Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....HORTON, WILL July 1895
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THE FT. GAINES SENTINEL, JUL 18, 1895
WILL HORTON, A NEGRO MAN ABOUT THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, DIED AT HIS HOME IN THIS 
CITY WEDNESDAY FROM THE  FROM THE EFFECTS OF A GUNSHOT WOUND INFLICTED BY WILL 
LEE, COL LEE HAD A ROW LAST SATURDAY NIGHT WITH TWO OTHER NEGROES ONE OF WHOM 
WAS A BROTHER OF WILL HORTON, AND SAID BROTHER WAS KNOCKED OR PUSHED DOWN.  
BEING INFORMED THAT WILL HORTON HAD THREATENED TO FRAIL WITH A STICK, LEE WENT 
HOME AND GOT HIS GUN AND GOING TO THE HOME OF WILL HORTON ENTERED THE HOUSE 
AND WITHOUT FURTHER PROVOCATION FIRED THE CONTENTS OF HIS GUN INTO HORTON'S 
BODY.  THE LOAD ENTERED THE RIGHT THIGH PRODUCING DEATH AS STATED ABOVE.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTING LEE(OR WOOD AS HE IS KNOWN BY SOME) LEFT FOR 
PARTS UNKNOWN.  A WARRANG HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST, AND HE WILL HAVE TO 
MOVE UP LIVELY TO ESCAPE SHERIFF MCALLISTER.

CORONER ROYAL SUMMONED A JURY AND HELD AN INQUEST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE 
RESULT OF WHICH WAS A VERDICT TO THE EFFECT THAT THE KILLING WAS AN UNPROVOKED 
MURDER.

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