home with the sad tidings that Miller could not be
found. This intelligence aroused the whole neighborhood; public
meetings were held to consult about what was best to be done.
The writer presided at one of those meetings, which was largely
attended, and it was with difficulty that the people could be
restrained from organizing an armed force to kidnap and lynch
McCreary. Better counsels, however, finally prevailed and it was
resolved to send a party to Baltimore to prosecute further the
search for Miller. About twenty men volunteered for the service;
I went to the house of Joseph C. Miller, the morning they were
to start, but they had met at Lewis Mellrath's, a brother-in-law
of Miller. I was there endeavoring to console the aged mother
and distracted wife and children of Joseph C. Miller, when word
came that he had been found hanging to a limb in the bushes near
Stemen's Run station, and such a scene of distress I hope may
never again be my lot to witness; it was heart-rending in the
extreme.

The party went to Baltimore, and such was the excitement that it
was considered unsafe for the party to go out in a body in
day-time. Levi K. Brown, who then resided in Baltimore, went
with them by moonlight, and they disinterred the body, which
they found about two feet under ground, in a rough box, with a
narrow lid that freely admitted the dirt to surround his body in
the box. No undertaker in Baltimore could be found that would
allow the body left at his place of business whilst a coffin was
prepared, and it was deposited in "Friends'" vault; a coffin was
finally procured and William Morris and Abner Richardson started
with it for his home. When they arrived at Perryville no one
would render them any assistance, and they were compelled to
leave the corpse in an old saw mill, and walk up to Port
Deposit, a distance of five miles, in the night, the weather
being extremely cold, and a deep snow on the ground. There they
procured horses and a sled and started with the body, but when
within a short distance of the Pennsylvania line they were
overtaken by a messenger with a requisition from the Governor of
Maryland to return the body to Baltimore county, in order that
an inquisition and post-mortem examination might be held in
legal form. With sorrowful hearts they turned back; (one o