Butts County GaArchives News.....Murder at Hendrick's Mill November  1888
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Middle Ga Argus

Murder at Hendrick’s Mill

On Saturday about 4 o’clock young Willie Hendrick was shot and killed at 
Hendrick’s mill in this county.  Dick Fincher is in jail accused of doing the 
deadly work, but from the best evidence we can gather, the fatal shot was 
accidental.

Fincher was seen at the mill, and was also seen going from the mill after the 
shot was heard, but when he was arrested denied knowing anything about the 
killing, saying that he had not been there, and also making several different 
statements concerning his whereabouts at the time, but after he was faced with 
the proof that he was at the mill when he pistol fired, he owned up and stated 
that he was there, and when he and Hendrick was trying to trade pistols 
Hendrick accidentally fired his own pistol which killed him instantly.  The 
coroner’s jury was not satisfied with his statement, however, and remanded him 
to jail.  The deceased was a noble, quiet inoffensive young man just twenty-one 
years, son of Mr. Matt Hendrick of this county.  His death is deeply deplored 
by all.

Middle Ga Argus  -  Week of November 13,1888


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