Butts County GaArchives News.....Henry Barber - Shot November 1889
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Middle Ga Argus
Henry Barber – Shot

Henry Barber, colored, who has been hiding out to escape being arrested on a 
warrant issued by the Grand Jury charging him with disturbing divine worship 
was surprised by Sheriff Beauchamp one day last week and marched to Butts 
county’s palace lockup.  After the arrest it was found that he had recently 
been shot in the back of that head with a pistol ball.  Dr. Bryans extracted 
the ball which he found lodged against the skull and as flat as a dime.  He 
admitted that another Negro had shot him in a difficulty the day previous who, 
thinking he had killed his victim, made good his escape.  He, however was 
struck in the wrong place, as you would as well try to shoot a ball through a 
marble statue as the average darky’s cranium.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of November 5, 1889


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