Harris County GaArchives Obituaries.....Earnest  Holliday November 5 1908
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The Talbotton New Era, November 19, 1908

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, November 19, 1908
Page Six

Negro Boy Killed By Another

Cleola, Ga. Nov. 14 – Earnest Holliday, aged twelve years, was killed by James 
Dowell, aged sixteen, on the 5th day of Nov.

Mr. A.G. Milner gave Earnest a two-dollar bill and sent him to Cleola to buy 
some meat.  There he met James Dowell and he decoyed him off down the railroad 
about three hundred yards from the depot in Mr. J.P. Beck’s pasture murdered 
him and three his body in Mulberry creek.  He then took the two dollars off his 
body and left him.

He took the money to Mr. Jno. Harris and asked to get it changed, Mr. Harris 
told him that he could not change it; from there he went to Mr. J.P. Sutton’s 
and wanted to get it changed, Mr. Sutton asked what kind of bill it was, he 
told him he did not know upon examination found it to be a two dollar bill.

As Earnest did not return his mother thought he had run away and had gone to 
his grandfather’s; after they found out that he was not there a warrant was 
sworn out for James Dowell on the 14th and he was arrested and brought to 
Cleola by bailiff Moore.  A crowd of both white and blacks were gathered to 
search the creek and after a long search and the body was not discovered, they 
went back to the station and got the prisoner and he led the way to where the 
little boy’s body was found lying in the creek.

Justice of the Peace B.R. Harris empanelled a jury to hold an inquest.  Messrs. 
J.P. Sutton, J.P. Beck, Jno. Carlisle, Henry Vinson and Mercer Harris composed 
the jury.  The verdict was that he came to his death on Nov. 5, by two blows 
inflicted on the left side of his head with some blunt instrument in the hands 
of James Dowell, crushing his skull and the same was murder in the first 
degree.  He was placed in jail at Hamilton.


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