New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Banks s Runner.
Missing With
$22,'5OO, Slain
Jersey Woodslnan Discovers
Body of 6O-Year-Old Cam
den Messenger Buried I'm
der SC.1 i'm Pine Barrens
s Sl2, 500 i'm Checks Found
Search, However, Fails to Re-
veal Amy Part of $4,000
in Currency or the Satcllel
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Spccldt DtSpGtCN TO The Tribune
MOUNT HOLLY. n. j., Oct. 16.-The
body of David S. Paul, sixty-ycar-old
messenger for a Camden bank, for
whose arrest warrant was issued ten
days ago, after his disappearance with
10000 in cash and $12,50O in checks
belonging to the bank, was found
to~days buried two feet under ground
N the pine barrens, about twenty miles
east OF this town County officials who
examined the body believe that Paul
was murdered
James Cults, a woodsmaN, found the
rude grave. He was tramping through
the pines near tricks Crossing, be
tween Tabernacle and Chatsworth,
when he noticed a roughly rectangular
snace beneath the trees, where the rus
set carpet Of pine needles was mingled
with darker sub-surface mold, in
which were root fragments which
showed ahrasons as if from spade or
mattock
1t was plain to the eye of the woods
man that some one had buried some
thing there. Natural curiosity, G3ick-
ened by the fact that from Colonial
days the pine barrens have been the
haunt and refuge of outlaws End the
place where hard-pressed criminals
have hidden their plunder, led Cults
to cut a stout stick and pry away the
earth.
Earth Reveals Murder Victim
The task was an easy one, for the
gravedigger had not packed The earth
solidly, and in the recent dry wealth er
his handiwork had tended to disinte-
CRATE rather than become more firm.
1t was not long before the pole Cults
was using as crowbar slipped beneath
something substantial and weighty
Cults put his weight upon his I'M
provised crowbar and pried. He fell
back in establishment and horror as
the loan parted beneath the pressure
from below and a human foot emerged.
Cults waited to see no more. lie has
tened to the nearest telephone and got
in touch with Sheriff Haines and
County Detective Parker.
Accompanied by them he returned to
the scene of his discovery. The ex-
humation was completed rapidly and
Parker gave an exclamation of amaze
ment as the victims face came into
view. He had known Paul we'll and,
like all his friends, was convinced that
the messenger had not stolen the
money but was the victim of foul play
or had been stricken with amnes ia.
The sudden confirmation of his worst
fears startled the detective. however.
In search of the clothing on the
body, the S12,500 in checks was found
in pocket There was no trace of the
cash or of the satchel in which the
money had been carried
Officials returning tonight after
their trip TO the pines reported that
Paul's head had been split with an
axe. The condition Of his body after
it was removed and washed indicated
that the burial had taken place no
later than yesterday afternoon. A
stout rope held the legs together at
the ankles and they were doubled up
to the chin. The face was clean
shaven, showing death to have been
within twcntyfour hours.
The grave was about three feet
long. The body was fully clothed, ex-
tept that the Goa was buried under it.
der it.
In the opinion of detectives on
the case the bank messenger was kid
mapped, put to death because he refused
to surrender his charge and his body
taken to the pine barrens for conceal
ment 1t is believed that the body was
buried the day that Paul disappeared.
An examination of the body made by
Coroner Oliver revealed abrasions on
the head and several stab wounds in
the body. In a swamp, near where the
body was found. there were automobile
tracks. Many Italians work in the cram
berry swamps thereabouts and are la
miliar with the woods roads, but none
whom the Coroner interroEated remem-
bered having seen or heard an automo~
bile on any of them recently.
Pauls son lived in the vicinity, and
the bank messenger frequently came TO
see him when he had holiday.
Saul lived in Camden and was en-
ployed there by the Broadway Trust
Company. He was a member of the
Broadway Methodist Church Of that
city and took an active part in church
work. All who knew him trusted
him. 1t was a shock to his friends to
learn October 7, two gays after his
disappearance. that ,hdN Ncourfty prose-
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