Bleckley-Pulaski County GaArchives News.....OFFICER HORNE KILLS A NEGRO. 1908
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THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH AND NEWS Hawkinsville, Georgia, Friday, Pulaski County, Georgia, Newspaper Clippingshttps://www.familysearch.org/library/books/J 1908
OFFICER HORNE KILLS A NEGRO.
 
He Was Trying To Arrest Jim Harris When 
The Latter Attacked Him. 
Last Friday morning between five and 
six hundred negroes, members of the 
Early Morning Star Society,, arrived 
from Macon to send the day picnicking 
in the city.
 
Jim Harris, a yellow negro who 
accompanied the excursionists, was 
tanked up on booze and soon got into a 
difficulty with another negro whom he 
slashed with knife. Deputy Sheriff Joe 
An Home was sent for to go out to the 
picnic grounds near the cemetery and 
arrest Harris. Deputy Home was soon on 
the scene and after arresting Harris 
started with him to the barracks when 
two other negroes, John Laster and Ed 
Thurman, came up and 359cursed the 
officer, using the vilest epithets, and 
told Harris not to submit to arrest. 
Harris then seized Deputy Home and 
threw him down, falling on top, when a 
scuffle for life ensued, during which 
the officer finally succeeded in 
getting possession of his pistol which 
Harris was holding and fired it, the 
ball striking the negro in the arm and 
penetrating his head, killing him 
instantly. Deputy them shot at Laster 
and Thurman, but they were running away 
at a 2:40 gait and were out of reach of 
his bullets. They were soon captures, 
however, and were carried before Mayor 
Lovejoy, who fined them $20 each or 
thirty days on the gang, after which 
they were tried before Judge Pearce in 
the city court, who sentenced each to 
serve twelve months in the gang or pay 
a fine of $200 and cost. They failed to 
pay the fine and were sent to the gang. 
Jim Harris was known as a bad character 
and owing to the circumstances no blame 
is attached to deputy Home for his 
death. 

As the train was coming down from Macon 
another negro who was said to be drank 
fell under the cars at Cochran and both 
feet cut off, as a result of which he 
died. 

J. A. Adams, president of the Early 
Morning Society, and manager of the 
excursion, reported that he had been 
robbed of $65 on the trip down from 
Macon and two or three negroes were 
arrested on suspicion as the guilty 
parties but they were released for lack 
of proof to convict them.

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