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Calhoun Times (Gordon Co. GA) January 5, 1904:
“Abe Cox fatally shot Jesse Robertson, a tenant on his farm about five and a half miles southeast of Calhoun, Saturday evening, Dec. 24. The shooting was done in the Cox home where Cox and his children had been living for several weeks gathering the cotton on the place.
There were several in the house at the time of the shooting and according to the statement of an eyewitness they were in the kitchen sitting around the dining table. Cox and Robertson were talking to each other and Cox was calling Robertson nicknames and also cursed him. Witness thought it was all in fun and did not pay any attention to what was said. Finally, Robertson started home, going out through the front of this house, but when near the front door turned and came back. When he reached the dining room door Cox reached for his gun. As Cox picked the gun up Robertson and J.P. Harvie grasped the gun also, and Harvie, so it is said, asked Cox to turn the gun loose and stop such foolishness. According to the statement of witnesses Robertson was trying to work around near the kitchen door which opened onto the yard, with the evident intention of escaping. When the three were in about eight feet of the door Robertson turned the gun loose and ran. Cox, in the meantime, wrenched the gun from Harvie’s hands and turning, fired at Robertson as he was disappearing through the doorway. John Talley was in the room at the time and was sitting at one end of the table eating, but did not take part in the scuffle over the gun. He said he thought Cox fired into the ground at the door and did not think he hit Robertson until one of Cox’s little boys came into the room and said Robertson was groaning out near the gate. Cox then told Talley to go out and look after him and Harvie was ordered by Cox to go after a physician. Harvie then left for Adairsville and Talley started off to notify the neighbors.
The load of shot took effect in back of Robertson’s right leg about two inches above the knee joint, severing the arteries and causing death within a few minutes from loss of blood.
Cox was captured about a quarter of a mile from where the shooting occurred, at the home of J.P. Harvie, a tenant, about 3 o’clock the next morning. He had become so cold from exposure during the night that he ventured into the Harvie [next word unreadable] warm when the officers [next word unreadable] neighborhood went in and captured him while sitting before the fire and he did not offer any resistance when placed under arrest.
An inquest was held by the coroner over the remains of Robertson and the verdict of the jury was that Robertson’s death resulted from a gun shot would inflicted by A.M. Cox and that in their opinion it was murder.
Jesse Robertson had been a tenant on the Cox place about one month, having moved there from Mrs. Morrow’s farm to help Cox gather his cotton crop. He had been married only a few months to a daughter of Mr. Tom Fowler, of Lily Pond. The wedding took place at Blackwood during the revival there last fall.”
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