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Pistols and Knives. Serious Cutting Affray at Danielsville Madison County
Athens, Feb. 19 Special—A special tonight from Danielsville, Madison County, tells of a bloody affair which happened Saturday night at the home of Mr. Norman Hardman, near that place.
It seems that Walter Hardman was concerned in a disturbance about to arise when Norman tried to prevent any unpleasantness, where upon Walter began cursing Norman. Soon pistols and knives were drawn and a fight ensued. Both parties were badly cut and bruised. Bad blood has existed between them for some time.
Date: 1891-02-20; Paper: Macon Telegraph

Danielsville Has Future Evidently Destined to Become Town of Importance Much Already Done to Improve the Place
From the accounts which have been brought to Anaconda from Danielsville, the mining camp recently brought into prominence by reason of the gold mint discovered there, that place Is surely declined to grow Into a town of considerable Importance. At the present time a large force of carpenters is busy at work preparing for the erection of the new mill there. For some time but much grading for the plant has been done, and It Is thought that the mill will be ready for operation In the Course of the next few months.
Local residents returning from Danielsville to Anaconda say that In the past few months much has been done to convert the camp Into the semblance of a town. When the first houses were built at Danielsville there were no streets and on all side were trees and stumps. Now there are several well defined thoroughfares there and the forest has been cleared away for a considerable distance.
It Is also probable that when sufficient ore has been taken out of the mines and run through the mill to make the undertaking worth while a railroad spur will be built from the Race Track station to the town.
Date: 1902-10-06; Paper: Anaconda Standard

Negro Attacker Hanged To Tree at Colbert Farm
Body Found Few Hours Before Opening Of Danielsville Trial
Roystone. 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 Danielsville on charges of attempting to assault a white girl and attacking two peace officers.
W. A. Dickerson, 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 (sic) 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

Big Still Captured In Madison County
Danielsville — Federal, state and county officials raided a big still in Madison County Tuesday night and arrested six men, Sheriff Dewey Seagraves reported Wednesday.
The raiders poured out about 120 gallons of liquor and 6.000 gallons of mash and confiscated a pickup truck. They demolished a 165-gallon steam boiler and other moon-shining gear.
Seagraves identified the men captured in the raid as Joseph C. McLeigbton, about 38, of near Clayton; Donald Lee Dixon, about 22, also from near Clayton; George Smith Jr., about 30, of near Clarkesville; Willie D. Allen, 23, and James Whitehead, about 30. of Athens, and Bud Newton, 72, of near Danielsville
Officers said the still was located about 2 1/2 miles southeast of Danielsville
Date: 1958-04-10; Paper: Marietta Journal

Aged Judge Stops Mob Leaves Sick Bed to Keep Crowd from Storming Prison
Danielsville Ga., April 11 A 74-year-old Georgia judge left his sick bed today to quell with a dramatic gesture a mob storming the jail where a Negro accused of attacking a white girl and wounding two officers was held.
As a six-truck motor convoy of national guardsmen sped here to rescue the prisoner, Judge Berry T. Moseley, gray-haired veteran of the northern superior court district, aroused from an illness at
his home, pushed through the crowd and mounted the jail steps.
"The judge warned that he knew many of the crowd.
In a dramatic plea to let the law take its course, he promised a special term of court to handle the case, Then turning to Sheriff T. L. Henley he shouted:
"I call on all good citizens to have themselves deputized. Mr. Sheriff I authorize you to deputize these men to see the law is obeyed."
As the sheriff deputized approximately one hundred, citizens, the mob quieted and began to fall back.
A short time later, the guardsmen arrived from Gainesville, formed a cordon about the jail, backed a truck to the entrance and sped away with the prisoner to Athens, 16 miles away.
The prisoner, listed by Sheriff Henley as Lint Shaw, 45, was shot and seriously wounded by officers after he had attacked them with a knife. One of the officers, Police Chief E. A. Elder of Colbert, was sent to an Athens hospital with a stab wound in the lung.
Date: 1936-04-12; Paper: Omaha World Herald

Negro, Once Saved by Judge Plea, Lynched by Georgians
Roystone, Ga., Tuesday. April 28.—Lint Shaw, Negro farmer, once saved from lynching through the pleas of an aged judge, was shot to death by a mob of forty men eight hours before he was to go to trial on a charge of attempted criminal assault.
His body was found at dawn today, tied to a pine tree in a creek bottom near Colbert. Ga., his home.
Death at Crime Scene
He died at the scene where two white girls reported he attempted to attack them after their automobile broke down April 10.
Climaxing a series of demonstrations against the 45-year-old Negro which once required the intervention of National Guardsmen, the mob broke into Royston's one-story jail about midnight, cornered Night Chief of Police W. A Dickerson and smashed a lock on the prisoner's cell.
"I couldn't see exactly what happened," Chief Dickerson said. "They just told me they wanted the Negro. He didn't say a word when they dragged him out."
Shaw first was taken to jail at Danielsville, Ga., after his arrest on the girls' complaint. En route he stabbed the officers and was shot twice in return.
A mob of 100 men formed there and battered some bricks from the jail in an attempt to reach him.
Judge Stopped One Mob
Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley, 74, left a sickbed to warn the throng against a lynching, and deterred the leaders until a National Guard unit, rushed to that city from tornado emergency duty at Gainesville, took the Negro in custody.
From Danielsville Shaw was taken to Atlanta and he was returned to Danielsville last night to await trial before Judge Moseley, but a threatening crowd caused Sheriff Henley to move him to this city.
Inflamed citizens learned of the transfer, followed and captured Shaw.
Date: 1936-04-28; Paper: Seattle Daily Times

Big Still Captured In Madison County
Danielsville — Federal, state and county officials raided a big still in Madison County Tuesday night and arrested six men, Sheriff Dewey Seagraves reported Wednesday.
The raiders poured out about 120 gallons of liquor and 6.000 gallons of mash and confiscated a pickup truck. They demolished a 165-gallon steam boiler and other moonshining gear.
Seagraves identified the men captured in the raid as Joseph C. McLeigbton, about 38, of near Clayton; Donald Lee Dixon, about 22, also from near Clayton; George Smith Jr., about 30, of near Clarkesville; Willie D. Allen, 23, and James Whitehead, about 30. of Athens, and Bud Newton, 72, of near Danielsville
Officers said the still was located about 2 1/2 miles southeast of Danielsvilfe
Date: 1958-04-10; Paper: Marietta Journal