Thomas Co. Georgia  Newspapers J. B. Barrow Found Not Guilty 1905

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The Schley County News  Thursday, May 4, 1905 Vol. XV No.19
ADMITTED CRIME BUT IS CLEARED
 
The jury at Thomasville, in the case of J.B. Barrow, accused of 
murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Parish, on December
29, brought in a verdict of not guilty.
 
The jury was out for fifteen hours.  Barrow is an engineer of the
Atlantic Coast Line and on the day of the tragedy attempted to
kill his wife.  Barrow had confessed the killing to several people,
and for this reason the verdict caused a sensation.