The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-11-15
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MOST BARBARoUs CRIME IN NEW
JERSEYS HISTORY ENRAGEs
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Nine-Year-oId Child HeroicaIIy Fought
Black Brute Until Life Was Elk.
tinct-Nesro Under Arrest and
lynching Is Expected.

T.
lorouhout the night and morning
hours Permanent of ex-
citement prevailed following the dis.
covery of the mutilated body OF nine.
year-old Marie Smith, who had been
missing from her home four days, and
whose body was found in the woods
near her home.
Thomas Williams, negro, is held
on suspicion, and it is believed that
he is guilty of having assaulted the
child and murdered her in a horrible
manner after or while accomplishing
his flendish purpose. There is q prob.
ability that he will be lynched, al
though no attempt has yet been
made
Williams was arrested in his room
last night and has since been in a
state of pitiable terror. The officers
went to his room to find evidence,
and found the negro, who disappear
ed the day the child was last seen.
He admitted that he had not left the
room since Thursday. His suspend.
ers were stained with what looked
| like blood and towel was found on
which bloody, hands seem to have
| been wiped.
The child's horrible death is de.
scribed in the night report of the AS.
sociated Press as follows:
The maItreated body of little Marie
Smith was found at dusk today In a
clump of woods not far from her
home. Some instinct seemed to warn
her mother OF how the search had
ended, for although an effort was
maze to shield her from the truth,
she rushed from the house and look
ed into the full horror Of the fact be.
fore she could be withheld. Half
fainting, half in commissions, she was
carried into the house, and there are
grave fears that she will die and with
her the life she was soon to have
brought into the world.
Chance discovered the body as
chance had hidden it. There seemed
"a have been no effort at concealment.
The~wind had strewn fallen leaves un-
Eitssil their color so matched the brown
of the child,e-a dress--and her brown
hair, that, as she lay face downward.
she was nearly indistinguishabie from
her shroud. Searchers had passed
again and again within 20 feet Of her
in full daylight, during the past three
days, and 1t was only random glance
shrewder than the rest, that happen
ed to rest on her with understanding
today.
Thos. Williams, known in the neigh
borhoOd as Black Diamond, a negro
Wood-chopper, employed by the girls
aunt, has been missing since the same
day on which Marie disappeared. A
warrant was issued for him and an
alarm for his capture sent broadcast
throghout the country and state His
AK was found near the body. 1t did
not need an autopsy to establish a
| criminal assault. The child w&s small
| for her years and not strong, bat she
| had fought to utter exhaustion The
broken sticks and trampled ground
| around her showed that, as did her
injuries. Her gray skating cap and
h1e blue ribbon she wore In her hair
bad been tied about her throat, but
sle had also been beaten on the fore
head with some blunt instrument and
the leaves under her face were froz.
en- together with her blood.
In the struggles she had been grasp
ed by the hand with such force that
gold ring she wore had been fiat.
tened into the flesh. Her arms were
badly scratched and there was a
wound in the cartilage of her nose,
which the surgeons say must have
been caused by human teeth shut
down on it to cut Off her breath.
Marie Smith was last seen at II
O'Clock Wednesday morning on her
way to school, two blocks from her
home. The spot where her body was
found is off her path and either she
must have been enticed into the
woods or picked up and carried bod.
fly