The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-01-23
Unknown Person Has Attempted
to Kill Mother and Son.
MARKED FOB DEATH
8
Poison, Dynamite and Fire Have Been
Used in Attempts to ADnihilate
South Georgia Family by
Some Secret Eaemy
or Enemies.
or Enemies.


fos, Mrs. Alice Futch and her son
Allen Futch, are ncnsntsrily expect
ing assassination in their home in th
lower part OF Thomas county, Ga.
says dispatch to the Atlanta jour
nal. Nine times the hidden hand 0
mysterious death has been raise
against mother and son, poison, dyna
mite and FIRE failing In each instane
70 accomplish its fendish execution.
Secret service officers, county ct1
clals, privste detectives and the com
binsd efforts OF the lsw, sugnante;
oy sympathetic and jealous friends
have bsen foiled IN their strsnuou
efforts to detect the man and the mo
tive and TODAY the terror-stricken ant
sole inhabitants CT the old Futcl
HOMESTEAD are calmly awaiting Wha
they fear may bs complete annihila
slon.
Reccuntipg their terrihls expert
ence, young Allen Futch, the son
tRenty.cne years OF age, drans5icsli!
exclaimed todsy:
''It ts the protection OF the LoIc
that has saved me and my nothe,
from dsati!"
''Yes, it's providencs slone," ths
mother interpcsed.
And to these who have watched ths
plot thicken, it ssens apparent thai
more than human agencies have beer
brought to their assistance to coun
tersct the execution Of nine diabol
cal attempts to tsks their lives.
Another attempt will bs nsde
upon the lives OF these innocent pso
ple," said Hon. Fondren Mitchell
member OF the Georgia legislature
who has bsen employed as speeis:
counsel to aid the solicitor Of Thomas
county in running the assassin tt
cover.
For seven months q veritsble terror
reigp has ruled oYaT the Futch home
When the two members OF the
family were away, poison wo1ld be
placed in their food, in the milk anc
even in the wsli; when they we're al
home they were targets for dynamite
bombs and the asssssin's bullets. Gi
or stay, their lives have beeD In peri
since esrly IN last June.
Whist vicious motive has driven ar
enemY to such extremes? Ask the
trembling woman. and she only shake!
her head. Ask the young son who re-
nains constantly by her side and he
cannot answer.
''They haven't an enemy in thf
world. made so By an act OF theil
o9n," declares Attorney Mitchell
Its al mystery. desp. weird snd W
to the present inpenetrable. I an
moving heaven aud earth &c lind the
guilty man. Others are doing tht
sane thing. We ali have theories
but the facts are still beyond ou
resch."
The population OF the lowe half O.
Thomas county Is busily engaged II
specnlatiDg upon this strange csse
and gossip has connected many per
sons with the crime, In which Ro
nance, Love and Jealousy figure II
sensational human interest, but th'
evidence is lacking.
On June 4th. last yesr, Mrs. Fusct
and Allen were suddenly seized with
desperate illness. That they were
spared ssemed almost miraculous. L
vas believed their illness was due tt
acute indigestion. AS matter OF fac
they were poisoned, but it wasnot unit
the third attempt hsd been made ths
they realized 8 fendish plot had beer
laid for their assassination. The frs'
sttenpt was made By putting eithe
arsenic CT rough on rats in the wase
bucket and ccfee pot.
On June 10th second atteUps va
made, and this time the mother ant
son were again In the snsdoR Of death
On July 9TH the chicken at tn
noon neil was saturated with poison
and mother and son again were des
perstelY III.
July 10Th the assassin returned ant
poisoned Mrs. Futch.
The condition Of Mrs. Fu.ch grew
constantly more critical, and on Jul.
13sh DR.. Taylor, the family physician
Rev. T. 4. White, the pastor Of th
First Baptist church at Metcalf, sn'
other friends snd relatives we're sum
moned.
There we,e twenty. one persons Il
| the house On this day snd none wer
spared By the unknown hand tia
sprinkled poison wholesale in the SUP
per.
i Ali tweoty-one we've poisoned.
The physician, called to save Mrs
t'usch, almost lost his own Life, al
tbs minister was for hours at th
point { + death.
! Others, including friends and SCI
vsnts, were desperately Ill, but 81 re
covered.
Ga July % another attempt va
made snd Mrs Futcb, Allen snd job
were victims.
With the srrest Of Laura and OH
Cunningham, negroes employed On th
Eutch estate, the attempts cease
Until! January 7th, when Che asssgsl
grow more hold and discarded poiso
and resorted 10 dynamite.
!, Sunday night. January 7sh, the Ell
envy crawled under the house, bore
holes through the foor under the be
lin which Allen Futch vas sleep:n;
schiseled out = hole With sharp !:
strunent and pushed a dynsmi1
: bomb into the room, lighted tbs iu'
: sad fed
: Tracks we're found In the back yal
!, leading to the woods in the rear
the house.
S The hnnoh exnloded, hut apsin g.