The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-13
HENRY BENSON
IS THE Slayer
OF YOUNG CRYMES
saM LEE, NEGRO FELLOW PRISON.
Err, TELLS coRoNgR's JURY OF
CONFESSION BY BENSON.
negro RUSHED TO ANOTHER JAIL
, Coroners' Jury Rendered Verdict Yes.
n terday Noon, but Kept Matter
Secret Several Hours.
negro RUSHED TO ANOTHER JAIL

Telling to the coroner's jury a story |
which completed coincided with the |
finding of bits OF evidence in the Cir
cumstantial chain which has been
steadily forged about the person of
Henry Benson, the negro meat cutter,
held since Dec. 26 for the foul murder
bf fifteen-year,old Wallace Crymes,
Jim Lee, a negro fellow convict, con-
fined in Forrest county jail, solved
the mystery" of the Crymes murder
yesterday noon. Today Benson is in
the jail at Augusta or Columbia or
perhaps Jackson-Sheriff Magruder
refuses TO disclose the place of safe
keeping.
Coroner's Plan Wins.
From the day of the crime and the
arrest of Benson, Coroner Farley held
persstently to the belief that Benson
was the murderer. He frequently
\ said that when the verdict was made
J public the man would be safe in an
other iail so that there would be nc
chance for a lynching. The manner
in which the final link was picked VI
YESTERDAY and Benson spirited away
under Judge Johnson's order without
anyone on the outside knowing of the
intended removal, does credit to al
concerned. Even officers in the cour
bouse were unaware of what was go
ing on until Sheriff Magruder and u
r Lea had taken the man in Mr.. Lea
automobile and had been out OF TIT
kAuv for an hour. By 3 o'clock, tn
H,edws however, was on the Streets
! pw Bensons Confession.
ae's statement reduced in writing
W i, was being taken by the Jur
y Artled the jurymen by its faltnlu
a e. - details known only to the o
~ hcers and the jury ,s hoo
III panson. according to Lee, mad Dee
! occunvipg the same cell with him Sc
ara, nights after Benson's arrest
aa hocame confidential and after 1t
soS told of his troubles, Benson I
o,oims made a boast that no one t
cent himself and his wife knew W. ",
Ia pi,,ed Crymes. Continuing be
w a fold him that young Crymes nj
oomo s 70 his, Benson's, home aOou.
o,o,ock in the morning and nau CAM =,
the dogs. Benson ran out ol ,,,D; -
.s,so and catching the gun WIZ
r,rmes held in his hand, turned
. aon him. One load was hred III !
vv,. "p hreast. Calling to his wlie' p'
~ .oo,, from her one of the she'
} s s, son his he'd and wrapped it aOc
~ mOH s,irg how. Then he dragged d
carried him to the door oi '"'
barn. An olive Bens
4 Ending lLC IVY "a,
,,.ced the gun near his neau a"o oe .,
tbe second load into the C,ymes CrSg
aroin. ,r From this young oryH'''
uia,d' uirad in few moments 49, .
ptr Then benson broke up ,rd lne .
.,Iawinp she pieces on the groun0 't,
x. body. Returning home ',n,eot T,,n and
'ne me- D No. destroyed his jacket anu ,
'nset in the fire and was s0,nT oal,ed
.%Sen ,4y young Tom crymes ''''F'
10 'D' tempted to r
p Going to the meat ,,I'ar1 snUp stable nl
later and then to the live Livery the SsTpe neg
II horse and buggy trieu ,,uted rt to
/, aorve, twice he was tempt .l put
to '1ndsd led to put on bold iatssr fpTns Irs me-
',auf1 "auf on his hunt with "s ano'net eim n'
, "THf When the officers toua t0uao two1 TD
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