The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-19

morrow and ne last service VIII be held sun
cay night
8 foul murder was committed near barlow
Thursday uilht. Bob Lyons "a Barlow negro,
was going up the Central railroad from
toward Wadley friday morninE aud NAes
aaout d. miles below Barlow saw poo OF
blood IN the ditch lie thought the Nancy
Hanks had killed a COW anu began 90 follow
the blood soon he saw man cap and slEns
' ui something being dragged along the ground
f he followed this trail 20 Peterson fence
T about ten steps from the railroad, where IT.
seemed that some object had been thrown
! over the fence The small bushes and weeds
inside the fence were pressed down ana ne
: followed this for thirty steps, when he saw
young negro man lying upon his face dead.
Lyons hurried 10 Barlow and informed the
authorities Of his hud. Upon investigation IL
was found that the negro had been shot with
a shotgun loaded with small shot. me negro
was a stranger. He had been seen at Barlow
and at Wadley for week past, but no one
knew his name. letter was found In his
pocket dated June S, written by Josephine
Reed from Albany, and addressed to DaVie
Hill at Wadley. There Is no cIew to the muir
derer
There are between fifteen and twenty truck
farms around Augusta that embrace about
800 acres under cultivation and employing 80
hands The business done by those farms is
upward OF $4,000 annually. Among the farm
ers are sylvester Murer and his brother, MT.
Collins, Mr.. Hogrief. Mr.. Capers Mr.. Roster,
Mr.. Grimand. George Mail. n. K. Nelson,
Mr.. DELPHI, George Dorsey, Wilson Morris,
John Uhl, Mr. killingsworth ana ). M
Wilson. These gentlemen carry on truck
business, principally with Augustans only
two Of them, Mr.. INLAND Wilson X MOTIFS 10
ing shipping to any extent. Almost every va
riety Of vegetable is raised 10y them, hot
houses being used to push forward the tender
plants. which are furnished by them almost
as soon rs they come from Florida. Inc
months Of yield commences about April l,
continuing until July /, when the trnck
farmers make their harvest. After that they
ffsaal Ia aFrNn IN
the fall This year business has been very
poor with truck farmers. owing to the peeul-
lar season. The cold weather and the rain
have killed or injured the bulk of the crop
and the profits this year will probably be eX-
ceed1ngly small.
At Macon, about ten years ago, Rhodes
Danforth shot and killed Mr., Landsberg in
the ONCE OF the large wholesale dry goods EN-
porfum Of M Nussbaum & Co, at Macon.
Landsberg was a brother-in-law Of Nussbaum
and was high IN authority in the establish
ment. DanfOrth was an employe at NusS-
baum's. The killing occurred about o'clock
at night, and while no one was in the office or
store except Danforth and Lands0erR. Dan
forth went out of the office on TO the sidewalk,
gave himself up to a policeman and stated
that he had shot Landsberga There was no
eyewitness to the tragedy. Danforth was
duly brought to trial and the line of defense
was that the prisoner had brooded over al
legged i'll treatment of him by Landsberg in
the capacity OF an employer, Until his mind
was wrought up to great degree OF excite
ment which state OF mind was rendered
intOlerable, so IL was alleged because of
streak of insanity which runs In the
Dahforth family, several members Of which
have been in a lunatic asylum Danforth was
defended by an able array of counsel. He
was fonnd guilty and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life. At the time of the sentence
he was young man. perhaps not more than
II years old. Since being in the peniteutiary
he has been engaged at one of the large
lumber mills on the East Tennessee road,
which is run by convict labor, Danforth
comes Of good family and since his sentence
has been an exemplary prisoner. A petition
has been circulated to request the governor
to pardon Danforth 1t contains 60OO names
1t IS said that the jury that convi.ted Dan
forth are willing to sign for his pardon and 50
is'the solicitor general who helped TO prosecute
him. Justice A. j. Simmons of the supreme
court was the presiding Judge at the time Of
Danforth s trial and he will be asked TO Join
In the petition for pardon. The petition has
been signed by persons oil through the state.
A strong plen will be made for pardon.