Cobb County GaArchives News.....Roswell - County News March 1, 1894
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The Marietta Journal March 1, 1894
ROSWELL

Roswell has been considerably excited lately.  Dr George H CHANDLER, formerly of
Atlanta, moved into the PRATT residence here last October.  He proved to be a
very worisome tenant, so the PRATT heirs had him dispossessed Monday, the 19th
ult.  He and wife left here to go to Marietta and have not returned, leaving
their three little children in the care of Mrs F J MINHINNETT.

On last Thursday night about dark, Mrs CHRISTOPHER became alarmed, that her
daughter Miss Bessie, a woman about 35 years old, who worked in the new cotton
mill did not arrive home at the usual hour, after the mill had stopped.  She
went in search for her and failed to find her.  Then others joined the crowd in
the search till half of the men in the lower town was hunting for her.  She was
found about 8 o'clock in a dense forest near the creek, under a shelving rock,
on a bluff, with her throat cut.  From the surroundings, she had been dead about
three hours.  Coroner LYON, of Marietta, was sent for Friday morning, who
empanelled a jury.  After a careful investigation the jury made their verdict
that she came to death by her own hands.  Since the coroner's jury has been
dismissed Mr J L WATKINS, a brother-in-law of the young woman, has sworn out a
warrant for Mr J H FARR, charging him with murdering Miss CHRISTOPHER.  He
surrendered himself to Constable GUNTER last Sunday morning.  The case was tried
Monday before J B WATSON, Justice of the Peace, and Mr FARR was acquitted, there
being no evidence to connect him with it.  The theory of suicide being accepted.
 Hon A S CLAY of Marietta defended Mr FARR, and Mr LEWIS of Alpharetta, appeared
for the state.

Mr William FARR's wife died in Atlanta on the 24th and was buried at the
Methodist cemetery in this place on Sunday the 25th.

- R

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