Show BELL BUZZARD OF WILD YARN FAME SHOT BY GOOSE HUNTER I Buzzard Carried Brass Cow Cowbell bell Around N Neck for 44 14 Y Years cars SPREADER OF FEAR FEAn Many fany Believed Fowl Fowl Fowl- Brought Vengeance on Evildoers lt UT Bl FERGUSON I Special Correspondent of ot TIc The Sta Copyright 1926 By The Th Consoli Consolidated dated Press Prese Association CO COMER COMErI IER Ga March The n-The 27 belled belied buzzard Is dead I This weird bird believed b by negroes of o 0 the south to bring vengeance on all evil doers par par- particularly murderers was killed the theother theother other day near this little town by I V iv C a farmer who waa wa-s out hunting for geese and brought down the buzzard by mis mis- mistake mistake mistake take He HI stripped the bell bel front I around the neck and the tho chipped and scarred piece of brass Is now on display In II a jewelry store window at Athens I Scratched on the surface of the ell bell 1 Is the date late 1882 1832 Indicating I the amazing amazine tact fact that the bus buz I bUZ-I bussard buzzard zard sard has lived for 44 years year ears with thIs brass cowbell slung around Its I heck Leck FOR FOn II H TEARS lEAns The Th bell measures about two across the bottom A pIece ii 11 bitten out of the edge edye as though with clippers and the th en- en entire entire en entire tire surface Is scratched ched and marred by use The wire by which It was suspended from the buz bus buszard's buzzard's 71 zard's Ids I'd's neck Is almost worn In tao to No one cite ever er sees sec a 0 brass cow bell lIell nowadays like Ilka the one thIs ic bell boy of the sky wore and the wire attached to It ItIS itIs Itis IS pot not like the th modern galvanized Everything poInts point to the tact that the he date 1 1882 lt 82 2 scratched I OR the the- boil bel Is right and and that the I wore this heavy y piece of bra arOund its neck tot for nearly half a II century The TIle carving on the surface of bell was done don with a blunt knife In addition to the the name namo Joel Mine Is easily discernible n AI ALARMED Since the oldest Inhabitants can remember a belled belied buzzard has been appearing periodically In the tJ south alarming the countryside with Its weird tolling It has been heard In so BO many places place has seemed emed to cover such Incredible and has evaded firearms and traps so cl cleverly verly that many many have havo come to consider the story as a II myth while the tho have attached to It a supernatural signifIcance But Dut there ther has been no myth mth about the belled belIed buzzard At least Continued On Page lic l BELL BUZZARD SHOT AT LAST Continued from Page One about this one on one Farmer not only hilled the tl creature but brought the te old veteran of ot the skies back with him so that others In the tho community could see Then Thenh he placed the tho bell on exhibition Buzzards are ar grotesque engers common in the southern part of ot this country and In South America They look something like turkeys but their plumage Is dull dirty and of a funeral brown They are ar clumsy on the tho ground but aloft they are amazingly graceful and md are arc the tho original heavier healer then than air gliders At a height of ot miles above fields field and swamps they coast along alone the th up- up upper upper up upper per air currents current without visible motion of oC their wings wines MANY AXY TALES TOLD Stories from Irom Maine Main to Mexico have been told of the tho th boiled belled buz- buz buz nard buz-nard gard and t It is not unlikely that thIs old man nin of ot the th kle skies was the subject of them all alt during his H 44 years of ot life liCe for this venerable bell boy has flown Clown thousands ot of miles and has spanned a vast stretch of territory lie Ile II has ha struck tear fear Into the th soul souls of ot the tb super super- superstitious super and has lies given civen rise niso to many legends with a touch ot of the tho doo about them A popular belief among amone negroes living on the fringe of the tho great swamp in south Bouth Georgia Is that If It a murderer leave leaves the body of ot his victim exposed in the tho oos ot Of th buzzards will lather gather for Cor hundreds of miles and hold an Inquest The murderer I is tried before betor the th highest tribunal ot of the tho air air and If it C he Is found guilty the th bailiff of the buzzards buzzards- buzzards that grim trim lapping bell toller toiler ot of the skies sides kits la summoned ummond ald and or- or ordered or ordered dered to 0 o dog doe the steps of th the killer until the th murder Is avenged JO USES YARN l X Usually the murderer so the legend runs Is driven crazy craty by bytho bythe bythe the tho dreadful tolling toiling ot of the th bell belland belland and takes his own life liCe Irvin S S Cobb used this thil legend as the th bAsis one on of his most famous fiction stories A fact tact more mor Interesting than these legends legend of black people however is the th cru cruSt crul l whim that could have hav caused Joel Nine Mine of to attach a a brass brats cow cow- cowbell cowbell cow cowbell bell to the thol lh buzzards buzzard neck In tl year 1112 1982 And even stranger Is fath s th the vitality ot of the th buzzard which It to live for tor 44 years with a brass cow eow bell slung around Its neck |