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Fuller, alias ©, R. (Dad) Davis, a li<year=old black man, arrived in
Pike Co., Ga., from Lake Butler, Pla., in Sept., 1927. On the night
of Nove 28, 1927, he waylaid Jaly Belle Davis, a respected S3aiBE

~plack former school teacher who was walking home and biudgeoned her —
_to death with a club near Union School in Pike So, He robbed the _
dead woman of $80, Fuller was suspected because he disappeared the
Dent: of the crime and he was traced to “arnesvilile where he was
__taken_ into custody bya black posse and returned to Zebulon, Gas,
where he was subsequently tried and convicted. Prior to his electro-

cution on Jan. 13, 1928, M&exXS Fuller, who had at one time been in
an insane asylum,confessed not only to killing Mrs. “avis but also _
said that he had killed a white man in Lake Butler with an ax in the

course of a $20 robbery and that he had "knocked a white womarntixk
_inthe_head" in lake Butler but did not know whether she lived or
died. He said that he was wanted at the time in Mlabama because he

killed another black and that he had "knocked a woman in the head? —
in LaGrange, Ga., but did not know whether or not she died. Ue

finally confessed that he was the man who had brutally raped any) 7”
—elderly black woman—in Barnesville shortly before-he-had killed Mrs.

| FULLER, Garfield,

Fuller, alias ©, R. (Dad) Davis, a lli-year-old black man, arrived in
Pike Co., Ga., from Lake Butler, Pla., in Sept., 1927. On the night
of Nov. 28, 1927, he waylaid Jaly Belle Davis, a respected S8eiBE
plack former school teacher who was walking home and biudgeoned her
to death with a club near Union School in Pike So, He robbed the _
dead woman of $80. Fuller was suspected because he disappeared the
night of the crime and he was traced to “arnesville where he was”
| taken into custody bya black posse and returned to Zebulon, Ga., |
where he was subsequently tried and convicted. Prior to his electro-
‘cution on Jan. 13, 1928, NKEXE Fuller, who had at one time been in
an insane _asylum,confessed not only to killing Mrs. Yavis but also
said that he had killed a white man in Lake Butler with an ax in the
- course of a $20 robbery and that he had "knocked a white womarkian
_in_the_head" in Lake Butler but_did_not know whether she lived or
died. He said that he was wanted at the time in flabama because he
“killed another black and that he had “knocked a woman in the head"
| in LaGrange, Ga., but did not know whether or not she died. He
finally confessed that he was the man who had brutally raped an
elderly biack-woman-in-Barnesville—shortly before-he had_killed Mrs.

FUILER, Garfield, bala wh ull
Puller, alias C, R, (Dad) Davis, a hl<year-old black man, arrived in
Pike Co., Ga., from Lake Butler, "1a,, in Sept., 1927. On the nigi
of Nov. 28, 1927, he ee Idly Bele Davis, a respected XSisK
lack former school teacher who was walking hone and-bludgeoned her
o death with a club near Union School in Pike Co, He robbed the
dead woman of $80, Fuller was a

taken into custody by a black posse and returned to Zebulon, (a.,

where he was subsequently tried and convicted. Prior to his electro-

cution on Jan. 13, 1928, MMEXE Tiller, who had st ong tine beon

sane. asylun,confessed wee only te kdlling Mrs, avis but also

that he had killed a 3 with an ax in the

course of @ $20 robbery aad thet need

ead! in Lake Butler but did not know

said that he was wanted at the time in flabama because he

ine another” black ant that ne -nad—"imnoo tn the “head”
LaGrange, a,, but did not know whethe: ae

finally confessed that he was the man who had brutally r

elderly black woman in Barnesville shortly before he had pitied Mrs.

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