Newton County GaArchives News.....Democratic Negro Shot November 27, 1868
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The Georgia Enterprise November 27, 1868
     On Thursday night the 19th inst., at Mr. THOMAS SHEPHERD’S plantation, 7 
miles north of Covington, _____ SQUIRE, a Negro formerly owned by EDMUND NIX, 
was making collars in his cabin, some person came to the door and knocked. He 
opened the door when a pistol was thrust in and he seized it. A struggle 
ensued, in which the pistol was fired the ball wounding SQUIRE in the jaw, and 
grazing the arm of another Negro who had come to his assistance. As SQUIRE was 
a very quiet inoffensive Negro, no cause can be assigned for the outrage, 
unless it was on account of his voting with the Democratic Party. The intruders 
were disguised, and have not yet been arrested.


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