Spalding-Fulton-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hutchinson, Paul February 21, 1930
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, FEBRUARY 27, 1930

FLAGMAN SLAIN BY MAIL CLERK

Griffin, Ga., Feb. 21st

Paul Hutchinson of Atlanta, a flagman on the Southern Railway, died in 
Strickland Memorial Hospital here early today from gunshot wounds suffered 
in a fight aboard a Columbus to Atlanta train, with W.W. Fowler, mail clerk 
of College Park, yesterday. Fowler, according to the official version of the 
shooting, fired at Hutchinson when the latter allegedly attempted to kill 
him with a hatchet. The fight occurred in a mail car and was witnessed by 
J.J. Keegar, baggage master. Fowler is held pending an inquest.

Cause of the fight was said to have been a long standing feud between the 
two men, growing out of bitterness engendered in a clash of authority 
between government mail clerk and train crews. Heated words were exchanged 
between the two men on the trip as far as here, climaxed by the shooting. 
Hutchinson had accused Fowler of threatening his life.

Fowler's version of the affair was that he slammed the mailcar door in 
Hutchinson's face when the latter attempted to hurl the hatchet at him, that 
another heavy object crashed into the door and when he saw Hutchinson 
advancing upon him, he fired three times in self defense. Previously he 
admitted he had told Hutchinson, "you didn't have me arrested did you?" when 
the train stopped here. That was said to have started the final bitterness 
which ended in the hatchet throwing and the shooting.


Additional Comments:
Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 
Name: Paul H Hutchinson 
Death Date: 21 Feb 1930 
County of Death: Spalding  
Certificate: 4876  

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