Calhoun-Dougherty County GaArchives News.....Double Tragedy Victims Buried At Morgan Today August 4 1928
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The Albany Herald - Albany, Georgia
MRS. N.L. MATHIS HAD STARTED DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS, LAWYER SAYS

Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. N.L. Mathis, of Albany, victims of a double 
tragedy at Williamsburg yesterday, were held at Morgan today, at the home of 
Mr. Mathis's sister.  Internment was in the family cemetery there.
Mrs. mathis was slain by her husband yesterday morning in the the railway 
station at Williamsburg when the latter cut her throat with a sharp knife and 
then fired a bullet into his brain.  Both were dead within a few minutes.
It was stated here this morning by Mrs. mathis's attorney, W.F. Bell, that she 
had filed divorce proceedings against her husband, July 19, charging cruel 
treatment, and had gone to the home of her brother-in-law at Williamsburg to 
live.  She is said to have instructed her attorney not to tell Mr. mathis where 
she was, as she feared bodily harm should he locate her.
Before leaving on the morning train for Williamsburg yesterday, Mr. Mathis is 
said to have secured a pistol from one of his sons on the pretext that he was 
going fishing and wanted the pistol for protection against snakes.  None of the 
children knew that he had gone to Williamsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathis , until their separation, lived at 209 Second Street.  
Yesterday's report stated that they resided at 211 Second Street, but the 
houses in this block have recently been renumbered and the Mathis number was 
changed from 211 to 209.

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