Washington, D. C., Feb. 14. Clifford Barrington King, Jr., and James Newphew Caperton, of Rome, have successfully passed entrance examinations for admission to the West Point Military Academy and will enter the institution next month. The boys are first cousins and are nephews of J. N. King, a leading citizen of Rome. So far as is known, it is the first case on record, where two Georgia boys so closely related by blood have entered West Point in the same class. Clifford King, was appointed by Congressman Gordon Lee and James Caperton was named by Senator Bacon. [Submitted by Pam Rathbone]
A Double Lynching A Man and Woman Accused of Two Murders Taken from Jail and Hung on the Same Tree
Rome, Ga., Oct, 21. Centre, Ala., thirty six miles from this place, is in a state of Intense excitement, the result of a double lynching. Mrs. Mary Davis was one of the best known ladies in Cherokee county, Ga. Sometime ago her husband had a quarrel with one Dorsey, her uncle, and the latter forbade his wife visiting Davis's house, A few days afterward Dorsey heard that she had been at Davis's contrary to his orders, and threatened to kill both Davis and his wife. On the night of Oct. 6 Dorsey and a prostitute named Jane Ward were at Alpine drinking. On the evening In question Davis was called away from home, and a gentleman named C. C. Jones was spending the evening at his house as a guest, Dorsey was seen coming near the house. Mrs. Davis locked the doors and bared the windows to keep him out. Some time afterward Mrs. Davis came to the door and looked out, and almost at that Instant a gun was fired and she fell a corpse across her own threshold, her body perforated with slugs. Mr. Jones ran to the door for assistance and as soon as he came in range the gun was again fired and he fell in his tracks, bleeding from several wounds and died the next day, Mr. Davis returned home soon afterward and was almost stupefied by the shock.
Search was at once begun for the murderers, who were arrested and put in Jail at Centre, The murdered man, Jones, lived in Chattooga county, Georgia, and considerable bad feeling was caused by his murder. Last night, near midnight, about forty masked men, supposed to be from Chattooga county, visited the Jail and peremptorily demanded the keys from the Jailer. With forty pistols staring him in the face the Jailer delivered the keys to the leader. Dorsey and June Ward were taken a quarter of a mile from the Jail, and by the same rope both were hung from the limb of an oak tree. The bodies remained hanging until noon today.
Washington D.C. Wednesday Morning October 22, 1884
From Vernon Clipper, (Lamar County, AL), Sept 5, 1879 -
Rome (Ga) Courier: The street hands digging the sewer in the rear of Berry & Norton's yesterday unearthed the bones of some of the aborigines of Cherokee, Ga. Some of these bones crumbled at the touch of a finger, while others (the jaw bones and teeth) seemed solid and well preserved. The sight of these relics of the past made us remember a day, long gone by, when as a little boy, we sat by the bedside of a grandfather who told us the story of the battle with the Cherokee Indians at the place where Rome now stands, and showed a wound in the arm made by the first bullet from the enemy while he stood sentry on the banks of the Etowah, and how "Jack Sevier" and his Tennesseans "fought like brave men" long and well, and drove the Indians back and down the high hill at the junction.
Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
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