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IMINTH YEAR
moke a Bill Arp ’ warters New Barnd
fcRO MURDERED.
■ Bitkins' Stark Body by
I His Roadside,
■
K TEAM IN THE BRUSH.
■lie Thatcher, his White Pas-
M Be r, Slept in a Sedge Field.
*
Marly travelers along the pub
■higbway, a few hundred
8.1/bryoiJ Lind de, yesterday
jßmiij wsre startled by dis-
Keriugthe My of John Dock-
Iving cold and stiff in a con
■Lhl maee of his life’ s blood.
■'Phe alarm was given and soon
of citizens met and
IKether approached the spot
K er e the old negroes’ body lay
■ the roadside.
Bas the crowd drew near a
■ember <>f it exclaimed:
Bbere’s that dead man I”
■ 'The 8V“ struck citizens were
■anini by seeing a matted and
■ktaiy head and the pinched,
■d-..n face of a whits man
■por above the sedge grass,
■it fifty feet from the road,
■ihear a hoarse voice wheeze
■it: "No, I’m not dead, but
■’mdaran near it. I’m most
■re stiff.’’
■ The owner of the voice was
■ken in charge and proved to
■ j. W, Thatcher.
■ When shown the corpse by the
■oadiide, Thatcher's hair tried
■ountangle and stand on end,
■d be exclaimed: “My Got, if
■ iiada knowed that dead nigger
■as there I wouldn’t er slept in
■bat sage field fer er million er
■ollars.”
Bltwasvery evident that the
Bhnost frozen white man, still
■urtially drunk, in spite of his
800 l nap, knew nothing of the
Bnurder.
B Squires Henry Howers and
B»eo, Black and others went ac-
Bitolt to work and by the time
Bodner Schlapbach arrived on
Biie scene with the bloodhounds,
B*J the case well in hind.
B An examination showed that
had been shot by a 38
B al ‘ber bullet and that the ball
y t( i entered over the left nipple
B D <i passed through the body di-
BSonahy, piercing the right
t blade and going out.
B Death had been instantane-
J'Mhe n.groe’g body falling
■ r * ,n l ' le w *gon by the roadside.
I i |e evidence before the eoro-
f er ’ jury showed that Deckins
| aQ been a tennant on Capt.Tip
|Pln s farm, that on Saturday he
I nought i n two p a q e8 o f oo tt o n (
■hot lem a guan®
I locking, who was about 50
Mll old and the father of sev
dpy * ro ' v n children, got lordly
. *s’ buying some goods
10 home.
tlr^ 8 J-W. Thacther, a
He neighbor who was yet
he d 9r ’ ' nt ° h' B wa g° n and
lea h* 9 m ules homeward. It
n* 8 l ' iat 1 hatcher became
u rft ra ? or as drunk as the
H wbi “ l . ~b iled owl „ and
on t? nol ' l ’ n g of what occurred
HUinder”? 7 duri “ g ,h 0 ro '
aer us the night.
M i l < ' !er 9a y 3 first he re
T oice W#B hearin g a strange
Ud on (CUSB bim of being dead ’
. seeing the broom sedge
TH E RON 1E II USTLE R-( X)Af AIER Ci A L
standing about him, he real’zed
that such a condition ceuld not
exist in hades and knew that
his accusser must bo mistaken.
He crawled to his knees and en
tered a protest.
When Duckins wn shot he i
evidently tumbled from his
wagon. His team must have
quit the road and spilled Thatch
er out in the sedge. The wagon
and mules were found on the
hillside not far away from the
scene of the crime, the wagon
wheels entangled’in the brush
causing the mules to halt.
The goods in ths wagon were
seemingly intact, while $7.66 in
cash was found in the pockets
of the dead man.
The case looked mysterious,
but some of the citizens knew
Dockins and knew that when
ho was drinking be was boister
ous and had aha Lit of cursing
any one who molested him.
They began to cast about and
soon secured a clue, which, when
followed, developed very strong
circamstmtial evidence against
Mack and Guy Williams, two
young negroes of tins ivory repu
tion.
These negroes were arrested
and while they denied any
knowledge of the killing and
claimed to have traveled a dif
ferent road, direct evidence
showed that they had been seen
going in the direction of the kil
ling only a short time before
the pistol was heard, one of
them having a pistol, and soon
after the shet was fired they
were seen running from the
place where the murder was
committed. They alsc denied
the ownership of the pistol.
It was shown that these toys
had bought a3B caliber pistol
on circus day, Nov. 2nd, from
Mr. Will West, the pawn shop
man.
The jury returned a verdict
stating that “deceased came to
his death by a gunshot wound
inflicted by a weapon in the
hand of parties now unknown,
but that circumstantial evidence
points to the guilt <>f Mack and
Guy Williams.
These negroes are about 22
and 17 years of age. They were
brought into the city yesterday
afternoon by Coroner Schlap
bach and Deputy Sheriff Jim
Johnson, and were placed in
jail.-
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Thankful words written by
Mrs. Ada E. Hart, Groton S. D.
“Was taken with a bad cold
which settled on my lungs;
cough set in and finally termi
nated in Consumption. Four
doctors gave me up, saying I
could not live but a shoit time.
I gave myself up to my Savior,
determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth, I
would meet my absent ones
above. My husband was advis
ed to get Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption,Coughs
and Colds. I gave it a trial, took
in all eight bottles. It has cured
me, and thank uod I am saved
and now a well and healthy
woman.” Trial bottles free at
Curry-Arrington’s. Regular sire
50 cents and SI.OO, guaranteed
or price refunded.
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any person
(Vinhing to . V' O 't fa>‘l°to r wnd iorTvah.able and
Atlanta, Ga‘,7 whom W
ttddrwy* Write to-dat.
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ROME GEORGIA, MUNDAY EVENING, NOVBMBER 7. 1898.
fl NEGRO IANGHED.
OiSGouered Croilchiog Under
a Woman’s bed Mil
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MURDEROUS WEAPONS.
He Fled, Was Captured, Con
fessed and Was Lynched.
Selma, Ala., Nov. 7. —News of a
lynching in Autauga county near
Selma reached here yesterday.
R. L. Strider. merchant and
justice of the peace at June #
Switch, locked up his store about
6 o’clock last night and went to
his Louse. In a few minutes he re
turned to the store, Mrs. Strider
prepared to retire, and in order to
get in on the back side rolled the
bed out a lew inches from ths
wall.
She had blown the light out
and went to get in bed when she
stumbled uver a man. She ecrea Ti
ed and the negro who was under
the bed sprang for the door
snatched it off its hinges and
made bis escape.
A light was struck and the bat,
coat and shoes of a man were
found, also a strip of tear iron
three feet long and half an inch
thick ard two inches wide, with
which he intended to de his mur
derous .work.
A negro section hand, John Wil
liams, living near by was suspect
ed and very soon several white
men. accompanied by Mr. Strider,
went to hie house, where he r.as
arrested.
He was tried and committal t"
jail. Constable A. M. Queen start
ed to Prattville with' him, and
about a mile from Jones switch
was met lev a crowd , *ho toc,k the
negro, whose name could not he
learned, and swung him to a trie:
He owned that the hat, co&t and
shoes were his.
FLORID k HAS A LYN HING.
Negro Riddled With Bullets a.yd
Fike Built Over His Body’.
JacksouviUe, Fla.. Nov. 7.
Arthur Williams, a negro under '
arrest for the murder of Miss Ed
na Ogden, at Wellborne, Fla., on
Friday, made a confession last
night, implicating two other ne
groes, Back James and Monroe
Leggitt.
At 11 o’clock last night the con
stable and his guards were over
powered by a crowd of incensed
citizens aud Williams was taken 1
from their custody, riddled *i’h
ballets and a fire belli upon his
bodr.
James and Leggitt ar* now un
der arrest, but it is likely that
they will go the war of Williams
tonight.
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headache, biliousness, iudiges
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Hose supportfrs, the 25cts
grade, at JOcts to cluse them out
at Mrs. Gmrards.
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