The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-09-30
MURDERER MASON
IN TERRELL COUNTY JAIL, WHERE NE
WAS INTERVIEWED
BY THE NEWS. STORY OF THE CRIME
HOW HE WAS CAPTURED RIFLE
BALL IN EACH LEG.

BY THE NEWS. HIS STORY OF THE CRIME
HOW HE WAS CAPTURED RrEtE
BALL IN EACH LEG.
George Mason, the Terrell county wife
murderer, now occupies a cell in tho
county Jail at Dawson.
As stated in the last issue of THE
News, Mason was captured in Talbot
county ON Monday oflast week, and Sher.
! III Christie, and ex-Sheriff Thornton who
Raehecome interested in Masnn,s capture
in hope of securing the 500 reward of,
fered by the governor, both received tel
egrams that Mason was then in Jail at
Talbotton.
Mr. Thornton left for Talbotton Tues
day morning, and reached Dawson Thurs
day morning at three o'clock with the
prisoner
Early that morning THE News visit al
Mason a4the Jail and found large, mid.
dle-aged negro with an open countenance
and kindly expression. He looked any
! thing but murderer. He seemed to
realize his situation, and there was de-
spair and despondency in almost every
word he uttered.
When THE News reached the Jail Ma
son had just woke up, and was complain
ing of pain from the wounds he received
when captured, He was shot in both
legs, one ball striking him in the calf of
the right leg and the other in the left
thigh. He says he received them both
while running They are only flesh
wounds, and with proper treatment will
soon heal up.
Mason says that when captured he was
out in field picking cotton, and that the
first thing that attracted his attention
was rusting noise in the cotton leaves
behind him. When he raised up and look
cd around, he says, he saw the sheriff of
Talbot county standing in about twenty
feet of him with Winchester rifle thrown
to his shoulder. Mason started off in a
run and the sheriff shot at him twice, the
balls taking effect as described above.
When his crime was mentioned he
made clean breast of. He says that it
was impossible to get along with his
wife; that besides having an ungoverna-
bic temper and an unruly disposition, she
was intimate with another man that liv-
ed near by. The night he killed her, he
says, the difficulty originated about her
infidelity to him and disregard for her
marital vows. During the quarrel wife
his attempted to shoot him, and was snap
ping pistol at him when he picked UP
an axe and hit her on the head, killing
her almost instantly. He then carried
her body to branch and covered it with
bark. His five-year-old daughter, he
says, witnessed the crime, which occurr-
ed early in the night.
He remained at home that night. and
early next morning started for Talbot
county, where he has since been the
greater part of time, and known by the
name of jerry. He was in Epson coun-
ty for a short time.
Mason said that his body is in the
hands of the people, and that he has
given his heart TO God.
He likes to have'visitors, and when the
reporter and Chief of Police Hatcher
were leaving the jail the prisoner asked
them to call again.
Masons crime was committed last Feb
ruary.
ABOUT THE REWARD.
The Talbot county sheriff will doubt
less get the reward. He refused to de-
liver the prisoner to Mr.. Thornton until
that gentleman relinquished any claim