Bleckley County GaArchives News.....Hart Murders March 1908
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Pulaski County, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings   THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH AND NEWS Hawkinsville, Georgia,   Https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/ March 1908
          THE COCHRAN NOTEBOOK
      	     THE HART MURDER  
The horrible tragedy in the Wright 
settlement, in which Mr. Warren Hart 
and his wife were unmercifully 
murdered, is deplored by everyone. Mr. 
Hart was found dead in his lot 
Wednesday morning and Mrs. Hart died 
Thursday night from injuries received 
at the hands of the assassins. 
Everything indicates that the killing 
was done at daybreak. It is presumed 
that robbery was the object as Mr. Hart 
was a quiet, inoffensive citizen, liked 
and respected by every one who knew 
him. He generally kept money at his 
house. 
  Excitement is rife in that part of 
the county. Two negroes were arrested 
and brought to Cochran jail, but were 
taken out and carried to the scene of 
murder by a large crowd of determined 
men. One negro resisting arrest ran 
against a stump and killed himself. It 
is now reported that a negro from 
Empire has confessed to a conspiracy of 
fifteen negroes, and says the murder 
had been planned for some time. Seven 
of these negroes are under arrest. 
  Mr. Hart was about sixty years old. 
      


    	AN AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hart Clubbed to 
Death.
 
  By Two Negroes At Their Home Near 
Frazier-Assassins Killed and Burned by 
enraged Citizens. 
Another crime almost as horrifying as 
the brutal assault made on Mr. and Mrs. 
Martin Livingston a few weeks ago in 
the upper part of the county occurred 
near Frazier early Wednesday morning 
when Mr. and Mrs. 
Warren Hart were foully murdered by 
Curry Roberson and John Henry, two 
negroes. 
  Mr. Hart went out to his lot about 
daylight to feed his hogs when he was 
struck on the head with a club ax and 
instantly killed. His body was found 
lying in the stall with his skull 
crushed in and near by was a basket 
from which he had been giving corn to 
the hogs. 
  Mrs. Hart was attacked in a like 
manner while in the kitchen preparing 
breakfast. She was found lying on the 
floor in an unconscious condition with 
a fork in her hand and her breakfast 
destroyed by the fire. 
Mrs. Hart lingered until seven o'clock 
Wednesday evening when she died from 
the effects of her injuries. 
She never spoke or knew anything after 
the attack. 
  The weapon used by the assassins was 
a club axe which was found Thursday in 
a plum orchard some distance away. 
Mr. Graham, a neighbor, called at the 
Hart home early Wednesday morning and 
was the first to discover the murder. 
The assassins heard him as he came 
through the field whistling and singing 
and left before they had time to rob 
the house, which they intended to do 
and for which purpose they committed 
the crime. 
  When news of the tragedy was received 
in the city Sheriff Rogers and 
Constables Home and Harp left 
immediately for the scene and with the 
aid of others soon located the 
murderers and arrested them. 
Later they were taken from the custody 
of the officers by the enraged citizens 
and shot to death afar which their 
bodies were burned. Both negroes lived 
in the community not far from the Hart 
home and were familiar with its 
surrounds and knew that he kept money 
in his house. 
  Two other negroes were arrested on 
suspicion but they were turned loose 
for lack of evidence to connect them 
with the crime. 
  Mr. and Mrs. Hart were both about the 
same age, between sixty-five and 
seventy years. They were well-to-do and 
highly respected people and their 
tragic ending is deplored by all who 
knew them. 
It is said that considerable money was 
found hid away in their home, the 
amount being estimated at from three to 
fifteen hundred dollars.

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