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I --IAN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT SHOT I SCHOOLGIRL WEDNESDAY AS SHE WAS ON WAY TO COUNTRY SCHOOL.An unuBual crime was perpetrated near here Wednesday morning, when Hvtt’e Smith, A negro schoolgirl, was shot from ambush at Montpelier graveyard. on the Sandersvile road, four miles from this city. She had just started on h r journey, alter calling to a neighbor's house to see if her*companions had gone on, and a iter proceeding a short distance she was Pied upon by an unknown assailant.Three fingers of one hand and one if the other hand were shot off and a few slid entered the face, but otherwise was not badly hurt. Se-ar'ui-ing parties tried all day to find the guilty one, hut without avail. Effo.t war mad » to place the blame on a negro boy. who had threaten d to short ^ anotlKr negro girl, believing that he probably hot Hattie Smith by nil ■ take, hut • videnco or clue was lacking i in this respect, Tin girl Is getting 'along :■!! light at present.
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Milledgeville News
Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Fri, Apr 18, 1913
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