Berrien County GaArchives News.....DIED FOR SIXTY CENTS:  A Christmas Tragedy at Brookfield – Griffin Johnson Killed. December 30, 1898
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The Berrien County Pioneer December 30, 1898
	Griffin Johnson, colored, was shot and instantly killed by Mr. Rory 
Coarsey Saturday morning, near Brookfield.
	Mr. Coarsey and his brother-in-law, a youth named Ivy Rhoden, were on 
their way to Brookfield, when they met Johnson in the road.  The negro owed 
young Rhoden sixty cents, and Rhoden asked him for it, when Johnson began 
cursing and threatening him.  Coarsey interfered, and the negro turned upon 
him, advancing with a knife.
	Coarsey drew his pistol and began to walk backwards, warning the negro 
not to come further, or he would be shot.  Johnson slapped himself on the 
breast, and said he had a box of thirty-eights already in there.  To stop him, 
Coarsey fired one shot, which took affect in the negro’s right breast.  He 
continued to advance, Coarsey backing, until he could retreat no further, when 
he fired again, the ball entering Johnson’s breast near the heart, killing him 
almost instantly.
	The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide.


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