Haralson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jones, John August 5, 1881
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"The Jacksonville Repulican"
Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 13, 1881

HOMICIDE

Friday the 5th inst. the body of a man named John Jones of Haralson county, 
Georgia was found in a field on Terrapin creek, about one mile below the 
Wilson Mill in this county, with bullet wounds in the shoulder and through 
the jugular vein. He was killed Tuesday, so far as the circumstances point 
and was not found until three days had elapsed. Suspicion points to a man 
named Dick Cohely, who has fled the country and who had said previously that 
he intended to kill him. Cohely had reportedly had some family trouble, of 
which it is said, Jones was the instigator. Cohely had sent him word that he 
intended to kill him, yet, nothwithstanding this, Jones went with him by 
invitation up the creek to a lonely spot to "talk the matter over." When 
Jones started from the field, a man who was working with him advised him not 
to go, saying, "if you don't mind, Dick will kill you." "If he can kill me 
before I can kill him, let him rip", replied Jones and he went.

This was the last seen of him, until his body was found some days 
afterwards. It is said that Cohely told his brother-in-law whither he and 
Jones went after they left the field, that he had decoyed Jones to go with 
him to the coaling, three or four miles distant, intending he said, to kill 
him in the lonely hollows on the route and there leave the body, but his 
heart again failed him. "But", said Cohely to his brother-in-law, "damn him, 
I intend to kill him." Cohely and Jones after this set out to return to the 
point from whence they had started and had reached a place within a fourth 
of a mile of that point, when Jones was killed. Cohely was armed with a gun, 
one barrel of which was a rifle, the other had a shot gun. Two shots were 
heard and it is supposed that Cohely first shot at Jones with the rifle 
barrel and failing of his aim, then used the shot gun barrel on him. Cohely 
has not been heard from since he fled the scene of the murder.

The above facts only given as floating rumors and may be disproved by 
evidence brought out at trial, should one ever be had, and the public are 
warned not to allow their minds prejudiced against Cohely in their 
publication. The law presumes every man innocent until he is proven guilt. 

LATER - - Cohely was arrested in Cleburne county and lodged in jail Tuesday 
at his place.


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