The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-26

WHIST IN Newspaper Publication
VIII Accomplish.

BEFORE we went to press last week ",
sent proof sheets of our account of the SIM
posed murder, north of this city to the Wa
Ter Valley Courier, It appeared in that iour
nal on the 2lst inst, and below we give tn,
result. We are indebted to The Courier fo
advance sheets the article which viii APP
pear In its issue ofthe 18th inst, as follows
Scarce was the ink dry on our paper o,
l l Week which contained the article of the
Ionl murder of an unknown white man
whose body had been found near jackson
| MISS, when it at once became the means al
| tracing without doubt, the identical person
who was the victim of a
MOST HORRIBLE CRIME
In one of the pockets Of the clothes of the
partially destroyed aud decayed body was
| Iouni SIP OF paper. marked out route
OF the unfortunate man to travel, as fol-
| lows:
A WAY BILL AS GOOD AS CAN FIX 1T.
From Seals (or Beals) Station TO Union
Springs. and from Union Springs to
Montgomery, and from MONTGOMERY to
Selma, and from SelIn a 10 Meridian, and
from Meridian to jackson, and from
jackson to Coffeeville. | reckon Won.
can understand this and draw it off in
better shape.
On the other side was written in pencil
Allen and Jack live four miles south of
Water Valley, the town amt on any riy-
:er, Its on a little creek called turkey.
lofeT.
j. a. (or H.)C.
Pa says the trains go to Water VAL;
ley.
This slip of paper is the key to the sad
mystery so tar as to identity the body,
and we can now give the sequel to the story,
and as 60 the perpetrators of the horrible
crime, we think the authorities Of Jackson
should still try every means in their power.
to ferret out the matter and if possible and
bring them to justice.
Allen Chadwick and Jack Magee, two
young men formerly from Alabama, have
been farming this yearon Esq, j. X. Rr ,wn
place four miles south of Water Valley
Some three weeks ago they received letter
from
MR.. LOUIS BUSH.
who was uncle to one of the young men
and Fatf:er-in-law to the other stating that
he would be in Water Valley on the 7th of
November, and for them to meet him there
that day.
They came to town the day appointed and
for two or three days in succession. but
failed to meet their relative. They then
wrote TO Alabama that Mr.. Bush had not
come, and inquired the reason. So the lat
ter stood with the friends here, when our
paper was issued Saturday morning, and |
the facts being known to some of the neigh
bors, who carried copy of the paper to the |
young men, and who at once recognized the |
fearful truth that it WAS their relative tina
had
BEEN MURDERED wIsHoUT DOUBT.
Since they have received letters again, |
stating that Mr.. Bush had left Seals Station /
on the Mobile Il Gerard railroad, on the |
4th of November and they knew nothing |
more.
Nj. Bush was farmer, aged between fif- |
ty and sixty years. was on his way to this |
place, and his friends here think had con-
siderable sum of money with him. as he was
coming out to visit his daughter, and to pur-
chase lands, ifhe liked the county. He left |
Seal Station as above stated o the 4th inst.
and must have been in jackson on the eve
ming of the 5th or the morning of the 9th.
From that place he
MUST HAVE BEEN KNTICED
to the country on some pretext or other
and then murdered for his money. The
young men here represent Mr.. Bush as a
steady, sober old man, who went along
tending to his own affairs and not at all
likely to have been intoxicated, and not
easily led off from his own purposes. They
seem to think very strongly, that the old
man was followed by some one who knew
him, knew where he was going, and for
what purpose.
With these facts before them we trust the
1ut the perpetrators of this crime, and it
viii certainly DC 10 their credit If they can
10 50.