Oconee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thurmond, Guy J. 1925
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Oconee Enterprise
Oconee Enterprise
Friday, May 15, 1925
Page One

Mrs. G.S. Bowman Kills Thurmond Tuesday Morning
   Mr. G.S. Bowman, whose husband was shot down last November on the
streets of Statham by Guy J. Thurmond, Tuesday morning encountered her
husband's assailant in front of the Bank of Statham and shot him dead. 
Mrs. Bowman fired five shots into tre (sic) body of Thurmond before he
crumpled in the street mortally wounded as a dozen or more dazed
eye-witnesses looked on.
   Mrs. Bowman is said by neighbors to have been almost crazed at times
and always brooding over the death of her husband at Thurmond's hands
and that Tuesday's shooting is but the result of her state of mind.
   About 9:15 o'clock, just five minutes before the northbound S.A.L.
local was due at the station, Mrs. Bowman met Thurmond on the main
street, in front of the Bank of Statham which closed its doors a few
days ago, and asked him about her husband's pistol which she had never
been able to recover since he was shot last fall by Thurmond.  Eye
witnesses stated that Thurmond replied, with a smile, that he supposed
the sheriff had it.  "I know he hasn't because I have asked him," she
replied.  With the remark the angered woman pulled a thirty-eight
calibre (sic) pistol and began firing at Thurmond at close range. 
Thurmond turned and ran into the store of H.E. Beddingfield but Mrs.
Bowman followed him to the door and continued shooting until she had
fired five shots.  Two of the shots struck Thurmond in the right chest,
two in the back and one in the arm.  After entering the store Thurmond
wheeled about and ran out again and as he passed Mrs. Bowman she
snapped the gun at him again, but all the bullets were spent.  The
fatally wounded man staggered into the street less than ten feet from
where the first shot was fired and fell dead.  Mrs. Bowman calmly
turned and walked back down the street until she met the chief of
police, Sam Wall, who was at the depot to meet the train, and her
brother, D.T. Hammond.  She was taken into a store nearby and in a few
minutes was taken to Barrow county jail at Winder.


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