Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Singley, Jesse August 25, 1911
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The Talbotton New Era, November 16, 1911
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, November 16, 1911
Page Ten

Georgia News Notes

Jackson – Charged with the murder last August of Jesse Singley, a prominent 
young farmer of Butts County, Hill Turner, colored, was convicted of the crime 
in Butts County Superior Court and sentenced by Judge Robert T. Daniel to die 
on the gallows Thursday, December 14.  The killing occurred near Indian Spring 
on the night of August 25.  Singley was returning to his home from Indian 
Spring in company with several other white men, when the party was fired upon 
from ambush near the home of the Turner negro.  J.R. Connor, one of the party, 
was also shot, but not seriously hurt.


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