Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-09-16 | Page 9 | She Avenges Wrong Done Her Child

SHE A VENCES WRONG DONE HER CHILD POWDER SPRINGS Ga Sept 16 After forming and heading a po posse so to I chase Robert Bostick a 8 ne negro o who had attacked her nine year daughter Mr Mrs Sarah Reed wife ife of a n prominent citizen shot hot the tho ne negro ro full of as soon as ho he was overtaken Bostick was employed at nt tho the Reed homo home and enticed enticed en en- the tho little girl into an outhouse where ho hi attacked her and then fled When tho girl told her mother Mrs Reed her ber husband h not being at home armed herself with a shotgun un formed a a. of neighbors and led cd them in in pursuit of tho the n negro o. o After a lon long longchase chase tho the ne ro was discovered cred hidden behind a log Jog in m a a. wood Mrs Reed called on the of the posse to stand back raised her gun un and dischar discharged ed both barrels barrel into the negro probably fatally wounding him hmm Sho She be began an to reload the gun when the tho sheriff and deputies rode up and took charge char c of tho the negro Mrs Irs Reed sobbing sob sob- bing begged tho the sheriff to let Jet her finish Bostick Th The l sheriff hurried tho the negro to Marietta to prevent pre a n lynching