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BERTHA JACKSONfTHE MISSING GIRLHer Body Is Found NearDecatur, Ga.A $11WAS THERE FOUL PLAY ? | a;ft facmamMysteriously Disappeared From Her finis) Home on Wednesday Last—Invest!*Ala.;gallon of the i;ase In Progress by the Coroner and Sheriff* knitlplaniAtlanta, Juno 10*—Great excitement j,|au] was created nt Poplar Springs, near Do* 000 c catur, this morning by tlio finding of | the body of Bertha Jackson, the 11-year* I old adopted daughter of It. 8. Flowers, ! a dairyman. The child disappeared last I and t Wednesday afternoon about 4 o’clock. I n°Ns Nothing was seen or heard of her untilthis morning, when her body was found. pJ( It is believed the child was murdered. Tj|j The sheriIT and the coroner have goue two t to the place where the body was fouud kfi|0lt; to iuvestigato the affair. B. BThe child was adopted by Flowers condi about three years ago, having no ehil- store dreit of his own. I thenLast Weduesday morning Mrs. Flowers left the city to visit friends at Griffin, leaving Bertha to assist Mr. Flowers about the dairy. 8tio was last seen about JhJJO o’clock on Weduesday, when hor adopted fathor was talking with her in the dairy.Calling her a half hour later, she did not answer.Mr. Flowers immediately instituted a thorough search, but no trace of the child could bo found. It was at first thought that sho had run away, as Mr. Flowers discovered that she liail put on her best dress since the two hod been talking together.Wbon at nightfall there were still no tidings of the missing child, Mr. Flow* ers carao to the city and reported tho matter to the police, leaving hor picture.I------or tw enterdaysaid,othercOne iPnJohnDorramunitectiitodaynotpriseTintho dlt;
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Athans Weekly Banner
Athens, Georgia, US
Fri, Jun 14, 1901
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