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A Horrible TragedyWas enacted one and a half miles south of this city on Friday moraine: last, whichfor sickening details eclipses anything we have chromcied in a long time, and the shock the community experienced therefrom has not been equalled since the ruinous Brackett murder of some yearsego which occurred in the Western part of the county.Ini a three :*oomed house situated fifty yards east of the Quincy road on this traffic day lived W. M. Brooks, consisting of self, wife and four little’chikircn -the eldest aboutS years old end tnc youngest about 4 months. Brooks was a thrifty, industrious, honest, straightforward farmer, whose crops were always the best of his neighborhood, and whose stock and premises always gave evidence of the care and labor of the owner. He moved to this county fiom near Blakely some five years ago, and buying this place he transformed it f-ora a tumble down thriftlessplace to one of the character we have des-of the four little cl Mis. Brooks haci Munneriynon Moi cf lunacy, at the j cd her insane, and finernent in the Li will be sent off afloffal formalitiescloses one of the s history of the coui his virtues and \ will soon be forgo! sweet charity fall them be as early fi the most miserabl fore his untimely i deed that ho longe by any means, trouble with all w contact, doubtless knowing his violet him. The though obtruded itself uplt; ed this mode of ex gloom which ccsl
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Bainbridge Democrat
Bainbridge, Georgia, US
Thu, Sep 29, 1887
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