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Subject: [GAJASPER] Ga-Newton-Jasper Co. News (SMITH'S BODY FOU)
Date: 28 Nov 2003 03:52:52 -0000


Newton-Jasper County GaArchives News.....SMITH'S BODY FOUND December 12 1895
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Phyllis Thompson November 27, 2003, 10:52 pm

Georgia Enterprise

The body of Mr. James A. Smith, Deputy Marshal, was not found until Friday
last, when a searching party discovered it in a well near Newborn, in Jasper
county. He had been shot in the abdomen with a shot gun at short range. The
body was wrapped in a quilt, tied with a plow line. The neck was broken,
supposed to have been done by being thrown in the well. At the inquest held by
the Justice of the district no clue was found as to the perpetrator of the
deed and a verdict was so rendered by the jury. It is said that Mr. Smith
was not a regularly commissioned officer in the revenue service, but was
employed in the capacity of an informer. His murder will be thoroughly
investigated by the State and Government officials.

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