Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Watson, ?_____________ July 1878 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net November 8, 2006, 7:13 pm "The Carroll County Times" Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, AUGUST 2, 1878 DASTARDLY MURDER Last Saturday night a young man named Watson living near Standing Rock, Chambers county, Ala., about a dozen miles west of LaGrange, was brutally murdered. We have heard the following report of the affair: It was quarterly meeting at Standing Rock church. Mr. Watson, who was a pious exemplary young man was at church; and while the Rev. Mr. Whitten, the presiding preacher was preaching, he (Watson) heard some disturbance among his mules and went out to see about it. He discovered that one of his mules had been unhitched and that a man had it a short distance off. He halted the man and called out "that's my mule, what are you going to do with him?" The other cursed him and said "come and get him." Watson started towards him when the man shot him centrally in the abdomen which caused his death next morning. It is not known who was the murderer, but suspicion rests on one Holliday. Holliday is said to be a desperate character and he was missing from his home next day and was seen in Georgia. Of course this is only suspicion. It is hoped that the perpetrator of this cowardly murder will be speedily caught and made to pay the penalty of his crime. The thing of shooting a man in the dark is getting too common. The LaGrange Reporter File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/obits/w/watson699gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb