Glynn-Mcintosh County GaArchives Obituaries.....GAITHERS, Child May 15, 1888 ************************************************ 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 January 10, 2009, 9:56 pm The Atlanta Constitution; Tuesday 15 May 1888; pg. 2 col. 1 A homicide occurred in the Ardock settlement, in McIntosh county, early in the last week, but was not discovered until the middle of this week. Two small colored boys, Cain Gaithers and his brother, went into the woods with a gun and a hoe, and Cain came back without the gun and hoe, and without his brother, for whom he could not account, saying his brother had gone to a neighbor’s house. His father sent him for the hoe and gun, which he brought, saying he had seen nothing of his brother, but had seen his tracks. Several days after this he and his father were going through the woods, when Cain acted queerly at a certain point, and being sent to a point at which he had been seen shying around, the buzzards rose up and the father went up and found the other boy shot through the head and covered behind a lot with bushes. The boy, Cain, admitted he had killed his brother, and says it was an accident, but the circumstances upon the coroner’s inquest was such that the boy was committed by the coroner to await the action of the grand jury. Cain seems to be about eleven or twelve years old. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at or the sister site at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/g/gaithers9330gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb