The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-29
EDMONDS0N
 STILL MISSING Report from Scene Is
 Meagre. MYSTERY STILL UNSIGNED Coroner's Jury Is Now Investigating FnIIy.
 ----e---- sheria shipp sad solicitor Ainess Havs Gone to scsne--Believed That Family Was Robbed
 aud Murdered.

Decatur, Nov. 2s.-tspecial )--A tel from Sheriff Thomas R. Shipp at woodland Mills, who is there investi- eating the murder of the Edmonson family and the burning of their home, says that the jury empaneled there this afternoon has not yet reached a verdict and would hardly do so until some time tomorrow.
 Sheriff Shipp said the disappearance of Tom Edmonson still remains nys- ter and that no trace of him dead or alive has yet been found.
 The mystery of the horrible Edmond son tragedy at Woodland Mills. this county, deepens as they days so by and while many theories have been advanced 1t Is now almost certain that the entire family were murdered, robbed and their home burned by the ones who committed the crime.
 Thursday a coroner's jury was eln- panelIed and after an investigation of the crime they gave the following verdict:
 family came to their death at the nanos of Tom Edmondson."
 If Is now believed that this verdict is<erroneous and that Tom Edmondson met the faea of his mother. his wife and his three children.
 This afternoon, acting upon this theory. another coroner's jury was em- paneled to investigate the crime again.
 Al an early hour this morning Sher- if Thomas R. Shipp, District Solicitor David C. Almon and County solicitor D F. Green drove across the country to woodland Mills. a distance of twen- ty-eight miles, to. be present at the ih@ vestigation this afternoon.
 Search for Body.
 Before leaving for the scene of the crime Sheriff Shlpp was interVieweo
 q have every reason, he saiu,l haIieva Tom Edmondson was murdered -Iure inc other members of his family I have just learned that on the day preceding the night of the murder rom Edmondson sold ten bales Of cotton ana took the money home With hlm. va have been unable to find him either 6esd or alive, and I am of the opinion mat he. too, was murdered and his body secreted. We will make search for his body today
 It is definitely known that the re- mains ot Edm mondson's wife and three children were found in the ruins of his home and in his barn, but there IS nothing definite as to whether ms mother was cremated in the flames. Here is one of the most mysterious fea- tures connected with the story. Ed- mondson's mother was old and sick, ana fl seems impossible that he could have escaped with her without being apprehended. Yet no defihite trace of either Edmondson or his mother have been found.
 In the barn was found the partial remains of a feather bed and lying on the charred mass was portion of the charred body of Edmondson's baby girl. Knife wounds were plainly discernible on the body, indicating murder. One of the child's feet had been cut off and was found on the ground some distance from the burned ruins of the barn.
 The affair is one of the most horrible that has ever occurred In this county, and while 1t may never be cleared up, the officers are doing everything within their power to solve the mystery.
 Sheriff Shipp Is of the opinion that Tom Edmondson was murdered for the money that he secured for the sale of cotton and his body hid. and that the robbers and murderers then murdered his entire family and set fire to his home aud barn to make 1t appear that