Buncombe County NcArchives News.....A CHILD’S BONES, FOUND UNDER THE HEARTH OF A MAN’S HOUSE AFTER EIGHT YEAR’S SEARCH August 15, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise August 15, 1889
     Dave Bellew and wife were arrested Wednesday, in a secluded part of 
Walden’s Ridge, about twenty-five miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., by Detective 
W. H. Deaver, of Asheville, N. C., and Officer T. J. Howard, on a charge of 
having murdered their five-year-old child near Asheville, eight years ago. In 
September 1881, Bellew and his wife lived near Asheville, N. C., and they 
announced that their five-year-old child had mysteriously disappeared. Armed 
men searched the country round about for months with no success. In the spring 
following Bellew left and went to Texas. Bellew had built and owned the house 
in which he lived at Ashville, and sold his place on leaving. A short time ago, 
having to make some improvements, the hearth in the sitting room of the cottage 
was torn up, and the bones, together with clothing enough to identify the body 
of the lost child, were discovered.



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The Georgia Enterprise was published in Newton County, Georgia, up to 1905.

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