Statewide-Dooly-Berrien County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE December 16, 1901
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Savannah Morning  News December 16, 1901
                          WILDCATS AND RATTLESNAKES
                           Nashville South Georgian
                               16 December 1901
     Messers. W. M. Griner, Billie, Harmon, Lem and Ben Gaskins, and Roland
Richardson, & Jimmy Tyson went cat hunting Monday and killed two large wild cats
and one large rattlesnake five feet long. Y=They jumped four cats in Mr. W M.
Griner's woods pasture near the house and would have killed them all,but finding
the rattlesnake at the mouth of a gopher hole, they stopped and dug him out.
Strange to say the dogs were all over the snake at one time trying to kill it,
but none were bitten. The cats killed two of Jerry Tyson's geese the night
before and after eating all they wanted they buried their remains under the
grape arbor and pulled up a wagon load of leaves on them.

                              SAVED AND INNOCENT MAN
     Vienna Vindicator: When judge Speer called the moon-shining case of J.
Randolph Phillips of Dooly county , near the line of Houston , at Macon, Friday,
Oscar Cole appeared and asked to be allowed to plead guilty of the offense
charges against Phillips. He said he was boarding with Phillips when the
distillery was being operated near the house , and when he found out the the
officers had caught up with the business he skipped out to Texas. When he found
that Phillips had been indicted and was about to be tried, he scraped enough
money together to pay his way back to Georgia to prevent the innocent man from
suffering for his crime. He said that  he was too much of a man to allow such a
thing. Judge Speer accepted his plea and sentenced him to one month in jail and
to pay $100.00. But Saturday morning at 10:30, twelve hours after he was
imprisoned, Cole was released, the judge desiring to reward him for his
commendable spirit. Phillips goes free. 

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