Pike County GaArchives News.....J.B. Wood Shot In Altercation With Bryant Bottoms April 15, 1932
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The Pike County, Journal April 15, 1932

City Marshall J.B. Wood, of Williamson, remains in the Strickland Memorial 
Hospital, Griffin, improved but in a somewhat serious condition as the result 
of an argument with Mr. Bryant Bottoms, of near Williamson, climaxing what is 
said to be a four-year-old feud.

It is stated that Mr. Bottoms and Mr. Wood met Sunday morning a few minutes 
before nine o’clock and their differences were renewed which resulted in the 
shooting of Mr. Wood twice, once through the abdomen, the bullet puncturing 
the large intestine and the bladder, passing completely through his body. The 
second bullet making a flesh wound in the right side.

Mr. Wood was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance where an x-ray revealed 
the extent of his injuries. An emergency operation was performed and Mr. Wood 
is reported to be doing nicely.

Mr. Bottoms made no effort to escape, but calmly awaited the arrival of 
Sheriff Shackleford who was notified and reached Williamson within eight 
minutes after being notified of the shooting. Bottoms was placed in jail at 
Zebulon where he is being held on a blanket charge awaiting the outcome of the 
affair.

Mr. Bottoms has retained Mr. C.A. Byars as his attorney who has advised him to 
issue no statement regarding the affair but who, himself has made the 
statement that “my investigation of the case thus far shows that the shooting 
was justifiable.”

Witnesses state that Mr. Wood and Mr. Bottoms met near the store of Mr. Cade 
Scott, I Williamson, and that after a few apparently heated words Mr. Bottoms 
whipped out his pistol and fired three times in rapid succession, one bullet 
gong wild. After this, Mr. Wood has alleged to walk up to Mr. Bottoms and 
knocked him down, striking him with his closed fist.

Another version reaching The Journal is that Mr. Wood first slapped Mr. 
Bottoms with his open hand and after having been struck and while staggering 
and off balance Mr. Bottoms then drew his pistol and fired, the first bullet 
going wild, the second striking Mr. Wood in the right side and the third 
entered his abdomen.


Additional Comments:

John Bradley Wood was a son of Josiah Hick Wood and Pocahontas T. Phillips. 
His father was born in Pike County, but moved to Texas circa 1870. In 1889 he 
moved his family back to Pike County. He was married to Bessie L. Dickinson, 
daughter of Clark Alexander Dickinson and Collie Jackson.


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