Did you know that the publisher of a local newspaper fatally shot the Monroe County Clerk of Superior Court in 1850– was not convicted?

The two had a “difficulty,” as the expression went. The Clerk of the Superior Court, Rufus J. Pinckard, sent the county’s legal ads to a Macon newspaper to run instead of placing them with “The Bee,” the local journal. So Joseph Cohron, the irate publisher of “The Bee,” shot Pinckard on the courthouse square. [Admittedly Pinckard was walking with a cow hide whip in his hand at the time the two men met.]