Butts County GaArchives News.....Shooting at Fincherville October 13, 1899
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Jackson Argus October 13, 1899
At a Negro frolic near Fincherville last Tuesday night about 12 o’clock George 
Thompson was shot through the neck with a Winchester rifle and died in five 
minutes.

It seems that there was some difficulty between Owen Jefferson, William Maddox 
and George Thompson about a banjo.  Owen Jefferson, Will Maddox and John Jinks 
began shooting one after another and then was some thirty or forty shots made 
before shooting stopped.

George Thompson was shot about the second shot that was made with Winchester 
and ran into the house where he died in about five minutes.

Coroner McKlerow was called and held an inquest, and the jury rendered a 
verdict of murder by shot from Winchester rifle or 38-caliber pistol in the 
hand of Owen Jefferson or Will Maddox principals and John Jinks accessory.

John Jinks was arrested and lodged in jail, the other two are yet at large.

Jackson Argus – Butts county
Week of October 13, 1899


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