The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-02-21

didn't see her. l stepped to the
back door and called her, but no.
body answered.
81 supposed that she had just
gone off to see a neighbor and left
| the house open, as she often does.
I'm the kitchen: where my bed is,
had left vest hanging up beside
the door. Ten dollars had been
taken from it, and $3.50 had been
taken from the trunk in my room"
After loading his wagon with
brick and lime Mr.. Wood went back
to where they were building the
chimney and reported that the house
had been robbed while Mrs. Har-
grove was away.
DR.. b. A. Bell. son-in-law of
Mrs. Hargrove, and Mr.. Wood then
went back in buggy to the house.
Nobody was to be seen about the
place. They then went through the
front rooms together, and Wood
then went'to his room, while Mr..
Bell went across the hail to the
kitchen.
Pushing open the door, Dr. Bell
saw nobody in the room, but as he
stepped inside to look upon the bed,
thinking the old lady might be
asleep in there, his eyes feel upon
the bloody and disfgured corpse.
'Jim," he called, "here's mother"
Crossing the room he felt of her
wrist, but there was no pulse. He
saw at once that the old lady was
dead though her cropse was still
warm.
SIS she dead 2" asked Wood.
" Yes" said DR.. Bell, she is
dead-but she hasn't been dead an
hour"
The body was lying upon the left
side, facing the cupboard. Her head
was not upon the floor, but against
the wall, and three or four inches
from the floor. Near the wall were
three or four jars and her forehead
was against one of these. She must
have been dead when she fell or in
her death throes the head would
have fallen to the floor. The wall
was bloody, but there was no evil
dence Of the body having been
moved about. She fell after two
ticks had been struck and then lay
quite still.
The first blow was the one in the
back of the head, and the other was
struck as she was falling. 1t could
not have been struck after she fell
else the head would have been
pushed down against. the floor and
the wall would have been spattered
with blood. Leaning against the
end of the cupboard is a double
barrel shotgun.
She may have come in and finding
a man in the house, have started
for the gun and been struck from
behind Just as she was reaching for
the weapon.
Or, she may have started to the
cupboard for her lonesome dinner"
and been struck from behind.
Word was carried to Smyrna,
three miles away, and tekphoned to
Marietta and Atlanta, Sheriff Nc
Lane and Deputy Sheriff Pink
Stevens went to the house immedi-
ately.
First the tramp, This was the
man that Mr.. Wood had passed near
the house, Pink Stevens and the
sheriff followed step by step, from
house to house until the tramp was
caught at Dick Barfeld's house,
four miles from the scene of the
murder.
His name is L. II. Cherry, a
preacher, or at least he says he is a
preacher. Jim Wood had gone
along with the party to identify the
tramp, and readily identified Cherry.
Seven or eight men were there With
shotguns and rifles, and one man
followed close behind Wood. In
each of the mems overcoat pockets
was a pistol, loaded and full cooked,
and he never took his eyes off Jim
Wood.
''Tell where you've been, and you