CHEROKEE PHOENIX
Wednesday, February 4, 1829
Volume 1 No. 47
Page 2 Col. 3a-4a

A man by the name of James White was on the 26th ult. committed to prison in Jasper, Tennessee, for the crime of murdering one George Brown.  Mrs. Brown, wife of the deceased is supposed to have been accessary to the horrid act of taking the life of her husband. She has likewise been committed.  White and this woman, while Brown was living, were known to live too intimate.

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