Newton County GaArchives News.....FOUL ASSASSINATION May 10, 1888
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The Georgia Enterprise May 10, 1888
     Marcus Osborn, colored, who drives the Oxford hack, was shot in the back 
of the head, at the Covington depot, Monday night, and instantly killed. The  
perpetrator of the foul deed is, as yet, unknown. While resting in the driver’s 
seat on the carriage, awaiting the Accommodation train, a pistol was placed 
near his head and fired with fatal effect, after which the assassin fled. A 
thorough investigation of the affair is being had and nothing will be left 
undone to find the guilty wretch. 
Marcus was accommodating and polite and had many friends who will deplore his 
tragic fate. We learn that he was mixed up with a “woman affair” sometime 
since, but of course do not know that this had anything whatever to do with his 
assassination.


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