Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....May 1883 

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Negro Horse-Thief Shot and Mortally Wounded. 
(Special telegram to the Dispatch.) 

  PETERSBURG, VA., May 3.- Mr. John J. Bryant, of Southampton county, who was 
robbed of a horse and buggy on Tuesday night by a Negro supposed to have come 
from North Carolina, overtook the thief near Hawkinsville, in Sussex county. 
The negro jumped from the buggy and took to the woods.  Mr. Bryant followed, 
and shot him twice with a shot-gun.  Sixteen buck-shot entered the negro's 
body.  He cannot recover. 


"The Richmond (VA) Dispatch," May 4, 1883 (Vol. 63, No. 106), 
   p. 3, col. 2 


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