The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-03-02
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Theory About the Young Son Of
Senator BGasIGy
REWARD MAY BE OFFERED
The Mother of the Boy Neither
Eats Nor Sleeps But All the
Time Cries "Give Me
the Body of My Boy

A gentleman in Raleigh has received
letter from party living near the home of
Senator Beasley, from which the following
extract is taken:
''They are searching for Beasley's boy
yet but have not found him. They have
searched the potato houses aud hills and
wells, under the hall and houses, every
clubhouse, fodder loft, barn, woods apd
swamp. The searchers get in on one side
of the swamp and go clear through, the
men being about five feet apart.
"The bloodhound went to Yankees
house, and the Yankee lives back in the
swamp with no one but 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 bloodhound 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 a strange man seen up
about 'Barco postof1ce and two more places
by three different men. He was in bug
gy drawn by black mule, and had the
hOx hofx h11ff ho
pie saw him before they heard the boy was
missing. The men say that saw him that
the boy was crying and seemed to be dis
satisfied, but the man was talking to him
rough.
Mr.. Ansell, clerk of the court, met him
near the court hs3ase al 4 he ssaas goirsss
north. No one paiu any attention to him
until they heard him talking so roughly to
the boy. No one that saw him knew him,
if they had it was such bad day, it was
raining and showing, too, and suppose
that he was wrapped up and had his storm
spread up. If they had ever seen him be-
fore they might not have known him.
"The strange man was first noticed by
Mr.. Caleb Barco as he passed by Barco
postofice and he did not know who he was
and II bore on Mr.. Barco's mind that the
boy was so dissatisfied that he, Mr.. Barco,
phoned to Mr.. Jack Griggs and asked him
if 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. Mr.. Ansell halted but the
other man kept driving. Mr.. Ansell MOTTO
ed 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 I 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 Pasquo-
tank. The Yankee 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 everywhere
around are getting up petition to get the
Governor to put out reward for his body
dead or alive, They think that Mrs.
Beasley 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 News s. Observer.
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