The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-04-18
ANDREW HOLMES KILLED.

killed at his nome IN baptlsItOWn.
Holmes was a notorious "blind tiger"
dealer and has been before our courts
several times, and on Saturday night it
is supposed he did his best business in
that line.
The shooting attracted quite crowd
to the house. Those who arrived on the
scene first, state that Holmes wife and
Twiggs Boyer, her brother, were in the
front yard, the wife screaming "You
have killed my husband" and her
brother, Boyer, trying to quiet her,
which he succeeded in doing.
Holmes body was PROSTATE near the
fireplace, blood exuding from his
mouth and ears. Blood was also on the
floor near the middle partition door.
An examination disclosed that Holmes
was shot in the left breast, the ball
doubtless passing through the lower
part of the heart.
Witnesses state that when they ar
rived, Holmes wife and Twigg Boyer
were the only persons visible; one wit
ness, however, stating that she heard
retreating footsteps down the front
steps.
The wife and brother-in-law gave no
explanation of how the killing occurred,
but said they didn't know.
In about fifteen or twenty minutes,
Holmes wife and her brother, Twiggs
Boyer, left and went to ,old man Boz
gers house.
| Several colored men were arrested
and held in the Jail. Boyer kept out
of the way, until about o'clock Sun
day morning, when he returned to
Holmes house. Deputy Sheriff North
cut was hid in a lcolored PERSONS house
near by and when Boyer went into the
house he followed and arrested him
and placed him in Jail.
Sheriffs Dunn and Conger arrested
several other negroes, but at the in
west there were used as witnesses.
On Sunday afternoon at the coroner's
inquest, Bogers lawyers, Messrs N. A..
Morris and j. q. Foster, instructed him
not to testify, and when questions were
propounded to him by Assistant Solic-
itor Griffin and Coroner Lyon, Boyer
was as dumb as an oyster and opened
not his mouth When asked his name,
he kept his lips closed.
He was carried back to Jail and the
numerous unanswered questions were
recorded.
Lee Padgett, colored, swore that
while on his way home Saturday night,
just opposite Holmes house, he heard
some one in the house say to Holmes,
Then you don't like it 2" Holmes re-
piled, "No, don't" The same inter
rogation was repeated and Holmes gave
the same reply. Then the voice of
Holmes wife was heard: Behave
yourself" A pistol shot followed.
On his return from home, (where he
was carrying some provisions,) to the
Holmes house, Padgett found Holmes
dead, weltering in his own blood.
The coroner's jury was composed of
NJ. X. Lyon, coroner; Charles Leard,
foreman; ID. ID. Dunn, J. E. Williams,
9. +. Ward, w. M. Hawkins and Will
Hicks. They adjourned to I 80 O'Clock
Monday evening, when they completed
their work.
On the last sitting of the Coroner's
jury, witnesses swore that Henry
Kemp, an uncle of Twiggs Boyer, was
in an adjourning room when the wordy
war between him and Holmes took
! place, on account of the latter refusing
to let him have more whisky. After
the shot, Holmes wife exclaimed to
Kemp, "Twiggs has killed my hus-
band, the best friend I ever had"
One of the neighboring women who
came up Immediately, swore that Boz
ger said Hush, don't tell that l killed
him." Boyer gave the pistol to Kemp
who hid it under some leaves in Henry
Hutcherson's lot under wire fence.
Deputy Sheriff Northcutt accompanied
Kemp to the place of cuncealment and
got the pistol which was identified by
two witnesses that twas Boger's pis
toll and they had seen him with it. One
cartridge had been fired and four re-
manned.
After the pistol had been given 20
Kemp, Boyer came back into the house
and asked Holmes wife for AnGy's pis
tol and said he wanted to kill himself.
but she refused to let him have it.
Other testimony was that Boyer said
he would kill any man that would mis-
treat his sister.
The coroner's jury had many obsta-
cles to contend with but they did their
duty we'll.
Their verdict charged Twiggs Boyer
with the killing, and III their opinion it
was murder. and asked that hn no hold