The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-08-17
TANNING, S. c., WEDNESDAY,. AUGUS'
MYSTERIOUS MURDER
Of an Unknown White Woman in the
City of Columbia.
FOUND IN BED BADLY BEATEN.

Wy Va WI oAN oAS~'
FOUND IN BED BADLY BEATEN
Two Mysterious Men Involved. No
body Found Who Knows Any
of the Trio. Preserved
Their Identity.
A white woman was found gaSplne
her last lying On a bed at a little
three. room cottage on Plain street be.
tween Pulaski and Huger THURSDAY
afternoon at O'Clock with stat
wound into the brain through the top
of her head near the forehead. She
was blue. black from wounds inflicted
on her limbs and trunk and it was
evident that she had been struck 50
or more severe flows. Several bloody
cloths were found behind the screen
in the fire place, another bloody cloth
was found on the sofa in front Of the
screen and still another in closet.
A bloody sheet, from which attempts
had been made 10 wash out blood
stains, was found wadded in ball
under the sofa, and the sofa was vet
and blood-stained. In washstano in
the adjoining room was found chi
mes soaked with blood. In the fire.
place was found the two ends Of a
broken broom, and sticks with which
the woman had evidently been teaten
were found lying about the room.
In bureau drawer were found a re-
vo!ver and a razor. All chambers Of
the revolver were loaded and there
was nothing to show that it had been
recently fred. The razor was new,
had probably never been used. In
the room where the body was found
a pint bottle with about a gill Of
whiSkey left in it was discovered.
WHO Is MAUD ALLEN:
In the bureau drawer were found a
number Of receipts from Maxwell s;
Taylor, Main street furniture dealers,
made out in the name OF Maud Allen.
A note addressed to Mr.. H. n. Whit,
Brookland, who Owls the house, was
found on the bureau. Nearly every
word in the note is misspelled. 1t was
evidently written THURSDAY morning
by the murdered woman, though the
Signature is torn away. 1t asks him
to see her Thursday afternoon or
Thursday night But the police, af-
ter four hours hard work Thursday
night in conjunction with the coro.
ner, failed altogether to identify the
woman.
The only person who could be found
Thursday night who had ever seen the
woman was a negro woman named
Mary Wylie, who lives just in the rear
Of the premises and whose two small
boys have been acting as errand boys
for the occupants Of the house.
The Wylie woman last saw Maud
Allen alive early Thursday morning,
when she chatted Tith her in the yard
of the premises where the body was
afterwards found. The Allen woman
had never complained Of being i'll
treated, and she was then in appar-
emily her usual cheerful frame OF
mind. The Wylie woman shortly az
terwarl went to work in another ror-
tion of the city and did not again see
the Allen woman until she was called
in when she reached home to look at
her dead body.
MYSTERIOUS IMAM OF THE HOUSE"
The renter Of the premises is a
white man, whose identity is also a
deep mystery. He rented the place
about three weeks ago after careful
inquiry as to the orderliness OF the
neighborhood. he does not seem to
have given anybody his name, and the
nearest the police are able to arrive at
his occupation is by statement from
the Wylie woman to the effect that on
one occasion the Allen woman admit
ted that the renter OF the premises
made his living by gambling.
The Wylie woman says that she
made application to the Allen woman
to do her cooking or her washing, but
that all propositions Of this kind were
refused with the explanation that the
man of the house objected to colored
people coming about.
This mysterious man OF the
house." however, frequently made use
Of tine Tylie woman's lO-year-old boy
Willie, to whom he was very gener-
GUS. Upon this boy the police have
to depend for all the evidence Of value
they are able to get started so far.
BE says that this man first sent him
for pint Of whiskey, which he
brought to him about II O'Clock.
TWO UNKNOWN MEN CONCERNED.
Just after dinner, between , and 3
o'clock, proba bly,, the boy was sitting
on the front steps just after having
run an errand. He heard loud ours
ing and noises which indicated a fight
on the Inside and fearing injury to
himself left and ran home. A short
time after that the man appeared at
the 6oor and calling to him had him
bring two pitchers Of water. About
half an hour after that he was again
summoned to the door and told to &c
to the nearest phone and call for
physician to come at once. This time
the boy was given 10 cents. In about
Is minntes be was called again ano
told to phone again for a physician:
he was given % cents this time.
Just before DR.. S. NJ. Deal arrived
in response to the call the renter Of
the premises walked leiSurely out Of
the front door and another unknown
man walked out Of the rear door
They came in sight Of each other or
Huger street. The man who came
out the rear door hurried on down to-
MO ~ tho river hri6ue while the Other