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BARNWELL WOMAN K1LLEI gfc 4 TRAGEDY IX BOILING SPRING! SECTION FOUL CRIME. *> ?>, . s Ran From House to Escape.?Body Almost Nude, Discovered in Woods. One Negro Arrested. ?? Barnwell, March 23.?One of tb foulest murders in the annals o Barnwell county was committed las j: night in the Boiling Springs section about twelve miles below Barnwell The victim was a white woman abou ^ . 30 years old, whose body was discov ered early this morning by a negr< in the employ of the Kiendall Lumbe jr./ company, of Donora, which has ; camp in the neighborhood. He gavi the alarm and in a short while Sher f-"v. ' iff J. B. Morris, his deputy, Corone J. Staff Halford and a physician wen at the scene of the crime. An ex * ,amination of the body disclosed th< fact that the murdered woman ha< " been ravished before she was choke< gfe ; to death by her assailant. The mur dered woman lived alone in the ol( family homestead in a desolate par gfey of the county, the nearest neighbors ^ \ v being negroes. An investigation o >;:V the premises showed that the part: had effected an entrance through i window in the front part of th< ms house. The woman was evidenth I aroused by the noise and escaped ii Iter, night clothes through a rear win dow. She probably eluded her pur suer in the darkness, , as only he] tracks were found for a considerable distance across a field. She was, n< \ doubt, screaming for help, and he: cries, in all probability, led to he: apprehension, as the first evidence of a struggle was found at a poini about six hundred yards from the house, to which the tracks of a man whose feet are supposed to have beer ' wrapped in hemp sacks, led from the house. A short distance from the scene o: the first struggle the officers founc part of the dead woman's clothing, i piece of hemp cloth and a small piece of white cloth, which the woman hac evidently torn from her assailant. Ii was at this spot, it is thought, tha the assailant accomplished his pur } pose, as near by was found a blood} pine root, which he had used to bea his victim into insensibility. Aftei ohoking her to death the man drag ^ged the body about four hundrec yards, near .the place where the lum ber company's men are cutting tim ber, and attempted to conceal it iin der some tree tops. When discover %d the body was practically nude. Okly one arrest has been made s< ; far, that of a negro, and it is saic that the evidence against him is b: ao means conclusive. He is unable however, to satisfactorily account fo: | himself during part of the night an( lie was brought to Barnwell ant lodged in the county Jail for safe ?|>>K keeping. The only clues to the mur derer are the pieces of hemp and cot ||?k ton cloth found near the scene o K V the crime, and so far no person witl p| ' freshly torn clothing has been locat k >' ed. The people of that section ar< 11^ naturally highly enraged and ther< lp?;?' is fear that the perpetrator of th< ggpt deed will be summarily dealt with i BRjp caught. The Innocent Bystander. Statistics that have been carefull: prepared show that it is more peril IS- ous to be an innocent bystander thai kv : it is to engage actively in whatevei f k -may be going on at the time. Th< |l!. scrapper either licks his opponent oi : is himself beaten up, and that is al there is to it. He then goes on abou ' - his business before the arrival of th< ?|p? police. If any shots are fired, how ever, the bystander is sure to stoj ip " the bullets, and it is for him tha tiie ambulance is caiiea. The bystander is a man rwho re v fuses to take any part in politics ant the next thing he knows his taxe: are piled so higii that he sheds scald V-.; ing tears when the times comes to pa: them. About that time he realize; that he has been standing still ant jfc* 1 that others have had their hands ii Ipy Ibis pockets. > : ; Standing around on the street i; one of the most dangerous occupa tions a man can follow. It may no appear so at first glance, but it i; true. The police look upon the by stander with grave suspicion. If j brick falls from the top of a higl building, the bystander is alway there to prevent it from doing an; ' damage to the sidewalk. ' It seems strange that so many per ' i . sons follow this occupation, yet in nocent bystanders are becominj more numerous each year. Wher ever blasting is to be done with dy namite or giant powder, the bystand ers are there in large numbers Wherever a dangerous building is t V*/* fJnn'n fln'fVinr TI" ill hv UO puilCU uwnu iimuti ?m vw, ^ vstanders flock in droves. vC? * There is no pay day for the innc cent bystanders at the end of th week. Not one of them looks for Ky y ward to promotion for work we] done. A bystander follows the oc eupation for. nothing and board himself.?Richard S. Graves. - 4;. ; . ' - . j VILLA IS ELUSIVE. Flees to Old Haunts in Mountains, S Pursued by Troops. San Antonio, March 26.?Francisco Villa has escaped from the Mexi'? can troops which checked him near* Xamiquipa, and three columns ot American cavalry are pursuing him. Already they are almost 250 miles e south of the- border and unless the f elusive bandit is brought to another ,t stand this distance will be greatly innraoco/l Vnr t li a <-?1r?ca nf rVia wook ^UO^U Lf ? tliv^ ViV/OV VI U1V vv?k? *> v Villa's success in extricating himl self from the dangerous position into . which he had been driven by the j American punitive force was related r in a detailed report of Gen. Pershing a that reached Gen. Funston today. e Gen. Funston forwarded the report to _ Washington without making public r any but the essential features. g Col. Dodd is commanding the ad- | _ vance columns that are riding hard g after Villa and his men, and Gen. I Pershing has divided his forces so as I to provide supporting columns along - ' the thinly stretched lines of com1 munication from his most advanced t base at El Valle. From El Valle anb other line is being maintained back f to Casas Grandes from where comf munication with the border is maini tained. Gen. Pershing himself is 5 somewhere south of Casas Grandes Y directing the work of holding togethi er his forces and directing, so far as - possible, the operations of Col. Dodd. - Cavalry is being used along the lines r of communication witn uji vane, 5 where a detachment of infantry is ) stationed. r Work for Aeronauts. r Three aeroplanes are at El Valle 5 and will be used in scouting as soon t as the high winds that have been 3 sweeping that part of Mexico for al, most a week subside and which, aci cording to Gen. Pershing, have made 3 effective assistance by them impossible. f Of the eight machines that went 1 into Mexico, two still are out of comi mission. They were damaged in the 3 flights from Columbus to Casas i Grandes. t Details of the operations about t Namiquipa, which concluded with the - escape of Villa, were not revealed, t but there is little reason to believe t he was badly whipped or even weakr ened by the fighting directed against - him by the de facto government 1 troops. Reports last week from Mexican - sources indicate that he had been se verely defeated by the loyal forces - of Carranza and a few reports state that American troops had participat) ed in the action. It now appears that 1 no Americans were actually engaged T __ J iV. f-41 4 TT.M1 /. ' auu Lilt; lctut Liictt v mo. uiauc ujo way ? through what was described as an r encircling line of Mexican troops, was 1 taken here to indicate that he was * the victor. Headed for Mountains. Villa now appears to be heading for the mountains of the Guerrero f district. Once -there, it is conceded, 1 his capture will be difficult and should he choose to pass through the dis3 trict on into the south, there are 3 trails over which he might move his 3 little army until a junction is made * with one or more of his roving organizations in Southern Chihuahua, or Northern Durango. If Villa moves into the districts y further south, military men realize _ that the. problem of capturing him 2 will become many times more com-i r x :n pi piex. .uore troops win uecuuie uccca* sarv and their provisioning by way r of country roads will become prac1 tically an impossibility, t Fifty-four more auto trucks were 3 put into service today along the line _ between Columbus, N. M., and Casas 3 Grandes, and twenty-seven more were t reported to be on their way from the factory, but even with this increase _ in -the motive power of the transl portation division, bad weather and s heavy roads make that method of _ getting supplies to the front uncery tain, in the opinion of officers con- ] s nected with the quartermaster's dej partment. The escape of Villa and 3 his renewed movement .toward the south, they say, make the use of at g least one of the railroads, and possi_ bly both, from Jaurez to Chihuahua t almost essential to the success of g the chase. Well Put. i i A man who kept a roadhouse in s Rhode Island was called upon to tesV tify in a suit as to the number of cubic yards handled in some rock re moving and filling in of lots in the - vicinity. Z Naturally enough he showed very little knowledge of the matter, his - idea of a cubic yard being so indefinite - that it was suspected he hardly com5. prehended the term. 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