The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-02-18

Utica, Miss, Feb 16.-Was the young
woman whose mutilated and charred
body was found Tuesday afternoon in
a ravine running through thick woods
known as Dark Hollow" near DentviIle
Miss Ada Deuer, of Warsaw, Tex? This
is the question being asked here to-
night by Copiah county authorities fol-
lowing sensational developments in the
csse today.
1t is said that Copiah authorities re-
ceived telegram several days ago
from Warsaw Tex, asking regarding
Miss Deuer of that city, who, accord
ing to the telegram, had been with a
band of magazine agents when they
we're in Hazlehurst, Miss, about two
weeks ago. The finding today Of a
bunch of keys on ring bearing the
name ana address of ada Deuer, War
saw, Tex" in the charred particles and
ashes where the body was found
strongly supports theory that the VIC
tim may have been the Texas woman.
Four weeks ago this party of maga-
zine agents was in Utica. 1t numbered
four women and three men and they
were travelling in a Hudson super-six
car bearing a Louisiana license number.
One Of the four women in the party
answers the brief description given out
of the murdered woman following an
examination of the charred remains by
DR.. E. L. Green of Carpenter, who ex-
amined the body after its discovery.
NEGRO FINDS BODY.
A reporter today interviewed the me-
gro who first came upon the body and
found him to be named Charles Camp
bell. Campbell said he left his work
on the gravel road to go back to the
spring for water and as he stepped to
the edge of the ravine he was con-
fronted by the terrifying spectacle of
a woman's mangled and burned body
He said he could see part of the face
and the teeth and that he did not wait
to see more, but ran back to his fell
low laborers.
An old negro nanny named Sarah
Franklin, who lives in a cabin about
$50 yards from the scene of the murder
stated that some time ago, she cannot
remember exactly how long, but thinks
1t may have been three or four weeks,
at about 10 o'clock in the night, she
saw lights down by the ravine and
heard mems angry voices cursing and
swearing, and shortly after that, three
shots. The old woman says she sup
posed it was some men out hunting and
thought no more about 1t.
THINKS WOMAN SHOT.
DR.. Green, who happened to be pass
ing along the road shortly after the
body was discovered and who stopped
to view the body, stated that from the
appearance of the head, the girl had
been shot, as there was a hole such as
would be made by a rifle or pistol shot
through the front of the skull and an
other at the back, where the bullet
might have gone through.
The limbs, broken above the knee and
doubled under, seem to point to one
theory that it was done by the muir
derer to make the body smaller and
more easily covered by the army coat
which had previously been saturated
with oil or gasoline.
The girl was wearing brown stockings
with high laced shoes and the unburn-
ed portions of what seemed to have
been an ankle length union suit were
covering the legs. Her shoes were a.
bout size 3H make unknown.
She also had l5-jewel, Swiss move
ment watch, the number of which is in
the hands of Copiah county authorities.
A broken pair of gold bridged glasses
were found in the wreckage.