Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Harrison, J. H.  December 1905
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Cairo Messenger, December 8, 1905
Mr. J. H. Harrison Murdered
Mr. J. H. Harrison, one of Grady County's most prominent and prosperous 
farmers, was assassinated Tuesday night in his own home, a few miles north of 
this place and the whole community is shocked by the wicked cowardly crime.  
The guilty party is not yet apprehended, and so far as the public knows. there 
was no ill feeling existing between Mr. Harrison and any man.  He was in Cairo 
last Tuesday, and returning to his home that night some time after dark, 
discovered someone sitting upon a horse in front of his gate.  Directing his 
little son to carry his horse and buggy to the lot, he very naturally turned 
without apparent suspicion of danger or a difficulty towards the party who had 
evidently been waiting to see him, for what purpose no one knew, not even Mr. 
Harrison.  The son had not gone far before he heard two reports of a gun, and 
rushing back to the scene found his father the victim of a deliberate murderous 
attack.  One load of shot had entered his chest and made a deep unsightly hole 
just below his throat, while another had been scattered over his breast just a 
little lower.  The gun was loaded with buckshot, and the two reports were 
almost instant in their succession.

The crime is covered with mystery, as Mr. Harrison was a peaceable, law abiding 
citizen, who lived honorable before his neighbors, and against whom no one 
could with justification have the least grudge.  His relations with all men, so 
far as is known, were friendly, and as no one except himself was near enough to 
the assassin to detect his identity, it seems that the mystery will be a 
difficult one to solve.  Mr. Harrison never spoke after being shot but died 
instantly.  Our people will greatly deplore his untimely death, and will seek 
to find out the culprit who murdered him and to see that justice is measured 
out in the full proportion with the malicious deed deserves.  

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