The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-12
CHASTITY FIND NEAR ROME.
A Mans Body Found Securely
LaShed TO a Tree.

His Flesh Partially Eaten Away By
Hogs and Buzzards, and His Clothing
and Hat Riddled With BulIets-He
is Identified as Belonging to Atlanta,
Shugarman by Name, and as Having
Left That City in Company With a
Woman With Whom He Had Become
Infatuated-On the Scent Of the
Guilty Party.
Rome, Ga, Sept 1.-THE sudden dis
appearance of q Jewish merchant from
here ten days since has caused some un-
easiness among those most intimately
connected with HIM. No one had any
doubts, however, but that the man,
Shugarman by name, would turn up
again. To-day most horrible state Of
affairs came TO light. About ten miles
from Rome the body OF ShugarmHn was
found in the woods, well strapped TO
tree and in decaYed state,
FULL OF BULLET HOLES.
The hogs and buzzards had eaten the
flesh badly. The hat and clothes were
full of bullet holes. The only way the
body could be identified was by the cloth
ing No cause is coniectured for the kill
ing, as no crime had been committed by
the deceased and he had no money with
him. He leaves family in this city.
SEQUEL TO THE ABOVE.
The skeleton of a man hanging with
decompOsed flesh, was found strapped to
a tree in the woods near Rome to-day.
Tonight N. Shugarman. a jewish mer-
chant with stores on Decatur and Peters
street, received u telegram from Police
man Prickett of Rome, informing him
that his son Joseph Shugarman had been
murdered, and asking him for assistance
in ferrting out tho mystery Of his death
Other adyiCes from Rome identify the re-
mains OF the man found strapped TO the
tree as young Shugarman, and leave no
doubt that he was foully murdered. His
hat, which was lying near by, was
riddled with bullet holes, but the horri
BILE character Of the murder is not the
most atrocious feature of the case, as it
begins to unravel at this end. Young
Shugarman worked in his brothers. store
here as a clerk up to the 10Th of January
last, when he left his family and went
home on account of a falling out about q
woman. The young man had become in
fatuated with Miss Tallie Prickett, who
lived with Miss Mary l.. Coffee at 475
Marietta street The inmates of the
house did not have the best of reputation,
and IL was on this account that young
Shugarman and his family parted COM
pany.
MONEY CONSTANTLY DEMANDED.
He was being bed by! the woman and
hls brother now says, in order to crafty
her demands, the young man took money
from the cash drawer of the store. When
he left last January, he had $84 In cash.
Miss Prickett and Miss Coffee accomp-
aned him 10 Rome, and also Miss Coffee's
lover, she being a widow. 1t is thought
that Shugarman paid the bills of the
party as long as hismouey lasted Moth
ing was heard of him by his family
here until about n month ago, when
n drummer who came through Rome told
the father, N. Shugarman, who is report
ed to be wealthy, that he had come across
a woman in Rome who claimed to have
married his son Joseph. The woman was
calling upon the Jewish people Of Rome
for money. Her husband had been mur-
dered she said, and she wanted the money
TO bring his murderers to5iustice.
WAS MURDERED ABOUT THE TIME.
1t now appears as a fact that young
Shugarman was murdered about thi s
time, as the condition of his body discov-
cred to-day indicates, and suspicion is
thrown upon the women and their accom-
plices, in whose tolls he was, by his family
here. He had married the Prickett wO-
man, it seems and the fact that his father
is reported wealthy is taken to be a sig
tlcant reason for his murder. No arrests
have been made in Rome yet as the
Atlanta end of the story is not known
there Julia Wrinkles, another inmate Of
the house at 475 Marietta street, where
young Shugarman became infatuated
with the Prickett woman left Atlanta
for Rome n month ago, and was there
probably before the murder occurred.
Her movements may also furnish a point
in the case when the arrests are made.