Published in Holmes County Advertiser, Bonifay, Florida, 
Friday, Aug. 20, 1915
Body Found Near Marianna
Decomposed Body of Man Discovered at 'Double Hole." No Clue as to His Identity.
   A special dispatch from Marianna to the Pensacola Journal Tuesday says:
   "This city and section are horrified over the gruesome details of a story of the finding of the decomposed body of a man in a pond near here.  The corpse was found Saturday by negroes in what is known a "Double Hole," half mile west of Natural bridge on the Chipola river five miles north of this city, its presence being betrayed by buzzards.  When news of the discovery  reached Marianna Sheriff H. A. Bowles, County Judge J. Bowers Campbell and State Attorney Rivers II. Buford went immediately to the scene.  Upon viewing the body it was decided that an inquest was unnecessary as it could not be told whether the body was that of a white man or a negro, nor could any incriminating facts be ascertained at the time as to how the man came to his death.  It was found upon examination, however, that the man had been shot in the abdomen by a thirty-eight caliber firearm, and that his legs had been fastened together with hay wore and the body placed in the pond with a sack of sand fastened to the feet.  An examination of the sack of sand showed that it had been cut loose from a bank with an as, pieces of roots being found which fitted the ends of the roots in the ground.  From this, some idea of the time could be had, and this is placed at something like three weeks.
   "In spite of the awful state of decomposition of the body it could be seen that it was that of a rather large man, fairly well dressed, and wearing a number nine shoe.  The skin was gone as was the hair of the head, which had either been shaven off or eaten away by fish.
   "The officers left the body with negroes who buried it yesterday.

(Transcibed by Mona Spears, March 1999)