Clay-Early County GaArchives Obituaries.....SPEIGHT, JAMES RENFROE February 1, 1903
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ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT NEAR FORT GAINES, GEORGIA.

FORT GAINES, GA.  FEBRUARY 18.

MORRIS GREENE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT AND KILLED JIMMIE SPEIGHT THIS MORNING AT THE 
NOWEL PLACE ABOUT SIX AND A HALF MILES EAST OF FORT GAINES.  A LARGE PARTY HAD 
GONE OUT THERE TO A DOVE SHOOT.  THE WEATHER BEING EXTREMELY COLD, SOME OF THE 
PARTY HAD KINDLED A FIRE AND THEY WERE ALL STANDING AROUND WARMING PREPATORY 
TO SHOOT, WHEN GREENE'S GUN WAS ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED AND THE LOAD OF SHOT 
WAS LODGED IN SPEIGHT'S HEAD, KILLING HIM INSTANTLY, THE TOP OF HIS HEAD BEING 
SHOT OFF.  BOTH MORRIS AND SPEIGHT BELONG TO PROMINENT FAMILIES AND WERE THE 
BEST OF FRIENDS AND WENT TO THE SHOOT IN THE SAME BUGGY.

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