Butts-Henry County GaArchives News.....Leonidas Johnson December 10 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 27, 2004, 4:03 am Middle Ga. Argus – Week of December 10, 1883 On Friday of last week in Henry Superior Court, Judge Stewart sentenced Leonidas Johnson to be public hung on Friday December 7, 1883, for rape committed to a white lady. Middle Ga. Argus – Week of November 10, 1883 …………………………………………………………………… The black devil, Leonidas Johnson, who should have been hanged in McDonough on Friday 7th inst., is yet alive. We freely strike hands with brother Brown of the Henry County Weekly, in saying that the black moke(?) should die and don’t like to see a set of lawyers fuddling around trying to save him when the evidence is all in favor of his guilt. All such as Leonidas should be put out of the way, and hanging is a little good for them. Middle Ga. Argus – Week of December 15, 1883 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb