallows upon which Jobo Martin wae <

ecuted isa very strong one, and js the sam: 2

which Smeitzer ang Freeman were hang eeveral

Lor ago, It wae faljer, ander the direction of

r. Charlee W. Haller, one of the master car-

benters of thie city, dnd may answer a similar
Darpose for years to ome. Cc

THE EXECUTION aT MARLEORO’,
A Weman ns
4 os iaaged Death eon ¢

‘| Pe
'! @ntie the Crime nud ite Penalty.

e
Wallis, the Child
-Momen ts—De-

cy
r—Her

MARLBORO’, Prince George's coanty, Md.
f ePebreaty 10, 16%.
Mary Wallis, or Wallace, the colored @omeatic

in the family of Mr. B.D. Fabian, near Beltoville,

Md., was hanged here to-day for the der by

of Mr. Fabian, aad
the Gounly joi) as

it

of the
Jastice Breas and avrociat¢ J ustic:
Oo Merrick tog”, prossstal
Orde OU, Mere. 8 90S
Daoiel Clarke aad Bemus

Oluted, and altbobgb an able an:
ence wae made by the eminent
returbed @ verdict of guilty, recot
however, to the mercy of the ¢
court’ hud we discret
Was scuivuced to be hanged

and Nagroder oo

“IMBECILE.OR INGAN

During the progress of the trig
Prunuuncing of the awfal seate
served by ail that the prisoner w
attentiveand careless of all the t!
jo the coart room—now Jaaghing
ing with ber rings, but at all tis

mercy, which was presented b.
the trial she wae remanded to
tinued to wear'the same anconég
ance, and the belief in ber it
Kround eo rapidly that a petition

4PKING 4 COMMUTAT

counter petition signed by a non
who reside in the victoity of

the crime was committed, and who have knows
her for years. ‘Thely state, of taejr own personal
knowledge, that she je jaet th
Gane. boivg bright afd intelligent, but malicious-
of the Governor, bdtb parties a
ing bis decision, w
dressed a letter to

either a repricve or a commatat
eon that be bad carefully exam
entire case, apd satisfied bimeelf
being insane or imbecile, as chaj
the reveree, and he: te
justice demand the

Soon after the sentence had bd
the cundemved was called apon
Dwyer, and McDonald. of the f

thetr advice. ‘Frequently
exhortlog or praying she woah
wild laugh or song.

THE PLACB OF EXECU
wae in the jail yard, euciosed
about 32 feet high.
Upper endijof the town, is a new
wabetautially built, two stones
entrance aod passage io the cen
toume on either side,

ofjof the gang of f
murdered Col. |W. Lyles, of Aai

directly in front of the jail. - Th
about twelve feet
feet trom the grou:
atetther end rise two eight-ing
bers aboot ten feet bigh; acroas
die Joint, in the centre of which
through which the rope, of thr
texture, ie rove: thence
of one of the uprights, where if
tened. The drop le aboat fund
ioner edge working in eockets|
while the front te -heid bya b
throngh the middle of which
leading to an inner room of the
‘This is the teigcer rq
is loosed the Y counection is bro
throwa cutisely clear, Jeaving a f
eet, |. . ¢

‘| TRE CONDEMNED @
Mary Wallis, wae formerly a ola
the late Richard D. Hall, on w
Good Luck, (abont five miles
bhe wae raised; aud her entir
the county, most of it fa th
Where she committed the atroci(
the war she was employed as &
various reeldences ip the neigh}
She is rather tall, and vei
aod looks rather simple-mindes
carceration she did not exbibit

1, did so lightly. I
to few days past, a
that the Governor would commy
and therefore did not exbibit ¢
as she otherwise would have d
she was given to Gte of sullenn
grew up they were not so fr.
more threatepifg to their char:
THE DOOMED WO.
yeeterday refused all food brou
bothing at all during the day.
ald aod Dwyer, of the Carme
theentire day, administering
le about the only
iucarceration, ag

ate her sentence,
6 much concern:

vieltors ebe bad during her
none of her relatives or fricnde b
Last night ehe elept ve
tired early, and arose this

le the same one used on ¢
arde’s execution, and was mad:
the execution of Culling, in tha
mutation of sentesce

t city, bata com-
pd ite use on that.

Tue, priconer occapied the
which Ricbarde cmerged to
frum the grated windows coul
Mee by decantheryoafh ighy sib ete
LOUK DOWN ON THE)
Of the five Lyle murderers, §
one of which (Richarde'sS he!
opened to await the execution

the scatfvld, aud

djoining the last ff
of the sentence of |

ve digger ‘*whoee |
“Oh, that’s that

Asking the o:d colored gra
grave that was,’ he replied,
poor woman's up there,’

loo!
on don’t bit Richard
ord God, massa, don't be afraid:

bave been bung at the Mariboro' jail for the past
ME CONVICTED Woman 1

o'clock this moruing, du visiting the cell
d by the d a

aloet the wall on a pall
er baud, and jn conv
She louked tow:
with ber countenance wreath
Gicative, apparentiy, of resign

THB
At precisely ten minn
Pather McDonald came
1th @ crocifix ia his

ards the grating, |
ation to her fate.
et twelve o'clock
and, followed M4

eon of the infant ebild o: Mr. Albe: *
one ia the owen

Department, 1a Wada’

The child wes killed by ¢riaki:
uae : 4 rm Tere, tempor ip restdent
Suspicion soot p ined reyyy AR g Same

ington, laet July.

Tat

d woman, who was
of white cambric and biac
were pinioned, but she walk
jthe scaffold firmly, although 6
Sherif Fraser and Depaty
also Father Dwyer. She was ‘seated in @ chair
je fatal noose, aad As the ‘
the departing prayers, she gazed with a vacant -
stare onthe crowds of men and


Taken

\Collections

For Private Party”

4 Annapolis,

‘Up

March 23—(AP)—

S Centinged From Peoe One”

TRIAL |

aside : trom: ‘the four confessiona
which were introduced as evidence,

he said. :
ae Weldon “‘Rentenced : :
-In sentencing Weldon ‘he said:
“The court is convinced that you,
Weldon Jones, Jr., stood in the coal
bin by the snide of the Raynor
Graham packing shed and fired

ee nor fatal shot which sent: Ray-

nor Graham into the. presence, of|r

of Graham's ef
sons waen .
upon arrest

Rebuttal. testimony
testimony of the od

. Kenpeth

fled t on the ‘afternson

vary 32 he sew. the oor in his
skiff and later saw them ashore.
He testified that he dropped his
22 caliber rifie and, when he last

his miaker.”

No motive “was found,’ she ‘said,
er ‘than op desire to rob and
bed See bl A burglary of
ing houséeaffice, in whieh

A Senate sub-committee, reporting
it found an “improper” collection
of funds had been taken in the
State Police Department after the

as ae that any such mohey.

1943 General Assembly, recom-

a espace amount of c ied

mended today that the money. -be] found. was recounted in: ‘sam-

returned to contributore.©. ~

The report, adopted by the Sen-
ate finance committee at a 5
ial session. commented that:

was not “the slightest evidence or

money
ite the

even suggestion” that the
was for any Jogiaiater ¢

disclosure that it to en-

tertain a member. af t the House of

Delegates.

“The money, ‘amounting to less

then! $70 ostensibly was for a
party or testimonial dinner, but
the affair never came off, the Te-
port added.

- “Some witnesses “pald” Pchey

thought the ‘get-together’ was for

the Senate and House of Dele-
gates,” the report continued, “some
thought it was for the Legislative
Council, while others thought it
was just for certain | apembers. of
the legislature.” —

Contributions enaed ‘from: ‘one
to five dollars ahd the money was
spent by the “stakeholder” - and}
two‘other members of the force on
one member of the House of Del-
egates”. who met ‘at Ocean = City
while on a short vecation., the re-

rt. stated.

MAL the pattion ‘agree that the
member of the legislature. ‘knew
nothing of the entertainment fund,
was be-
‘spent on. him,” "the _Fgport add-

2 “Col. ‘Ober: puvetintendont of the
State ‘Police, learned of the 1943
collection in the fall of 1944 and
against “silly” eol-
The report continued
= {that he inatructed the personnel to
\tell him if any similar Pstfort was
in and he “would

effective).

issued orders
lections.

re ae of. 1/8.

: eras 0 in Pawel ai

mary by the judge. “Your motive
was robbery,” he said, “To carry
out that purpose you were willing
to kill another human being. We
believe, and there is no doubt in
our mind, that you fired that tata}
shot.”

The ech tence of ‘the: ‘court “de-
clared. that: :

“It is the judgment. of: this court
that Weldon Jones, Jr... suffer
death by hanging by the neck.”
The sentence. ended. with, “And
may. God have mercy; on —vour
soul.”. He was’ remanded: to ‘Som:
erset county .to be delivered to the

tiary in Baltimore, to: await execu:

The sentencing Holbrook, Judge
Bailey said he ‘went. with your.
brother for. iHegal and unlawful
purposes. You were a part of
this. scheme to rob and, burglarize
that night.” 2 © S

He said that yith. Graham: “Ly.
ing there dead... you ‘and = your
brother go in a most. cold blooded
manner, go there and rob the body
and divide the spoils: We cannot
bring | ourselves to believe that had
your elder brother not been with
you you would. have: gotten into
all this trouble.” :

He was ‘sentenced |
fined in the Maryland Penitentiary
for the term of his natural life.”

The three judges of the first
judicial. circuit, Judge © Bailey.

Edmond | T. Johnson, were on ihe
bench: as senten-e was passed.
they had d deliberated for

miny
erdick: Heard In ‘Silence

8]

sens We the courtroom and neith-
don nor © Holbrook Jones
Showed the. slightest chang c

testimony” “repudiated” fowr: Leak
; feasions that they

Omerlond kitted Graham an. the night}:
‘lat Jan. 12 pulaide his Deal Island
pecking house. The- conivasions

Warden of the Maryland Peniten-|

to be con

tudge W. Laird Henry. and Judge

The: ‘verdict was: heard in utter ;

prea brothers: sin “two days eG

¥\ for nai asin :
Willing that. de Wibanhoea Witing
was shot and wounded.

In° repudiating. their coefeasion
both boys had “maintained that
they. had ‘never had a 22 caliber}.
file. ‘and that the fockession was
completely false.

Rebuttal — lesGimony “ by Mn.
Granville Webster, of Chance,
challenged the alibi offered - by
the boys who said. they were at
her store. about 9 to.9:30 p.-m.,
the time of the shooting. As was
her usual custom, she testified. she
closed her store at 7 p.m. and the|,
two boys had left a few. eniguies
before that time... ; :

‘Confessions Repudiated oe
Defenae™ ‘testimony consisted. of
completed repudiation of four ¢on-j
fessions. oe the Jones boys and a
complete denial of any connection
with the Graham ghooting? Their
parents, Weldon Jones, Sr., and
Virginia Jones, testified they had
no clock: in: their: home but they
believed the boys were at home
about <9 p.m. and they: did not
leave the house until: arrested by

state troopers. There Were no other stn

defense witnesses. :
State Pohce~ afficers” lestified
that the third’ and fourth con-
fcesions, obtained at. Bel Air on
January ‘21, told where Graham's
pockethook was-buried beneath the/:
navigation hghton the Rock Creek
shore, just across the harbor from) }
Graham's oyster packing ‘house.

|The next day, they testi ed, they

went to the spot. and. recovered
the pocketbook and auto hag Serater
tion card from the sand.

ren moan saa a meant tas

38|Ma_ Perkins: May Make

a qe

Appeal In Coal Dispute
Washington, March 23—( AP) ~
A personal appeal by Labor Sec-
retary Perkins for a soft coal con.|
tract settlement may precede more
direct. government intervention | ral
the ‘atalted Negvtiations between

aperatara pnd John LL Lewis
Lewis’ demand of a “ten-cent-n-
ton _reyalty. t build up @ health
oe welfare fund for the 400.000


was
the
to

) five

pies by the “sta

two bther members of the rk g
ane member ef the House of
exates” who met at Ocean City
while on Bis short vacation, the re-

port sta FG
“All the parties agree that the
member ef the legislature knew

-I nothing ef the entertainment fund,
‘ter that any such mohe

wat be-
ing spent on him,” the report add-

Col. Ober, superintendent of the

[State Police, learned of the 1943

loans. start at $30.00 and —
can be had in any amount
up to $200.00 to suit your
requirements. Wye loans
are strictly confidential

- Saltabury,” Maryland :
Evenings by Appointment

collection in the fall af 1944 and
issued orders against “silly”. col-
lections. - The © report ‘continued
that he inatructed the personnel to

tell him if any similar effort was

Hever made again and he “would

rr appropriate and = effective
iseiplinary faction.” = -
Legislator’s name and those of
the troopers. were not. mentioned
in the report. |

Parent To Get Medal —
Of Missing Soldier Son—
“The parents of T/Sgt.. Omar
Pryor, missing in action following
a plane crash off Italy, will |
presented with his Air Medal and
twa Oak Leaf Clusters in cere-
monies at Service . Forces.
quarters in Baltimore on March
The son of Mr. jand Mrs.“ Wil-
liam: L. Pryor, Route 3, Princess
Anne, he was ‘reported miasing on
Jan. 16, 1944 after having served
in Africa, Sardinia and Italy.

0: Merion L. Brown

- Cor. N. Division & Calvert Sts. ~|t

was) this

of Accounting Department.

: Regulations apply.

+

Bailey your
brother t and emeagin|
rposes. - You were & y
thie rece t rob and burgtarise
He said that with Graham “ly-
ing there dead, you and your
brother go in a most cold
manner, go there and rob the body
and divide the spoils. We eannot
bring ourselves to believe that had
your elder brother not been with
you you would have gotten into
allthis trouble.”
He was sentenced “to be con-
fined in the Maryland Penitentiary
for the term of his natural life.”
The three judges of the. first
judicial © circult, Judge Balley.
ludge W. Laird Henry and Judge
Edmond T. Johnson, were on the
bench as scnten-e¢ was passed.
They had deliberated. for 38
minutes. <2 280 aS
Verdict Heard In Silence
The verdict was heard in utter
silence in the courtroom and neith-
er Weldon) nor Holbrook Jones
showed the slightest change in ex-
pression. © 3 800 eee
Both brothers *in two days ‘of
testimony repudiated four. pur-
ported confessions that they shot
and ‘killed Graham on the night
of Jan. 12 outside his Deal Island
packing house... The © confessions
also described how. they had ran-
sacked the packing house office

head-jand robbed the slain Graham ‘of

his wallets 0 tee
~“We deeply regret the death of
Mr. Graham,” W. A. .C. Hughes
negro attorney for the two. broth:
ers, told the court in asking for
acquittal, claiming that.a reason-
able doubt of their guilt: exixted
“We, speaking of the negro race,
are as anxious as ‘anyone that the
real criminals be apprehended and
brought to: justice. There -is 4
question in my mind, as. defensc
counsel, . that these boys are guil-

“He declared: that a spirit of un-

‘lrest existed along the Somerset

waterfront that “night -and there
Was an assumption in: the minds
of officials that the two boys were
that night: 2c ee re
Confessions, Hughes declared,
were not freely given. But he did
not contend that the two boys had
been beaten or threatened or had
suffered any hardship at the hands
of the police: © oe Byte
“Hughes ‘expressed his apprecia-
tion_for the courtesies extended to
him by-the court, State's Attorney
Harry Dashiell of Somerset: coun:
ty and Rex A) Taylor of Wicomico
county, the «tate: troopers and the
citizens of Salisbury. 0 ’
“The state late yesterday asked
the ‘death’ penalty for. the two
boys. Marry A. Dashiell, Somerset
state's attorney, in his summation
to the court, quoted from four

that they lay in wait after robbing
Graham's office. in ‘Deal Island,
slew him. as he approached his
office at might. and robbed his

Aside “from — the © confesaions,
Dashiell told Judges Levin Claude
Bailey, W. Laird Henry and Kad-
mond -H Johnson, the two negro
boys “were definitely: linked with
the alaying through. the finding

responsible: for everything - done!

confessions of «the boys. to ahow |

shore, just across the ha
Graham's oyster
The next day, they tes

pat
the pocketbook and aufo registr
tion card from the sand.

ee ee ee at nae ate

my

Ma Perkins May Make

Appeal In Coal Dispute |

“Washington, March “23—(AP)—
A personal appeal by Labor Sec-

tract settlement may precede more
direct government. intervention. in
the stalled negotiations between
operators and John L. Lewis.
Lewis’ demand of a. ten-cent-a-
ton royalty to build up a health
and welfare fund for the 400,000
miners in his: union. bro
contract debate. to
dead halt today. 6 3
More than three: weeks have
been consumed in the apparently
fruitless discussions... with ~the

. practically a

miners’. present. contract to expire &
from tomorrow.” Next Ie

a week
Wednesday ~they will ‘vote. on
whether to strike.<°.
“It appeared that Secretary Per-
kins—if she decides to follow. the
course. she took two years ago—
would not. withhold her appeat be-
yond Saturday. with federal con-
ciliators ready to step into’ the
picture next Monday if the. stale-
mate is: not broken UNG

~ Both’ sides in, ;
apparently were counting on t
government to take some positive
action to bring the situation to

NNR.
AS agal
method of st
world: history

teach mere se

‘Anstill inte ear

pits a knowledge and understand:
i live #:

“We seek to show thea, too,
Interndependency of all patiohs
this modem work.” he cont
vand the ‘meceesity for telerm
of ather. men’s view pointe” |
=n eoncluaion, the apeaker sa
the human race developed fi
the family group fo the tthe, a

then to. the nation, but: Ut.
ultimate goa) af man @ sow fe

:
1

H

retary Perkins fora soft coal con- |

ught the fe


William Henry Jones

Executed at Baltimore on February 17th 1905

Reported in The Balttmore Sun issue of 2-18-05
page 8 column 2

re

JONES HANGED FOR MURDER | }

Onty 41 Daya Beiweral Crime! And
Execution. Aes
wit Jam Henry Jones, old wantanged
vat thé jail at 10.23 otcliicy yest y¥ ‘thorn-
! ‘tug for the murder of Frnies Emory Cun. Be
niogham, a watchman for. Frey & San, by ‘Be
whom Joner had previogsly been employed. .
| fle died of strangulation: am} was pro. |
nounced dead 1544 minjrtes actey, the dron
i fell, '
The interva! bet ween grime | land exec:
Hon-»41 @ays--wan tlie! atortest in she Bi
history of the State. Theimurder was tom.
i mitted with a hammer, : pophers of the Be

pretoises, being, the obje
The cringe wos commniteea: on the nicht af }
| January 7. Within two Weeka'the murder

| had been caught. tried and convicted, anid
| bac: ¢onfeasedt. aud 28 dayr later hie bods
| was lowered from the scaffold, The law

ation of a espital |
ave elapsed aince

hat: emoked a |
he ratly morning, |
ater only three: |
 pervang. the.

tide not, permit the exe
wehtence until! 7O days
| whb sentence 7 fo pass
Jofies nto 1 Wreaktbat.

nivalier of cigars during
having riven at) 5 0’ pant

Deas

héure’ sleep. He. bad
night “before and xfter | midgizpt, Fanont | ;
sometime pacing his cebt. He retired at 21
Ai NE} and when he aries “hip FyCRENeRe
agemed to have! passed
qhpr. atin oth ets

rdad. from the) Tourtess ipter jot. Kt.
Vehn. “Jonen' fave ¢ fome ‘ak: the
nglogkers to be paar religions fer:

btougbt nto the: ard Foo

H Ny: side ‘with, Revi: Tow

"or, ADA he wad ithe: fading.
at i , firw ays |

Sa was!
aikiva ‘alde;
, colored, who:

i tay ayihine ta@ay, do
am well sapinfed,-¢
‘lord rd bless you ali.” on
if, rijon of tha

t bie banda for the straps, : whie
apjuacedd hy Depuiy Che 4. : Emme
amit Intense sllence. artin Henn vey
and Charion A. tording Meanwhile faatened | ;
Ants elbows to tis alde, Dak viack gown

Was mit.on; He wea: the pred pravned.,
abd bed froty he tou pantled a
| for step. by the 'mininte pually rend: |
Ling. Ie geranded the 1 With @: Arn:

trend, Under’ the direet fi ty here |
{dd jnetedothe |

a¢ pt Over bis |
et aw the cap |
eve of Lwteetive |
tris confaunlow
a shadow off

Aesranded Jonea caught
Harry Haminerwia, to wh
fas made, and with ¢ m4
{amlle be nodded’ bf

ie ee

‘Phe tray wad sprung
| There were only three; shin contors |
ne of the body ‘and = Be td eae
he the bead from bile ty side. | Rene Pees
Dt. George Lb. Wilkiod,
i pronounced the man
he waa permitted to swin
| tonne. De. Wilktne’


glave, female, hanged Prince George Co., Md., dan. 16, 1655

% Lz °
fw ry ery yi .
ig OD Way ee
Rie near rss |
eG ei n
% 5 P
v dyed

z parents, that-they were
M3 a sugthened by the suc-
_geepeiye deathsiof: both these inndeent children. -
# One of them. was dissected, and the stim

“J Fits contents, sent to Dr. ‘Tho. P Jones, of Waish-
a jugtan, who, after applying the usual. tests, pro>
date pieariced it to contain two and a half grains of ar.

), eenicgss; Circumstances had in the mean time tran-
‘> ppindd, which tixed the horrid guilt upon a female
Quon lack aervant only 14 years old.:- Bhe was interro-
St pratad ae vePtihal bind Mrbetne HOM HEP mits |
i AY @er’s ahop, and. strawed it over the supper of the
eh jehildreus whieh consiated of rice-and milks She

ied

‘a7 }yale confessed that! she was the person. who Inst

“o Byear mide the attempt to. burn the dwelling house
+ hidown, which, was only ‘rustrated by a timely. dis:

. Jycorerys: ‘Bat oh! horible to: relate !. she further]
J ccoulcaecd; that: two years ago she also. poisoned an
patente of seven months old, the daughter of. this
cg 7. gmnuch, to: be«pitied “couple,- which’ then ‘died very.
4 sSlmadloply, withant any suspicion of ‘poisons. What
hcag@enders: thease acts. more “atrocious “is, that she is:

% aa of an, excellent fainily.of servants, and has a
4 eind and indulgent master and’mistrese to verve.

Scomemttaenmemennscaed . a 6 +] eu 64
: oe ee ar


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until it is all over.”

Kratz was back in Baltimore the day
before the hanging was to take place.

“Tt will mean the life of every man
guarding Lee,” he told the governor.
“Mobs are gathering everywhere. They
plan to hold up the train at any one of
half a dozen points and take Lee.”

The anxious governor appealed to
Kratz.

“What are we to do?” he asked. “The

law must be enforced yet I do not want”

to be responsible for the loss of life that
is' sure to follow. What can you sug-
gest?”

“Hang him here in Baltimore,” Kratz
urged,

“We have gone as far as we can. The
law says Lee must be hanged in the
county in which his crime was com-
mitted,” Governor Warfield explained.

For several moments Kratz sat in
deep study. Springing suddenly to his
feet he exclaimed:

“Then we'll hang him in the Chesa-
peake bay.”

“What do you mean?” demanded the
governor,

“Smith’s Island in the middle of the
bay is in Somerset county,” Kratz ex-
plained. “So long as he is hanged within
the county the law will be carried out to
the letter. All right, governor, issue
orders for the state boat to get ready
and we'll take Lee to Smith’s island.
We'll take along the scaffold frone the
Baltimore city jail, erect it on the island,
hang him and no one will know about it

Fishermcn on Smith’s Island in Ches-
apeake bay were the official witnesses
at the execution, right, of William
Lee, convicted of criminal assault.
Because Lieut. Kratz refused to
throw away an old knitted jacket,
two innocent men were saved from
execution. The real killer, Fred
Whitney, below, committed suicide
by leaping from a cell tier.

Governor Warfield studied Kratz’s
suggestion and finally reached for the
telephone and conferred with ‘the at-
torney general.

“We'll do it,” he agreed after talking
with his legal adviser. He issued orders
for a boat to sail for Smith’s island and
named Lieut. Kratz as leader of the ex-
pedition. Then he sent for the sheriff
of Somerset county and his deputies at
a nearby hotel and explained the plan
outlined by Lieut. Kratz. :

Meanwhile, his secretary had notified
the city jail authorities and the scaffold
was quickly removed from the store
room, loaded aboard a police patrol arid
rushed to the boat. Kratz, the county
officers, the prisoner and a few news-
paper men sworn not to reveal what was
to be done boarded the boat and sailed
shortly before 5 o’clock on July 25 for
Smith’s Island on the Maryland-Virginia
border.

At dawn the next morning a life boat
carried the scaffold in sections to the
island where it was hastily erected. A
few inquisitive fishermen were pressed

into service as official witnesses. The
usual 13 steps to the platform were miss-
ing. Strips of wood nailed to one of
the four posts formed a crude ladder
up which the condemned man was
boosted.

Later, Kratz officially turned the body
over to the sheriff at Glymount on the
mainland, 27 miles from the place of
execution and a short distance from
where Lee had committed his heinous
crime.

Lieut. Kratz was 23 years old when
he joined the Baltimore police depart-
ment in 1885 as a rookie. His post was
so large he coufd cover it only twice in
12 hours. In those days there were no
police call boxes and few telephones.
Police patrols were unknown. If an
officer arrested a drunk, he carried him
to the station in a wheelbarrow. Many
were the drunks Kratz wheeled in each
night.

He had not been on the force long
when his uncanny knack of remem-
bering descriptions and his ability to

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