Albemarle, Nov. 1—The headless and footless and charred body of a white man lies today in a local undertaking parlor with no evidence of its identity. The body was found on the old Mabry place, about two miles north of the city. All present evidences and circumstances point to the fact that the man was murdered, placed in the barn and barn set on fire.
Sheriff Furr and his deputies have spent the day in an attempt to learn something of the identity of the body and some clue to the person or persons who committed the crime, if crime it is. The body presents nothing by which it may be identified. The head is gone. Some shells like bones may have been part of the skull, the feet and hands and arms are gone. The bones of both legs are severed just above the knees.
Sheriff Furr, who helped recover the body, says that in his opinion the body was mutilated and packed into some kind of container and carried to the barn.
At the knee, where the leg was bent, the flesh was not charred, and it was thus learned that the person was white. The body was found in the shed, where the heat could not have been so intense, it is said.
No one lives on the farm but the owner of the barn states that the main barn was locked.
No word has come from any section aroundabout of any person being missing. No suspicion rests on any local person for having omitted the crime. The only clue found by Sheriff Furr are footprints of some persons leading to the building from a nearby railroad, and the same foot prints leading from the building across fields. But this gives no clue of the person making the footprints.
The trunk, legs and stubs of arms indicate a body of a rather small man. All circumstances point to a ghastly murder, undertaken to be covered by arson.
It is stated that the body will be held a short time for possible identification.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Nov. 2, 1925
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