Spalding County GaArchives News.....FIVE IN JAIL, Charged With the Murder of Dr. and Mrs. BARRETT at Creswell January 28, 1892
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The Georgia Enterprise January 28, 1892
     A telegram from Griffin, Ga., says; There were sensational developments 
Friday in the now celebrated BARRETT double murder case. Five persons were 
arrested for alleged complicity in the crime, an done of these was Mr. Will 
NUNNALLY, the grandson of Dr. and Mrs. BARRETT. The other four are Negroes. 
Naturally, therefore, the greatest interest centered in the arrest of NUNNALLY, 
it was in fact the great sensation in the case.
     Mr. NUNNALLY was carried to Atlanta, and is now in Fulton County jail. He 
strongly protests his innocence of any connection with the horrible crime.
TWO RELEASED
     A dispatch of Saturday states that CURRAN BARRETT and FELIX WATSON after a 
preliminary hearing before WALTER C. BEEKS, judge of the county court at 
Griffin, were released, as no evidence was produced to warrant their detention. 
There are yet three prisoners in custody and the officers declare that at least 
two or three are guilty of the commission of and complicity in the crime.


Additional Comments:
*See Article "Dr. Barrett and Wife Beaten to Death 1892", "The Solid South".

*The Georgia Enterprise was a Newton County Georgia Newspaper.

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