Butts County GaArchives News.....Murder and Fatal Accident June 1827
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Macon Telegraph - Georgia June 1827
Macon Telegraph – June 4, 1827

Murder and Fatal Accident

By a gentleman recently from Butts County, we learn, that Mr. Denton Daniel of 
that county, was murdered there on the 22d ult.  The particulars, as far as 
our informant understood, were these:  Mr. Daniel and Mr. Ludwell Watts, both 
residing near the confluence of the Towaliga and Ocmulgee, went hunting on 
that day, and calling at a store to obtain some salt, drank more than a 
prudent quantity of whiskey.  On their way home, they wrangled, and on passing 
a house Watts was seen to rub his fist in Daniel’s face, and heard to swear 
that he would blow his brains out.  They had not proceeded more than a quarter 
of a mile before the report of Watts’s musket was heard, and a short time 
after Daniel’s rifle.  Watts went home; and Daniel with the parental bones of 
his head shattered by a load of buckshot, was found by a stranger at the place 
at which the small arms were supposed to have discharged.  Watts was called on 
for information; and pretended to have left Daniel on the road too drunk as 
well as too unwilling to return home.  He even accompanied Mrs. Daniel to the 
store in order to procure a shroud for her husband.  A coroner’s inquest was 
called and Watts attended, keeping at a short distance from the jury and 
within reach of his horse.  So soon he found himself implicated in the 
verdict, he attempted to escape on horseback, but was overtaken, and committed 
to prison.

The friends of the deceased determined to employ council to aid in the 
prosecution; and with this intention three of them started for Forsyth on the 
26th ult.  That night in crossing the Towaliga in a bateau with a horse in it, 
the vessel upset, and the deceased’s brother Egbert P. Daniel and William 
Scott were drowned, the third saving himself by swimming to the shore.  For 
the accuracy of the statement in all its parts our informant does not vouch, 
it is such, he says, as is circulated in that neighborhood, without 
contradiction.


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