Week of Horror—A week of Sensations in Georgia’s Capital

 
The Courant American Newspaper
Cartersville, Georgia
March 2, 1893, Page 1
 
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Week of Horror—A week of Sensations in Georgia’s Capital.—Embezzlement and Suicide –A woman murders her two sisters, and reports the matter to the police, causes great excitement.

[Long article. The three suicides were: Tom Cobb Jackson, son of Capt. Harry Jackson; W. D. Crowley, traveling salesman; John Jolley. “The climax of Atlanta’s fearful carnival of crime was reached on Saturday evening when Miss Julia Force shot and killed her two sisters, Florence, 30 and Minnie 25 years of age….Mr. W. A. Force, one of the brothers stated that his oldest sister had quarreled with her two sisters, and that family differences were responsible for the tragedy.”]

 

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