Hall-Fulton County GaArchives News.....THE MOONSHINE CONSPIRATORS. December 29 1884
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 "THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION" ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1884, VOL. XVII, Page 7, Column 4  
  
                     THE MOONSHINE CONSPIRATORS.
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  Four Men on Trial at Gainesville For Connection with the Recent Killing.

   The recent killing of moonshiners in Hall county by the party of revenue 
raiders has, as was expected, resulted in the arrest of several parties for 
conspiracy.  United States Commissioner Caldwell, of Gainesville, is now 
trying four men against whom warrants have been issued.  The men are Hiram 
Grant, Thomas Grant, Oregon Smith and little Anderson Grant.  It is claimed 
that three of the party were the men who attacked the boy at the wagon and 
took the horse away from him, and that they were among those who spent the 
afternoon and part of the night in getting up guns and concentrating the 
forces of the moonshiners.  The two Praters who were connected with the affair 
escaped and have not been captured.  They were Andrew Prater and Aaron 
Prater.  Josiah Prater, as will be remembered, was killed in the fight.  Big 
Anderson Grant, who led the the moonshiners, was killed by a terrible wound.  
The man who killed him was evidently right at him.  Both barrels of a shotgun 
were fired into where the breastbone and collarbone joined.  The charge passed 
through the body, cutting everything before it, and making a wound into which 
a man could almost run his hand.  Prater was shot in four places---twice in 
the breast, once in the back and once in the hip.
   Mr. H. H. Perry is defending the prisoners, and Mr. W. F. Findley has been 
appointed to conduct the examination for the government.  The preliminary 
trial will be concluded in two or three days.   

Additional Comments:
Josiah, Andrew, and Aaron PRATER were sons of Josiah and Mary Jane (SHOOPMAN) 
PRATER of Hall county, Georgia.

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