The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-05-21
REPORTED THAT HE HAS BEEN
SEEN NEAR BRUNSWICK,
HEADED THIS WAY.
LARGE REWARD FOR CAPTURE
Rumored Detective Has Been Sent
Here to Work Up Case-Neero
Was Said to Be in AItamaha Swamp
Near Jesap Sunday.
Near Jesap Sunday.

Richard Henry Austin, the negro
desperate and triple murderer, who
has successfully eluded capture for
che past four weeks, is believed to
De I'M Brunswick. In fact, it was re
orted yesterday that a negro answer
ng very closely the description of
Austin had been seen near this city
Monday.
| The fact that Austin is known to be
somewhere in this Vicinity lends col
or to the report that he has been
! ieen near Brunswick. On Monday it
was generally reported from Jesup
hat the negro was known beyond any
ioubt to be in hiding in the Altama-
IA swamp between Jesup and Ludo-
gici, and a posse was quickly form
I'd at iesap to'make a search through
he swamp. This was done. but the
'esro was not captured. The posse
| earned, however, that Austin had
2een seen on Sunday and that he
sas heading this way Later another
report was in circulation that the ne
gro had been seen between Jesup
aGd Brunswick making his way to
ward this city.
The negro is said to be heavily
rmed and no doubt YhereyN and
whenever he is located . hgH viii
have to be made before he is captur-
ed. a quiet search is to be made in
his section for him South Carolina
aeteetiges lave been close behind
him ever since he committed the va
rious crimes for. which he is wanted.
and it is understood that yesterday
aane detective came to this cisyT while
mother went to Jacksonville In the
hunt for the negro.
The Crime of Austin.
Richard Henry Austin, in the fore
noon of April 80, addressed insulting
words to the wife of prominent
white farmer near Luray The hus-
band being absent, the woman rang
up near relative. who organized a
posse and went in pursuit of the flee
ing desperate. He was surrounded in
an undergrowth-tangled bay" on the
place of William Bryan between the
towns of Luray and Barton. In the
exchange of shots that ensued Aus
in killed j. Frank Bowers, farmer
Of Valentine, and Fred H. Edenfield
magistrate Of Allendale and Fairfax.
He wounded three other white men,
one of whom, Dr. S. c. Moore, a ply.
sician of Luray, later died at hos
pital in Columbia.
Unrelenting search was made for
the attempted rapist and triple mur-
derer by posses from the counties of
Barnwell and Hampton, and the citi-
zens of Georgia secured the other side
of the Savannah river in the vain
endeayor to apprehend Austin The |
man-hunt was prosecuted with the ut !
most vigor by hundreds OF men for
fully two weeks, and now individual I
volunteers and detectives, both white |
and black, are looking for Austin in
the Savannah river swamps.
The widow Of f. II Edenfield, the
magistrate killed in the ncighborhood
# Allendale, S. c.. is in Jacksonville !
1t the present time visiting the fam
!y Of J. NJ Edenfield, the brother of /
he burdered man. Mr.. Edenfield /
'tated that they were using every ef-
ort to apprehend the murderer and |
a substantial reward would be given
or his body dead or alive
The reward for his capture at the
sresent time has reached $1,000. Gov.
8lease, of South Carolina. has in
'tructed those in search of the mur-
lerer that the reward viii be given If
only enough of the body OF the negro
Is brought back to enable identity.