Clay County GaArchives News.....A GRUESOME FIND January 15, 1897 ************************************************ 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: REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 30, 2011, 1:58 pm FT. GAINES SENTINEL January 15, 1897 THE DEAD BODYIES OF THREE NEGRO BOYS FOUND BY YOUNG MEN WHILE HUNTING IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY LAST SATURDAY. ______________________________________________________________________________ SOME YOUNG MEN WHO WERE OUT HUNTING NEAR GILBERT POST OFFICE INT HE COUNTY LAST SATURDAY MADE A STARTLING FIND. THEY WERE CROSSING A DEEP GULLY WHEN THEY NOTICED THE FEET AND A PORTION OF THE LEGS OF A HUMAN BODY PROTRUDING FROM THE CUTBANKMENT. SECURING HELP THEY DUG DOWN INTO THE EMBANKMENT AND WERE GREATLY SURPRISED TO UNEARTH THE BODIES OF THREE NEGRO BOYS. THE BODIES PROVED TO BE THOSE OF THE SONS OF JEFF WOOD AND ALEX WHITE TWO INDUSTRIOUS COLORED FARMERS LIVING IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. THEY WENT RABBIT HUNGTING ON TUESDAY, DEC 29, AND FAILING TO RETURN IT WAS THOUGHT THEY HAD RUN AWAY. IT IS SUPPOSED THAT HAVING RUN A RABBIT IN A HOLLOW IN THE SIDE OF THE ENBANKMENT THEY CRAWLED IN AFTER IT AND THEIR EFORTS TO GET THE GAME OUT AGAIN CASUSED THE DIRT TO CAVE IN UPON THEM AND SMOTHER THEM TO DEATH. CORONER MAN WAS NOTIFIED OF THE GREUSOME FIND AND SUMMONING A JURY HE WENT OUT AND HELD AN INQUEST, THE VERDICT BEING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ABOVE FACTS. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/newspapers/agruesom2739gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb