hanged Hall County, Gae y 1880,
AN INNOCENT MAN HANGED
TAKEN FROM THE CHILTON VIEW- APRIL 3S, 1984
N. Y. HERALD.
Jackson, Ga. March 22, -- Four years ago two negroes
were arrested in Hall county charged with assaulting a
white woman. They wee tried and found quilty. QGne was
hanged and the other sent to the chain gang for life. Since
then enough evidence has een found to satisfy the
community where the crime was committed that the convicted
negroes were innocent. As the negro now in the chain gang
Was a citizen of Jackson county, the residents af that
county placed themselves before the last grand jury and
after an investigation they decided ta reques the grand
jury of Halil county to ask the Governor for the negroa’s
pardon. There is of course nao doubt But that he will be
free.
ckson county, authoritiers are also belisved to be
in yemcwdel tex ef facts which will lead tao the conviction af
imivtal who has been living all these years within a
es af thes scene of the crime and the executions. The
publicity of the present discovery has cause grea
xCitment, expecily among the ngeroces, and there is oe
doubt that lynching will follow if the citizens lears t
name of the real culprit. The crime was an aekietatiels
brutal one, the victim making a desperate fight with her
assailant. She was finally left for dead in a small patch
of woods. The unfortunate nmeaqro who was hanged died
protesting his innocence, but the circumstantial evidence
against him was so strong that his story was not credited.
The negro now in the chain gang has always protested his
innocence.
lwo NGGIOES . Kandofps Lo. Gog va.
February A&E , 1848 .
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Slave
Hanged in Muscogee County, Gae, prior to 185, for the
attempted murder of his master, Joseph McGowen. See
excerpt from HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA,
filed in Georgia = NW ~- Ltr. Files until identified,
*s0uNno0s STU e7B00T OF 9TQeUN Ue T
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Macon, Gae, 1957. Page 547-518.
“SLAVE TOMAN
he saa
SLAVE WOMAN - Georgia
"Occasionally there were difficulties with some of the
slave population. In the late 1700's a slave woman ws
hanged in Wilkes County for killing her master. Had the
situation been handled more fairly, she probably would
have been found to have quite valid reason for her
crime and the penalty lessened. However, John Mills, the
victim, was a prominent man and to avoid scandal as much
as possible, the Negro was speedily hangedoee" NO JUBILEE:
The Story of Confederate Wilkes by Robert M. eee
Jres Washington, Gaet Wilkes Publishing Company, 19763
page 53.
(liacon County, Georgia)
"It just occurred to me that I once heard of a really sris-
ly tale that concerned Oglethorpe. This one is about the
execution of a slave and I don't know where we would find
a record of it. A family owned several slaves, among them
a nurse and a cook, One of the babies died of poison,
the accused and hanged the cook, Then the other child
nearly died and they discovered that it had been the nurse 1
who did the poisoning, BUT, they could not AFFORD to lose
the money involved in IU slaves, so the SOLD the nurse
'down the river! -to Nississippig=- where, probably, she
vent on poisoning kids, Lovely tale!"
Ltr, dtd. July 18, 1982, from Violet Moore, 72 North
Dooly Street, Hontezuma, Ga,, 31063,
SLAVE WOMAN - Georgia
"Occasionally there were difficulties with some of the slave
population. In the late 1700's a slave woman was hanged in Wilkes
County for killing her master. Had the situation been handled more
fairly, she probably would have been found to have quite a valid
reason for her crime and the penalty lessened. However, John Mills,
the victim, was a prominent man and to avoid scandal as much as
possible, the Negro was speedily hanged..." NO JUBILEE: The Story of
Confederate Wilkes by Robert M. Willingham, Jr.; Washington, Ga.:
Wilkes Publishing Company, 1976; page 53.
SLAVE WOMAN
"It just occurred to me that I once heard of a really grisly tale
that concerned Oglethorpe. This one is about the execution of a
slave and I don't know where we would find a record of it. A family
owned several slaves, among them a nurse and a cook. One of the
babies died of poison, they accused and hanged the cook. Then the
other child nearly died and they discovered that it was the nurse who
did the poisoning. BUT, they could not AFFORD to lose the money
involved in TWO slaves, so they SOLD the nurse ‘down the river' - to
Mississippi - where, probably, she went on poisoning kids. Lovely
tale!"
Ltr. dtd. July 18,1982, from Violet Moore, 472 North Dooly Street,
Montezuma, Ga., 31063.
SLAVE WOMAN
(Jones County, Ga.)
"During the Civil War, Perry Finney and his family lived in
Clinton, and a Negro woman whom had cooked for them some time, put
poison in their food and the whole family was very sick. Fortunately
they all recovered except one child who died. The Negro was
arrested, tried and sentenced to be hung. She was in Macon jail,
when Wilson's army came at the close of the war. The jail at Clinton
had been burned by Sherman and only the four rock walls were
standing. Sheriff Smith brought her to Clinton for the hanging and
stationed guards all around the walls to keep the couriosity seekers
out. As the trap was sprung a negro man who had climbed up in a high
pine tree over the enclosure, fell out of the tree to the ground and
there was considerable excitement." HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY, GA., by
Carolyn White Williams. Published, The J. W. Burke Co., Macon, Ga.,
1957. Page 547-548.
BLACK. MArd hanged Cartersville, GA 11/1/1867
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A Necro Huna.—The negro man who was
under sentence of death for killing his fellow-
man, in the neighborhood of Adairsville, in this
county, and who was sentenced to have been
hung some two orthree months ago, but was
respited twice by Gen. Pope, during which
time he escaped jail, and was subsequently re-
arrested, euffered the extreme penalty of the
law, in this place, by hanging, on Jast Friday.
The way of the transgressor ts hard.
: (Cartersville Express.
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