Butts County GaArchives News.....Negro Row April 29, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County April 29, 1898
On Tuesday evening at the residence or Georgia Woodward, a disreputable female 
of the colored variety, Tom King, a negro farm hand of near Jackson, was 
sitting in the room playing Georgia a few variations from his favorite 
instrument, the banjo, when Tom’s wife approached upon the scene and seizing 
the banjo she hurled it out the door into the yard.  This act so enraged Thomas 
that he stepped out into the yard and seized a brickbat with the avowed 
intention of disfiguring his wife’s anatomy.  His wife, presuming hostilities 
had begun drew a pistol and fired a warning shot at Thomas to let go the 
brickbat with a force that sent it square over the eye of his better half 
leaving a hole in her forehead somewhat resembling the indenture made by a six 
pound from our prize battle ship the Indiana.

Marshall Collins got wind of the difficulty and thought he would go over and 
declare peace between the belligerents but when Thomas saw the large brass 
buttons on Collins coat come sailing down College Avenue, he remembered of some 
work that he had left undone out on the farm that morning and shifting his face 
in the direction of home he swiftly took his departure.

His wife came to Jackson and had her wound dressed, and now the Marshall are on 
the lookout for the man who”fired dat las brick!  

Tom King is a brother of Jim King, whose wife killed little Laborn Washington 
at Worthville ago, some weeks, ago, and he is a desperate character and should 
be caught and jailed on general principles.

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