Butts County GaArchives News.....Exciting Time December 15, 1899
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Jackson Argus December 15, 1899
Exciting Time

Down at Mrs. Lane’s last week there was an exciting time with a drunk man.  

Mrs. Malone and her son, Steve, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mayo occupy room at 
Mrs. Lane’s.  Steve is a salesman at the Racket Store and he gets in late.  It 
is the custom to leave the front door unlocked until he gets in.  On this 
occasion, about 9:30 o’clock pm, some one was heard coming in at the front door 
and it was supposed that it was Steve until he tried to enter Mrs. Lane’s 
room.  An alarm was raised by the ladies present, who could hear the man 
stumbling around and trying to open all the doors.  He finally turned over a 
large ball rack and then fell down and riled over it a time or two.  At this 
juncture one of the ladies is said  to have screamed, “Oh, I’ll die!  I’m 
dying!!!  I’m done dead!!!”  All the inmates were in disconnected rooms and 
none of them could reach the others without going through that terrible 
hallway.  Robert Mayo finally escaped by a back door and aroused Judge 
Carmichael, a next door neighbor, who went over with him to help arrest the 
outlaw.  But on  reaching the scene it was found that he had escaped.  Robert 
went out in search of him and found him being helped down the steps at the 
residence of Mr. R. L. Daughtry.  Taking Weary Willie in charge he was carried 
to the guardhouse and put under lock and key.  The next day he was carried 
before the mayor and fined $10 and cost or work twenty days on the streets.

The man proved to be a young white man living near Jenkinsburg, who had come 
down here and gotten beastly drunk on “BLIND TIGER heline(?).

The doors at Mrs. Lane’s are now locked when the shades of evening first appear 
and a savage Colt’s pistol of the grandpa size lays on the mantel in a striking 
attitude.

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of December 15, 1899


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