Paulding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Sam 1903
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The Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, Atlanta, Georgia, July 6, 1903 
Held On Charge Of Murder. 

On a warrant charging him with murder, Arthur Gilkison, a young white man who 
has been working for the Seaboard Air Line railroad, was arrested in the city 
yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Anderson, of Paulding county, this state, and 
locked up at police barracks. Gilkison shot and killed Sam Smith, a negro 
railroad hand, in a camp 6 miles from Dallas on Saturday last. The coroner 
held an inquest and exonerated Gilkison, all the witnesses testifying that the 
shooting was accidental. Gilkison came to Atlanta yesterday morning with two 
mules and was surprised when he was arrested. The sheriff stated that he had 
witnessed the inquest and thought the matter was settled. Some relative of the 
dead negro probably swore out the warrant. Gilkison says he was cleaning a 
pistol and the hammer slipped from his fingers. The bullet went through a 
screen and struck Smith in the head, killing him instantly. 


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