Newton County GaArchives News.....A Proclamation January 10, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise January 10, 1889
GEORGIA, By J. B. Gordon, Governor of said State.
WHEREAS, Official information has been received at this department that on the 
first day of December 1888, in the county of Newton, a murder was committed 
upon the body of W. G. Jones, by some person or persons unknown:
     I have thought proper therefore to issue this my Proclamation hereby 
offering a reward of Three Hundred Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of 
said murderer or murderers, with evidence sufficient to ____ _____ to the 
sheriff of said County and State.
     And I do moreover charge and require all Officers in this State, Civil and 
Military, to be vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said murderer, or 
murderers, in order that he or they may be brought to trial for the offense 
with which he or they stands charged.
     Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the Capitol in 
Atlanta, this the Nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord, One 
Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Eight, and of the Independence of the United 
States of America, the One Hundred and Thirteenth.
J. B. GORDON, Governor
By the Governor, N.C. BARNETT, Secretary of State.


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