The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19

MYSTERIOUS MURDER
Of an UnknoWn White Woman in the
City Of Columbia.

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Of an UnknoWn White Woman in ths
City Of Columbia.
FOUND IKEBED BADLY BEATEN.
Two Mysterious Men Involved. No
body Fognd Who Knows Any
OF tha Trlo. Preserved
Their Identity.
A white woman was found gaspinp
her last lying on a bed at q lite
three. room cQttage on Plain street be.
tween Pulaski and Huger Thursday
afternoon att 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 gand trunk and it was
evident that she had been struck so
or more severe blows. Several bloody
cloths were found behind the screen
In the fire place, another bloody cloth
was found onithe 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 a ball
under the sofa, and the sofa was wet
and blOod-stalned. In washstanCi in
the adjoining room was found a chi.
mes soaked with blood. In the fire.
place was found the two ends. of q
broken broom, and sticks with which
the woman had evidently been beaten
were found ly ing about the room.
In bureau drawer were found a re.
volver and razor. All chambers of
the revolver were loaded and there
was nothing to show that it had been
recently fired,3ssThe razor was new,
had brobabiy never been used. In
the room where the body was found
a pint bottle e5with about a gill of
whiSkey left in 1t was discovered. j.
WHO Is. MAUD ALLEN?
In the bureau drawer were found a
number Of receipts from Maxwell &
Taylor, Main street furniture dealers,
made out In the name of Maud Allen.
A note addressed, to Hr. II. H. Whit.
Brookland, who owns 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 torffaRay. Ii asks him
to see her Thursday afternoon or
Thursday nights, But the police, af-
ter four hours hard work Thursday
night In conjunction with the coro.
ner, failed altogether to identify the
&oman. e.
Tie only person who could be found
Thursday Gigb5who had ever seen the
woman was al negro woman named
Mary Wylie, who lives just Iii the rear
of the premisesl and whose two small
boys have been saetlng, as errand boys
for the occupaa ts of the, house.
Ihess yYy' cs.arl last saw Maud
Allen alive cary Thursday morhi1g,,
when she chattsd with her in the yard
OF the premises where the body was
afterwards found. The Allen woman
had never complained of being ILL.,
treated, and she was then in appar-
emily her usual cheerful frame of
mind. The Wylie woman shortly af-
terwar 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 MAN OF THE HOUSE,"
The renter Of the premises Is q
white man, whose identity is also Il
deep mystery. lie rented the place
about thr e 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 10 arrive at
bis 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 the Wylie woman's To- 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.
He says that this man first sent him
for a pint OF whlskey, which he
brought to him about | | O'Clock.
TWO UNKNOWN MEN CONCERNED.
Just after dinner, between = and 2
o'clock, probably, the boy was sitting
on the front steps just after having
run an errand. He heard loud ours.
ing and noises which indicated q fight
on the Inside and fearing injury tc
himself left and ran home. A short
time after that the man app .ared at
the door and calling to him had him
bring two pitchers OF water. About
half an hour after that he was again
SUNNI Oned to the door and told to &C
to the nearest phone and call for q
physician to come at once. This time
the boy was given 10 cents. In about
10 minntes he was called again ant
told to phone again for a physician;
he was given 25 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
ward the river bridge, while the Other