Butts-Pike County GaArchives News.....Langford July 23, 1897
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Jackson Argus July 23, 1897
Zebulon, Ga. July 19. – Tom Langford, the third member of the Delk outlaw gang 
and the long missing link in the trial of the individual desperadoes for the 
murder of Sheriff Gwyn, which occurred at Concord, in this county, in April, 
1896, was safely landed in jail here yesterday after by sheriff J. W. Milner 
and Deputy P. M. Sullivan of Pike county, who went to Arkansas, where he was 
arrested, for him.

Langford says Tom Delk fired the first shot on that fatal night and that shot 
killed Gwyn and states there was no shooting done by the posse until Gwyn was 
shot down.  He will not state now what part Taylor Delk took in the affair, but 
will tell the truth, he says, at the proper time, just as it happened.

As a matter of fact, however, Langford stated on his way here that Taylor Delk 
was not in the house at the time of the shooting.

Langford has not yet employed counsel, but says he will take steps at an early 
date to secure the same



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