Butts-Pike-Fulton County GaArchives News.....Tom Delk – Fulton County Jail August 20, 1896 ************************************************ 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 21, 2005, 4:20 pm Jackson Argus – Week Of August 20, 1896 August 20, 1896 Tom Delk, who is confined in Fulton county jail for the murder of Sheriff Gwyn, of Pike county, has been thwarted in formulating plans for the releasing of himself and other prisoners. Their plans were to murder the jailor and his assistant and then liberate the prisoners. The scheme was detected but a few hours before it was to have been put into practice. Tom was at once carried to a dungeon and chained to the floor in the center of the room, where he will be until disposed of by the courts. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/tomdelkf588gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb