Butts County GaArchives News.....Tom Vaughn - Murdered December 1889
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Middle Ga ARgus
Tom Vaughn – Murdered
Two Young Negroes Fall Out About a Girl and One is Killed

At a gathering of colored people at a tenant house on Mr. W. F. Hale’s farm 
near Flat Shoals, in this county, on Sunday night, Tom Vaughn, col., was 
stabbed and killed by Charlie Jester.  It seems that both of them were courting 
the same sable damsel when hot feelings arose and Jester drew a long keen 
bladed knife and took the life of his rival.  Vaught lived but a few minutes 
after receiving the wound.  Jester made good his escape and is yet at large.  
At last accounts several self appointed colored deputy sheriffs were in 
pursuit, but the scapegoat has not been found.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of December 3, 1889


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