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Article about the Dolly Williamson murder from the Clarion Ledger, November 5, 1891, page 1.

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THE HATTIESBURG MURDER.

Particulars of the Killing of Mrs. J. M. Williamson.

A correspondent of the Meridian News sends that the paper the following from Hattiesburg regarding the killing of Mrs. J. M. Williamson:

Her husband was away from home, in Atlanta, Ga. There was a Miss McLeod sleeping with her. She touched the girl, Susie, and told her some one was in the room, and before Susie could get up Mrs. Williamson got up and went to the baby, who was sleeping in the crib at the foot of the bed, so like a mother to fly to her baby at the first alarm.

The man had turned down the lamp and searched the drawer and started back to the window and had to pass her as she was by the crib. The murderer put the pistol to her left side, fired and broke the collar bone, severed the jugular vein, and rushed past, got out of the window and fled.

The girl called for assistance.

Mrs. Williamson died in less than an hour; she was concious to the last, and said she did not know the man. Mrs. Williamson has been married about two years. She was a Jackson girl, a Miss Dolly Pitts. She was a good wife, good neighbor, and a true woman. All liked her.