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Millen Now QuietAfter Much Bloodshed.Millen April 15.—One of the negroes supposed to have been killed in Sunday’s race clash has been found alive on the place of Inman Bell, a white planter in Burke county. He is slightly wounded. It is said that he was not connected with the actuul shooting, but ran as the posse approached and was fired upon. His name could not be learned.The total dead have been reduced from seven to six with the finding of the negro. He was believed to be dead in the Ogee-chee swamp.The situation is absolutely quiet. Negroes have returned to their | work all over the county and acting as if nothing had happened. The widow of Edmond Scott, the negro, whose arrest started the trouble, is quoted as having said Scott brought the trouble on.“I tried to get him not to carry a gun to church with him, but he would,” she is reported to have said.Louis Ruffin, Joe Ruffin’s son, is still at large. His arrest is the only development in the case expected. and officers believe no ! trouble will come from that.i]lI(
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Mount Vernon Montgomery Monitor
Mount Vernon, Georgia, US
Thu, Apr 17, 1919
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