Butts County GaArchives News.....Human Skeleton Found December 15, 1899
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Jackson Argus December 15, 1899
Last Friday while hunting on the farm of J. W. Moore near town Clifford 
Beauchamp came upon a ghastly sight in the shape of a human skeleton.  The 
matter was reported immediately to Sheriff Crawford who went out and brought in 
the bones, many of them disconnected, and placed them in the courthouse where 
the coroner began an inquest.

The clothing found indicated that the man had been well dressed, and eleven 
holes in the clothing indicated also that the man had been shot in bowels with 
buckshot.

The coroner empanelled a jury on Saturday and proceeded with the investigation, 
but facts were so meager that the investigation was postponed.  In the meantime 
numerous theories as to the identify of the dead man have been advanced but 
none of them are yet satisfactory.

Jackson Argus – Butts County Georgia
Week of December 15, 1899


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