Butts County GaArchives News.....Jim Stroud – Killed September 1 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 March 23, 2004, 1:24 am Middle Ga. Argus – Week of September 1, 1891 Another Homicide in Butts, The Slayer in Jail Butts County was the scene of another homicide on Friday. Jim Stroud is the dead man and Martin Walker did the killing. It seems that these young Negroes fell out about a woman and to settle the difficulty met in the road just above Fincherville and began to quarrel and finally came to blows. Walker used his knife freely while Stroud only used his fists. Stroud was cut on the under part of the right arm near the shoulder and bled to death in a few minutes. Martin made his escape but was captured on Sunday Morning by bailiff Cordy Barnes and lodged in jail. The coroner held a inquest but the jury only returned a verdict that the deceased was killed with a knife and that the knife was in the hands of Martin Walker. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb