Berrien-Cook County GaArchives News.....Deputy Deas at Lenox is Killed by Negro, Whom Posse Kills May 19, 1906
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The Valdosta Daily Times May 19, 1906
	Just as this issue of the Times was being put on the press, 
information was received here of a terrible tragedy at Lenox, which occurred 
shortly after noon today.  Details of the affair are yet meagre, but it has 
been learned that Mr. Mack Dees a deputy or marshal at Lenox, was shot and 
killed by a negro whom he was trying to arrest, and that the negro was later 
killed by a posse of citizens.  The following telegram from our correspondent 
at Adel, tells of the affair:
	Adel, Ga., May 19 – Mack Dees, an officer at Lenox, was shot and 
killed today about twelve o’clock by a negro man, whose name has not been 
learned here.  The negro was said to have killed a negro woman and man at 
Tifton a few weeks ago, and to have gone from there to Lenox.  Officer Dees 
was attempting to arrest the man for this crime, when he was shot to death.  
The negro made his escape after shooting the officer, but was speedily 
followed by a large possee of citizens, who surrounded him in a swamp a short 
distance and killed him.
	The possee came up with the negro and shot him to death about 3:30 
this afternoon, three hours after the death of Dees.


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