The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-08-17
CHASED BY CHRISTIE.
THE SLAYER OF LEE HUFF TRACKED
INTO ALBANY


BY TerreYs Sheriff, Where He Was Lost
He Was Seen and Shot at One Night at
Sasser.
Sheriff Christie is determined to cap
ture julie Spikes, the murderer of Mr.
Lee Huff, and those who know Terrell S
wide-awa sheriff are satisfied he will
succeed.
Last Wednesday Sheriff Christie, with
Messrs. Polhill and John Slade, and
others, got on the trail of the murderer
in the lower part of the county and
tracked him to Albany, where all trace
of him was lost Before leaving Albany
for Dawson, however, the sheriff learned
enough to satisfy himathat the fugitive
had left that town and started towards
his home in Middle Georgia.
The Albany Heral of Tuesday con-
tanned the following. particulars of the
search for Spikes in the lower part of
this county and in Dougherty:
Particulars of the killing of acting
Marshall Lee Huff at ParrOtt, by an At
lanta negro who was on the excursion
train that came to Albany over the Co
lumbns Southern road on Saturday after
noon, returning that night, have already
been published.
Our information yesterday was that
the negro had probably been captured in
the neighborhood of Weston, and that
he would be lynched last night: but it
seems that he is still at large.
Last night he was discovered at Sasser
and several shots were fired at him, but
he outran his pursuers and made good
his escape. He was stealing a ride on
the train that was coming to Albany
last night. and was discovered when the
train reached Sasser. He came down
the railroad towards Albany, and when
the train reached this city last night this
fact was reported to the police, and Off
GERS Mooney and Barron, in company
with a man from Columbus, went out on
the road to meet the murderer. He
failed to show up on the road, however,
and the officers came back to the city
after O'Clock this morning.
Mr. l. p. Co Ike, brother-in-law of the
murdered man, left3here this morning to
organize posse Of men to scour the
woods from Sasser to Albany, and it is
thought the murderer will be brought in
to-day.
THE MURDERER TRACKED INTO ALBANY
THIS AFTERNOON.
The murderer of Lee Huff is probably
now in Albany.
Mr.. J. w. Shepperd, bailiff from Ter
Iell county, is positive that he tracked
the negro into town to-day.
Mr.. Shepherd arrived in this city just
before l clock this afternoon. He had
been on the pegro's track since yesterday
morning, and followed it to where the
public road that leades westward from
the city crosses the Blakely Extension
out just beyond the guano factory Here
the negro took the railroad track, and it
was impossible to track him further: but
it is certain that he came towards the
city, and he was heard from between
where he took to the railroad and the
guano factory.
Mr.. Shepherd started out with the
sheriff of Terrell county and posse yes
terday morning, and, by direction of
the sheriff, crossed creek and took a
different route from the others He
soon got on the trail of a man whose
description answered Tor that of the
murderer and followed it all day. losing
it at times, on account of the rain, but
finding it again He found that the ne
gro spent last night at the Walls place
IN Terrell comfy, near the Dougherty
line, and that a negro tenant on the
place put him in the Albany9road this
morning. From there Mr.. Shepherd had
no trouble in keeping his track to where
he struck the railroad half a mile west
of the city limits
Mr.. ShepI eed came into the city and
reported to Sheriff Edwards and Deputy
Sheriff Goodwin. These officers at once
set out to have thorough search made
tor the murderer, and if he is in town he
will be caught.
1t this man Mr., Shepperd tracked into
the city to-day is the murder +, then it
could not have been him that they dis
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