Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Vick, Mrs. Will February 1919
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, February 28, 1919
Negro is Bound Over On Murder Charge

Last Thursday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, the wife of Will Vick, colored, was 
shot and instantly killed at their home near Reno, supposedly by Vick.  Vick, 
however, claims that she killed herself.

The killing occurred in the cook room of the negro cabin just after Vick had 
returned home from his day's labors and while their children were out in the 
yard playing.  Vick claims that his wife had gone to the kitchen to prepare 
their supper and the first thing he knew of his wife being shot was when he 
heard the report of a pistol.  He further says that he went into the kitchen 
and picked up the body of his wife and placed her up on the bed, then went 
after aid.  Two shots were fired, yet the pistol has not been found.  After 
picking up the body of his wife, he went and told the children that their 
mother had killed herself.

However, in the meantime, a negro girl was passing by and went and gave the 
alarm of the shooting and no doubt, will tell her story of the killing to the 
March Grand Jury which meets next week.

Sheriff Perkins was notified of the killing Friday morning and went to the 
scene of the killing and placed Vick under arrest.  He was given a commitment 
hearing before Judge C. F. Rehberg who bound him over to the Grand Jury on the 
charge of murder.    

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