Terrell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ames, Col. November 2, 1870
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Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe, LA) November 12, 1870
Ouachita Telegraph (MONROE, LA)
Saturday, November 12, 1870
Page 1, Column 4
Killing of Col. Ames, the Showman.
	ALBANY, GA., Nov. 5. - The following are the particulars of a fatal 
affray at Dawson, Ga., on the 2nd inst., which resulted in the death of two 
men, and a lady wounded.  A man named H.R. Russell, in an intoxicated 
condition, asked the doorkeeper of a side show the price of admission and 
passed his family in and asked the doorkeeper how many.  The doorkeeper replied 
nine.  Russell said four.  The doorkeeper said he would call the family back to 
prove that Russell was mistaken.  Russell got angry and struck the doorkeeper, 
nearly knocking him down.  He then drew a pistol and threatened to blow the 
doorkeeper's brains out.  The latter said he meant no offence.  Russell, still 
threatening, cocked his pistol, and the keeper ran inside of the canvass.  
Colonel Ames, being near, approached and remarked to Russell that that was not 
the place to get up a difficulty.  Russell responded that he would kill him 
too, and shot at Col. Ames.  Another circus man remonstrated with Russell, and 
then the Kelly brothers, known as desperate characters, approached and 
commenced firing.  Col. Ames was shot twice while endeavoring to escape.  A 
spectator named Oxford, while holding a child in his arms was instantly killed, 
the child was taken from under his dead body.  The lady who was wounded was 
inside the canvass.  Col. Ames died on the afternoon of the 3d.  His body was 
escorted to Macon by the City Council of Dawson.  The men have been removed to 
Cuthbert, Ga., and confined in a secure jail.
	Col. Ames was the proprietor of the Crescent City Museum in New 
Orleans.  - ED. TELEGRAPH

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