Bullock County Newspaper Data

Bullock County Newspaper Data

ANOTHER FRATRICIDE.
At Union Springs, Alabama, a few days ago, Augustus Paulk, after breakfasting with his brother, Thomas A. Paulk, at the residence of their mother, left the house, and returning shortly afterward with a double-barreled gun, and entering a room in which Thos. was quietly conversing with another brother, said, `You have threatened to kill me; I will kill you first,' and, leveling his piece, fired, killing the former instantly.
The murderer and his wife then fled and effected his escape.
The two brothers had previously quarreled. It is stated that no less than three out of six brothers have come to an untimely end. [Douglas Monthly, Rochester, N.Y., May 1861 - Contributed by a Friend of Free Genealogy]