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VOL. IIEMURDEREDAT MULLENSDR. E. O. THORNHILL KILLED BY WILLIS HATFIELDLAST SUNDAYShot Four Times All Taking Ef-Business Men’s AssociationThe Business Men's Associationof Berkley will meet on next Tuesday’ evening for the transaction ofbusiness matters coming beforethat body at that time. The installation of the officers for the ensuing year will be one of the features of the evening. Several mat-fect- Occasioned by RefusalTo Give Whiskey Prescription—Hatfield ArrestedAt Maben, Wyoming county,about noon Sunday Willis Hatfield,a son of “Devil Anse Hatfield, ofters which have been hanging tirefor some will be taken up andpassed upon. A large attendanceis expected to lie present.Captain Richmond HobsonAmong the most attractive andno doubt the largest attended eventof the season will be the lecture onLogan county, shot and instantlykilled Dr. Edwin O. Thornhill, apopular and widely known physician of that county and a formerresident and practicing physicianat Cranberry, near this city.The best procurable news of themurder and the circumstances leading .up to the committing of sameis to the effect that it was committed upon a trivial provocation andThursday evening Jan. 11, at theCarter, by Captain Richmond P.Hobson. This brilliant world-re-kCottfeaf1adnowned and thoroughly experienced orator needs no eulogy at ourhands. The reading public andthose versed are too well acquainted with the history of Col. Hobsonfor us to attempt a review of hishistory. It is a rare opportunityand one w hich will lie welcomedun justifiable.Dr. Thornhill who resided atMaben had gone to Mullens Sundaymorning to meetwho hadbeen visiting relatives at Bluelieldand was returning to Maben wherehe was keeping house for heiby the people of Beck ley to be per-tcIelt;j1fdtmitted the pleasure of hearing one ! Ijof the foremost men of the UnitedStates in our city. A large crowdno doubt will greet Capt. Hobson.s10Teachers InstituteceProgram for the Teacher.*/ Un-inbrother. While there Dr. Thornhill was engaged in ids chosen profession and at the time the killingoccurred was bandaging the handof the druggist, Mr. Phillips, whohad been injured that morning.He was in the drug store at thation Institute to be held at Cirts-villeJan. Ill, 1912.1. Welfare oftheWholeChild.v(a) The School and the Child's eMoral10 minutesCad a 1:place when W i 11 is Hatfield ap-White.(b) The School and the Child's ieproac bed him and asked the doctor j ^ ocation 15 minutes .huntA.for a prescription for a pint ofwhiskey. Dr. Tnornhill repliedThompson.(o(c) General Discussion‘JOthat he did not write prescriptions minutes -The Treatment of thelof that kind ami proceeded withhis work. Hatfield again insistedChild in School—Led bvEthel Kevsor.umat lit* w rite the prescription andt:u* Doctor declined to do so.Hatfield thereupon began to curseand abuse tin* doctor. The doctorlopied his work and pushed Hat-How to use Current Events15 minutes A. A. Hedrick.Progress of the Medical Iti-Ispection Lawr and how the teachei1may have medical inspection withheld aside. Hatfield then whipped ol,f ,l25his revolver out of his pocket and Superintendent U. S. Dickens.minutes CountyIeopened lire on the physician and4.reaching of English.before the fourth shot was fired(a) Value of Technical Gram-ltthe doctor fell to the Hour dead, j marHatfield then advanced and15 minutes Prof. Wliite.placet 1(b) Composition in the Inter-Itiit' revolver against the head ofDr. Thornhill and fired again. Tw olt; f the shots took efleet in the ab-lomen and one in the heart.mediate and Upper Grades 1lt;*minutes Mr. Davis.(c) Reading and Literature 1.’minute Prof. B. 11. White.Hatfield walked out of the drugi». Assigning Lessons 15 min-tore and startl'd up the \ irginianrailroad. Shortlv thereafter litwas apprehended by Golden Fryand Sol. Mace. Hatfield offeredno resistance nor showed tight.utes Bess V. W atson.6. Query Box 50 minutesOpened by County Supt. Petersof Fa vet It*.He asked protection of the officersfrom mob violence. The officerstook tlit* guilty man to Pinevilltw here he was lodged in jail.Hatfield is about 25 years of agePrice Williams,Chrm. Com.Entertainment at MarshesA very credible entertainmentcl»sIfVIfwas given by the pupils of Sur-i brother of Elias and Troy Hatfield, who were killed at Harewood.Favette county, on Oct. 17th by\ntonio Gerome, an Italian, thedetails of which w ill lit' well remembered by The Messenger readers.His wife is a native of thiscounty being a Miss ay nor, ofCirts\ ille. His parents are yetboth living and are residents ofLogan county.Dr. Edwin (). Thornhill wasabout 55 years of age and camefrom Lynchburg, Va., to Cran-Ierry, near this city about fouiveyor school at Marshes on Tuesday evening, December 26th, 1*411,and was attended by a large andappreciative audience.Theentertainment consisted of recitations, songs and dialogues, and thepupils rendered their respectiveparts in such a manner as to reflect credit upon thos*rsosuccessfully trained the scholars.and conclusively showed the ability that the trainers,Bess(tore and MiSMary Alderson,possess in training the little folks.years and from there went to Mul-Mashed1tit1lt;(t(]lens, Wyoming county, where hiremained until killed on last Simla v. He was unmarried and wasa brother of Dr. (i. T. Thornhill.of Tams, this county: and W. 1).and W. A. Thornhill, of Bluelield,Miss Margaret Thornhill, of Lynchburg, and Miss Dora Thornhillwho was keeping house for herbrother since her mother's death.Edmond Cook, while at work inthe mines at Mabscott last, week,befell a very un fortunate accident\by a boulder of slate falling on hisright foot and beside considerablytmashing same, some of the boneswere broken. It will be several(yet before Miwill beable to resume work.member of theF. A. M. of this city and as soon assent to take charge of the remainsof their brother.of his deathdelegation fromlodge wasThe remains were taken to Blue-tield w’here interment was madeTuesday with Masonic honors\111
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