Butts-Mcduffie County GaArchives News.....Young Man Shot and Severely Wounded Near Thomson August 12 1882
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Jackson News – Week of August 2, 1882
Augusta Chronicle

On Sunday evening last, just after sundown, Mr. Tulian Boyd was going from his
father’s residence to Cobbham, about eight miles from Thompson, when he was
fired on twice by some parties who were in ambush.   The weapon used was a
double barrel shot gun, loaded with buckshot.   The first shot took effect in
his left side and breast, but the second missed him.   He was on horseback, and
the horse became frighten and ran off with him.    Just before he reached
Cobbham he fell from his horse, unconscious from the loss of blood.    The
animal went on home, and a Negro man seeing him riderless immediately started in
search of Mr. Boyd, and found him lying insensible on the side of the road.  
Help was summoned, and the wounded man carried back to his father’s house , and
medical aid procured.  The physicians found that he had received in the left
arm, in the left side and two in the breast.   The most serious one is in the
left breast just below the nipple.    The people failed to find the ball in the
wound, and it is feared that it is fatal.

A second attempt was made on Monday night to kill the young man by shooting him
as he lay in bed through the window.   This intention was discovered, and the
would be assassins were driven off.   Suspicion was directed to three brothers,
named Martin, as the perpetrators of the deed.   A party of men were organized
and went to the place where the shooting was done, and there they found the
tracks of three parties.  These tracks were followed to a house occupied by
Peyton Martin, where one dropped out, and the two remaining tracks were followed
to the house of Mr. Robert A. Martin, the father of the Martin brothers.  The
tracks were measured, and found to correspond in size to the Martins.  On this
and other evidence warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the brothers, and
placed in the hands of Sheriff Norris, who summoned a posse and left Thompson
yesterday afternoon for the purpose of arresting the Martins.

It is said that the trouble grew out of charges made by Miss Georgia Martin
against Boyd.   Boyd, it is also said, promised to marry Miss Martin, when
confronted with the accusation made by her, but failed to do so.  Proceedings
were instituted against him and the trial is set down for trial at the September
term of McDuffie Superior Court.  It is stated that threats against Boyd have
several times been made by the Martins.   There is much excitement in McDuffie
over the affair.




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