The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-22
WOMAN HIS VICTIM
RAILROAD SECTION MASTERS
WIFE BRUTALLY MURDERED.
THE CRIME NEAR RAvENEL.
MURDERER CONCEALED HIS VIC
TINS BODY IN DOG KENNEL.

luESs W. W. JUICE WAH SIFuck on tne
Head With CudgeI, and Her
Throat Nyns Then Cut-Fiend Who
Committed the Murder Added Rob-
berry to the FOuIer Crime-Marder
Was Discovered by a NeighbOr
Who Paid Visit to the Jones
Country Secured for the Fiend.
Revenge Said to Have Prompted
the Crime.
brutal murder was committed yes
terday morning near Ravenel, S. c.,
ninety miles from Savannah, on the
Charleston and Savannah Railway.
Mrs. W. w. Jones, wife of the station
master, was the victim. Her murderer
is supposed to have been a negro who
was discharged from the section gang
lest Saturday, after having had some
words with the section master. Re-
venge and robbery are supposed to
have been the motives actuating the
cowardly fiend who committed the
crime.
The story of the crime as reported
to the Plant System officials in Savan-
nah is that about 10 o'clock woman
neighbor went to the home of Mrs
Jones, whose husband had left for his
work, which was on the roadway, not
far off. She was not there 1t needed
scarcely more than a glance, however,
to show that something was wrong.
The house was found in disorder,
and fhoro
having been looted of everything valu-
able, and that was of bulk sufficiently
small to admit of its being carried off
Bureau drawers were open and their
contents rumpled and disturbed. The
woman went into the yard, but no.
where did she see Mrs. Jones, though
she saw where she had been at work
hanging out clothes to dry.
Something finally directed her toward
the dog kennel where she made a
CHASTITY discovery. Doubled and bent
the body had been thrust into the ken
mel in an effort at concealment. One
side of the head had been crushed in,
and the throat had been cut almost
from ear to ear.
1t was apparent that the fiend guilty
had slipped up behind his victim as she
was at work. Lifting a black gum
cudgel, he had brought 1t down on her
head with crushing force. Fearing that
his work had not been completely
done, he made sure of it by cutting
her throat
His next. effort was at concealment
To the dog house he carried the body,
and there he deposited it. His next
thought was of booty, and he made his
way to the house, rifiing it of all that
struck his fancy and that he thought
he could carry. He then made off,
and at a late hour last night moth
ing had been learned to indicate that
he had been captured, although the en-
tire community is aroused and the
surrounding county is being secured.
The woman who discovered the muir
der lost no time in giving the alarm.
The neighhors came from far and near,
and a posse was quickly organized.
Bloodhounds were secured, and the
pursuit of the murderer was begun.
A searching party found a spot in a
thicket, not far from the house, where
a stout black gum stick had been cut
and from the place a trail led to the
house, showing that the stick had prob
ably been used in telling the woman.
Suspicion pointed to the section
hand who had been discharged. 1t was
learned that he had committed rob-
berry at Ravenel Saturday night, and
that he had also broken into the Plant
Systems tool house and had stolen an
axe.
Another story of the murder had it
that the body was discovered by the
husband, upon his return home from
work at the noon hour. The informa-
ton received by Plant System officials,
however, was as has been given above.
Mrs. Jones had been married but a
year. She was Miss DOME Kinard of
Ridgeland. where she lived, before her
marriage, with her aunt, Mrs. A. Q.
Wilson.