John Marius Acuff, who shot and seriously wounded Frank Haley at Franklin Junction Monday night, died in his jail cell in Chatham, VA Friday afternoon. His brother H M Acuff took charge of his body.
After examining H M Acuff, Norman Scruggs, Conductor B Mayhew, G W Fagan and T J Haynes, D H George was discharged, the evidence being insufficient.
Giles Harley, a negro, was brought to Chatham and lodged in jail Thursday night, charged with assisting John Acuff breaking into the store of H M Acuff.
Mrs. John Acuff returned to Franklin Junction Thursday evening from North Carolina and told her father that her husband told her he paid Smith Dickerson to watch her and keep him posted as to her conduct when he (John Acuff) was away. Smith Dickerson is a negro barber and restaurant keeper, and it is rumored that this occasioned your John Acuff's last and fatal visit to his home place.
John Acuff, while crazed with drink, shot at the signal lights at Franklin Junction Tuesday night, and when remonstrated with Frank Haley, shot him in the breast.
John Acuff defied arrest and took refuge in his brother's house, his brother and family fleeing from the house in fear, as the drunken man threatened to shoot them. Citizens surrounded the house and D H George, it is alleged, poked his gun through a window and fired twice on John Acuff. His arm was nearly cut off by one of the shots. It was not known that John Acuff was badly wounded, and no one was brave enough to enter the house in face of in his threats to shoot and kill, and he was found next morning by Sheriff Shellhorse of Pittsylvania County, VA, in the house of his brother, having bled nearly to death.
He was taken to Chatham and placed in the county jail, where his arm was amputated. He had a record for recklessness, and, it is alleged, had wounded several other men.
Source - Obituary in the Times Herald, Newport News, VA dated February 2, 1902 courtesy of Richard Bullock.
Married Nellie Campbell Feageans on January 10, 1897 in Pelham, Caswell County, NC.
After examining H M Acuff, Norman Scruggs, Conductor B Mayhew, G W Fagan and T J Haynes, D H George was discharged, the evidence being insufficient.
Giles Harley, a negro, was brought to Chatham and lodged in jail Thursday night, charged with assisting John Acuff breaking into the store of H M Acuff.
Mrs. John Acuff returned to Franklin Junction Thursday evening from North Carolina and told her father that her husband told her he paid Smith Dickerson to watch her and keep him posted as to her conduct when he (John Acuff) was away. Smith Dickerson is a negro barber and restaurant keeper, and it is rumored that this occasioned your John Acuff's last and fatal visit to his home place.
John Acuff, while crazed with drink, shot at the signal lights at Franklin Junction Tuesday night, and when remonstrated with Frank Haley, shot him in the breast.
John Acuff defied arrest and took refuge in his brother's house, his brother and family fleeing from the house in fear, as the drunken man threatened to shoot them. Citizens surrounded the house and D H George, it is alleged, poked his gun through a window and fired twice on John Acuff. His arm was nearly cut off by one of the shots. It was not known that John Acuff was badly wounded, and no one was brave enough to enter the house in face of in his threats to shoot and kill, and he was found next morning by Sheriff Shellhorse of Pittsylvania County, VA, in the house of his brother, having bled nearly to death.
He was taken to Chatham and placed in the county jail, where his arm was amputated. He had a record for recklessness, and, it is alleged, had wounded several other men.
Source - Obituary in the Times Herald, Newport News, VA dated February 2, 1902 courtesy of Richard Bullock.
Married Nellie Campbell Feageans on January 10, 1897 in Pelham, Caswell County, NC.
John Marius Acuff, who shot and seriously wounded Frank Haley at Franklin Junction Monday night, died in his jail cell in Chatham, VA Friday afternoon. His brother H M Acuff took charge of his body.
After examining H M Acuff, Norman Scruggs, Conductor B Mayhew, G W Fagan and T J Haynes, D H George was discharged, the evidence being insufficient.
Giles Harley, a negro, was brought to Chatham and lodged in jail Thursday night, charged with assisting John Acuff breaking into the store of H M Acuff.
Mrs. John Acuff returned to Franklin Junction Thursday evening from North Carolina and told her father that her husband told her he paid Smith Dickerson to watch her and keep him posted as to her conduct when he (John Acuff) was away. Smith Dickerson is a negro barber and restaurant keeper, and it is rumored that this occasioned your John Acuff's last and fatal visit to his home place.
John Acuff, while crazed with drink, shot at the signal lights at Franklin Junction Tuesday night, and when remonstrated with Frank Haley, shot him in the breast.
John Acuff defied arrest and took refuge in his brother's house, his brother and family fleeing from the house in fear, as the drunken man threatened to shoot them. Citizens surrounded the house and D H George, it is alleged, poked his gun through a window and fired twice on John Acuff. His arm was nearly cut off by one of the shots. It was not known that John Acuff was badly wounded, and no one was brave enough to enter the house in face of in his threats to shoot and kill, and he was found next morning by Sheriff Shellhorse of Pittsylvania County, VA, in the house of his brother, having bled nearly to death.
He was taken to Chatham and placed in the county jail, where his arm was amputated. He had a record for recklessness, and, it is alleged, had wounded several other men.
Source - Obituary in the Times Herald, Newport News, VA dated February 2, 1902 courtesy of Richard Bullock.
Married Nellie Campbell Feageans on January 10, 1897 in Pelham, Caswell County, NC.
After examining H M Acuff, Norman Scruggs, Conductor B Mayhew, G W Fagan and T J Haynes, D H George was discharged, the evidence being insufficient.
Giles Harley, a negro, was brought to Chatham and lodged in jail Thursday night, charged with assisting John Acuff breaking into the store of H M Acuff.
Mrs. John Acuff returned to Franklin Junction Thursday evening from North Carolina and told her father that her husband told her he paid Smith Dickerson to watch her and keep him posted as to her conduct when he (John Acuff) was away. Smith Dickerson is a negro barber and restaurant keeper, and it is rumored that this occasioned your John Acuff's last and fatal visit to his home place.
John Acuff, while crazed with drink, shot at the signal lights at Franklin Junction Tuesday night, and when remonstrated with Frank Haley, shot him in the breast.
John Acuff defied arrest and took refuge in his brother's house, his brother and family fleeing from the house in fear, as the drunken man threatened to shoot them. Citizens surrounded the house and D H George, it is alleged, poked his gun through a window and fired twice on John Acuff. His arm was nearly cut off by one of the shots. It was not known that John Acuff was badly wounded, and no one was brave enough to enter the house in face of in his threats to shoot and kill, and he was found next morning by Sheriff Shellhorse of Pittsylvania County, VA, in the house of his brother, having bled nearly to death.
He was taken to Chatham and placed in the county jail, where his arm was amputated. He had a record for recklessness, and, it is alleged, had wounded several other men.
Source - Obituary in the Times Herald, Newport News, VA dated February 2, 1902 courtesy of Richard Bullock.
Married Nellie Campbell Feageans on January 10, 1897 in Pelham, Caswell County, NC.
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