Butts-Henry County GaArchives News.....Jack Gray – Killed at Locust Grove August 10, 1900
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Jackson Argus August 10, 1900
Locust Grove, Ga., August 6

Jack Gray, a well known young man of Henry county and a member of one of the 
most prominent families of the county, was murdered Saturday night by two 
negroes, with whim he was gambling in the woods, near this place.  Gray’s body, 
with the back broken, was found Sunday morning by the side of the Southern 
railway track.  It was thought at first that he had been killed by a train, but 
the coroners inquest developed the fact that he had been killed by negroes, 
named Law, father and son.

Gray is supposed to have been under the influence of liquor at the time, and 
while gambling a dispute arose and he was slain.  Witnesses at the inquest 
testified that they saw Gray and the Negroes gambling.  When the body was found 
they went to the spot where they had seen the men, and there were bloodstains 
and other evidences of a terrible struggle.

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of August 10,1900


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