Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-12-06
LINKS IN LING GUNS CASE
TIE: MOST KOEPOEsTANT oHE:
STILL NIR3SENaS.


Eu1ar Features of "a co5d grip
The AcpuSeCl-.A E.SO. OF tIAe X-ast
Dag DOG.
The Lion of this chapter OF the hunt for
Ling Gun is Il big brown masti& who
guards the clearing in the bluff on the !
State line between North Carolina and
Tenno ssec where Ed Huff has his cabin |
and good wife and two chubby chill
dren.
Lion led his owner by most dismal |
howls to a thickct under Tcrrapin Gap
on Wednesday last, where the dog was
found crouching on hickory shirt.
On Thanksgiving morning Lion was
put in the woods at TIE gap and his
scent pointed toward Pincy Ridge, a low
lying mountain, half a mile to the left ofl
the road. The print of a human foot
tracking toward the Wo1G Creek valley
was on the ridge, and hopes were
revived of new disco vcrics. The first
look of the guides placed the party on a
well defined trail OF broken bushes
straight down a rib of the hill tha ended
at a small run. Here on 4 bed of moss
wa spicd a pair of drawers of the Chi
namar kind. The spot of this find was
easily seen from the road
| A short rest was taken and the bed of
the run was tackled for what it con
tanned. The narrow valley was well
covered and not many rods had been
| secured before WOODEN uudcrshrt,
turned wrong Side out, except one sleeve,
Was discovered.
The remainder of the hoIows on the
left of the road were searched without
further incident. Here the standing
timber is very dense and the AR chilly
ard damp. Those who believed that
! Ling had case aside his clothes and had
wandered naked through the woods,
were stag gered in their faith when TINS
neck of the woods was gone through
ard nothing was found.
The exploration continued, however,
in the dee pest brush aud a few feet from
the creek the most hidden OF all the arti-
cles, a knife, was found. The iustru-
ment was held in place on a 1nossy log
by stem of heuIOCk. Ono blade, the
largest, was open and smaller blade
had been broken out. The handle was
also broken. The kultc WAS considerably
rust cd. \ patch of moss that had been
rubbed off was still hanging tn the side
of the log. I his Euite has not b,cu i,en-
tilted as Guns.
THANKSGIVING day ended with the
mystery un~ olvcd; in Fridays work there
were no developments and the purity
quit the search, as ono memhCrcNp p.css sd
it, "Out o. heart of tH, CH0umam' > body
bcin' IN the "oods.'
The singular features al the trip and
the ones that most impressed the minds
of the hunters were III the facts that
right at each find there We're bushes
broken down and each object found was
but a short dist ance from the main trail
up the mOunt;ti0.
Notes OF the trip included many Incl
dents of general interest aud some of
them may be clues 70 4 final successful
seach for the corpse OF the unfortunate
Ling Gun and the detection OF his muir
GcrcrS.
Atwood and Cutshall svh.la passing up
the railroad. on the morning Nancy Vii
liams says they Itf. her shsiutv to rob
the old man, were overheard, by man
who was lying under car liking, re
pairs, to make excited rrmaJES concern
ing their power to overcome me third
party.
companicd by Nancy Williams aud her
little boy, were on Grassy creek where
Ling WIS beaten and Went in tEc noun
tans on his trail ON November 20.
Nancy was in the mountain at mill
isOon after Ling was missed and when
asked what she was doing 50 lar from
home, replied that she was locking tor
the old mans shoes.
Except the thin coat which is believed
to have been torn by the dogs there are
no marks, not even q hanging thread
that shows that their wcurvr went
through brush. In contrast il inuV hc
said that the leather lcggiugs of one oi
the searches are covered With scars and
deep scr tatChcrS; the clothing ot Others
was more or less torn. aud Ed lIun, The
most active of the party. came OUT OF the
hunt with his coat in strings.
LnG's wounds, as described 10y thOSi
who saw him on Monday night, were {
knot on his head from the blow of q fence
paling, swollen and purple ankle iron
a blow that caused a Imp in his gait
and his left arm is described as swclleC
until the skin looked as II ii would burst
with marks like dogs teeth in 1t
from which drops OF blood were ooziug
The old man moarcd grigv0uelv as h
rubbed his breast at the spot he was hi
by a stone.
- There are three persons in jail at Maj
shall charged with the murder of Lin
\ Gun. Bob Morris, the husband of til
| frightened woman. 30 wears old; Carte
VI Ward. the VCman'S brother. aged II
and Wade Lawson. aged Il. L4wso
is nephew of Mrs Morris and th
neighbors claim that he is weak minded
The long barrclcd brass mo,uted sqi
rel rifle, DO wdcr horn and bullet pouc
oruamented the inside walls of ever
cabin.
The theory that the missing man Ia
been dcvOurod by animals is not muC
believed in by the mOuutainccrs who sa
m that wild cats are the only 'Varmints
i. roaming the forests and that they w
not touch carbon.
The nights IN the mountains We
spent among people who are not flus
with worldly possessions, but who a
as kindly disposed to the stranger
any on earth. They condemn he CruelI
shown toward Ling Gun, and viii {
all in their power to bring the gull
ones to Justice. Randolph
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