Butts County GaArchives News.....Foster - McElroy - Stabbing June 1901
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Jackson Argus June 1901
Foster, Abe – McElroy, Jim, of Elgin
A negro named Abe Foster seriously stabbed Jim McElroy, of Elgin and John 
Howard, accentual Railroad employee of Milner, at Indian Spring, Sunday night.  
John Neal, another negro, was arrested as being implicated in the matter, but 
according to his statement there is little against him.  Howard says, and Neal 
corroborated him, that McElroy and Howard were on the bridge; McElroy was 
talking to Howard who was trying to get him to go home.  As Neal passed, McElroy 
said something which he didn’t notice, and as Abe Foster passed in a buggy, Mr. 
Elroy said something to Howard in a loud voice.   Abe stopped and asked what he 
said; Howard replied that McElroy was not talking to Abe.  Abe immediately 
jumped out of his buggy and began cutting the white men right and left.  That’s 
Neal’s statement and from it things look black for Abe.   The two white men are 
slowly recovering, but not yet out of danger.  McElroy came near bleeding to 
death before assistance came, and Howard was so badly cut in several dangerously 
places that it was thought he would die for two or three days.   Both the 
negroes, Foster and Neal, were placed in jail by Sheriff Crawford, and are held 
awaiting developments.
Jackson Argus – Week of June 14, 1901


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