Riders turmed out on Saturday piercingly cold weather, and to add to their discomfort the paper seemed to be id, 50 that the course was net ish able. Tt started over the "Tittle russel te dense field Ron and then took the dry ent a the foot of the Jessfield line.
Jessticld Jine the village was after which "turn to the left. bro Hunt tothe dry ud the Pons Asinorum, Schultz bridg Burkill' se home. A her of speetatons were preset finish.
The Curt at the fin sh read as follows: 1.—Mr. H.R, Noree oP. Dietrich Dal A. Chighon ater Cherry ALE. Pore 7 Kee an Sm,—I note with interest what said in your Monday's issue under "Notes on Native Affairs," con " the body of a young ud murdered, Fri-i 2nd, 1903." The price of said murder was near the RR.
between the Rite Butts and That' place is becoming to holy interest for the violence perpetrated about it, In something like eighteen months, three men have been cut to death near this spot—the first one in the summer, 1901, just across the bri ize, one hundred yards south:
the second, seventy-five Yards near the carriage road' bridge early 1902. Tu all three cases the official and looked, the soldiers of the nearest village have walked the road for a few weeks, and after about six months, nother man h found dead.
On the night of this last murder, was heard, but' being was not Iecated. The next morning, inquiring of the residents near the place, they all claimed to have he: nothin The man that way found on the ion of North S, south Butts, ma ¥ not belong of those cut to death.
to the three murders about the bridges, the method about the madness, and we wonder if those re-{sponsible fork the plice of the district, have done all possible to discover the method.
Mr. G. Latles won the ight Pra.
1 am, ete., A Pavsitas Janu
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