Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....DICKSON, William December 27, 1884 ************************************************ 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: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 August 2, 2009, 2:04 am Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 20 December 1884; pg. 7 cols. 1-2 Sam Jones, a rather prominent daykey [sic] before the St. Simons public as a man of “off color,” always with plenty of ready cash without work, struck a mulatto boy by the name of Dickson on the head with a twenty-ounce billiard cue, last Saturday evening. The attending physician pronounces the skull fractured, and has but little hope of his recovery. Sam was arrested, but gave the officer leg bail, and, in all probability, is off the Island, gone to some other place to perpetrate a similar deed. Sam is said to have come to St. Simons from Americus several years ago under a bad name. Saturday 27 December 1884; pg. 7 col. 1 William Dickson, the boy whose skull was fractured by Sam Jones, has been removed to Brunswick to undergo the operation of trepanning. Dr. Burford, assisted by competent experts, will perform the operation. LATER—Since the above was received from our St. Simons editor, the boy alluded to died. As was stated in our last, the murderer has escaped. ED. AD. AND AP. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/d/dickson9504gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb