Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Eidson, G. I. May 1827
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"The Roanoke Leader"
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, May 25, 1927

A RAIDER IS KILLED OVER IN HEARD COUNTY BY A WOMAN WHEN A MOB INVADED HER 
HOME

Franklin, Georgia, May 21st

Tuesday has been set as the date when the Heard county coroner will probe 
the death of G.I. Eidson, a farmer living 10 miles north of here, who was 
shot and killed Thursday night, it is alleged, by Mrs. Frances Thompson, in 
her home at the outskirts of Franklin. According to the woman's story, 
Eidson and three other men came to her home about midnight Thursday and 
awakened her by battering down the front door. She immediately secured her 
pistol from the drawer of a sewing machine, she said, and when the door of 
her bedroom was smashed in and a flashlight thrown upon her, she emptied her 
gun in the direction of the light, according to the official. Mrs. Thompson 
declares that she did not know the man she shot at was Eidson until she had 
lighted a lamp and further states that the men who accompanied him were 
hooded and that several shots were fired through her house. Sheriff S.Y. 
Miller who is investigating the affair has made no arrests to date, 
declaring himself satisfied with the story of self defense, pending the 
coroner's inquest Tuesday. The sheriff stated tonight he was probing the 
killing and a search is being made for the other men, alleged companions of 
Eidson, when the raid on the Thompson house was made. Mrs. Thompson has two 
small children. The Atlanta Constitution.

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