Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....M.T. McGee September 12 1915
************************************************
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:
Carla Miles historycam@wmconnect.com May 6, 2004, 4:00 pm

The Butler Herald, September 16, 1915
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, September 16, 1915
Page One

Two Men Killed in Street Fight

Columbus, Ga., Sept. 12 – 

M.T. McGee, a young man from Coweta was killed and Patrolman N.H. Gibson 
received wounds which resulted fatally a few hours later, in a street gun fight 
here early this morning.  McGee is alleged to have drawn a pistol on a negro 
porter in a store in the segregated district, then to have robbed the cash 
register of $12, running into the street with the cash.  The porter chased him 
with a shotgun and fired several shots.

Patrolman Gibson joined in the pursuit in an automobile and McGee was cornered 
in a dark alley where the pistol battle between McGee and Gibson was staged.  
Both men emptied their revolvers and when the firing ceased persons who ran to 
the scene found McGee dead and the officer in a hopeless condition.



This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 1.4 Kb