Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dixon, Thomas Baisden July 13, 1907
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The  Schley County News  Friday, July 19, 1907 
SHOOTING AFFRAY AT LACROSSE RESULTS IN DEATH
The LaCrosse community was thrown into a wild state of confusion on last 
Saturday night when it was generally known that Thomas Dixon, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. L.W. Dixon, had been shot and instantly killed by a band of negroes who 
at the time were unknown, also, a negro by the name of Roy Baisden was shot at 
the same time, dying from the effects of same on the following Monday.

Coroner Teel held an inquest over both bodies and the evidence brought out on 
those investigations were about as follows:

Saturday night, Mr. Dixon, in company with Baliff Jones and Messers. T.H. 
Walker, Chas. Mauk and Walter McCarrah (McGarrah?) left LaCrosse and went over 
to a piece of woods near by for the purpose of apprehending a crowd of 
negro "skinners."  The negroes happened to detect the white party before they 
had gotten close enough to see exactly what was going on and all ran off, the 
white party firing one shot as the negroes ran.

In a near by house a negro dance was in progress, and the white party 
returning home stopped by this place and it was here that Mr. Dixon became 
engaged in a difficulty with two negores, Roy Baisden and Ben Smith, the 
shooting, and his death, following as a result.

The evidence showed that Mr. Dixon was quarreling with Roy Baisden, Ben Smith 
fired upon him twice, after which a general firing began and when the smoke 
cleared away, Mr. Dixon lay dead on the ground and close by was the negro Roy 
Baisden, mortally wounded.  The negro Roy Baisden had no gun.

The evidence showed that Bunk Black just previous to the shooting ran into the 
house and called for a pistol, and forthwith went back out the door just about 
in time to reach the scene of the shooting before it occured.

The coroner's jury in the case of Mr. Dixon rendered a verdict of murder in 
the first degree and implicating Ben Smith and Bunk Black as the guilty 
parties, both of whom are now confined in the county jail.


Additional Comments:
Burial in Ellaville Cemetery.  He was 27 years old.

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