GEORGIA AFFAIRS
Item
- Title
- GEORGIA AFFAIRS
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1881-08-29
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1881-08-29/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; Stepdaughter
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- In state, Reidsville GA
- Length of story
- 67
- Description
-
Reidsville Enterprise: “Pete Baggs, color
ed was lodged in jail here last Monday night,
charged with rape. As the story comes to us,
we learn that on last Wednesday morning he
assaulted Rilla Johnson, his stepdaughter, on
the road, and she states carried out his de
signs, she at once had a warrant issued for
his arrest. and he was afterwards overhauled
and taken before Justice Smith.”