The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-07
MURDER MYSTERY.
A WOUNDED MAN AND A DEAD
WOMAN.
a Tragic Occurrence in Charles
lesion That is Pulling
the Police.

The police OF Charleston are trying
to unrsvel 3 murder mystery that hsE
recently developed in that city. 4
young woman by the name OF Lillian
Reeves was found deaf Wednesday
morning at her residence in that city.
and q few blocks away Corporal W
R. Woody, ef the United States ma.
rins corps stationed at the navy yard,
vas picked up by the police with a
dangerous Hound In bis stomach. The
tragedy is the chiet topic Of converse.
tion among the people Of Charleston,
who are as badly puzzled over the
murder as the police sre.
The presumption OF the detective
force is that the woman shot the ma.
rine, and ne then seized the weapon
and pointed 1t to her back, disehasg.
ing the bullet which caused her death,
and his wound did not allow him to
proceed but q few blocks from the
scenes Of the tragedy, in al stte N 3t
20 escape, when be fell and was laJer
picked up by Detective Miller and
SO to the Roper hospital.
The wonan's body was found In
the dining room OF her house, No.
PIP Ashley sYenue, and the wounded
MAXINE vas picked up on Bogard
street. Ga the table Of the room In
which the body OF the woman was
'ouud were the remnants Of luncheon
I'D an empty Whiskey bottle, which
must have been the Immediate pre-
cursor OF the difficulty between the
PARTY. When Woody vas carried to
the hospital, hs said that he had been
shirt by womsn, and later he refused
10 say who fred tbe shot.
TIE discovery OF 5Ge Ioman's body
followed g message from Avon Pat
rick, q we'll known man about town,
~ho Is said to have been intimate
with the dead woman. He tslephoGed
the police station that a colored wo-
nan, Ellen Mlkell, residing on the
premises, had made the discovery Of
the body, reporting 1t to him, and be
Immediately communicated the infor
nation to police headquarters. Pat
rick was arrested, but vas released Is
be proved he had nothing to do with
the murder.
The names Of two other citizens
are mentioned In connection with the
womsn, in the relation Of trlen3
and associate, but they have not been
arrested OF summoned Is witnesses
The opinion Of the police cffolsls was,
as stated above, that the killing OF
the woman and wounding Of the man
followed 8 dispute, sitter their supper,
and that nc third party had q hard
in the tragedy, which must have oc
cured sometime Tuesday night, as
Sne wonan's body was discovered
about one O'Clock Wednesday morn.
ing.
Lillian Reeves Was the only daugh-
Ger of Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. B. Reeves,
Of Branchville, and is ssid to have
been quite a handsome woman. Soue
years ago she married man nam:d
LIE ais Seeke, who was then operator
for the Postal Telegraph Company al
Sranchvllle. Lister they moved to
Banberg, but owing to some family
troubles she left BAmberg and went
TO Charleston, where she had been liV-
ing about tour years when the tragedy
occurred. Shortly after she removed
10 Charleston she was served with pa
per in divorce proceedings the papers
having .b5en taken out in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. She said at the time
that she was not going to bother
shout the papers, and the supposition
is that the man was granted q diVorcs
snd the womsn assumed her maiden
nare.
The dead wonsn, who was about
thirty years Of age, passed as dress
maker, being so reported in the city
directory. Beside her body when 1t
was found, was revolver With two
chambers empty, and the general
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and killed by WocdJ after the two
had quarfeled about something OF
other. Woody is said to be 3 fine look.
ing man, and halls from Richmond,
Va. BE Is known to have been inti-
nste with the woman. DR.. 4. J,
BUST, who performed the autopsy,
testified that the woman could not
have killsd herself. The verdict Of
the jury is that the woman came to
her death at hands unknown to the
jury. The body was inferred at Branch
Vile, wnere the dead woman had
many relatives.
Three Tragedies.
There were three tragedies in Aug
usta, Ga., on Thursday night within
four hours time. At 8 O'Clock W. J.
Sowell, a sewing mscnine agent, OF
Lsngley, S. @, was run down by .
trolley csr On the Aiken line, just
beyond North Augusta, S. c., and
about five miles from town. BE was
brought to the city hospital. where
hs died 1t II O'Clock. he was walking