The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-01-04
,11Y WAS FOUND BURIED
rRyoFLoUIssCo HAT
pl'' cur TO LIGHT A MURDER.
baldwin Confessed That he Diu
bVt ,ne peed, But Declares 1t was
Accidentally. Crime
Was Well Concealed.

5,zcoverv of the hat OF a negro
ln Sad been missing for two weeks
Fn0 + hroncht to light what appears to
ba' :. 81 the worst murders ever
ps mi, in Terrell county; 49,. 49,.
cCal III weeks NEWS stated that tne
Las | onis Scott, a negro who had
bat Oh ISM for two weeks, had been
been LLi ;n skirt of woods in the
'ionn1Gt. "a - district, and that the sheriff
IFell!hh ,rs had gone to the place to
and QUIZ S for the body of Scott. The
|ses rcb was continued the next day,
sea d was rewarded by two gentlemen
ana NV va" marty. Messrs. H. l.. Klrksey
|in 5n W PTD ARNOLD, finding a grave
ana anu " an old pond on the place OF Mr..
pear az a. in which were buried the re-
|naln'i INQUEST ", was held by Judge F. NJ
~ Al on alid and the jury returned a
Nc 1iap That Hop Baldwin, who had
,5ready been placed in jail on sus-
glc oo Th,e s IS Hop Baldwin, with
VI ILL., D' an his shoulder, went to the
a gun Of Louis Scott and told him
noun ga4 Mr. Kirksey had employed him
tI nlalI5 iut, to do some cutting in the
DS pay and that he (Scott) would show
w. WITH the Mace. The two negroes went
n ltf- together and that was the last
tbat was seen of Scott alive.
i Scott had some time before taken a
a "Uo,' for Baldwin, and suspicion
wal Wal S I,rs toward the latter by two
1ottor r, that purported to have been
lo s;ttor hv Scott, but which resembled
W.. W. WV wri+ino of Baldwin. Both of these
1 I1tt bore the mark of the Bronwood
nostoffice, and one was to the uncle
IF scott stating that he was at that
Mace and would return home IN few
9o I The other was addressed to
PSIdwin. and said that for $500 he
DoIId see no harm came to him from
+bo warrant he had sworn out. The
uTiting presented a striking resetn-
banre to that of Baldwin, and really
led to the murder being brought to
light. e
Mr. w. E. Christie, Baldwin made a
confession to Sheriff Oxford, admit
tng that he killed Scott, but insisting
that it was done accidentally. He
said that he fired at a covey of birds,
and that in quickly turning and shoot
inc the second time he accidentally
hi Scott. Being frightened, and
thinking that he could not satisfactO-
riIy explain the killing, he carried the
dead body about 100 yards into the
woods, where he left it until he went
to field half mile away and got a
shovel and returned and buried it.
He said that he did it all by himself,
and that no one else knew anything
about it.
The grave in which Scott was buried
was about two feet deep, and so care
fully had it been filled up and conceal
ed that the finding of it was almost a
miracle. The clay was thrown back
into the grave first and then the. soil,
and it was then carefully covered with
the straw and leaves of the woods.
Two very small clods of clay that
had been overlooked and were lying
nearby attracted the attention of the
searchers, and the finding of the grave
followed in little while.
Ike Baldwin, a brother of Hop, is
in Jail, it being thought that he might
have assisted in dispOsing of the body
of Scott, but there is no evidence that
he knows anything about the crime.
He will be given a cOmmittal trial this
morning.