Aiken County ScArchives Obituaries.....Ashley, Jake March 17, 1883
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The Aiken Reporter 27 March 1883
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Assassination in Barwell.

A correspondent of the News and Courier, writing from Ellenton under the date of 
March 17th says: I have just heard of a murder committed last week on Mr. George 
Boyd's place in Barnwell County, a few miles below the Aiken County line. A 
negro man by the name of Jake Ashley was shot while lying asleep in bed in his 
house and killed. He was riddled with buckshot and loved four hours after the 
shooting. The shooting was done at night by some unknown parties. Tracks around 
the building indicated that four persons took a hand in the work, and some 
parties who heard the shooting say that six shots were fired. Ashley was a 
notorious character, a professional house-breaker. He was tried last fall in 
Barnwell for breaking into a smoke-house, but was acquitted. While he was in 
jail his wife ran away with a turpentine hand working in the neighborhood, so he 
only had his children with him, and one of them was in bed with him when he was 
shot. The child was unhurt. No clue to the guilty parties have been discovered.

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