Spalding-Fulton County GaArchives News.....Death of Young Hammond April 16 1856
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Empire State – Spalding County – 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 suspicious were afloat that the young man had been foully dealt 
with.  Nothing however, details at that time could be present and the matter 
was 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 Grad 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 subject, 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




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