Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-13
THE MILLER COUNTY TRAGEDY.
The Crime of the Lynched Murderers
Even Worse Than First Rennrted

The Crime of the Lynched Murderers
Even Worse Than First Reported.
BAfNBRIpGE, GA, August 11.-On
Tuesday morning last Mrs. Joseph Full
ford was missing from her home near
Sprink creek in Miller county, her alb
sence being first reported by her husband.
The lady had been confined to her bed since
June, and was unable to turn herself in
bed. The neighbors, with Fulford, searched
the country throughout Tuesday and
Wednesday until late in the afternoon,
when her body was found in
Spring creek with numerous hOr-
rible bruises and gashes about her
head, breast and throat. FulfOrd
sought continuously to divert the search
from the creek all Tuesday and Wednes-
day, and he was put under surveillance
and subsequently under arrest. A CorO-
ner'S jury was impaneled and the inyes-
tigation continued until Tuesday morning
when they returned verdict to the effect
that the unfortunate woman came to her
death at the hands of 'EJOe" FulfOrd
(White) }, Harry Brady and Reuben Rober-
son both black). The two negroes had
been arrested on suspicion on account Of
something they had been heard to say.
Subsequently they made a full confession
to the effect that Fulford, with the assis-
tance of Harry Bradley, had murdered the
woman, the negro beating her on the head
with club while in bed, while FulfOrd
chOked and stamped her life out with
his shoe heels. They then placed her
body IN an OK cart and hauled it one and
half miles, and sunk it in Spring creek,
where it was found. The cart tracks and
all other circumstances bore out the con-
fession. The three were given a commit
fsat fsHa i
der. There was talk of burning the trio
to a stake in the court house
yard yesterday in daylight,
but wiser councils prevailed Last night,
however, Judge Lynch held his court be-
tween the hours of 10 and u, and hanged
Fulford and Bradley to a convenient limb
near the jail, after which their bodies
were perforated with bullets by some Of
the jury.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, August 12.-Addi-
tiOnal horrible particulars continue to
come to the surface in connection with
the FulfOrd tragedy wired the Slnddg
Morning Telegram last night. The one
dollar and half paid Harvey Brady and
Reuben Robertson for their services bv
FulfOrd was taken from the murdered
w0man's effects, and was earned by her
during her illness with her needle. 1t is
also learned to-day that the villains car
rled a water bucket and gOurd to the
creek where they sunk the body.
set the bucket on the bank, threw
the gourd in the creek, ana
suspended the dead woman's bonnet from
limb near the bucket in order to bolster
up a theory of suicide. When Fulford
was shown the body of his murdered wife
as it lay in the water he attempted faint
exhibition of grief, and said that he would
not have had it happen for So. The Coro-
ner's jury rendered a verdict charging
FulfOrd, Brady and Robertson with willful
murder, as also did the court of inquiry
on Friday. A rumOr has prevailed for
two days past that Sherman Fulford, the
the murder.
Robertson and Sukie Robertson, co!Ored
woman who was also arrested as a party
to the crime, are still in Jail, but their
lynching is not at all improbable.