Butts County GaArchives News.....SHERIFF BEAUCHAMP SHOT November 9 1893
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of November 9, 1893. 
On Friday night Sheriffs Beauchamp and Crawford, armed with warrants, went down 
in the vicinity of T. N. Brownlee to arrest some darkeys for cotton stealing.  
They summoned a posse consisting of Mr. W. D. Hoard, Lucian Sanders and others 
and proceeded to hunt up the miscreants  They had arrested one and left him n 
the hands of Mr. Crawford, while Mr. Beauchamp and others went to the home of 
one Will Pender, a very large burly son of Ham and found him in bed.  The bold 
sheriff boldly entered the room while his assistants remained outside.  He 
succeeded in getting hold of his man when a general tussle followed in the 
negro try to escape.  He called to those outside to help and while attempting 
to enter the door a double barrel gun in the hands of Sanders, was accidentally 
fired, both barrels, one loaded with bird shot and the other with buckshot, 
pouring their deadly missiles all around the sheriff and his giant prisoner and 
one buckshot struck him, grazing the skin in the left eyebrow.  Several of the 
crowd hollowed out that they were shot and it being as dark as Egypt Mr. 
Beauchamp could not tell who fired but thought it was the negro, and with a 
superior effort threw him to the floor and quick as thought had him cuffed.  
Those present say it was a wild scene for a moment, but our bold sheriff never 
lost presence of mind and without a tremor of fear he hung on to his man and 
safely lodged him behind the bars.




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