Berrien County GaArchives News.....Allapaha. September 13, 1889
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The Berrien County Pioneer September 13, 1889
	Allapaha, Sept. 9. – At the Annual Meeting held at Flat Creek church, 
eight miles south of Alapaha, Dan Anderson of Willacoochee was killed by J.J. 
Sutton of Berrien county.  The deed was committed after the services had 
closed for the day and most of the congregation had gone home.  It appears 
that the participants had left the church with the congregation but returned 
in company with some others to search for a jug that had been hid out.  The 
party was well charged with red-liquor, a quarrel ensued and Anderson received 
a mortal wound from a pistol in the hands of Sutton.  He died shortly 
afterwards.  The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of murder in self-defense.  
Thus intoxicating drink has hurried another human being into eternity and made 
others amenable to the courts for flagrant crimes committed in utter disregard 
of the law.  It is said that no less than twenty pistol shots were fired on or 
near the church grounds before the murder was committed.  Every law-abiding 
citizen of Berrien county should feel it a bound on duty to thoroughly 
investigate this outrageous proceeding, apprehend the offenders and use every 
means in their power to have the severest penalties of the law inflicted upon 
the violators.  When men endowed with reason and the privileges of citizenship 
lose all respect for themselves, society and their maker they should be made 
to suffer for it.
[Compiler’s note:  Alapaha was spelled in the headline and beginning of the 
article the same way it was in the newspaper.]


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