Harris County GaArchives News.....Calhoun's throat cut by Matheny 1879
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Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 24, 2006, 10:40 pm

"The Carroll County Times" 1879
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 7, 1879

GEORGIA News

From "The Columbus News"

Yesterday morning the news reached this city of a terrible tragedy which 
took place the day before in Hamilton. We could not learn the particulars as 
to how the difficulty arose, but it seems that a man named Matheny and 
another man named Calhoun who were at work on the track laying of the 
Columbus and Rome Railroad, had a difficulty about the work. They afterward 
went into town and both got under the influence of whiskey, when the quarrel 
was renewed. During the difficulty, Matheny drew his knife and cut Calhoun's 
throat. When the train left Hamilton yesterday morning, Calhoun was still 
alive, but it was thought he could not live long. Several rumors in the city 
yesterday said that he was dead, but they were not reliable. Matheny has 
fled the country. A detachment of men from Harris county were in the city 
yesterday looking for him, but met with no success. He is badly wanted at 
Hamilton.


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