Sheriff Fowler is offering a $200 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who murdered Mr. Butler Funderburk in his store room in Buford township on Friday night of November 30th.
The negroes, Rance McCauley and Jason Walker, who were arrested and lodged in jail on Sunday following the murder, are still held by the coroner’s jury. However, the report of the experts who came to Monroe a few days ago and developed finger prints from the door knob and wrench on which dried blood was to be found states that they fail to find anything satisfactory either for or against the men who are held as suspects to the crime, the nob and wrench having been handled by so many people that it is I impossible to develop anything definite enough to be worth anything as evidence in the case.
The coroner’s jury is expected to hold another meeting at an early date and many believe their finds will lead to the release of the prisoners, unless other developments change the state of affairs.
In his determination to ascertain, arrest and convict the guilty parties, Sheriff Fowler is offering the reward referred to above and he expects to leave no stone unturned in his effort.
The mystery of Funderburk’s murder is causing quite a bit of speculation, some expressing the belief that other clues are likely to develop at any time, while others are at a complete loss and hold no hope. But murder will out, and sooner or later, the public will doubtless be given something startling in this mysterious case.
From the front page of the Monroe Journal, Dec. 18, 1923
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