Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hyde, Mr. September 1924
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"The Roanoke Leader" -- Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, September 17, 1924

A DEATH IN FRANKLIN, GEORGIA

>From The Franklin, Ga. News & Banner

Parties passing Mr. Ernest Owensby's plantation, four miles south of town on 
the Owensbyville road Tuesday morning last, made a gruesome find at the home 
just beyond where Tobe Hyde and family have lived for several months. The 
old gentleman, Mr. Hyde, 68 or 70 years old, was lying in the back of the 
veranda of the house with a frightful fracture of the skull and it was 
evident that the had laid there all during the stormy night. Sheriff Miller 
was notified and with Mr. Sim Phillips, Dr. Daniel and others, hastened to 
the scene, where they found a frightful state of affairs and many evidences 
of a general drunken brawl, most of the occupants of the place apparently 
still drinking. Some 8 gallons of whiskey were found on the premises but no 
facts about the killing could be secured. The old lady Hyde, after some 
resistance on her part, and man giving his name as George Doss of LaGrange, 
were brought to town and placed in jail, being unable to make the bond of 
$1000. Will Yearta and a girl giving her name first as Lemma Phillips then 
later as Haynes were likewise jailed to await developments. Mr. Hyde died 
Tuesday night, never having regained consciousness and was buried in the 
city cemetery at Franklin on Wednesday afternoon.

The parties in jail have demanded a hearing which has been set for tomorrow. 
The officers who worked the case so quickly and efficiently, have their 
theory of the killing and are sure that the quartet in jail did the job or 
know all about it. It is evident that it was a whiskey muddle, for operating 
on their clues Sheriff Miller and Mr. Phillips made a search in the vicinity 
on Wednesday and soon succeeded in locating a large wilcat distillery and 
some 12 barrels of beer with several clues of evidence connected with the 
operation of the big outfit.


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