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.• ' • .-ggp- Tbo Macon Journal A Messenger says the House, tops'and every con ceivable place in the vicinity of the.city guard hpuse, were crowded on' yesterday morning, to witness . the execution of Thus. J- Musgrove, for the murder of Isaac N. Armstrong, Co. C*. 145thIndiana regiment, on”tbe27tb *pf -August last. The unhappy man _ read- a somewhat lengthy confession, in which he -said iie committed the - crime through revenge, and] stated that It was while a prisoner of war that he heard of the ill treatment of-the women of the Soutn. 6y someofthe Federal soldiery which made the .blood curdle in hisveins.-snd from that time he determin ed to avenge the iognIt.~.lt seems that, he decoyed bisyicfini into the woods, a short distance from Cuthbert, wb ere he shoe the man, robbed him of - what money he bad on. his person and-ihen concealed his body'w’th some bruen.-r-He seemed, very/penitont and prayedtor fdrjriveness^from Him.-:who_ruletn above/' rj vlt;ti; i ;3Z; vi */' ;lt;*
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Rome Weekly Courier
Rome, Georgia, US
Fri, Mar 23, 1866
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