Baldwin-Hancock County GaArchives News.....Baldwin County Affairs. October 21, 1879
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The Atlanta Weekly Constitution October 21, 1879
Augusta, Ga., October 18.--A special to the Chronicle from Sparta states that 
the accounts of the deeds of outlawry in the eastern portion of Baldwin county 
are greatly exaggerated, but the truth reveals a bad state of affairs.  There 
are about a dozen men involved, and the trouble is personal and not political.

These desperadoes have committed outrages on several persons; they burned the 
gin and cotton houses and fodder stacks of Dr. Robeson for the purpose of 
drawing him out of his house in order to shoot him; they killed a negro man for 
reporting them to the grand jury of Baldwin county; they burned the tannery and 
barns of Lake Robinson, and they whipped a colored woman and her daughter in 
Hancock county.  The gang have taken refuge in the swamps of the Oconee and 
Ogeechee.  The grand jury of Hancock, now in session, have investigated the 
outrages and are determined to bring the perpetrators to justice.  The people 
of Hancock county are armed and indignant at the outrages and express a 
determination not only to protect white and black from further outrages, but to 
inflict summary justice on the perpetrators.  Judge Pottle, presiding judge, 
will vindicate the majesty of the law throughout the circuit.

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