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Cedartown Standard, July 26, 1917

Daniel G. McCollum, Rome, July 30, --Daniel G. McCollum, a 23 year-old farmer, residing at Seney, was killed here yesterday by his cousin, Marion Scoggins, who is in the Floyd County jail charged with murder. The two had come to Rome from their home on the Polk line in Scoggins� automobile to take two girls riding, through Scoggins is a married man with three children.
While Scoggins had gone to get the girls, McCollum drove the car without his cousin�s permission. A punctured tire betrayed the use of the machine to the owner, who reprimanded McCollum. This led to a quarrel, and Scoggins drew a small knife, with which he stabbed his cousin in the arm. The blade pierced an artery, and the youth bled to death while on his way to a hospital. Scoggins at first denied the killing, but afterwards admitted it, and claimed self-defense.

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