Paul Perry and Charles Perry Discuss Azzie Martin Murder

Paul Perry and Charles Perry Discuss Azzie Martin Murder

Oral History Interview

Turner County Art Council/Ashburn Historic Preservation Commission Oral History Project.

2003

Shelley Zorn, Gail Walls

H. Paul Perry, Charles B. Perry

Perry Funeral Chapel

Shelley: Tell us what you know about the Evans House that's supposed to be haunted.

Paul: There's some apartments up there. And some people had hired... were going to have a party if memory serves right? And they had hired this girl to do some cooking up there for them. And there was some drinking in which one of them made a remark to her, and she talked back to them, and they supposedly slapped her, and she fell and hit her head on the fireplace part. And they took her and wrapped her up in a rug, I believe, and carried her out to the country. And put her in a pond.

Shelley: Azzie Martin. We have her name now.

Charles: Off the Cannon Road. There was a little creek bed out there.

Paul: I don't know that anybody was ever charged or anything.

Gail: Well, they said they actually had a trial.

Shelley: And the person was a hung jury is what one source tells us.

Gail: The man is still alive that supposedly did the murder and lives in Moultrie. And the same name keeps coming up. I mean, it's come up a dozen times [unclear phrase]. But some of the Shinglers, I understand, were also involved in this. You know, back in that time, it was like a kangaroo court anyway. Nobody – it was hung jury.

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