Pike-Lamar County GaArchives News.....George Allen Arrested; Murder is Charged May 29 1903
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net May 26, 2003, 4:28 pm

Pike County Times, Zebulon, Ga.

George Allen Arrested; Murder is Charged

Sheriff J.H. Milner Wednesday evening arrested George Allen, a well known 
citizen of Piedmont, and placed him in jail here charged with the murder of 
George H. Warthen on May 19th.

Since the murder it is said the circumstances have been pointing to Allen as 
the perpetrator of the deed, but not until Wednesday did the evidence seen 
sufficient enough to authorize his arrest. Detectives have been at work on the 
case and it is said now that the proof that will be submitted is abundant and 
convincing beyond any doubt.

Allen is a middle aged man and belongs to a well-known family, who have long 
lived in that section of this county. He is very reserved in conversation and 
manner and since the murder has been at his home there. While the coroner’s 
inquest was being held, he was one of the many visitor’s present and circulated 
among the crowd, apparently as disinterested as anyone else, awaiting the 
developments that might be brought out by evidence.

The exact fact on which his arrest was made are not known to the public, but it 
is generally agreed that circumstances as known point to his guilt.

The coroner’s jury failed to place the blame on any one, but this did not meet 
the approval of the Warthen family and Detectives Connally and Scarlet were 
secured. They went to work on the case in earnest and state that they have 
secured enough evidence to convict Allen. If they have, they will secure three 
hundred dollars reward offered by the governor and three hundred by the family 
of the deceased.

Ann Frambro, a negress, was arrested as an accessory to the crime. Allen and 
the Frambro woman will employ counsel and have a commitment trial here Monday 
or Tuesday. About fifty witnesses will be on hand to testify.

[Transcribed 5/26/03 Lynn Cunningham]

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