The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-16
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Alfriend Winfield Partin, Jr.,e common.
ly known %. Scott Partin,I is g. son Of x.
v. Partin, Sr., of Panther Branch town.
ship Wake county. is aged about H.
years, weighs about 135 pounds, ~ so,mne
five feet;ten inches high has; one eye ..
little sQpinted, one front tooth, plugged.
With gold; two Of his teeth pressing seto.
gether in front, has dark blue eyes,, dark,
sheir. high, crooked Roman nose, walks.
aslittle parrot.toed, has y dow1ntast; ex-
preston, but is quick in Conversation.
Some time in 1879 he married the daugh.:
tor Of Henderson Wilson Of Buckl,orn:
township, by, whom he had child that
was some eight ttmoaths old in February,
last. For some time prior to February
he had been working, for George P. Par
tin, who had employed quite number Of
hands for different kinds of work, and his
wife had been staying q. portion of, the
winter 1t his brother Georges, but in
February was staying at his fathers. ~:
On the 18th Of February. last Scott
Partin; in company i with J; his wife and,
child, left his fathers house about sun
set (there being no. one at home 1t the
time but his ',mother,) saying that he Vas
going that night to tho residence of.a
cousin some three miles distant. This,
was the last time his wife and child were:
ever seen alive, and as late discoveries
have developed, the fend carried his wife,
and child into = swamp, through which
he had to, pass, not more than 800 yards
from his fathers residence, and there
brutally murdered them, chopped them
into pieces, and buried them in tho
marsh, he then went back to, his moth.
er's about l clock 1T night. and asked
for his trunk, stating that he had made
arrangements to 60 away and would pro.
coed that night to carry his wife '''.doWn.
the country" As has since been learned
he was seen in the neighborhood for sew.
eral DAYS afterward, when he disappeared
from sight. Gradually the suspicion was
aroused that there had been some foul
play, or that all WAS not right, but MOTH:
ing tangible could be obtained. Her
hood shortly: afterward to see their
daughter, but were told the couple had
moved away, and were shown = letter
from Scott Partin, purporting to be from
Goldsboro, and stating that his wife and.
child were doing we'll. This did not SGT.
isfy Mr.. Walton, and he At once com.
menced an inquiry as to the whereabouts
of his daughter.
Since that time Scott Partin has besn
seen in the neighborhood several times.
and when told by an aunt that he was
suspected Of killing his wife and child he
became alarmed and again disappeared.
The efforts of Mr.. Walton to find his
daughter proved fruitless; and some ten
days ago the hitherto peaceful communi.
ty became aroused to sense of the fact
that foul deed had been committed in
their midst, and they determined to fer.
ret the matter out.
The citizens Of Panther Branch town.
ship, aided by large number Of persons
from Johnston county (the scene Of tho
murder is Immediately upon the Johnston
county line,) last week organized them.
selves for thorough search Of the nur-
dered woman and child, and on Saturday
morning last some Is men started
out to scour the country thoroughly.
They formed line on foot, the men some
four steps apart. determined to leave no
spot Of ground in the whole neiehbor.
hood unsearched, and continued in this
manner until one clock, at which time
the line had breasted the large swamp or
marsh some 300 yards from the residence
of Il. w. Partin, ST.. and Immediately ON
the line Of Johnston and Wake counties,
every hole, log and suspicious place hav.
ing been examined thoroughly. A por.
ton of the line came across a hole Of mud
and water some eight feet in diameter
and about the same length. in thick
body of underground and only some 40
yards removed from path through the
swamp, in which WAS : dead COW, the
property of Mr.. Bryant Smith, of that
neighborhood, which had been dead for
some days, and which had attracted tho
| presence of some buzzards. An exami.
nation Of this hole was made, notwith-
standing the presence Of the COW therein,
| and it was found to be Of considerable
depth, though it was of muddy charac-
ter. One Of the party, using IN
iron rake, soon brought to
the surface piece Of flesh
that resembled that Of human being,
and soon bag was dragged ou:, enough
to convince the party that they had
found what they were searching for. and
piece by. piece the bodies of Scott Par.
tins wife and child were pulled out Of
1 this watery grave to which they had been
consigned 1t the hands of him whose
duty it should have been to protect
them. - .
The murdered woman had been liter.
ally cut to pieces. Her head had been
cut from her shoulders, her nose and up.
per lip cut from her face, her body liter.
ally ,quartered, one Of her breasts cut Of,
her arms cut of Ut the elbows, and the
remaining portions Of her person treated
in = similar manner. The infant had
been served pretty much in the same
way. Appearances indicated that the
iend had attempted to arst burn the bod.
les, the head particularly bearing evil
depce Of such IN intention, but doubt.
less finding the process too slow, be re-
sorted to the plan of burying his mur.
dsred family in guano bag in the mo.
rass hole in which it vas found on Satur'