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YESTERDAY’S NEWS
A Reading from America’s Historic Newspapers
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Bibb County, Georgia, 12 miles from Macon
August 6, 1877
Frantic screams in the night shatter the pastoral calm of the Bibb County, Georgia, countryside. By the time neighbors arrive, nine members of the family of Captain Richard Woolfolk lay in deadly repose, brutally slain by the savage blows of an ax. The only survivor, 27-year-old son Thomas Woolfolk, the black sheep of the family and perennial loser, says that he escaped the carnage by jumping through a bedroom window and running into the woods. Suspicious eyes immediately imagine a noose around the young man’s neck. Will the truth come out? Will young Woolfolk pay the ultimate price for a crime he did not commit? |