The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-19
WEEKLY ATLANTA TUESDAY

lynched had he not been removed. The girl
was on her way to the field her father was
working in, with water for the hands at work,
when she was oyertaken by the brute. lie
will get justice meted out TO him without
mercy when his trial is had.
Chas Blackman, the murderer of Stonewall
Tondco, and who escaped from Sumter county
Jail last week, was captured Friday morn
| lug at Banks's landing, on the Ckaitahoochee
river by Deputy Sheriff Holder, of Stewart
| county. Holder arrived at Americas Thurs
| day with the desperate bound. He was
| at once committed to the dungeon Of the
county Jail, where heavy irons were afterward
put upon him.
Blackmam is desperate criminal, and
! fought like a tiger when Holder and his assist
! ant, trnsty negro named Kendrick. caught
| him. He was just in the act Of crossing the
! river when his puIsuers arrived on the spot
and handcuifed him,
BlackmaA was trying to make his way to
Mississippi where he hoped his identity would
never be discovered. He had a small map of
the southern states concealed about hisperson.
upon which his route was carefully located
with pencil.
Mr.. Frank Davis, residing near Fairburn,
on last Wednesday,, upon going to the
house from the field, Wednesday, found his
little three year old child sitting in the door
crying and when asked what it was crying for,
it replied that its mother was gone. Mr.. Davis
looked over the house and seeing nothing OF
his wife went out to the potato patch where
her body was found She having been dead fof
some little time. Mrs. Davis had been in bad
health for some time and it is supposed that
willie In the potato patch she died suddenly OF
heart disease.
Tuesday, at Canton, Mrs. Gober was feel
ing badly and thought she would take paregor-
c to relieve her suffering By mistake She
took up a vial OF medicine which Dr. TURK had
left with her some months ago to be given the
baby in small doses, and drank large swallow
out of it. She at once realized burning,
tingling sensation and went down stairs to see
her mother about 1t. As she turned to go up
the steps she found her limbs were becoming
benumbed and it was with difficulty she as
cendcd the stairs. She soon grew worse and
becoming alarmed sent for DR.. Coleman, who
came at once, and, after making a hurried ex-
animation, found that she had taken a large
dose Of deadly poison and that it would be
next to impossible to save her, as the poison
had been taken upon an empty stomach and
had become well digestod. In about two hours
after he was called in she died in great agony
with commissions. She and her three little
children were living with her mother, Mrs.
Sarah A. johnson, at Canton. Mr.. Gober
is working in the mines of Colorado, and has
not boon home in several months. Mrs Gober
was not quite twenty-five years old.
Tuesday evening last Elisha Pruce, white
man, who three months ago quit his wife and
left her and family, near Swainesboro,
returned and asked her to live with
him again, which she refused to do.
lie then wanted pay Tor some guano which nc
claimed to have furnished her TO use on her
farm. She refused to pay, and he left very
angry. That night he procured a pistol, and
going back the next morning, saw her, hoe in
hand, hoeing some cotton. Without saying
one word, he commenced shooting at her,
missing the first time. He shot again, this
time hitting her in the hand. She broke and
ran, and he shot again. missing her.
He then ran and caught her,
throwing her down and shooting two
bullet holes through her head, and her brains
run out all on the ground. The pistol he used
was n 3S-calibre Smith q Wesson. The news
spread rapidly, and the coroner of Emanuel
county, James NJ Cowart, was sent for.
When he arrived TO hold the inquest over the
remains of the woman, he was sent for about
hall mile to hold an inquest over Elisha
Pruce himself, he having taken strychnine and
killed himself. The bottle with the poison
was found by him, half Of it gone, and the PTS
tol with which he shot his wife was found in
his hand. The post mortem, held by Dr.
George l.. Smith, developed the fact Of the
poisoning.