Butts County GaArchives News.....McNair Murder - Correcting a Statement May 1889
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Middle Ga Argus
McNair Murder

CORRECTING A STATEMENT

We wish to correct a statement recently made by the Atlanta Journal and copied 
in the Jackson News in reference to the supreme court granting a new trial to 
Mr. Thos. Shaw, one of the McNair murderers.  The article alleges that Rev. Mr. 
Hooten, pastor of the Baptist church, was an active prosecutor in the case, 
that he was a witness against the prisoner, addressed the jury at the church 
&c.  All this does gross injustice to Mr. Hooten and is a misrepresentation 
altogether.  He was not an active prosecutor in the case, and did not conduct 
the prayer-meeting alluded to, had nothing to do with the jury going to church 
and did not address them as the article alleges, nor said a word in reference 
to the court or anything connected with it.  There was no semblance excitement 
at the church and not a word of shouting was even thought about.  We make this 
statement to correct the impression that has grown out of these publications 
and trust our people will understand the true status of the case and not be 
lead away by papers that care nothing for facts.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of May 28, 1889


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