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Colonel Bates |
The Courant American |
Cartersville, Georgia |
January 29, 1891, page 1
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An Awful Night at the Bates Homestead Near This City Colonel Bates is dead. His son, Horace, is lying in an extremely critical condition, with the chances of recovery against him. The people had hardly gotten over the first shock of the terrible accident that ended the life of one of Bartow county’s wealthiest citizens before they received another, which was perhaps greater than the first, because the wound that Horace Bates is now suffering with was inflicted with suicidal intent….Horace Bates was driven to this attempt on his own life by feelings so acute for his father’s sufferings that it almost, if not quite, reached insanity. The story, as told, is this: |
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