Pike County GaArchives News.....Pike County Farmer Brutally Murdered October 8 1910
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Griffin Daily News and Sun
Pike County Farmer Brutally Murdered

William Carden Shot Down on Roadside From Buggy in Which Three Men Were Riding.

Walking along the roadside on the way to Milner to attend a Masonic meeting, 
William M. Carden was shot and instantly killed yesterday afternoon in Pike 
county, the shooting being done from a buggy in which three men were riding.
The killing occurred just below Orchard Hill, in front of the Old Pete Moore 
place, and is surrounded in mystery, nobody knowing who fired the shot which 
caused Carden’s death.
E. E. Futral and son, M. T. Crumley and a negro, who were picking cotton 
several hundred years away, heard the shots and saw Carden fall, but none of 
them recognized the men in the buggy.  It is said that after Carden fell one 
of the men, wearing a military uniform, jumped out of the buggy and going near 
the prostrate man fired another bullet into his body.
A News and Sun reporter, in company with Sheriff Phelps, Policeman Archer and 
J. P. Nichols, went to the scene of the killing in Mr. Nichols’ automobile, 
but no further particulars could be learned.  At that time the sheriff and 
coroner of Pike had been notified of the killing, but had not reached the dead 
man’s house, where he was carried in a car by Dr. C. H. Griffith shortly after 
being killed.
Carden was 63 years of age, and is survived by a wife and daughter.
Three years ago, while serving as Marshal of Milner he shot and killed Virgil 
Crawley.  He was very well thought of in Pike county, where he had resided for 
many years.
The people of Pike county seem to regret the killing of Carden, but there was 
little excitement caused by the killing.

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