The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-09
A Iaorribio CrIras.,

Aorztbio CrlEae. :, ~ Il.
The Grenada (Mias.) .,Sentiael, Of !hIay
%. relates the follo1ihg fearful history.
The city was thrown into the widest
excitement. on Monday. morning last, at
the recital of one of the most brutal
murders ever recorded in the annals OF
crime, which had occurred across the
Abetuponbouge the night previous, In
short time the whole.t town WAS loud in
the denunciation Of the deed, and could
the perpetrators have been known, they
would have met with summary punish
ment at the hands of an outraged oom-
munity. It seems that, on Saturday
night, about midnight, some one knocked
Mt the door Of the ferryman, Mr.. John
Futhey, and asked to be crossed over to
the city for the purpose of securing the
assistance of physician. Pleas Futhey
opened the door; when he was instantly
seized by two strong men, and dragged
out. In tho meantime three men more
entered the house and pulled John Fu-
they from his bed by the legs, dragging
him out also. 1t appears that out of the
disguised as an African. The two men
were forcibly taken along until the cross
roads were reached, when each party
took n different direction. As soon as
John Futhey was taken he commenced
to struggle with his captors, and made
what feeble resistance he could against
them. Finding him determined, the
party of assassins threw looped rope
about the neck of the unfortunate VIC
tim and dragged him in this manner
about 400 yards, when they commenced
to whip and otherwise abuse him until
life was extinct. The supposition is that
the whipping was done with rawhide
While this was going on, the other parties
held Pleas Futhey securely in their
hands, about thirty yards from where
his brother was being tortured, and forci-
bly, made to be n listener to his lamenta-
tions without being able to assist him.
After the brutal work was done, the
party let Pleas go, with threats that if he
ever divulged the names of any of the
assassins they would serve him like they
had the brother. The dec eased was an
inoffensive, weak old man, almost ready
to step into his grave, one whom the
community cared very little for, and so
insignificant that mona can conjecture
what brought him such terrible punish
ment. Some suppose it must have been
for his money, as he is supposed to have
had several thousand dollars in gold hid
away. But we doubt this, because the
parties who killed him, after the murder
was committed, made no attempt to find
the supposed treasure.
Others believed that the parties who
murdered him only intended to chastise
him aud let him go; while still another
conjecture is that they intended to whip
the secret of his hidden treasure out of
him, and, that before they could do that
the victim died The body of the muir
dered man shows that the whipping was
cruel beyond comprehension, and that
the suffering must have been horrible.
The military have arrested r. B. Cha
than, Glenn. Edgar aud Bob Wilson, all
men Of good character in this communi-
ty, on suspicion Of being implicated in
this dark chapter of crime. These gen.
tlemen are all we'll and respectfully con-
nected, and we trust will soon be able to
prove an abb.