He was robbed and shot in Elkton in August 1904, dying a few days after in a hospital in Baltimore.

), Henry Lyttleton, Reginald, William Pepper, Arline, Catherine (or Katherine), Mary and Alice.

[1][2][4] Constable was robbed and shot on the road at Gray's Hill near Elkton on August 18, 1904.

He died several days later on August 22 at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore following damage to his spinal cord and lungs.

The evidence was reported by the newspapers as "circumstantial" and the grand jury declined to indict.

[13] In January 1905, the gold watch engraved "A. C." taken from Constable in the robbery was recovered at a pawn shop in Philadelphia.

[14] The following month, John M. Simpers, a horse thief who was serving an eight-year term in the Baltimore Penitentiary, confessed to the murder.