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Horrible Rivoltiog Discovery In WooesNear Spaianburg.'♦ ' - —BODY MUTILATED-o-Mrs, Martha Foster the Victim—HerHusband^ Doc Foster, Who WasSeen in the Woods With Her, HeldPending Investigation — WomanFormerly in Insane Hospital.The discovery early Thursday of the mutilated body of Mrs. Martha Foster, concealed beneath a mound of brush and pine needles in a strip of woodland north of Beaumont mill village in Spartanburg, has revealed a revolting murder and left the police authorities at sea. Doc Foster, her husband, is held in the county jail awaiting further investigation of the case. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the woman came to her death by being beaten on the head with some bluntinstrument and recommended that Doc Foster, her husband, be held until the circumstances surrounding the case are further developed.Foster was seen with his wife In the woods where her body was found Tuesday afternoon and he is known to have been with her that morning in the Beaumont mill village. He denies any knowledge of the crime and stated that he last saw his wife Tuesday evening in a hack with a w'hlte man and a negro going to a neighboring mill village to see some friends.Foster says that he did not know either of the men in the hack. Mrs. Foster, who was Miss Martha Suti-doth of Greenvillie county', has been in the State Hospital for the Insane for six months and returned to Spartanburg only two weeks ago. She has six children, some of whom are in an orphanage in Greenville.The police believe the murder was not committed in the woods but that the body had been carried there. Physicians say the body had not been dead more than 4 8 hours. The marks found wTere oa the head, the skull being crushed in several places. One arm was broken and the fingers bady cut.Foster's reputation n? that of an honest and law-abiding m/int at one time a successful farmer at Boiling Springs in that county. He is 69 years of age. When arrested he wasseated in his room reading the Bible and expressed little surprise when told that his wife had been murdered. He was taken to where the body lay in the woods and, after viewing it in an indifferent fashion, said:Yes, that's her/'
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The Times And Democrat
Orangeburg, South Carolina, US
Sat, Oct 02, 1909
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