The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-09
MRS, j., 5. EDMUNDS
 HAS DISAPPEARED
Husband Believes She Has
 8een Murdered
DISAPPEARS AT NIGHT
When Last Seen She Went to Kitchen to Dress Some Ducks for Break fast on Night of Feb
 ruary 3.

l Selma, February S-Cspecial 1-Mrs. J. A. McKinnon left this afternoon for Sli- dell, La, where she was called by the mysterious disappearance of her niece, Mrs John s. Edmunds, who was former ly Miss Kate Boggs of this city, daugh- ter of the late Edward Boggs.
 Sunday afternoon Mrs. McKinnon re- ceived letter from MT. Edmunds, him
 self well known in this vicinity, hay
 ing been agent at Burnsville several years ago, where he met Miss Boggs, a young girl of 16. From Evansville MT Edmunds went to Coatopa, Ala, going from the latter place to Slidell, La. He wrote Mrs. MeKinnon telling of the disappear ance and the fear that his wife had been murdered and her body thrown in the lake near the house. It seems that the last time Mrs. Edmunds was seen was Wednesday night February 8. Stuart, her oldest child. boy of IA years, had been hunting that afternoon and returned about dark having killed some ducks. He stated that before he went to bed his mother said she was going into the kitch- en to clean the ducks so that they could have them for breakfast the next morn ing.
 About Il o'clock MT. Edmunds returned to his home from the railroad station, where he is agent and telegraph oper- ator. He knocked at the door as usual but not getting any response went around to the rear of the house and found the back door open Going in he found his 2-year-old child awake and calling ,or her mamma. His wife could not be found anywhere and the other three children upon being questioned, told the same story as the elder brother, that their mother was as usual when they went to sleep. They stated that about o'clock two negroes came by the house with a 1 load of wood and that their mother went to the front and purchased the wood of the negroes. The theory is that the negroes returned and finding Mrs Ed munds in the kitchen murdered her and then carried her body to the lake.
 There was found no evidence of a strug- gle having taken place and as a hopeless hope telegrams were sent to their former home in Coatopo, thinking 1t barely pos sible that Mrs. Edmunds' mind might have suddenly given way and she had returned to that place. The day she was last seen happened to be the anniversary of the death from burning of one of her children and this fact was seized upon in the hope that the mother was still alive
 Searching parties were formed in the neighborhood of Slidell, but up to Sunday nothing had been found. Monday word came that a body had been found in the lake and that it was expected to be that 1 of the missing young woman.
 Mrs. Edmunds was in Selma during l the past summer, having come over from
 Coatopa to spend the day with Mrs.
 McKinnon. She had moved to Slidell 1 only three weeks ago and her disappear ance and very probable tragic death has been learned here with great sorrow.
 Another Prohibition Arrest.
 That Selma intends to enforce the pro- l hibition law better than her sister cities are reported as doing seems evident more and more every day. The stopping of the sale of near beer until the supreme court passes on the question, the arrest of Bennie Green, a young white man, and his subsequent departure from the city, forfeiting his bond of $450, has been fol- lowed by the arrest of two negroes to- day. Tim English approached Jim Strong | and said he wished he could buy some
 whisky. Strong said sthat if he would
 give him the money he would get the
 whisky. Strong took the money and car | ried it to Wiley Lyman, according to 1 Strongs statement, which Lyman denies, and got the whisky giving the latter the money for it. Lyman formerly worked 1 for a wholesale whisky house. An offi- cer heard of the transaction and was
 present when Strong delivered the whisky l to English and the arrests followed. /