The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-11-18
SCHOOLGIRL'SBODY
FOUND IN WOODS
Found Near Park After Sew
eral Days.
Negro Woodchopper Arrested on
Charge Of Maltreating Little
Girl---Strong Evidence.

ASDury fdrk, ". j.. NOV. lo.-lne
maltreated body of little Marie Smith
school girl Of ten who had been
missing since last Wednesday, was
found at dusk to-day in clump of
woods not far fran her home.
Some instinct seemed to warn her
mother of how the search had ended
for although an effort was made to
shield her from the truth, she rush.
cd from the house and took in the
full horro of the fact before she
could be withheld.
Half fairting. half in commissions
she was carried into the house, and
there is grave fear that she will die
and with her life she was soon to
have brought into the world
Chance, discovered the body as
chance had hidden it, ThMe seemed
to have been no effort at concealment
The wind had strewn fallan l.,avas
until thor color so matched the
brown of the child dress and her
brown hair that as she lay face down
ward she was nearly indistinguish-
able from her shroud.
SearchTs had passed again and
again within twenty feet OF her in
full daylight during the last three
days and it was only a random glance
sharper than the rest, that happen
ed on herwith und srstanding to-day
Thomas Williams. known in the
neighbcrhood as BLACK Diamond" a
negro woodchopper employed by the
girls aunt, has BEEN missing since
the same day ON which Marie disap-
peared. A warrant was issued for
him tonight and an alarm for his
capture Sent broadcast throughout the
county and State. Ills axe was found
near the body.
1t did not need an autopsy to es-
tablish criminal assault. The child
was small for her age and not
strong, but she had fought to utter
exhaustion. The broken sticks and
trampled ground around her show
ed that, as did her injuries. Her
gray skating cap and the blue rib
bon she wore in her hair had been
tied tight about her throat, but she
had also been beaten on the foreh aad
with scme blunt instrument and the
leaves under her face were frozen to-
gether with her blood.
In her struggle, she was grasped
by the hand with such force that a
gold ring she wore had been flat
tened into the flesh. Her arms were
badly scratched, and there was
wound in the cartilage of her nose.
which surgeons say must have been
caused by human teeth shut down
on it to cut off her breath.
Marie Smith was last seen at IL
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 enticsd into
the woods or picked up and carried
bodily.
Williams was arrested tonight in
the last place where any one thought
to find him-his room. The police
went there to search for evidence,
and found their man instead. Will
liams admitted that he had not left
the room since Thursday and the
appearance of the room bore him out.
His suspenders were stained with
what look like blood and a towel
was found on which bloody hands
seemed to have been wiped.
When placed under arrest. the
negro was in pitiable terror and
would naither admit nor deny the
crime with which he is charged He
was taken quietly 10 Jail and there
was no attempt at lynching though
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