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The Cadiz Sentinel
March 28, 1844

            HORRIBLE MURDER - We are called on to record
          am awful crime in our community, perpetrated
          under circumstances that are truly appalling.
          On Friday morning last, at about 10 o'clock,
          GEORGE WEEKS of this place, according to his
          own voluntary statement before W. JONES, Esq.
          and others shot a colored man, named EDWARD
          WOODS. A slight quarrel arose on account of
          the negro getting employment at a place WEEKS
          deemed he had secured. A few words followed
          W. incensed EDWARD, and the latter gave GEORGE
          the lie. WEEKS went to Mr. SMITH'S north of
          town and borrowed a gun, returned to the
          stable of Mr. MARTIN, where EDWARD was at
          work, and shot him with slugs, in the right
          breast; pieces of the slugs, like pounded shot,
          were, on examination, taken from the breast
          and abdomen. Two ribs were fractured by the
          charge in the gun. WEEKS persisted for 2 or
          3 days in saying he would kill the negro, if
          alive, and that he intended to do so the day
          before the awful deed. When arrested by 
          Sheriff SIMPSON, he made no resistance, and
          on examination before W. JONES, Esa. was sent
          to jail, and the grand jury then in session
          found a true bill against him for murder;
          but to which, on Monday morning, he plead
          not guilty.
            WEEKS was not quarrelsome in disposition;
          but we suppose he would harbor emnity a long
          time, if offended. Poverty and rum have made
          life burdensome, and hence the recklessness
          with which he perpetuated the horrible crime.
             The murdered negro was one of the most
          inoffensive we ever knew; he kept his place,
          was kindly disposed, and demeaned himself
          better than blacks in general. WEEKS will be
          tried in the Common Pleas in June.
          
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