Sunbury American And Shamokin Journal

Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.

A Dreadful Murder.

Macon, Walton Co., Ga., Aug. 30.

There was a horrid tragedy enacted in this county last Friday. Mr. Jordan Harrison murdered his wife and mother-in-law, by cutting the throat of the former in a most shocking manner, and beating to death the latter with a large stick or pale. Mr. Alfred Whaley, the son of the old lady, and the brother of Mrs. Harris, living within a quarter or half mile of the place, soon heard of the murder of his mother and sister, and went over to arrest Harris. He found him in the house, and his sister lying dead in the yard, with her throat cut from ear to ear, his mother lying near, not quite dead. Harris was armed with a rifle, and would not allow Whaley to approach the house, nor go to the bodies of his dead sister and dying mother. Whaley being unarmed, went off and gathered some of the neighbors, three or four in number, and went back: armed with guns and pistols, to take Harris. Harris swore that he would not be taken, and was trying to get a chance to shoot those that had come to take him, when Whaley shot at but missed him. Harris then came out of the house with his gun cocked, when Whaley again shot and killed him on the spot, one of the balls passing through near the heart.

The family on both sides, are very respectable, and possessed of considerable property.