Newton-Dekalb County GaArchives News.....“BUD” SUMMERS MISSING December 17, 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 September 16, 2008, 12:53 pm The Georgia Enterprise December 17, 1891 “BUD” SUMMERS MISSING Mr. W. B. SUMMERS, railroad agent at Lithonia, left his office about 10 o’clock Saturday night, saying that he was going to his home a short distance from the depot. Since then his whereabouts has been unknown although search has been made by hundreds of people, including many detectives. His books were all right, he was well off financially and lived in perfect peace with his good wife. He had $800 on his person and many were of the opinion that he was murdered and his body concealed. A few of his friends believe he yielded to some of wild fancy and has gone off on a journey, and is yet alive. The affair is enveloped in a mystery which time will surely solve. He is a brother of Miss Nellie SUMMERS and Mrs. T. L. ANDERSON, of Covington. His mysterious disappearance almost prostrated his wife and other loved ones. It is said that he will be at his post of duty before very long. We hope so. * The Georgia Enterprise, December 24, 1891 “Bud” Summers has returned to Lithonia. He says he was sand bagged and carried off by unknown parties, kept tied in a cabin in the woods for a week, brought to the river and turned loose Friday night. His experience, as told by himself, sounds more like romance than facts. Truth, however, we are told, is sometimes stranger than fiction. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/budsumme190nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb