Jasper County GaArchives News.....KILLING IN MONTICELLO August 19 1897
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Georgia Enterprise
     The Macon Telegraph gives the following account of the killing of Mr. 
Walter Roby by Mr. Wiley Phillips, in Monticello one day recently: “On last 
Friday afternoon ex-Sheriff W. H. Phillips and Walter L. Roby had a difficulty 
at a barbeque at the branch below Westview Cemetery, and Phillips stabbed
Roby fourteen times. The wound which proved fatal was a stab in the abdomen, 
and after great suffering and a surgical operation Mr. Roby died at 11 o’clock 
Saturday night.
     The trouble grew out of Phillips indebtedness to Roby, and after some 
insulting remarks made by both parties they began to fight. Phillips used his 
knife, stabbing Roby in the breast, abdomen and back. Roby fell into a wire 
fence and begged Phillips to desist, but to no avail.
     Rev. Billie Cornwell preached the funeral Sunday afternoon from the  
Baptist church. A large concourse of friends of the deceased were present.
     Public feeling is running high. The slayer has not been arrested. Hon. J. 
D. Kilpatrick says that Phillips will give up. A posse searched the residence 
of the senator Sunday afternoon, it being rumored that he had gone there for 
consultation, Kilpatrick having been retained to represent the defendant.”

Georgia Enterprise, August 26, 1897
DEAD IN THE WOODS
     The news came from Monticello on Tuesday last that ex-Sheriff W. H. 
Phillips, of Jasper county, who recently stabbed Mr. Walter Roby to death was 
found in a patch of woods in a dying condition by his son. He died before any 
medical assistance could be obtained, and was buried this evening by the 
Masonic fraternity. The religious services were conducted by Rev. J. O. A. 
Grogan.
     Phillips stabbed Walter Roby to death last Friday. His death is a 
surprise, as he had promised to come in and surrender to the sheriff on 
yesterday. His failure to do so caused alarm in his family and they went to 
find him, and they did, as stated above. The coroner’s jury said he came to his 
death by natural causes.
     There were no notes or writing left by him. A bottle of wine and laudanum 
was found on him.
     Phillips had been sheriff of Jasper County for several years. He leaves a 
wife and seven children, three of which are grown up.


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