Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-18
FATHER AND son SLAIN.
AN OLD FEUD IN JONES COUNTY
ENDS IN MURDER.

Both of the Victims Shot Down in Cold
BlOOd-The Murderers Submit to Ar
rest-A Negro Prisoner at BarnesviIle
Shoots a COIOred Cook Through the
Bars of his Cell.
MACON, GA, Nov. IA terrible homi-
eide occurred yesterday morning at 8
O'Clock in Jones county, four miles from
James station, on the Macon and Angus
ia Railroad, in which Maj. Ben Beck and
his son, Ben Beck, Jr., were killed by
James and Stephen Stubbs, stepsons of
Maj. Beck. The difficulty grew out of an
old family feud. MAJ. Beck and his Sec
ond wife, mother of the Stubbs brothers,
did not 1--we happily together, separated,
and were reunited. She finally died, hav-
ing willed her property equally among
the Becks and Stubbs. They have all
been living together in the same house on
a large plantation. The seeks cultivated
one portion and Stubbs the other. Stubbs
brothers became indebted to their step
father, which they promised to liquidate
IN cotton. This they failed to do. Hard
words passed between them. Last week
all the parties became angered. Sunday
morning discussion of the matter was re-
newed. Maj. Beck accused Stubbs BROTH
ers of stealing corn from him, and in
structed his son, Stephen Beck, to go to
Clinton for warrant and Sheriff to arrest
the Stubbs boys. Stephen Beck mounted
a horse, but had rode not more than 200
yards from his fathers house when he
heard gunshOts fired in the house.
DEATH OF THE MAJOR.
He quickly rode back and found
Maj. Beck lying dead on the floor. Ben
jamin Beck, Jr., was in the yard a few
feet away at the barn when his father
was shot. He started towards the house
when the Stubbs boys fired on him, in
flcting a fatal wound in the breast,
breaking both arms, and tearing his face
open with buckshOt. He died at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon, and made the above
statement of facts ON his deathbed. He
said that neither he nor his father were
armed, and that both of them were shot
top of his head nearly blown off. He died
instantly. Stubbs brothers used double
barreled shOtguns. James Stubbs
is considered most instrumental in the
killing. Stephen Stubbs is thought to be
a little f1ighty in his mind. He says that
he has no fears of the result of his trial,
and feels sanguine of acquittal. There
was no witness to the difficulty save Mrs.
James Stubbs. Immediately after the
hAAlln5 5lOpICh DSCh FCAC ctlbCl buC
Sheriff, to whom the Stubbs brothers
quietly submitted to arrest and made no
attempt to escape. Reliable parties ar
irving at Macon tonight from Jones
county gave the above details as the true
facts. Both the Becks and Stubbs were
highly esteemed In Jones county as order
ly citizens. Maj. Beck commanded the
Eighth Georgia Regiment during the late
war.
A YOUNG MANS DOWNFALL.
To-day a warrant was issued for the
arrest of Geo. A. Taylor, a welI-known
Macon young man, charging him with
larceny after trust. He is now held in
South Carolina on some questionable
transaction. RequisitiOn papers will be
obtained from Coy. Mcdaniel tomorrow.
TaylOr's downfall is surprise to Macon
ties.
Policemen arrested here to-day Pleas
ant Scott, a negro convict who had
escaped from Dubois. He was sentenced
last January from Putnam county to two
years in the penitentiary for stealing. He
is a desperate negro.
Harrison DubignOn, NEGRO who was con-
fined at Barnesyille jail, became involved
in quarrel with a negro woman who was
cook in the jail, and shot her with pistol
last night through the bars of his cell,
killing her. DuBignon had pistol con-
cealed on his person. He is a desperate
negro and has been on the chain-g ang sew
eral times.