Newton County GaArchives News.....Stephen Morris, Poisoned May 23 1884
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The Georgia Enterprise
  A negro by the name of Stephen Morris died suddenly at his home near the depot
on the night of the 14th. Next morning his wife, Nancy, being in so great a 
hurry to have him buried, aroused suspicion, and an inquest was held over the 
body. The testimony indicated that the dead man had been poisoned, and the jury
decided upon a post mortem examination. Dr. Douglas removed the heart and 
stomach and turned the same over to Prof. Bonnell, of Emory College, for 
analysis. Enough arsenic was discovered to kill half a dozen men, and the wife
of the deceased is in jail charged with the murder, while one of her lovers, a 
railroad negro by the name of Dan Lyons, is imprisoned as the party who 
furnished the arsenic and aided and influenced her to administer the deadly 
drug. The husband and wife were not on friendly terms and the evidence 
disclosed the fact that she had threatened his life only a few days before his 
death. The colored people generally are anxious for a trial of both the 
prisoners and if found guilty nothing short of hanging will satisfy them. The 
affair is to be regreted, and we have only stated the case as we understand it, 
purposely avoiding to record it in a sensational manner.

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