Butts County GaArchives News.....Homicide February 9, 1900
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Jackson Argus February 9, 1900
Jackson Bennett was shot by Babe Washington at Indian Spring last Friday 
evening from the effect of which death followed on Monday.

Bennett and Washington are said to have been good friends.  They were about 
grown and at the time of the shooting were arranging to go to a party.  From 
the evidence and Washington’s statement before the preliminary hearing had here 
before Judge Harmon last Wednesday we gather the following facts:

Bennett and Washington met Friday evening about 6 o’clock in front of John 
Washington’s store at Indian Spring.  Washington had a drink and a pistol He 
was waving the pistol and it was discharged perhaps accidentally in his hands 
or perhaps by falling, the ball entering the abdomen and passing upward and 
edging the liver, rupturing the gall sack and embedding itself in the back.  
After the shooting Bennett said, “Oh, Babe, you have shot me.”  Washington 
replied, NO, I haven’t.  Come on and go with me to supper.  With this 
Washington left and went to supper after which he came back to his brother’s 
store and found Bennett laid out on the counter.  Deputy Sheriff Foster was 
present and he gave himself up claiming that the shooting was accidental.  Drs. 
T. J. Collier and A. F. White were called in, but the wound was too serious for 
medical or surgical skill and the young man realizing his condition made a 
statement before W. P. Castleberry, a justice of the peace, in which he stated 
that he believed the shooting to have been accidental.  He made a similar 
statement to other parties and in absence of any direct proof to the contrary 
the case was dismissed.

Jackson Argus – Butts county
Week of February 9, 1900


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