Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....CASTELLOW, JOHN February 1890
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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FT. GAINES, FEB 27, 1891
SHOT THRU THE HEART
INFORMATION REACHED THE CITY MONDAY OF THE KILLING OF MR. JOHN CASTELLOW BY 
MR. WILL ANDERSON AT BLAKELY LAST SATURDAY EVENING.
IT SEEMS THAT THE PARTIES HAD A DIFFICULTY ON THE STREETS WHEN FRIENDS 
INTERFERED AND RESTORED PEACE BETWEEN THEM.  THEY AGREED TO DROP THE 
MATTER,SHOOK HANDS, AND ENTERED A BAR TO TAKE A FRIENDLY DRINK TOGETHER.  AS 
TEHY APPROACHED THE COUNTER MR. CASTELLOW ORDERED THE DRINKS AND WHILE THE BAR 
KEEPER WAS PREPARING THEM, CASTELLOW DREW A SMITH AND WESSON PISTON AND 
FLOURISHING IT ABOUT TOLD ANDERSON THAT HE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OVER HIM WHILE ON 
THE STREETS AND CURSED HIM SAYING THAT HE WOULD HAVE FILLED HIM FULL OF 
BULLETS HAD NOT HIS FRIENDS INTERVENED.
IMMEDIATELY ANDERSON DREW HIS PISTOL AND SAID "YOU HAD BETTER DO IT NOW", AND 
FIRED TWO SHOTS IN RAPID SUCCESSION ONE OF WHICH STRUCK CASTELLOW'S HEART 
PASSING ENTIRELY THRU HIS BODY AND HE FELL BACKWORD AND EXPIRED WITHOUT 
SPEAKING A WORD.
THE GENERAL SUPPOSITION IS THAT CASTELLOW INVITED ANDERSON IN THE BAR FOR THE 
SOLE PURPOSE OF INTIMIDATING HIM AND RENEW THE ROW.  CASTELLOW HAD HIS PISTOL 
IN HIS HAND WHEN HE DIED.  ANDERSON WAS JAILED.  
BOTH PARTIES ARE WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED CITIZENS AND THE AFFAIR IS DEEPLY 
REGRETTED.  PUBLIC SENTIMENT IS IN FAVOR OF ANDERSON.

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