Hides in swamp for 5 days; surrenders
Item
- Title
- Hides in swamp for 5 days; surrenders
- Source
- The Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
- Date
- 1/5/20
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- Image 2 of The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), January 5, 1920 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- swamp; man hunt
- Race of alleged offender
- White alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- white alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Sheriff
- Stage of the Legal System
- arrest
- Location
- out of state; Dublin, GA
- Length of story
- 86
- Description
- DUBLIN. GA:. Jan. 4.—After hiding In the swamp ten miles south of here since Tuesday night. Matt Edwards, 56. came out today and surrendered to Sheriff W. N. Watson. Edwards was being hunted on a charge of murder. It being alleged that he shot and killed his wife as she ran from her home. Several others who were fired upon Edwards was In bad Shape from hunger and exposure. The weather of last night and today drove him out of his hiding place, he admitted.
