Date | Victim | Charged, Suspect, Accessory | Notes |
1806 | Capt.
Rogers, white
of Hancock County |
Isaac Monroe, white
Robert Case, white Barney Pare, white |
found guilty, recommended to mercy. sentenced to be hanged at Hillsborough (court house of Baldwin, in current Putnam Co.) on Aug 23, 1806. Farmer's Gazette 8-23-1806 |
1806 | ___Stephens, white | J. W. Stephens, white
J. Stephens, white brothers |
Found guilty of manslaughter in killing their brother. Punishment was burning in the hand. Augusta Chronicle Aug 30, 1806 |
June 1807 | Peyton T. Smith, white | Two Slaves | Shot while at supper. Slaves hung. Augusta Chronicle July 4, 1807 |
Sep 1819 | Capt. John Troutman, white | Unknown | Shot while in bed. Baltimore Patriot October 21, 1819 |
Apr 23, 1825 | Raymond Knapp, white | Mr. Macumber, white | Knapp was killed with knife in affray. Macumber excaped, turned himself in June. Not charged. American Mercury May 3, 1825 |
July 1826 | Reuben Bradford Goodwin, white | Henry R. Rogers, white | Stabbed Rogers, Govenor's award. Augusta Chronicle July 15, 1826. |
Dec 1826 | Pulaski,
white
Moffitt, white |
Penitentiary guards | Shot while escaped from the penitentiary. Augusta Chronicle 12-20-1826 |
Nov 30, 1832 | Elenor Bustin, white | John A. Johnson, white | Bustin was Johnson's 13 yr old sister-in-law found hung, Johnson found guilty - circumstantial evidence. Hung Nov. 22, 1833. He maintained his innocence til death. Southern Patriot Nov. 29, 1833 |
Dec 1832 | Lemuel Smith, white | William Flournoy, white | Flournoy shot Smith in self defence, trial of 1834 he was found not guilty. Southern Patriot Dec 18, 1832; Nashville Banner March 7, 1834 |
Nov 1833 | Henry C. Byrom, white | Robert McComb, white | Macon Weekly Telegraph, Nov 21, 1833; Dec. 18, 1833. For more details see Remembering Milledgeville by Hugh T. Harrington |
1835 | Martin Smith, white | Jackson Mahon, white | 18 yr old Mahon was convicted on circumstantial evidence, sentenced to penitentiary for life. Pardoned by legislature Dec. 1840. Ga. Telegraph Aug 13, 1835 |
1839 | Green B. Musslewhite, white | John L. Ragsdale, white | Self defense Georgia Journal, July 16, 1839 |
1839 | Mr. Searcy, white | Josiah Thompson, white | defending his mother, got 2 years for manslaughter. Georgia Journal, July 23, 1839 |
July 8, 1841 | Richard H. Sanford, white | William Harris, white | Georgia Journal, Federal Union July 13, 1841 |
Nov 20, 1841 | Mansel J. Smith, white | George W. Searcy
William Searcy |
Affray Macon Weekly Telegraph Nov. 23, 1841; April 12, 1842 |
Oct 26 1842 | John A Deane, white | Cicero Buffington, white | Deane, clerk of Inferior Court was stabbed to death. Milledgeville Recorder Nov 1, 1842 |
Nov 4, 1844 | Thomas K. Fuller, white | William Searcy, white | Georgia Journal Nov 12, 1844 |
Mar 1851 | Mrs Amy G. Wright, white | James Johnson. white | Found guilty, sentenced to hang, pardoned
Nov. 1851. Federal Union
Sep 2, 1851 |
Apr 3 1852 | John Sherisch, white | Mortimer Sullivan, white
John Mabar, white |
Southern Recorder Apr 6, 20, 1852 |
Jan 11 1854 May 1862 |
William
A. Ralston, white Jesse Balcom, white |
Archibald Hunt of Albany, white W. J. Evans, white |
Previous difficulties & accusation of
cheating, Hunt shot Ralston in front of McComb's Hotel. The Georgia
Telegraph Jan 17, 1854 (Hunt was acquitted.) Killed in a rencounter at Treanor's Mill. Southern Recorder, May 13, 1862 . |
1866 | Elias Mahon, white | Green Williams, black | Sentenced to life in prison. June 5 1866, Sept 4, 1866, Federal Union |
1866 | Boling Hall, black | Thomas Simpson, white | Stabbed several times, Simpson found not guilty. Southern Recorder June 12, Sep 4, 1866 |
1866 | W A Roberson, white | John R Strother, white | Southern Recorder Apr 10, 1866 |
July 4, 1868 | Andrew McCrary, white | Joseph H. Tucker, white | Shot 4 times. Tucker acquitted. Southern Recorder Jul 7, 1868, Federal Union Nov 25. 1868 |
Aug 14, 1868 | Newton J. Pugh, white | John T. Arnold, white | Southern Recorder Aug 18, 1868; Aug 24, 1869; Aug 31. The Journal of Archibald McKinley Aug 1869, found guilty of voluntary manslaughter |
April 1869 | Louisiana/Susannah Dumas, black | Charles Mathis/Matthews, white | Southern Recorder Apr 6, 13 1869, Federal Union & Southern Recorder Nov 16, 1869 ; Federal Union Mar 08, 1870 Found not guilty |
Sep 1869 | Henry Trotmore, black | J. Pickney Mimms, white | Shot Trotmore who was employed by T. J. Bivins in the western part of county. Sep 14, 1869 Federal Union |
Nov 11 1869 | Dick Williams, black | George Hollinshead, white | Federal Union & Southern Recorder Nov 16, 1869 ; The Journal of Archibald McKinley Nov 1869, Macon Telegraph Mar 15, 1870 Found not guilty, justifiable homicide |
April 1870 | Mr. Brickett/James J. Bricquet | James A. P. Robson, white | Brickett, overseer was shot Mr Robson. March 18, March 22 and April 19, 1870 Georgia Weekly Telegraph. |
Sept 1870 | Simon Greer, black | Berry Williams, black | Justifiable homicide. Sep 20, 1870. Macon Weekly Telegraph |
July 3, 1871 | Capt. Lewis
H. Kenan,
white |
John R. Strother, white | In April 1871 Kenan shot at Strother with a shotgun in front of Moore & Co's Store; In May 1871 an attempt to set the house of Kenan on fire was made. On July 3, 1871 Strother shot and killed Kenan. Strother disappeared and was was killed by unknowns in Louisiana in Nov. 1888, his body riddled with buckshot. Georgia Weekly Telegraph May 23,1871, May 30 1871, July 6, 1871, Daily Columbus Enquirer July 13 1871;Dallas Morning News Nov 22, 1888. For more details see Remembering Milledgeville by Hugh T. Harrington |
Jun 1871 | Sam Jones, black | Jim Nelson, black | Struck with hoe. Macon Weekly Telegraph June 20, 1871 |
Oct 9 1871 | Adam Waller, black | Taylor Brown, white | Brown murdered him and then left the county. Oct 24, 1871, Georgia Weekly Telegraph |
April 1872 | Daniel House, white | Asylum inmate | Struck on head with a spade and died the next day. Macon Weekly Telegraph Apr 16, 1872 |
Oct 1872 | Levi Ross, black | Henry Kittrell, black | Killed over a woman. Put in trial in 1893, found not guilty, was defending his wife. Macon Weekly Telegraph Oct. 28 1872, Union Recorder Aug 15 1893. |
Nov 1873 | Unnamed Negro Man | J. C. Huff, white | accidental shooting while hunting |
Aug 15, 1874 | Oliver Ellison, white | Thomas Fair, white | Ellison was stabbed (5 times) to death by Thomas Fair, who escaped. His family kept him hidden in their home for 13 years, his death disclosing the information. Georgia Weekly Telegraph Aug 25,1874; Atlanta Constitution Jan 30, 1894 |
Dec 1874 | Frederick McComb, white | Horace Wilson, white
F. M. Meadows, white |
Altercation between Fred & Gordon McComb at Wilson & Meadows store. Wilson claimed he shot in self defense. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to four years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Meadows was held as accessory. Macon Weekly Telegraph Jan 5, 1875; Feb 9, 1875 Apr 25, 1875; |
1875 | Unknown, black | Wesley Smith, black | Killed a man on Webb's plantation Union Recorder Aug 21, 1877 |
Apr 30 1877 | Ardeoro F. Moore Shaw, white | Mike Shaw, white | Shaw, who lived near Stevens Pottery killed his wife. Went to trial Aug. 1877, convicted of murder and hung July 15, 1878. He was hung on the gallows near the bank of the Oconee River. Macon Telegraph and Messenger May 4, 1877(1); May 4, 1877 (2); May 6, 1877;August 25, 1877; Georgia Weekly Telegraph May 15, 1877; May 22, 1877; July 9, 1878;July 16, 1878;Columbus Daily Enquirer August 28, 1877; Atlanta Constiution June 12, 1878, June 14, 1878; June 18, 1878 |
1878 | James Bostwick, black | Mike Shaw, white
Rufus Veal, black |
Bones found in old well near his residence. Union and Recorder Jul 16, 1878. Shaw hung for murder of his wife, Veal was not prosecuted. |
Sep 1878 | Sidney Harris, black | Policeman A. Dunn, white | Union and Recorder, Sep 24, 1878 |
Sep 1878 | Jack Simmons, black | E. A. Ennis, white | Justifiable homicide. Union and Recorder Sep 10 1878 |
1878 | Unnamed Child, black | Group of children, black | Playing court and hanging, the child was hanged accidentaly. Macon WeeklyTelegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger 10/1/1878 |
Dec 1878 | Charles Stiles, white | E. P. Gibson, white | Union and Recorder, Dec 17, 24, 1878, Feb 25 1879. |
July 1879 | Kelsey Tuttle, white | Jesse Davis, white | Davis disembowled Tuttle with his knife, ruled justifiable homicide. Macon Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger Jul 15 1879 |
October 1879 | Cicero Gilmore, black | unknown | Union and Recorder Oct 7 1879 |
Nov. 15 1881 | Steve Young, white | Warren Owens, black | Owens shot Young, bridge keeper, 5 times. Owens fled to Palestine,Texas, in 1884 when Sheriff Ennis went to bring him home he escaped from the local sheriff with the help of his family. The Atlanta Constitution, Nov 17 1881; The Telegraph and Messenger Nov 27, 1884 |
1882 | Jesse Davis, white | Sol Barrett, white | Justifiable homicide. Macon Weekly Telegraph, Sep 21 1882 |
June 6, 1883 | York Cooper, black | Benjamin Brookins, white | Seduction of his daughter, justifiable homicide. Macon Weekly Telegraph Jun 7, 1883, July 22, 1883 |
January 1883 | Willie McDowell, black, 12 yrs old | Louise Lewis, black | Sentenced to life in penitentiary. Union and Recorder Jan 16, 23, 188 |
Sep 1883 | Abraham Greene, white | Henry Reid, white | Reid thought Greene was after his hogs. Union and Recorder Sep 23, 1883 |
Sept 26 1883 | James Aids, white | Mansfield Hubbard, Jr., white, George Whitaker, white | Old grudge existing Aids & Hubbard, his brother-in-law. Hubbard shot Aids in the stomach. George Whitaker named as accessory at coroner inquest. Aids died on the 27th. Macon Weekly Telegraph Sep 30, 1883 |
Nov 10, 1883 | John Tollison, white | Alex McMillian, John McMillian, Daniel McMillian, John West Lingold, Os/Aus Wilson, white | Intoxicated, fight started at bar in Milledgeville. Mr. Lingold was stabbed to death at Fishing Creek. The trial started Jan 22. 1884 and Alex McMillian was found guilty, mercy recommened and pardoned in 1890. Daniel McMillian and John West Lingold pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Aus Wilson pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. These 3 received 1 year hard labor in the penitentiary. Mrs. Sarah Tollison, wife of John, died the day the trial started leaving 6 orphan children. .Macon Weekly Telegraph, Nov 14, 18, 1883 |
Sep 1884 | Silas Miller, black | Henry Miles, black | Accidently shot. Union and Recorder Sep 16, 1884 |
1884 | Tom Clements, black | Henry Etheredge, black | Union and Recorder Jun 10, 1884; Jun 23 1885 |
May 27, 1885 | William M. Whitten, white | S. Henry Lane, white | May 28, 29; June 2 1885, Atlanta Constitution. Found Not Guilty in July Superior Court after after jury was out 15 minutes. Union and Recorder July 28, 1885 |
July 1885 | "Free Joe" Edwards, black | Bill Todd, black
Martha Green, black, accessory |
Stabbed with knife. Found guilty, Todd was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Macon Weekly Telegraph July 8, 23, 1885 |
Nov 1885 | Tom Roberson, black | Abraham Putnam, black | Killing over damage of pig to potato patch. Verdict of coroner's inquest - murder in the first degree. The Macon Telegraph Nov 8, 1885 |
Feb 1886 | Deputy Marshall Charles N. Haygood, white | Sam Ennis, white | Shot down in the street of Milledgeville, the jurors Ennis found him not guilty. Macon Telegraph Mar 4, 1886; Aug 18, 1886. See Remembering Milledgeville, by Hugh T. Harrington, for details |
Mar 4, 1886 | Carrie
Raines, white
Ella Humphries, white |
Frank Humphries, white | Guilty of killing wife's sister and neice, hung Sep 24 1886 Macon Telegraph 3/6/1886 - 9/24/1886, Atlanta Constitution .8/7/1886 |
1887 | Abe Youngblood, white | Charles. I. Robinson, white | Acquitted by Baldwin Superior Court. Atlanta Constitution, Mar 12, 1887, July 19, 1887, July 31, 1887 |
1887 | Tom Glasgow, black | John Johnson, black | Murdered Glasgow on Sam Ennis place, Aug. 1893 sent to pen. for life Brother of Ben Johnson (below). Macon Telegraph Aug 16, 1893 |
March 1887 | John Harris, and five family members, black | Jim Bonner, black | Bonner, alleged voodoo doctor, poisioned the family of John Harris. Macon Weekly Telegraph May 5, 1887 |
Jul 1888 | Virge Wright, black | William Harper's gun, white | Union Recorder, Jul 31, 1888 |
August 1888 | William Roberts, white | Walker Mixon, white | Union Recorder, Aug 21, 1888 |
August 1889 | Deacon Gus Reeves, black | Henry Samples, black | Shot at a church in East Baldwin. Augusta Chronicle Aug 10, 1889; Union Recorder Aug 13, 1889 |
Oct 26, 1890 | Willis Reeves, black | Unknown | Clubbed to death at church fair out at J. T. Miller's place, Macon Telegraph, Oct 27, 1890 |
March 1891 | Joe Tucker, white | Myrick Ennis, white | Tucker shot 7 times by his brother -in -law, they were fighting over a dog. Macon Weekly Telegraph Mar 20, 1891 |
Sep 1891 | Battle Infant, black | Nellie Battle, black | Accidentally smothered when the mother rolled over on him. Union Recorder Sep 1, 1891 |
Dec 1891 | Ellen Tucker, black | George Grant, black | Shooting at Crawford Densley, Grant accidentally shot Ellen Tucker. Union Recorder Dec. 15, 22 1891 |
Jan 1892 | David
L. Reeeves/Reaves
white |
Robert Collins, white | Collins made disparging remarks about family which let to a fight. Collins shot Rives with double barreled shotgun.Union Recorder Feb 2, 1892; Macon Weekly Telegraph, Feb 1, 14, 15 1892; Union Recorder, Aquitted Jan 17, 1893 |
Mar 23, 1892 | Smithy Ennis Leonard, white | Lewis Williams 1st suspect, black. Ben Temple, black 2nd suspect | Brutally murdered with an ax at her home near Black Springs. Her husband Rev. Simon C. Leonard died a little over a year later. Union Recorder March 29, 1892; Macon Weekly Telegraph April 3, 1892 |
Apr 20 1892 | Lawson Garrett, black | Dr. O. F. Moran, white | Quarrel between James Osborne & Garrett threatened Moran was in the act of shooting Osborne, when, threatened by Garrett, Moran shot him in head. Coroner's jury - verdict of justifiable shooting. Union Recorder Apr 26, 1893 |
May 1892 | William D. Barnes, white | Charles Richardson, white | Fighting at church over a woman Richardson shot Barnes who died 2 months later. Union Recorder May 31, Jul 26, Aug 2, Sep 13, 1892 |
Mar 23, 1893 | Charlton Lockhart, white | Ben Johnson, black | Union Recorder Mar 21; Apr 4; Aug 15, '93 |
Apr 1893 | Malry Andrews, black | Henry Moore, black | Union Recorder, April 11, 1893 |
May 16, 1893 | Daniel Goodwin/Gooden/Gordon, white | Dave Upshaw, white | Shot near Stevens Pottery because of slander against Upshaw's wife. In the August trial it was declared a mistrial. Union Recorder May 23, 1893; Macon Weekly Telegraph Aug 13, 1893 |
Nov 1893 | Creasy Scoggins, black | Anna Walker, black | A mixture of man's infidelity and man's burning jealously. Walked stabbed Scoggins and fled. Union Recorder Nov 21, 1893 |
Sept 12, 1894 | F. A. Faulkner, Sr., white | Robert H, Miller, white | Miller shot and killed Faulkner over a dispute over a road through Faulkner's property to Miller's property. Coroner's jury - murder. Union Recorder Sep 18, 25, 1894 |
Apr 3 1895 | Pat Shea, white | Prof. W. E. Reynolds, white | Mistaken for a burglar, coroner's jury ruled justifible homicide. Union Recorder, April 9, 1895 |
May 1, 1895 | Jim Moore, black | Charley Williams, black | Sentenced to 10 years, Union Recorder, May 7, 14; Jul 30, 1895 |
May 1895 | Mary Jane Havre's infant, black | Polly Havre, black | Infant smothered and buried by grandmother. Union Recorder Jun 4, 1895 |
Apr 1895 |
Robert Slater, black | Lewis Davis, black | Slater accidentally shot by Davis. Union Recorder Apr 30, 1895 |
Jan 1896 | Charlie Phillips, black | Pleas Hall, black | Hit in head with rock. Union Recorder Feb 4, 1896 |
Feb 1896 | Charlie Owens, black | Eli Render, black | Shot in neck, Render escaped. Union Recorder Mar 3 1896 |
Mar 24, 1896 | Walter Hemphill, white | Joe H. Ewalt; Charlie Mathis, accessory, white | Hemphill, a clerk in
C. T. Whelan's Bar was shot 3 times by Joe H. Ewalt of Paris Ky & Hancock
County, Ga. , a hostler for racehorses;. Hemphill died March 30, 1896.
Ewalt was convicted of 1st degree murder in the July 1896 superior court
and sentenced to life imprisonment. Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge of Ky was
his lawyer. Case was appealed.
Union Recorder Mar 21, 1896. Union Recorder Jul 21, 1896. Ewalt was pardoned in 1902. In 1907 Ewalt accidentally shot T. F. Jackson from Athens at the Putnam Hotel in Eatonton. The wound was not serious. Macon Daily Telegraph Nov 16, 1907 |
Aug 1896 | Anderson Phillips, black | John Telfair, black | Shot at Stevens Pottery. Union Recorder Sep 1, 1896 |
Aug 1896 | Kittie Richards, black | Henry Richards, black | Husband beat her to death. Union Recorder Sep 1, 1896 |
Sep 1896 | Reuben Carswell, black | Wm Harper, white | Robbery at Harper's store in Midway. Union Recorder Sep 8, 1896 |
Nov 24 1896 | Eliza Campbell, black | Will Bland, black | Hit in head. Union Recorder Feb 16, 1897 |
Nov 30 1896 | Zeke Rollins, black | Phil Carter, black | Wrestling match. Union Recorder Dec 1896 |
Nov 1897 | Tate Etheridge, black | Jim Nicholls, black | Union Recorder Nov 30 1897 |
Feb 14, 1898 | Anna Hood, black | George Barnes, black | Stabbed to death by her half brother Union Recorder Feb 22, 1898 |
April 1898 | Spence Cannon, black | Willis Wallker, black
Thomas Rhinehart, black Richard Stewart, black |
Union Recorder Apr 26, May 24, Jul 19 1898 |
1898 | W. O. Finney, white | William B. Stanley, white | Altercation in Stanley's resturant led to shooting of W. O. Finney. Tom Finney, son of W. O. Finney was shot. as well as J. R. & W. B. Stanley. Coroner's jury ruled justifiable homicide. Union Recorder, Nov 22, 1898. |
Dec 1899 | Henry Dixon, black | Silas Harrison, black | Dixon, a young boy, was accidentally shot on Joseph Stile's place. Union Recorder Dec 26 1899 |
Nov 1900 | Sidney Cobb, black | Sullivan Harris, black | Shot near Steven's Pottery. Union Recorder Nov 6 1900 |
Feb 1901 | Frank Odom, black | William Stiles, white | Union Recorder Feb 12, 1901 |
Feb 1901 | Solomon Infant, black | Mary Eliza Solomon | Union Recorder Feb 19, 1901; Aug. 27, 1901 |
Jun 1901 | John Bass, black | Sidney Clark, black | Killed with baseball bat Union Recorder June 18, 1901 |
1901 | Susie Williams, black | York Smith, black | Accidentally shot by her adopted father, York Smith, Union Recorder.,Sep 3, 1901; |
Jul 1901 | Tom Pace, black | Will Brown, black | Union Recorder Jul 30, 1901; Jan 21, 1902 |
Oct 1901 | Bonnie Respess, black | Jim Springs, black | Murdered at state prison farm. Union Recorder Oct 29, 1901 |
Nov 1901 | Cornelius
Dallas, black
Charles I Meadows, white |
Charles I Meadows, white
Cornelius Dallas, black |
Dallas shot in Meadows bar, then Meadows died. justifiable homicide,Union Recorder Nov 12 1901 |
Feb 26 1902 Aug 1902 |
Dink
Calhoun, black Unknown Infant |
Adophus Waller, black Unknown |
Anger led to shooting near Georgia Depot.
Macon
Telegraph,
Feb 27, 1902 An infant was found buried in a box in Stevens Pottery by boys playing. It could not be determined what race it was due to the decomposition of the body but the body appeared to be about 7 months old.. Macon Telegraph, Aug. 4, 1902. |
Sep 1902 | Jim Brown, black | W. D. Pounds, white | Shot near Turner's Warehouse Union Recorder Sep 9 1902 |
Oct 29 1902 | John Wesley Lingold, white | Pete Lingold, white | Intoxicated, quarreled on way home from circus, Union Recorder Nov 4, 1902 |
Nov 1902 | Charles Harris, black | Miles Butts, black | Union Recorder , Nov 11, 1902 |
Dec 1903 | John Butts, black | Phillip Thomas, black | Union Recorder, Dec 29, 1903 |
May 1904 | Gus King, black | Albert Young, black | Shot near McComb's Mount. Given life sentence Union Recorder May 10, 1904; Macon Telegraph Nov. 9, 1906 |
Aug 30 1904 | Henry Youngblood, black | Julius Rice, black | Hunting Acc. Union Recorder Aug 30, 1904 |
Oct 1904 | Gus Dudley, black | S. D Butler, white | Union Recorder Oct 24, 1904 |
Dec 17, 1904 | Mirabeau Hitchcock, black | W. H. Leonard, white | Jusitifiable homicide Union Recorder Dec 27, 1904 |
Dec 1904 | Jake Patterson, black | Henry Banfield, black | Voluntary manslaughter Union Recorder Dec 27, 1904 |
Aug 1905 | Willie Ware, black | Fleming Ware, black | Accidentally shot by his brother Union Recorder Aug 2, 1905 |
Nov 1905 | Jim King, black | Zed Butler, black | Jim King was shot by hs fatherin-law Zed Butler. Union Recorder Nov 14, 1905 |
Nov 1905 | Adam Wesley, black | Clinton C. Boyer, white | Union Recorder Nov 14, 1905 |
Dec 1905 | Harris Graham, black | Dudley Singleton, black | Union Recorder Dec 26, 1905 |
Dec 1905 | Jake/Jack
Rushens/Rushin
black |
Mimms Devereaux black | Killed a man over dispute of money won in crap game. Hung November 16, 1906 in Baldwin County. Union Recorder Nov 7, 1905; Mar 6, 1906; Nov 20, 1906 |
Jan 1906 | O. W. Meadows , white | Ras Sanders, white | Found shot in his buggy near Baldwin & Hancock counties line. Sanders found not guilty. Atlanta Constitution Jan 6, 1906 Macon Daily Telegraph Jan 14, 1906 |
Jan 21 1906 | Ben Dawson, black | Abe Wise, black | shot on old Whitaker place in East Baldwin, Union Recorder Jan 30, 1905 |
Jun 1906 | Will West, black | Adam Hitchcock,Jr., black | Row about a woman, justifable homicide, Union Recorder July 3 1906 |
Aug 1906 | Pack Hitchcock, black | Thomas Richardson, black | Union Recorder Aug 21, 28, 1906 |
Sep 1906 | William McAlister, black | Fraley Thomas, black | Fraley got life sentence. Union Recorder Jan 22, 1907 |
Jan 1907 | Oscar Dolphus, black | Crawford Trawick, black | Children. Union Recorder Jan 8, 1907 |
May 1908 | Jimmie Myrick, black | Essie Myrick, black | Essie Myrick killed husband in self defense. Union Recorder May 5 1908 |
May 16, 1908 | Williard Brewer, white | Daniel Brewer, white | In drunken spree, Daniel Brewer, 67 yr old Confederate Veteran, shot his 23 yr old son Williard Brewer. He was in prison in 1910 per 1910 census. Divorced, he died in Laurens County July 20, 1920. Census. Atlanta Constitution May 17, 1908 |
Jul 1908 | Lewis Moss, black | Cleveland Trawick black, | Shot Jul 21 1908 Union Recorder |
Aug 1908 | Jeff Humphries, black | Chauncey Trawick, black | Humphries was shot and killed by Trawick in eastern Baldwin. Union Recorder Aug 11, 1908 |
Dec 1908 | J E Sherrer, white | E. N. Stevens, white | Hunting Acc. Union Recorder Dec 8, 1908 |
Jan 2, 1909 | Hattie Brown aka Jackson, black | Charles Reeves, black | Brutal murder, Reeves escaped, reward offered. Milledgeville News Jan 9, 1909; Union Recorder May 25, 1909 |
Jun 1909 | Mrs. Rabun Reeves, black | Rabun Reeves, black | Struck his wife on back of head with an iron bar. Escaped, found and arrested 2 weeks later. Union Recorder Jul 13, 1909 |
Jul 17, 1909 | J A. Aldred white | William C. Croley, white | Aldred was shot by Croley while resisting arrest by Policeman Jack Roberts. Union Recorder Jul 20 1909; Jan 23 1911 |
Nov 1909 | Annie Ward, black | Charley Ward, black | Accidentally shot by her half-brother Charley Ward while playing with a gun. Union Recorder Nov 16 1909 |
Nov 27, 1909 | Charles Warren, black | Lee Wurnum, black | Killed near Hopewell. Union Recorder Dec 7,14, 1909 |
Nov 1909 | Edmund Sykes, black | Will Jones, black | Shot in Salem District. Union Recorder Dec 1. 1909 |
Apr 1910 | Arthur Roberson, black | Lee Hill, black | Union Recorder Apr 19, 1910 |
May 7, 1910 | Jere M. Pound Jr., white | Powell Allen, white | Allen accidentally shot 16 yr old Pound. Columbus Daily Enquirer May 8, 1910 |
Jun 1910 | Gus Bass, black | Mabel Dixon, black | Shot accidentally while hunting blackberries. Union Recorder Jun 17, 1910 |
Aug 1910
Aug 1910 |
Lessie
Johnson, black
Mrs. Louis Young, black |
Unknown
Louis Young, black |
Union Recorder Aug 16, 1910
Milledgeville News, August 19, 1910 |
Dec 1910 | Hansel Crooms, black | Will Hutchens, black | Hit fellow prisoner on head with ax. Union Recorder Dec 13. 1910 |
Dec 1910 | Wesley Killings, black | Unknown | Milledgeville News, Dec 16, 1910 |
Mar 1911 | Phillip Lamar, black | Abe Wise, black | Shot on Shinholser place, E. Baldwin, Wise escaped Union Recorder Mar 21, 1911; Oct 24 1911. Found guilty, sen. to life |
May 1911 | Joe Stephens, black | Lewis Humphreys, black | Killed on J. D. Myrick's plantation. Union Recorder May 2, 1911 |
July 1911 | W. H. O'Neal, white | C. R. Jenkins, guard at state prison farm, white | Milledgeville News Jul 14, 1911; Union Recorder Jul 18, 1911 |
Aug 1911
Aug 29, 1911 |
Anderson
Fraley, black
George Key, black |
Charles Collins, black
Joe Henry Clements, black |
Union Recorder Aug 15; Nov 3 1911
Milledgeville News Sep 3, 1911; Union Recorder Sep 5, 1911 |
Sep 1911 | Thedore Meminger, black | Crowley Thomas, black | Shot at Morgan's Chapel. Union Recorder Sep 19, 1911 |
Dec 1911 | E. M. Osborn, white | Tom Pugh, white | Fought over dog, Osborn shot in lungs. Macon Weekly Telegraph Dec 10, 1911 |
1912 | Charlie Bonner, black | Henry Taylor, black | Bonner was shot on the plantation of D. P. Myrick in the spring. found guilty of murder, sentenced to be hung Sept 27. Union Recorder Feb 27, 1912; Union Recorder, Jan 31, 1913 |
Mar 1912 | Mack Lewis, black | Hattie Lewis, black, his wife | Husband shot at J. W. Hooten's place. Union Recorder Mar 26, 1912, Aug 20, 1912 |
Sep 22, 1912 | S. E. Blackwell, white | Major Wright, black | Shot and killed downtown after altercation. Union Recorder Sep 24, 1912 |
Dec 1912
Aug 13, 1913 |
Sol
Ward's 6 year old son, black
Mrs Will Winters, white |
Coleman Ward, black
Mrs. Charles Winters, white |
Accidently shot his nephew Milledgeville
News Dec. 27, 1912
Accidently shot by her sister-in-law in Stevens Pottery Milledgeville News, Aug 15, 1913 |
Oct 1913 | Dave Sanford, black | John Jackson, black | Milledgeville News Oct 17, 1913 |
May 1914 | Earnest A. Handley, white | Charles Couch, white
C. E. Ledbetter, white |
Shot at state sanitarium over a woman. Milledgeville News. May 29, 1914 |
July 1914 | Henry Finney, black | Tom Hill, black | Milledgeville News Jul 24, 1914 |
Jan 19, 1915 | Mrs. Clifford F. Polk, white | Clifford. F. Polk, white | Jan 19, 1914, Polk, an employee at the state sanitarium shot his wife at the residence of J. O. Cooper, who operated a store near the sanitarium. At July term of court in 1915 he was tried on a writ of lunacy and found sane. Case appealed and reversed. Tried again & found sane. After an appeal the verdict sustained. His last statement was that he felt he was right to what he did and was ready to pay the penalty and meet God. He was hung at the county jail on Nov. 30, 1918. Union Recorder Jan. 19, 21 1915 Macon Telegraph Nov. 30, 1918 |
April 1915 | Bearl Folsom, black | Sherman Mason, Jr. black | Union Recorder 4/6/1915; 7/27/1915. Voluntary Manslaughter, sentence to 10 years |
1915 | Frank Devereux, black | Grover Brookins, black | Cut to death at Stevens Pottery, Voluntary manslaughter, 15 years, Macon Daily Telegraph 7/11/1915; Union Recorder 7/27/1915 |
May 1915 | Charles G. Gates, white | Lester Shores Gates, white | C J. Gates, a 25 yr old employee at a local brick plant, threatened to kill his wife and 2 children. Mrs. Gates beat her husband to the pistol. She was exonerated by the coroner's jury. Union Recorder May 25, 1915 |
Jul 1915 | Sylvia Pearson, black | Henry Curtis, black | Henry Curtis shot and fatally wounded Sylvia Pearson and then turned the gun on himself, dying instantly. Macon Weekly Telegraph 7-21-1915 |
Oct 1915 | Eli Wells, black | Charlie "Wild Bill" Williams, white | Famous moonshiner "Wild Bill" Williams was
found not guilty.
Union Recorder July 4, 18, 1916 |
Feb 1916 | Henry Bowen, black | Tom Warren, black | Justifiable. Union Recorder Feb 1, 1916 |
May 1916
Aug 1917 |
Alonzo
Goddard, black
Joseph L. Simms, white |
Robert Christian, white
Alva Turner, white |
Justifiable. Union Recorder May 23,
1916
Robbery. Milledgeville News, Aug. 17, 1917 |
Nov 1917 | Enoch Martin, black | Mr. Adams, white | Justifable. Union Recorder Nov 27, 1917 |
Nov 17, 1917 | Isaac Nelson, black | Henry White, black;
Bill Stokes, black Frank Dumas, black Comer Drewery, black |
White - not guilty; Stokes fined $150 or 12 mos prison; Drewery's charge dismissed. Union Recorder Dec 4; 18, 1917. |
1918 | Tom Young, black | John Brown, black | Killed in eastern Baldwin Co. Mistrial. Macon Daily Telegraph 1/27/1918; UR Jan 21; 23 |
Mar 1918 | Wafe Easley, black | Otho Landrum, black | Shot 5 times. Union Recorder Mar 13, 1918 |
Aug 1918 | Charley Cooper, black | George Clay, black | Justifiable Homicide. Union Recorder Aug 14, 1918 |
Mar 1919 | Joe Easton, black | Thomas Adams, black | Knife Accident. No charge. Union Recorder Mar 25, 1919 |
May 1919 | Charlie Hill, black | Charlie Vinson, black | Union Recorder May 6, 1919 |
May 1919 | Andrew King, black | George Hogan, black | Union Recorder May 11, 1920; Milledgeville News Jul 20, 1921 |
July 1919 | Bennie Brown, black | Charley Foster, black | Found guilty, 1 year in penitentiary July 22, 1919; Jan 20, 1920 |
Aug 1919 | Carl Watson, white | unknown | Carl Watson, a native of Alabama, was found floating in the Oconee River Aug. 21. Married to Lillian Jones for only 2 months, he was missing Aug. 16 1919 when he went to Milledgeville to work. 8 local men and women were arrested and released. Case never solved. Macon Weekly Telegraph 9/1/1919, 9/6/1919, 7/14/1921, 7/16/1921, 7/19/1921 |
Oct 1919 | Charley
Spencer, black Tom Easley, black |
Ed Little, black Tim Kelly, black |
Found guilty, life sentence Union Recorder
Oct
7, 1919; Jan 20, 1920. Shot near Stevens Pottery, Kelly escaped. Union Recorder Nov 11, 1919 |
Dec 1919 | Tom Mims, black | Andrew Gorley, white | Jusifiable homicide. Union Recorder Dec 30, 1919 |
May 1920 | Henry Allen, black | Sill Reynolds, black | Both from Wilkinson, Reynolds escaped. Union Recorder May 25, 1920 |
1920 | Andrew King, black | George Hogan, black | Shot at the County Line Church. coroners verdict murder. Hogan left the county. May 11 1920. Union Recorder. Found in Cleveland Ohio and returned to the county. Mar 23, 1921. Found guilty of first degree murder July 1921 and sentenced to be hung Aug. 19th, Milledgeville News Jul 20, 1921 |
Jul 1920 | Mack Simmons, black | Madison Cummings black | Simmons, at Fraley's Ferry, was shot 3 times by Madison Cummings. Union Recorder Jul 27, 1920 |
Jul 1920 | Tilley Mae Harris, black | Eugene "Gene" Harris, black | Shot his wife and threw her in the Oconee River, arrested in Cleveland Ohio. Given death sentence. Hung Dec. 1921 Milledgeville News Jul 20, 1920; Aug 31, 1920, Jan 24, 1921; Mar 4, 1921, May 11, 1921, Oct. 19, 1921; December 14, 1921 |
Oct 17, 1920 | Will Lee, black | Marion Ford, black
Frank Myrick black |
Shot during a robbery in the Meriweather Community. Union Recorder Oct 19, 1920 |
Jan 2, 1921 | Oscar Steele, black | Clairborne Norwood, black | Shot in abdomen, Milledgeville News Jan 7 1921. Received 15-20 yrs for manslaughter |
Jan 1922 | Zack Stephenson, black | L. R. Riley, white
W. H. Smith, white |
killed in pistol battle with Stevens Pottery Plant officials. Macon Weekly Telegraph 1/10/1922 |
July 29, 1922 | Samuel Williams, black | - | Stabbed to death per death certificate |
May 1922 | Lonnie Griffin, white | Cleon H. Johnson. white
Charlie Hitchcock. white |
July 1922, Johnson was found guilty of murder in the cutting of Lonnie Griffin, his cousin, to death. Sentenced to life imprisonment. Charlie Hitchcock, his cousin, charged as accessory. Went to trial July 1922, found guilty and given 5-10 yr sentence. Telegraph May 3, Jul 21, 23, 1922 |
Oct. 6, 1924 | Emory Berry, white | Mary Claire Berry, white | In 1925, 16 yr old Mary Claire Berry was acquitted on the poisoning death of her 3 year old brother Dolphus and 6 year old brother Emory Berry. Augusta Chronicle, Feb 26, 1925. She died in (Mary Tidwell) in Atlanta in 1933. |
Sep 1925 | Amy
Oxford, white
Willie Sims, alias Willie Dixon, black |
Willie Sims, alias Willie Dixon, black
Mob - unknown whites |
Black inmate at the State Sanitarum killed Amy Oxford, a nurse. He was taken from the sanitarium by a mob to Wilkinson County, chained to a tree and beaten to death with a pick handle. Macon Telegraph Sep 16, 17, 18, 22 1925 |
May 1926 | Phillip Cole, black | George Birdsong, black | Birdsong killed his son-in-law for beating his wife. May 17, 1926, Macon Telegraph |
Jun 1926 | Isaac McClelland, black | Cecil Norwood, black | Killed at St. Mary's Church. Jun 15, 1926 Macon Telegraph |
Jun 1926 | Ike Seay, white | Jim Miller, white | Knife wounds, arguing over girl. Justifiable homicide Macon Telegraph Jun 15, 1926 |
Dec 11 1928 | James W. Nicholls, white | Male patient at asylum | Beaten to death. Death Certificate. Dec 15, 1928 Columbus Daily Inquirer |
Dec 1928 | Ed Thomas, black | John Reeves, black
Luther Saulsberry, black |
Beaten and robbed.
Macon Telegraph Dec 18, 1928 |
Dec 7, 1929 | Cora Harrington, white | Maurice Harrington, white | Shot by her husband who afterwards committed suicide. Macon Telegraph 12-09-1929 |
Dec 26, 1929 | Jasper Liggins, black | Briscoe Butler, white | gunshot, just. homicide, per death cert. Macon Telegraph Dec 28, 1929 |
Dec 1929 | Baxter Franks, white | Tom Brantley, white | Brantley shot Franks during argument. Dec 26 1929 Macon Telegraph |
Jun 1930 | John
Bennett, white
Henry Moran, white |
Gaston Medlin, white | Shooting affray. Self Defense. Macon Telegraph, June 9, 14. 15, 1930 |
Nov 5 1930 | Edna "Ed" Horton, 14 yrs old, white | Mae Crooms, white
Inez Temples, white Robert Seay, white. Shurley Seay, white |
"The Silk Stocking Murder" Crooms,
Temples and Robert Seay received life in prison. Shurley Seay 3 years for
perjury. Macon Telegraph Nov 8, 1930. Augusta Chronicle,
July 20, 22, 25, 25 1931. Macon Telegraph Jan 21, 1932. Robert Seay
paroled 1938; Shurley Seay jailed for perjury, paroled in 1934
Crooms paroled 1938 per Georgia, Central Register of Convicts, 1817-1976 |
Nov 1931 | Joe Bird, black | Tom Laney, black | Killed at prison, Macon Telegraph Nov 11, 1931 |
Aug 1932 | James Johnson, white | Seabie L. Roberts, white | battle at filling station, justifiable, Aug 19, 1932 Macon Telegraph |
May 1933 | Dewey Crowe, white | Trammell Wilson, white | escape attempt at state prison, June 4, 1933 Macon Telegraph |
December 1934 | Dr. Murray King, white | Victor Underwood, white | Self-defense, Dec 3 1934, Macon Telegraph |
April 1935 | Luther Maddox, white | Callie B. Franks, white | Shot in east Baldwin. Macon Telegraph 21 April 1935; 18 July 1935 |
1938 | Malvin Lee Roach, white | Grady Prosser, white | Highway death. Macon Telegraph Jan 18, 1939 |
Apr 18, 1939 | Lonnie Allen, white | Rosa Allen, white | Jusifiable homicide, Augusta Chronicle Apr 19, 1939 |
Aug 1939 | Callie Franks Booth, white
Stoye Julian Nixon, white |
Stoye Julian Nixon, white
Alva Booth, white |
Gun fight between business partners at a
"filling station"
Augusta Chronicle Aug 3, 1939 |
Feb 1940 | Jim Trawick, black | Patient at State Hospital | Night watchman was beaten to death by patient. Marietta Journal Feb 9, 1940 |
Apr 1942 | Runette Simmerson Gunnells, white | *Robert R. Gunnells, white | Gunnells was charged with shooting his wife, who he claimed committed suicide. A mistrial was called. Augusta Chronicle, July 23, 24, 1942 |
1942 | Rias Beckman, black | Charles Albert Osborne, white | Got life for the death of R Paroled 1946, commuted 1957 |
Feb 1944 | Charles R. Grimes, white | Willis Myrick, black | Macon Telegraph Feb 15, 1944 |
Sep 1944 | Bertha Logan Gunnells, white | *Robert R. Gunnells, white | Shot and killed his wife. Sentenced to death Macon Telegraph Jan 19, 1945 |
1948 | Edgar McAfee, white | Betty McAfee, white
Aubrey Logan, white |
Slashed man to death. Augusta Chronicle
Oct 17 1948; Jan 21, 1949
Logan got life, McAfee got life, paroled in 1952, commuted 1965 per Georgia, Central Register of Convicts, 1817-1976 |
1949 | Emma Johnkin, black | Marion Stembridge, white | Augusta Chronicle May 3, 4, Jun 2 1953 |
May 1953 | Marion Ennis, white
Stephen T. Bivins, white |
Marion Stembridge, white | Stembridge shot the two attorneys, then killed himself. Augusta Chronicle |
Nov 1961 | Alonzo Edward Slater, black | Watson Red Herren, black | Charged with strangling Slater, body left in rear of Harlem poolroom in Milledgeville. Augusta Chronicle |
Oct 1962 | Richard Ingram, black | D. W. McCook, white | Guard at prison camp. Augusta Chronicle |
Nov 7, 1974 | Carswell Carr, age 45, white
Mindy Carr, his daughter, age 15 |
John Paul Knowles, white | Serial Killer. Augusta Chronicle |
May 1977 | George Hill, Sr. | Roger Horne
Andrew P Legare |
Two youths escaped from YDC, and killed Mr. Hill. Augusta Chronicle |
Dec 1983 | Dennis Cox, white | Fabian Dennis Wright,
James Henry Beal Kelvin Morris Wallace 4th youth, 16 yrs |
After escaping the Youth Development Center, they shot 80 year old former sheriff Dennis Cox in the neck while he was babysitting 2 of his great-grandchildren. Augusta Chronicle |
Eileen Babb McAdams copyright 2004