Newton-Jasper County GaArchives News.....DEPUTY MARSHALL KILLED December 5 1895
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Phyllis Thompson mandpthompson@bellsouth.net January 23, 2004, 9:07 pm

Georgia Enterprise
  It is reported that a Deputy Marshal, named James A. Smith, was shot with
buckshot and killed in Jasper county, near the line of Newton and not far
from Newborn, one day last week. It appears that Mr. Smith had spotted a 
distillery and perhaps emptied some of the beer, and as he was leaving the
place some one shot him. He went into that section on Tuesday and it is
supposed he was killed the same night, although his body was not found
until Saturday. The authorities in Atlanta were notified of the killing on
Sunday and sent a number of officers to the place on Monday for the purpose
of investigating the matter and trying to ascertain who did the shooting. Mr.
Smith is well known here, being a son-in-law of Mr. Edmund Horton of this
county.

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