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Article about Dolly Williamson, appearing in the November 4, 1891 issue of The Mississippi, a Jackson newspaper.

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Brutal Murder

Shortly after midnight Friday night, a burglar entered the residence of Mayor J. M. Williamson, of Hattiesburg, editor of the Democrat, through an open window, and upon being discovered by Mrs. Williamson in her bed-room, shot her, fracturing her left collar bone, severing the larger artery underneath. Dr. S. J. Stevens was immediately summoned, but death had resulted from internal hemorrhage before his arrival. Unfortunately the assassin made good his escape. Mayor Williamson, who was attending the Southern road congress in Atlanta, Ga., as a delegate from this state, was at once wired. Mrs. Williamson was formerly Miss Dolly Pitts of this city, and was as pretty a bride as loving groom ever led to the altar. Her relatives are in grief over her sad fate, and the heartfelt sympathy of Mr. Williamson's many friends in this city go out to him in this sad hour of his deep bereavement.