Evening journal., 1918-01-17
WOMAN found DEAD
With THROAT CUT
Body is Recovered This
Morning Behind Hedge
on Rog, rs Road
MANS SHOES AND
SHIRT NEARBY

With her throat gashed from ear to
ear. the body Of a Negress. aged is years,
was found lying behind a hedge along
the Rogers road between the Causeway
and the New Castle road about 10 80
o CLOCK this morning The body was
found by William Simmons, Negro. OF
Rose Hill, who was walking to his work
in this city al the time. The police
say the woman was murdered.
Without stopping to examine the
body simmons hurried TO Front ana
Market streets, where he notified Patrol
man Elderkin, who sent word to tne
police station simmons thought the
bodv was that of a man and so notined
lhe police. Chief Of Police Black sent
sergeant Wilmer Hahn and Onlcer
Elderkin to the scene In the ponce
patrol.
simmons. who found the body, also
ioined the police and when they ar.
rived at the scene, they found trall
of blood leading from a large pool IN
the roadway TO the place where the
body was lying. The murderers had
dragged the body fully 100 yards, from
where the pool Of blood was to Where
il had been left, near the edge of a
large field and behind q hedge
The body had been dragged fee'
first and both Of the wOman's hands
were in soiled nun. The body was
/ lying on the stomach, the clothing dis
/ heveled and nearby. where a large poo
| OF blood was found, was a legnorn nal
and a small beaded purse.
Inside the purse was a handkerchief
a comb and a pencil and two small
photographs, one Of q Negress, whicf
was evidently that of the dead woman
and a collie dog. This picture, as wei
as the other one. was taken on a porcf
Of frame dwelling One view was
marked on the back, this is Matte a
! work
This is the only clue the police hav'
as TO the identity Of the dead woman
although the body was viewed by hun
dreds Of people who reside in the sec
ton where it was found.
Word Of the finding Of the body wat
sent 10 Attorney General Relnnardt II
the Court Of General Sessions, and h'
sent word to state Detective Mccoy, whC
hurried 10 the scene with Constable
/ Fennimore. These officers. with the loea
police, made a thorough search OF th'
fields and roadways near the body tOl
/ @ weapon which may have been useC
/ by the murderer but no trace OF d
was found. The police did lnu, how
ever pile Of burlap baggins and tWC
white socks about 100 yards from wher'
/ the body was found Alongside the bur
lap was piece Of heavy twine, and j
is thought that the murderer may have
worn the burlap about his feet, anC
after dragging the body OF his victim
into the fold, discarded the burlap fo
fear that II was blood-stained. An eX
animation Of the burlap showed tw'
stains
Simmons remained on the. scene al
morning and related his experience Il
the authorities but he was not de
talned by the police, having convince'
them that he knew nothing Of tn
murder.
state Detective Mccoy, with tn
photographs Of the dead woman aH'
the collie dog visited the Negro settle
ment at The Butlonwoods, and the
were shown to the residents there. N
one questioned knew the woman.
Near where the body was found tn
police found a mans blue short Goa
and a pair Of mems shoes. The polio
say that these articles had evidentl
been thrown there sometime ago, a
they did not give any evidence Of BEN
used recently.
The dead woman had been operate
on sometime ago. the abdomen givin
proof Of a surgeons knife. This woun
was healed, however.
The body Of the dead woman wa
brought to the morgue by the polio
crew while the State authorities start
cd 10 make a canvas OF the Negro set
tlement in the vicinity Of Eden Parh
I'm an effort to Identify the woman.