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Show PLANTER CONVICTED OF MURDER Georgian Found Guilty of Drowning Negro Farm Hands. Covington, Ga. John S. Williams, plantation owner, was found guilty by a jury here Saturday of- murder, in connection with the Jasper county peonage cases. The jury recommended recommend-ed mercy. The verdict carries with it automatically auto-matically a life imprisonment sentence. sen-tence. Williams was convicted specifically of the murder of Lindsey Peterson, a negro farm hand, whose body, bound and weighted with a sack of rocks, was found with that of another negro employee on Williams' farm In Tellow river, In this (Newton) county, just over the line from Jasper county. Bodies, of nine other negroes, said to have been killed to conceal peonage conditions, have been found buried on the farm or elsewhere. |