Washington County GaArchives News.....Tragedy Occurs In City of Tennille October 1926
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Sandersville Progress October 1926
Tom Hartley Killed By Load of Buckshot. Difficulty Arose About Finanical 
Affairs In Connection With Farmers and Merchants Bank.
  The news rapidly spread Friday afternoon that Mr. Thomas H. Hartley, a well 
known farmer who lived near Tennille. Earlier in the day, Mr. Hartley had 
called to see Mr. T.W. Price at the Farmers and Merchants Bank about some 
finanical transaction, and became enraged, threatening to kill Mr. Price. 
Attempts were made by the Hartley family to get him quiet, but without avail. 
Later he went to his home and came back with Mr. John Lindsey. They had a rifle 
in the car and it is reported that they rode through the streets rapidly. Some 
of the citizens of Tennille were apprehensive that a tragedy was impending and 
made a call over the telephone to Sheriff B.A. English to come over and make 
arrests, but Sheriff English was not at home at the time, and his son, Deputy 
Sheriff Teddy English, responded. Night Marshal M.B. English of Tennille, who 
is not related to the family of the Sheriff, accompanied the deputy sheriff in 
a car and they pursued the car in which Hartley and Lindsey were riding. It is 
reported that when the two cars were near each other, a short distance from the 
Confederate monument, Lindsey reached back and picked up the rifle, when J.B. 
English, riding on the running board, fired a load of buckshot at Hartley, 
killing him instantly and wounding Lindsey in the shoulder. The car kept on its 
course and crashed into the glass in front of the Tennille Drug Company.
  Warrents were sworn out for J.B. English, charging him with murder, and John 
Lindsey charging him with minor offenses and both are now inmates of the 
Washington County jail. It is probable that a preliminary trial will be held 
sometime this week, but the time had not been fixed before this article was 
prepared for print.
  Mr. Hartley was a man of genial and friendly disposition and was well liked 
by those who knew him. The news of this tragic death was a shock to the entire 
county. He was the son of Mr. J.T. Hartley, one of Washington County's best 
citizens.

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