Bartow County GaArchives News.....TRAGEDY IN CARTERSVILLE July 24, 1886
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The Solid South July 24, 1886
     Sunday morning at ten o’clock there was a terrible tragedy on the streets 
of Cartersville, in which an old feud was renewed. Mr. Bryant Strickland, a 
respectable citizen, made an attack upon a young lawyer named Johnson, late 
Saturday night. City Marshal William Puckett, in separating the combatants, 
found it necessary in self defense to knock Strickland down. When the latter 
recovered from his blow he declared his intention to kill the marshal.
     This threat was conveyed to Puckett Sunday morning, and the latter 
understood that it meant business, but appeared anxious to conciliate. He 
accordingly set out with Councilman Hudgins for the alleged purpose of talking 
the matter over. Accompanying them were also Jas. Puckett and Tobe Jackson, the 
well known dynamiter. Strickland, surrounded by his friends, observed the 
approach of the party and stepped briskly to the front, when almost 
simultaneously an exchange of shots took place. Strickland fell dead on the 
sidewalk. The congregations, which had already assembled in the churches, were 
on the spot at once, and a terrible scene of confusion ensued. The firing 
ceased when the ammunition gave out. The Puckett party were arrested while the 
coroner took charge of the body of the dead man.
     This tragedy was the outgrowth of the “blind tiger” with which Tobe 
Jackson’s name has been so freely connected. The town is torn into Jackson and 
anti Jackson factions, which readily took sides when it was observed that 
Jackson was a party in the affair of Sunday.


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The Solid South was a newspaper published in Rockdale County Georgia.

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