Saturday Night Frolic

At a Saturday night frolic on Mr. Taylor Buttrill's farm, two miles west of town a difficulty arose and a pitch battle was the result.  When the smoke cleared away one negro, named Tom Harkness, was found dying and Will Ringfield was badly cut on his stomach.  Harkness died on Sunday night and Coroner Hardy held an inquest over his body on Monday but he could not find who did the shooting or the cutting.  It seems that a general row occurred and quite a number engaged in the fun of killing negroes but after the killing no one knew who wielded the weapons.

A few more hanging might have a wholesome effect in this county.

Middle Ga. Argus - Week of October 28, 1892

Submitted by Don Bankston