Pike County GaArchives News.....All The Way From Pike October 19, 1881
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The Macon Telegraph And Messenger October 19, 1881

Barnesville, October 18. - The sun is very oppressive, and great is the 
complaint of hot weather. A refreshing shower settled the dust here about dark 
last evening.

Pike’s two weeks' court accomplished very little. Only a small amount of 
criminal business was transacted. Although there were four murder cases on 
docket, not one was tried. All were continued. The State vs. Wm. Respess was 
continued on account of the severe illness of Mrs. Respess, whose sufferings 
are great. The State vs. Amon Cariker, charged with murdering D.S. Barker in 
1878, was sounded, but for some reason continued. Cariker was arrested lately 
in Alabama by Pike's sheriff, W.P. Bussey. J.W. Rogers is charged with 
murdering one James M. Smith in 1875. Sheriff Bussey, three weeks ago, 
arrested Rogers in Tennessee. W.W. Brown, charged with murdering a negro in 
1870, was tried last year and found guilty, with a recommendation of mercy, 
and sentenced, but has since obtained a new trial. Brown was arrested by 
Bussey in Texas.

In this connection permit me to say that Pike has the most efficient sheriff, 
perhaps, in the state. Sheriff Bussey lets no guilty man escape. It matters 
not whether violators of the State's penal code remain in the State or out of 
it, he finds them and brings them to the bar of Pike’s court. Sheriff is more 
of a terror to lawless men than is our judge or court, and is worth more to 
the county in quelling violent lawlessness.

The case of the State vs. Henry Jones, of Spalding, for raping a negro girl 
eleven years old, was on trial three or four days. Jones is a white man, 
twenty-five years of age, and a stone cutter in Griffin. A verdict of an 
assault with intent to rape was rendered, and Jones sentenced to six years.

A young man was tried and found guilty of disturbing divine worship at Bluff 
Springs camp meeting last summer, and fined twenty five dollars and costs. He 
engaged in a fight with three or four other youths partly drunk and partly 
fool.

Last week a little white boy, whose parents live near Milner, was suffocated 
to death in a pile of sed cotton. He was playing on the pile, and, making a 
hole therein, fell head foremost into it, and before he was discovered died of 
suffocation. He was fleshy and about three years old. His mother was in an 
adjoining room, but did not hear his dying cries. It was a very sad and very 
unusual occurrence.

One of Barnesville's butchers carried a drove of cattle to Atlanta at the 
opening of the exposition, but, finding beeves so cheap and plentiful there, 
actually brought a part of his cattle back, being unable to sell them at 
anything like a reasonable price. - Kieke

[Transcribed 8/23/2007 Lynn Cunningham]


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