Houston County GaArchives News.....THE DEADLY AX, AN OLD MAN KILLED, AND HIS AGED WIFE KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS November 7, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise November 7, 1889
     A dispatch from Hawkinsville, Ga., says: A horrible murder was committed 
Sunday night eleven miles from here, just across Houston county line. Mr. 
William Miller, an aged farmer, was killed and his wife was nearly killed. Mr. 
and Mrs. Miller, lived alone. They were sitting by the fire reading and each 
had a small lamp. Mrs. Miller heard her husband say: “Don’t do that.” Then she 
felt herself struck, and was knocked unconscious. When she regained 
consciousness, she heard the clock strike twelve. She saw that Mr. Miller was 
apparently dead, and she was afraid to ________ ________ _____ that her 
assailants were still there. She lay there until four o’clock, when her 
suffering were so great that she called for help. Her calls were soon answered 
by the cook, whose house was forty or fifty yards distant. On the bed was an ax 
which had struck the blows and the marble top of the bureau which had been 
removed from its place to enable the murderers to rifle the drawers in search 
of money, which Miller was supposed to have in the house. It is supposed that 
Mr. Miller saw the parties as they raised the ax, and asked them not to strike. 
Mrs. Miller did not see them. She was nearest the door, and was struck first 
with the ax. She was knocked senseless, and was probably thought to be dead. 
Then it is supposed that Mr. Miller was attacked. He was struck five blows with 
the ax, and his skull was badly smashed, and was probably thought to be dead.  
Then it is supposed that Mr. Miller was attacked. He was struck five blows with 
the ax, and his skull was badly smashed. When found he was still sitting in his 
arm chair, with his head and arm hanging over the side. The blood had run from 
his wounds and made a pool on the floor. His death must have been 
instantaneous. Mr. Miller was one of the most respected citizens of Houston; a 
well-to-do farmer, upwards of sixty years old. Ed Johnson and Sam Chunkey, two 
Negroes are suspected of the murder as they have disappeared from the 
neighborhood.


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