COMMERICAL Newspaper Clipping
Covington County, MS – Oct 31, 1908

Irvin Sellers, a widower, living alone, was found Sunday afternoon about 1 o'clock in the woods near his home with a horrible wound in one side of his head, and about 75 or 100 yards from where he was so foully murdered, as indicated by the blood puddles. The last seem of him before his death was Saturday night, en route home from Seminary where he had been on business, and where he owned some business interest.

Soon after dark that night, about the time for his arrival at home, fire broke out in a nearby field of his, and from indications, he was en route to the fire to extinguish it, when he met his mysterious death. It is now generally thought that the putting out of the fire was the plan laid to induce him to leave his home, and that he might be killed on the way. Sellers was a man of some money, peculiar in his ways and easily frightened, and would not keep his money in a bank for fear of losing it, but on the contrary, most always had it with him, and this is conceded to be the cause of his death.

His hat, rake and hoe, the later being implements with which to fight fire, were found early Sunday morning, but the body was not discovered until the afternoon, and when found was lying flat on his back, with mouth open, one eye shut and one was staring with a great gash made with some instrument on the side of his head. His shirt was almost blood soaked.

Justice Williamson impaneled a jury Saturday afternoon and many witnesses summoned, but nothing that would throw any light on the murder was secured, when the jury late Sunday afternoon adjourned over until Monday, when it worked hard to unravel the matter. The jury is as follows: W.M. Biglane, J.W. Kervin, R.F. Lowry, Jet Mayfield, John Pickering, and W.N. Yates.

At the time we go to press no clew has been developed, and the tragic death of Mr. Sellers is shrouded in greater mystery than ever.