Atlanta Constitution, Georgia
3 April 1875

Talbotton - Three sons of Ham attempted to break jail, but were foiled. --
W. W. Baggett died on March 28th from a gunshot wound received in the left
leg just below the knee, on the 15th of February. He refused to have the
leg amputated. - Standard

Newnan - Pomp Haney and Jim Cooper, colored, were convicted of murder in
Heard Superior Court, and sentenced to be hung on the 14th of May. - Herald

Irwinton - About four miles from this town, in a southwestern direction,
the skeletons of two human beings were found some time since, in a
situation and a position, which has convinced all who viewed the bones,
that they were the victims of vengeance of Judge Lynch. They were found
some distance from the road on a small stream of water, in a thicket, and
one of them when found had a rope around its neck, and was lying under a
tree, which was probably used for a gallows. The other one was probably
shot. Persons who have examined these skeletons are of the opinion that
they are the mortal remains of two negroes, who four or five years ago
committed an assault upon a widow and her daughters by the name of Kemp,
living near there, inflicting injuries upon one of them from which she has
never recovered. He struck her a severe blow on the head with a stick,
which so injured the nervous system that sho now frequently has fits.
These negroes were arrested by an officer, and on their way to jail were
intercepted near this place by unknown parties, and the negroes taken from
him. Since that day nothing has been heard of them, and the finding of
these bones probably explains the mystery that has enshrouded their fate. - Southerner

Died in Georgia
Mrs. Fletcher Northcutt, of Cobb county.
Hugh Wooding, of Burke county.
Miss Addie Barnes, of Newnan.
G. H. Toler, of Terrell county.
Mrs. Mary G. Lang, of Macon.
E. L. Lewis, of Greene county.
Mrs. Mary T. Morrison, of Augusta.


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