Good old Days: July 16, 2020

8 years ago

The Commoner

July 19, 1895

Thursday morning Prosecuting Attorney Canfield moved that the case of the state vs. G.M. Eddie, charged with grand larceny, be dismissed and the defendant be discharged.

This action was taken after one of the hottest legal contests enlivening justice court proceedings in Colfax for a long time.

G.M. Eddie, well known in Colfax as a painter and decorator, for several months past has been following the business of photography. During June he was located in Elberton, and having given the inhabitants there ample opportunity of securing the “shadow e'er the...