Campbell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Eason, Nathan April 1878
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, APRIL 19, 1878 
 
MIDNIGHT MURDER 
 
From "The Atlanta Constitution" 
 
About 11 o'clock Saturday night, Mr. Nathan Eason, who resides about one mile 
from Red Oak station in Campbell county, was aroused from his bed by hearing a 
loud knocking at his door, accompanied by persons calling for him. He arose 
and answered the call by going to the door and opening it. As he was 
frequently called up late at night by friends in the settlement, he 
anticipated nothing at being aroused at this time of night. After opening the 
door he stepped into the entrance and looked into the dark to see who had 
called him. Simutaneously as he stepped in front of the open doorway a volley 
was fired and many shots pierced his body in the vicinity of his stomach. His 
family being aroused at the discharge of fire arms hastened to the door, when 
they found laying on the floor covered with blood, the head of the once happy 
family. Although lite was very nearly extinct a message was promptly 
dispatched for Dr. C.S. Claridy, who arrived a few moments after. The 
physician upon his arrival cast gloom over the family by stating that Mr. 
Eason was beyond all hope. Five minutes after, he breathed his last. 
 
Upon examination it was found that eleven bullets had entered the abdomen 
while several had pierced his body in other localities. It is not definitely 
known who the perpetrators of the outrageous crime are; but it is supposed 
they were the same who fired upon Captain T.C. Murphy, Deputy United States 
Marshall, some months ago. It seems that Mr. Eason had been before the grand 
jury in the United States court last week and had testified as to the parties 
who shot at Murphy and his party. These violators of the law, thinking that 
Mr. Eason had established their guilt, killed him to protect themselves from 
being implicated in the crime through his testimony. The outrageous matter 
will be investigated at an early day and it is to be hoped that the 
prepetrators of the cowardly outrage will be arrested and punished to the 
utmost extent of the state laws. 
 

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