Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Reid, Aquilla April 7 1902
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The Marion County Patriot, April 11, 1902
The Marion County Patriot, No. 15
April 11, 1902
Page One

Negro’s Deliberate Crime

Shoots Wife to Death and Then Coolly Returns to Work

Columbus, Ga., April 8 – George Reid, a young negro drayman, yesterday 
afternoon killed his wife, Aquilla Reid, in the negro district in the 
southeastern part of the city.

While delivering goods for a wholesale firm of the city he stopped at his home, 
and while there it seems, had a quarrel with his wife.  It ended in his 
shooting her while walking by her side in the yard, he placed the pistol so 
close to her body that the powder burned her clothing.

She did not fall at first, and as she staggered along he walked behind her 
pistol in hand.  She fell after a few steps, and he stood over her, threatening 
to shoot her again, when another negro woman appeared on the scene, and he 
walked out to his dray and remounted it.

The second woman began calling for the police, and he remarked that he would 
fix three or four policemen the same way.  The Reid woman died in a few minutes.

Reid drove off on his dray, delivered two more orders, and then typing his 
horse to a post made a break for the country, escaping from the city.  A posse 
is after him.



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