Douglas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stamps, Peter July 25, 1885 ************************************************ 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: Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 July 12, 2018, 11:37 pm The Cherokee Advance 31 July 1885 p 2 Over in Douglass (sic) County, last Saturday morning, an infuriated mob of over 300 people took Peter Stamps, a negro, from the Sheriff and hung him from a bridge over the Georgia Pacific railroad. Stamps had outraged a little 13-year old daughter of Marion Abercrombie several times during the last seven months and finally poisoned her to hide her shame and conceal his guilt. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/douglas/obits/s/stamps15266ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb