Butts County GaArchives News.....A DASTARDLY MURDER December 7 1893
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of December 7, 1893
At Flovilla on Sunday morning a foul murder was committed by the killing of 
Eliza Maddox and her husband, Green Maddox, has been arrested and on Monday was 
lodged in jail here by deputy Sheriff Crawford, charged with doing the killing.

There were no eye witnesses in the affair except the murdered woman and the 
party who did the bloody work, but as Green had been quarreling with his wife 
just a short while before the murder, about other men visiting her, it is 
supposed that in a fit of jealousy he picked up a hammer and struck her on the 
head and her skull was crushed in from the blow, and particles of it were 
imbedded in her brain.  The skin was not broken, but the blow was sufficient to 
produce almost instant death, as she was unconscious and lingered only a short 
while after being found.

All evidence points to her husband as the murderer, and if it is proven on him, 
Jackson may probably witness another hanging at some future date.




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