Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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On nie$t oi April 23, 1878, Dr. R. P. Greyson arrd his wife, t&trii~n, vsre murdered
Bn their homt new tha 014 Xoai Ind4.m Village aib, In Soutbeastam Anderson Comty,
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h, Omyscm, a ph-$~i~ien, had C ~ S i m the W~rt;h to serve ssttlesa In the gira-chd
SW& hiua 61f 5WJkbc)88%tm Anderson Crmty, IEQSls he ewcd far tk2 OICL,~
wlfc, with LIs.3 h-3.173 of Gs.mrer rctaioc~e, cp~~ra-bed n atarc, a mist mill, t ~ 3 ~ cc::;m d
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[an aa a d al;rcm new* their hw, 1% ]raved to bQ B SllscratFw fwdly pa&~l~.rcMp. I
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over Me deal ba3y nbat Fiso. Gr&r~m ta death 3n has bed,.
Flho O~B~J@D L~by, elsepJ.ng Tn hta cdb, md a WGtlz! boy, wb Md under %he bcd,
eaaapcd ~LW. !Fb boy Ut~d to tell IlPe ~taxy Prm a wi"im~ etarnd,
TErc yowg tijar$ro stable boy oocm-pd Qn the (PQC~EL~.'PI fine bopasc, mti rcde ~%rtxlp$~t to
Pdco;Lc, t21a cam~fy seat sf Andcrasn County, a- 20 r;ll~s wayr Ee hilt no tine
en IfnB.a:i~; Wzs City. IRkrchal Chris Rai;ers, &ma medicine ta "cwa or kill" kvlce~ncst~
h~d sg~c:ad Big fc,n fcr md wide. Cuxlaficlr~ had COFB frm ever,where to txa* hfl. A
Chcdi $dO&e 02 nen b-3 inat",ct, eEc~is cmd& Leu a3 rr gkaee whe%ber a ~ F O U ~ ~ C ~ $ P , ~
Ch~~~abear to be kriUeik OF noti. He UWCJQ waitea PO^ an ~ B v to c &w ~ ffr~t. ~
^Y.b um very &~L:BZ"UUD prwtAceI &I$ be never bw1; 5 mJ&t,
At h 3 5 , tibe mm.%rq &tm tlra mr&:r, when a BIWU gmmp 03' Iamm, wbo were sb&&
t@ oil.,r:nco bj v1~tlley fwd, &ather& c% the cane of %her crSm, C%io Rogers xaaa
%here. Xido ono qwrsticinsd Ma 1carcMg 02 the hveetigatim.
Chrie aepurized men whon hs knew WU be trueted, and set ime deputy on each of five
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W&Y frm the sp& where tho! rd@$ riders bad parbed,
"0ne rn 9.n tP&t band of k3Uera is a ccms-d," Chria snid." Goc tbt tree La frofi%
& tha bwcT WeU, when tBse otber~ fired tha valley of oh~ts tht MUcd Dr. G-m-flon,
W a CCPW-~ bhsted a hole 2an the trunk af Wt tree, Me Gmcka fa3.%swd. Rc'd
wci3.k firsst. an ofic oide, thr1 on tho crthes nide gf hie ,vg. 1% esiag after that
C B W ~ . When I fiad h, EwJ'U tiurn stateaa evidence.*
- Tbc lfttle E%rekal Bid;. not root until he had tracked duwn baa tnaa until indeed,
sawn men been tu~esi;ed. AnB as m a bad predicted, vhm Gha seven were arraigned
befa~a the Jutice af th ~cacc, me mf their n-r - W ~ Q he bad fireit inlo the
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i~1 a denpemte ts B V Q participation ~ ~ in the EUXICT~ - tuaed otntgm
evidence,
~~ Bucker, a hnndsom and cynical yemag ram, wm~ the LC&F a$' the klllare. Ha
urn condemned ta ba hmyyxl, Prnd others cf tbe group received otW sentences. Ruckar
bted hc wrru;ld never ba executed*
~t dam the day set for the & g~, the specid gum^ on duty ~utsida oi ~h:&r$s
cell in the Pnderoan Cmty jpil mlrens8 liohd, who mked that he ba el2~~ect
ts rrap
fan odnutora mre. T';lc r-hjl trqp-eecf, hut whas h4 looked in rmlin, kcker wGa b13edira3
Zo &ea%b frrxl E.~TSS~& tn-i~ts. Ua clhd aarun etsr a docm -veil, a d Wus wde gadl
t3e~ttbath;b~~a~OhdECallaRJs.
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