Butts County GaArchives News.....Dick Fincher - Burglar October 1887
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Middle Ga Argus
Dick Fincher – Burglar

On Monday of last week Dick Fincher, a young white man of this county was 
arrested as a suspect in the burglaries mentioned in last week’s Argus.  He 
confessed to having some of the stolen goods but said he got them from one 
Charles Williams, (colored,) who broke into the houses and stole them.  An 
attempt was made to arrest the Negro but he made good his escape and is yet at 
large.

After Fincher was incarcerated in the county jail he played off crazy to such 
perfection that when he was carried before justice Sawyer he was dismissed, it 
is said, for want of prosecution.  Fincher, however, told where some of the 
stolen goods were and carried the officers to where they were deposited and 
pointed them out.  We trust that the guilty ones will yet be brought to justice 
and meet their just deserts.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of October 18, 1887


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