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County, Georgia News Articles
SHERIFF ARRESTS BAD NEGRO
He is Wanted in Georgia
for Murder
Gaffney, S. C. Sept.
9.—Sheriff Thomas Saturday morning captured a negro named Walter
Jordan, who is wanted in Georgia for murder. Jordan killed Jhon Tensley
in Hart county. Ga.. July 15th. 1905. and has been at large since that
time. A reward of $100 was offered by the Governor of Georgia for his
arrest and conviction. Sheriff. Thomas received information Friday
night about 7 o'clock that Jordan was at the Ninety-Nine Islands on
Broad river, and early Saturday morning he went there and effected the
capture without difficulty. Jordan says that he is not the man wanted,
although he answers perfectly to the description. Sheriff Thomas is
expecting the officers from Georgia today to carry Jordan back to that
State.
Date: 1907-09-10;
Paper: Charlotte Observer
NEGRO ATTACKER HANGED TO TREE
AT COLBERT FARM
Body Found Few Hours
Before Opening Of Danielsville Trial
ROYSTON. Ga.. April
28.—(UP) Lint Shaw, 50. negro, who escaped being; lynched when a
74-year-old judge deputized a mob at Danielsville April 11. was hanged
today by a mob which broke into the jail here.
His limp body was found
near Colbert, hanging from a tree, just a few hours before he was to go
to trial at Danielville on charges of attempting to assault a
white girl and attacking two peace officers.
W. A. Dlckerson, night
police chief here, said 40 men came in cars about midnight and demanded
that he surrender the keys to the Jail. Shaw had been taken here when
feeling became tense at Danielsville where he was taken last night
preparatory for the trial.
Bullet wounds were in
Shaw's body which was found hanging near the scene where he allegedly
attempted to attack a white girl April 10. It is believed members of
the mob shot at him after he was strung up.
An inquest is to be held
at Danielsville.
Dickerson told how 40
mobsters drove up to the city jail here about midnight.
"I was alone and epecting
trouble so I had hid my keys," he told the United Press.
"Some of them grabbed me
and began searching me. When they couldn't find the keys, some of them
stood by me and the others went to the Jail.
Date: 1936-04-28;
Paper: Marietta Journal
SHERIFF ARRESTS BAD NEGRO
He is Wanted in Georgia
for Murder
Gaffney, S. C. Sept.
9.—Sheriff Thomas Saturday morning captured a negro named Walter
Jordan, who is wanted in Georgia for murder. Jordan killed John Tensley
in Hart county. Ga.. July 15th. 1905. and has been at large since that
time. A reward of $100 was offered by the Governor of Georgia for his
arrest and conviction. Sheriff. Thomas received information Friday
night about 7 o'clock that Jordan was at the Ninety-Nine Islands on
Broad river, and early Saturday morning he went there and effected the
capture without difficulty. Jordan says that he is not the man wanted,
although he answers perfectly to the description. Sheriff Thomas is
expecting the officers from Georgia today to carry Jordan back to that
State.
Date: 1907-09-10;
Paper: Charlotte Observer
Man Beaten to Death in
Greenville Identified as Georgian
Greenville. S. C. Jan.
6.—The body of the man beaten almost to death on the night of December
21 was positively Identified here tonight as that of Wesley Russell, by
his brother R. L. Russell of Hart county.Ga. Russell died from the
effects of his wounds on Christmas Eve and his body has been held for
Identification. He will be buried here tomorrow.
Date: 1910-01-07; Paper:
Charlotte Observer
The late Mrs. Ally Sniper
resided so Iong in Hart county, Ga. that when she died at the
advanced age of 104 years, the local papers spoke of her in the
familiar terms of "Grandmother Sniper."
Date: 1873-08-30;
Paper: San Francisco Bulletin
Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of
Hart county, Ga. tells stories of the Revolutionary war. She is 107
years of age, and still in splendid health, retaining all her faculties.
Date: 1880-09-15;
Paper: New Orleans Item
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