The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-24
K|DN TAPPED?
Theory About the Young
Son of Senator Beas-
ley.
The Mother OF the Boy Neither Eat
Nor Sleeps But All the Time
Cries "Give Me the Body
of NV Boy"

a sentlezaag. 5in1 Ralasn has &c
ceived a letter from a party living
near the home of Senator Eeasit y,
from which the following extract is
taken:
They are searching for Beasley's s
boy yet but have not found him.
They have searched the potato houses
and hills and wells. under the hall
and houses, every outhouse. fodder
loft, barn, woods and swamp. The
cearching party go in on one side of
the swamp and go clear through, the
men being about five feet apart.
The bloodhound Went to Yam
KEGS house, and the Yankee lives
q boy and the Yankee said that the
last time he saw the boy that his dog
barked and he jumped behind
bunch of bushes. That was his first
tale. The next tale was that The last
time he saw him he ran by his house
and the next tale was the last time
he saw him he was in his yard, but
he never told that until the blood
hound trailed the boy to the Yankee
mans house. When the dog got to
the door he locked his door and put
his key into his pocket and would
not let them search in his house, but
the men made him let them IN and
searched his house but did not find
the boy.
There was strange man seen
up about Barco postoffice and two
more places by three different men.
He was in a buggy drawn by a black
mule, and had the boy down between
his knees. but the people saw him
before they heard that the boy was
missing. The men say that saw him
that the boy was crying and seemed
to be dissatisfied, but the man was
talking to him rough.
Mr.. Ansell, clerk of the court, met
him near the court house and he
was going north. No one paid any
attention to him until they heard him
talking so roughly To the boy. No
one that saw him knew him, ii they
had it was such a bad day. it was
raining and showing, too. and ! sup
pose that he was wrapped up and had
his storm spread up. II they had ever
seen him before they might not have
known him.
'"rhe strange man was first noticed
by Mr.. Caleb Barco as he passed by
Barco postoffice and he did not know
who he was ana il bore on Mr.. Barco,s
mind that the boy was so dissatisfied
that he, Mr.. Barco, phoned TO Mr..
Jack Griggs and asked him il he had
seen the man and boy and who they
were. Mr.. Griggs phoned back that
he had seen them pass but did not
know who they were. Then he was
met by Mr. Ansell. Mr.. Anseil halted
but the other man kept driving. Mr..
Ansell noticed the boys actions That
was Monday evening that the stranger
was seen. He never was seen before
nor since that any one knows of in
this county. nor l never heard of any
one seeing him anywhere else
Mr.. Joshua Harrison went off
Tuesday morning and never got back
until Sunday. He claimed that he
had been to Pasquotank. The Yam
kee would not help them search for
the boy, telling them that they would
find him. He was the only man that
did not turn out from Snowden's
to Powel's Point, from North River
TO the Atlantic ocean.
People from the beach and every
where around are getting up a peti-
ton to get the Governor to put out
reward for his body, dead or alive
They think that Mrs. Beasiey will die.
She eats nothing nor sleeps none only
as they give her medicine to make
her sleep and the minute her eyes
open she is crying, Give me the body
of my boy.