Whitfield County GaArchives News.....Farmer Is Waylaid And Shot To Death November 21, 1913
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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal November 21, 1913
Dalton, Ga., Nov. 20 -- At 6:30 o'clock last night, within less than two hours 
after a sheriff's posse with bloodhounds took the trail of the murderer of 
Joseph Pritchett, W. I. Humphrey, a renter on Pritchett's farm, was in jail 
here charged with the crime, which has shocked the entire section because of 
its atrociousness.

Not only was Pritchett ambushed, but his murderer waited until his prospective 
victim had turned his back to a patch of briars behind which he was hiding, 
before firing a charge from a shotgun into his head.

Mr. Pritchett, who was one of this county's well-to-do and most highly esteemed 
farmers, left home at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, going into the woods for a 
load of wood.  His protracted absence caused a search and his body was found at 
4 o'clock, about two hours after he was killed.  The charge of shot entered the 
back of his head, and produced instant death.

Officers reached the scene at 5 o'clock and the trail was quickly picked up by 
bloodhounds.  The murderer had headed southward toward this city and the trail 
was lost on the road where he had mounted a mule.

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