Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-05
So1Ith Carolina News

/ sPARTANBURG. s. c.. Oct. WAS
body was found yesterday, covered be
meath a mound Of brush and pine needles
I'm a strip of woodland north Of Beau
mont mill village in this city. killed else
where and her body carried to the woods
for concealment. is the question asked
/ by the oficials today.
The police believe the murder was. not
committed in the woods, but that the
body had been carried there. Physicians
say the body had not been dead more
than As hours. The marks found were on
the head, the skull being crushed in sew
eral places one arm was broken and the
fingers badly cut.
In the meantime her husband. Doc Fos-
ter. is I'm Jail. pending further inVestiga-
ton.
Fosters reputation is that OF an hon
est and law-abiding man. at one time. a
successful farmer at Boiling Springs in
this county. He is 50 years of age.
When arrested today he was seated in
his room reading the Bible and expressed
little surprise when told that his wife
had been murdered, He was taken 10
where tine body lay in the woods and after
viewing it in an Indifferent fashion. saidr
Yes. that's her.
The coroners jury rendered a verdict
to the effect that the woman came to
her death by being beaten in the head
with some blunt instrument and recon-
mended that her husband-be held until the
circumstances surrounding the case are
further. developed.
Foster was seen with his wife in the
woods where her body was found. Tues
day afternoon. and he is known TO have
been with her that morning in the Beau
mont mill village. He denies any knowl-
edge Of the crime. and stated that he
last saw his wife Tuesday evening in a
hack with white man and a negro
driver. She told him then she was going
to a neighboring mill village to see, some
friends. Foster says he did not know
either of the men in the hack.
Mrs. Foster. who was Miss Martha Sud
derth. OF GreenviIle county. had been in
the state asylum for the insane for six
months. and returned here only two weeks
ago She has six children, some of whom
are in an orphanage in Greenville.
COLUMBIA. s. c.. Oct. Judge Mem
minger today dismissed the jury in the
trial of Maj. John Black. former director
OF the dispensary board. charged with
accepting bride. and ordered new trial.
because one OF the jurors had carried on
a conversation with outsiders and a news
paper had been thrown into the jury
room containing editorial comments on
the graft trials.
Judge Mimminger suspended the Black
trial this morning while he made a
searching investigation of the alleged
tampering with the jury. 1t was found
that Juror J. d. Perry, a Columbia
butcher. had held a. conversation with his
clerk. G. NJ. Dorm. and a companion, A
T. Keith. relative to Perry's business in
terests. but that nothing was said about
the graft trials
IL developed. however. that yesterday
morning a copy Of the state. containing
an account OF the trial and editorial COM
ments on the Farnum graft case. had
been thrown through the hotel window
into the room occupied by the jury and
that the paper had been read by several
of the jurors.
under arrest for contempt Of court. Their
cases will be passed on later
sPARTANBURG. $. c.. Oct. 1.-Police-
man Joseph Bates. who shot and killed
Mrs G. r. Better on August %, was
convicted OF murder here today.
Mrs Better, il was testified. formerly
lived with Bates and when she left him
to marry Better. the former became in
ssneIy Jealous. The defense set up a plea
% insanity.
CHESTER. S. c.. Oct 2-Yielding to
the expressed demand of the press and
people OF this city. Henry W. Samuels has
presented his resignation as mayor OF
Chester.
At the trial of James S. Farnum for
bribery. Samuels testified for the state.
saying that he had acted as a go-between
for Farnum and Joseph II. wylie. of this
place. former member of the dispensary
board.
Samuels also admitted. as acting repre-
sentative OF several liquor houses before
the board.
Samusls' resignation was offered at a
citizens mass meeting and was accepted.