Butts-Polk County GaArchives News.....An Aged Negress Woman March 1 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 January 3, 2005, 12:37 am Jackson News – Week of March 1,1882 An old negress, aged seventy years, who has a broken arm, fractured thigh, blind in both eyes, dumb, deaf, full of scrofulous sores, with no wool on the top of her head, nor place for the wool to grow, knock kneed, spavined, box- ankled, slab sided, and otherwise afflicted, was recently convicted in Polk Superior court for the murder of her grand child, sentenced to penitentiary for life. The jury that convicted her should be tried for lunacy. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/gnw450anagedne.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb