Butts-Monroe County GaArchives News.....ATTEMPT TO ROB November 16 1893
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of November 16, 1893
Mr. English is an old man who lives near Scandrick’s mill just over the Butts 
line in Monroe County.  He is a widower and lives along.  On Monday he sold 
some cotton in Griffin and returned home after dark and went to bed.  About 9 
o’clock he was aroused by some one calling and saying that his mules had gotten 
out.  He went out and at the corner of the house met a man with a gun pointing 
to him (English) but quickly as thought the old man grabbed the muzzle of the 
gun with his left hand and it fired, tearing away the flesh between the wrist 
and the little finger.  He held the gun and the assassin flew.  Engraved on the 
gun was the initials O.F.W.  The gun belonged to a young man in this county 
named Williams and he has skipped to parts unknown and the officers of the law 
are after him.  It was a dastardly attempt to rob an old man and if caught 
young Williams will fair badly.  Mr. English had no money but the robbers 
expected to get the proceeds of four bales of cotton but the bravery of an old 
man seventy seven years old thwarted their plans.  He shot at the flying devils 
with their own gun but missed him and they escaped in the darkness.




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