Butts County GaArchives News.....Saturday Night Frolic October 28 1892
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of October 28, 1892
At a Saturday night frolic on Mr. Taylor Buttrill’s farm, two miles west of 
town a difficulty arose and a pitch battle was the result.  When the smoke 
cleared away one negro, named Tom Harkness, was found dying and Will Ringfield 
was badly cut on his stomach.  Harkness died on Sunday night and Coroner Hardy 
held an inquest over his body on Monday but he could not find who did the 
shooting or the cutting.  It seems that a general row occurred and quite a 
number engaged in the fun of killing negroes but after the killing no one knew 
who wielded the weapons.

A few more hanging might have a wholesome effect in this county.




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