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theopenpast mag-tbis iope, e so keep the for:hool Gill, Neal is a it in Mr. The theecre-:liool xxly. The com; was well-ill toosely mat-ition peo-tlieir lates the . Ithind arlor i theAlf Is as inly, will rjusi-old; lever tell hiia s tell kin; re to same n ted.s re , rn in lie is best learn man, para-Our and withcir-; Will isbed reat-and rsliip ■ring ecret n of :e it I af-Ilon-nth's 1 his Bob rked 1 the way suit re he il es :pcn-ends withthe Xt MEICM BF MKN.■ ROCKETT.After Eight Year* RheriRPalter*Ma Ideates (heat la Eaataiaaa.He Uaea after tkea, bat theWllllaasn Bras Hare Flea.Sheriff Patterson, without a doubt, is one of the best officers in the State. He is slso a fiae detective, and is a .terror to the ciiminal classes. He aad his deputy, A. C. Faraell, are known far and wide for the persistency with which they follow up those who are amenable to the law. In 1881 the widow Brockett, a white woman, was assassinated while lying asleep in the passage of her house, in the western portion of this county. Her babe was asleep in her arms, when the assassin, Boh Durham, instigated by Waller Williams and assisted by his brother John, crept up and fired a load of buck-shot intithe body of the woman, killing her instantly and slightly injuring the child.The three were arrested. Bob Durham was tried, and on account Of his clean confession which implicated the Williams brothers, was let off with a sentence to the penitentiary for life. John Wit-liams was tried and convicted be fore Judge Fleming, and sentenced to life imprisonment, but judgement was arrested to await the action of the Supreme Court, to which tribunal the caie W3S carried; pending its decision Walter Williams was released on bail by Judge Warren.The Supreme Court sustained the decision of the court below, and the night following the day the news reached this city, John Williams escaped fromjail, Waller skipped his bond and the pair emigrated to the west. Sheriff Burkett made several trips to Texas in 'tscst of them, and got cn their track, bnt they were sharp enough to evade him. In the meantime Mr. Patterson became Sheriff, and he took up the threads of evety cue to their whereabonts. Not long since he located them, in an obsenre place in Louisiana—Columbia, in Caldwell Parish—and forly-mtles from a railroad. He corresponded with the Sheriff, described the men; the Sheriff telegraphed that he had spotted them, and had them in jail.Armed with the necessary papers Sheriff Patterson went to Louisiana, sure of bis game. He was met by the Sheriff at Columbia, and together went to the jail. The cell dopr was opened, when to Sheriff Patterson’s blank astonishment, they were the wrong men. Patterson said—“when I saw them my heart went down into my sock?, and I telt I must faint.’’ It was certainly a sore disappointment, never to be forgotten. The Louisiana Sheriff had arrested two Williamses bnt they were not the right ones. The Williamses I’attorson wanted had been working on a farm, as common laborers, twelve miles from Columbia, and they had fled to parts unknown. Luck seems to follow them, bnt sooner or later they will be brought to justiee.There are several hundred dollars reward on the heads of these men, which Sheriff Patterson would have given to the Louisiana officer had he have arrested them. Said Patterson: “I want the men, you can have the reward.” It was no fault of his that he did not bring them back.
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Bainbridge Democrat
Bainbridge, Georgia, US
Thu, Sep 18, 1890
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