Published in Holmes County Advertiser, Bonifay, Florida, 
Friday, Aug. 27, 1915
Mysterious Murder Solved.
Jackson county Officials Find Clue, Which leads to Arrest of White Couple.
   (From Pensacola Journal)
   Marianna, Aug., 25.- Through the untiring efforts and splendid detective work of sheriff H. A. Bowles and State Attorney Rivers H. Buford, the mystery of the dead body discovered near Marianna a week ago has been cleared up and the alleged perpetrators of the crime are now in the toils of the law.
   By the aid of some small scraps of paper sound near the body of the dead man Mr. Buford established a clue which led to the identity of the deceased.  Piecing the scraps together he made out a grocery store order on a store in Columbus, Ga.  Taking the matter up with the chief of police of that city her ascertained that the order had been filled by a clerk in Starkie's grocery store and the groceries sent to the home of a negro by the name of Jeff Davis, living at No. 532 Second avenue, and accepted by the wife of the negro.
   Going to Columbus, Sheriff Bowles and Sate Attorney Buford ascertained by inquiry that the wife of the negro had died some weeks ago and that since her death the man had appeared partially demented.  That on July 8th he left Columbus in company with Walter and Milly Barrentine, white, with a horse and buggy belonging to the negro and traveled through the country as gypsies, telling fortunes.  It was understood that the couple had induced the negro to leave his home and accompany then for the purpose of learning fortune telling and other occult mysteries in which the woman professed to be proficient.
   Following the trail of the company the officers found that they had crossed the Chattahoochee river at Fort Gaines and that on July 28th in Henry county, Alabama, the couple had in some way obtained a bill of sale to the house and buggy for an alleged consideration of $250 in cash.  On July 31st the party reached Jackson county, Florida, and went to the Double Hole west of natural Bridge on the Chipola river ostensibly for the purpose of fishing.  Only the white man and woman returned from the fishing trip and spent the night at the house of Sam Speight, a negro living half mile from the double Hole.  On Sunday, August the 1st, the couple left in the direction of Cottondale, and on August 2nd, Monday, they came to Marianna to the home of the woman's sister, Samantha O'Connor.  There they claimed to have won the horse and buggy from the negro in a crap game and to have left the negro in Alabama from where he was to return home on the railroad.  They later claimed that the negro left them at the home of Charlie White, colored, but maintains that neither the negro nor anyone else accompanied them to the Double Hole.
   Having obtained the chain of evidence against the white man and woman they were trailed eastward from Marianna towards Tallahassee where on Sunday they were apprehended by Abner Denham of this city, accompanied by a deputy sheriff of Leon county, and brought back to Marianna and lodged in jail.  
   State Attorney Buford states the is in possession of evidence to further identify the body of the negro, and also to prove that he bore the reputation of a peaceful, law abiding man. 

 (Transcibed by Mona Spears, March 1999)