Taylor County GaArchives News.....A Strange Coincidence October 8 1886
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 41
Friday, October 8, 1886
Page One

A Strange Coincidence

A correspondent from Butler to the Montezuma Record writes:

The first execution of a condemned criminal in this county was that of Edmund, 
a slave who murdered his master James Montgomery in 1856.  William W. Wiggins 
was sheriff.  The second was the hanging of Smart Bass, colored, in Nov. 1867 
of the murder of Conductor Jake Cozatt.  William L. Wall was sheriff.  The 
third and last, the recent execution of Jesse Cook, the wife murderer, C.A.J. 
Pope, sheriff.  Soon after the first hanging, Sheriff Wiggins died.  Fifteen 
months after the second hanging Sheriff Wall died, and the more remarkable it 
was that both died in the same room in the courthouse.  In this case, the rule 
will, we trust, be broken, and our friend Pope may live long and prosperous.


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