Butts County GaArchives News.....Tom King Escapes October 21, 1898 ************************************************ 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 November 17, 2006, 11:34 pm Jackson Argus – Butts County October 21, 1898 Tom King, col., who was sentenced to 25 days on the streets by the Mayor last Saturday for disorderly conduct was shackled and put to work Monday last. He had not been at work very long before he escaped shackles and all. It was a brand new $6 chain that the officer put on him and the loss of this is regretted more than the escape of the negro. Tom is a bad negro, he is of a bad family and takes pride in the name of “Bully”. Jackson Argus – Butts County Week of October 21, 1898 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/tomkinge1998gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb