Spalding County GaArchives News.....Amos W. Hammond, Jr. – Death of Young Hammond April 16, 1856
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Empire State – Spalding County Georgia April 16, 1856
Our readers will remember the horrible death of Amos W. Hammond, Jr., who was 
found on the morning of Christmas last, affixed to the cow catcher of the 
passenger engine of the Macon & Western Railroad.   We stated in our notice of 
the affair that suspicions were afloat that the young man had been foully dealt 
with.  Nothing, however definite at that time could be proven and the matter 
has remained to the present a mystery to those who believed otherwise, than 
that his death was the result of an accident.   At length, however, after the 
lapse of three months, the question of young Hammond’s death has been 
revived.   We learn that a woman by the name of Taylor appeared before the 
Grand Jury on Tuesday, and charged two men, by the name of Taylor and Harrison, 
and a woman by the name of Davis with the murder of Hammond.   We have not 
learned the nature of her testimony, it was sufficient, however to induce the 
Grand Jury to find true bills against all the parties.    The woman Davis, has 
been arrested, Taylor succeeded in escaping, after being shot at by the 
Sheriff.  Harrison we learn is in jail at Chattanooga.

The entire matter will soon undergo the investigation of a regular trial, when 
we will inform our readers of the result.  Atlanta Intelligency.


Week of April 16,1856


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