Fleet-footed Craps Shooter Fled Through Ray City After Murder

Another fugitive passes through Ray City history.

Atlanta Daily World
September 18, 1941 Pg 1

MAN COVERS 70 MILES IN 22 HOURS FOLLOWING SLAYING

MOULTRIE, Ga., Following a dice game killing, an un-named man is said to have covered 70 miles in 22 hours on foot before he was arrested.  Sheriff T.V. Beard said the murderer was cornered in a field near a turpentine still in Clinch county after a chase through Lakeland, Nashville and Ray City, from a starting point in Ellenton, Ga.  The slaying reportedly followed an argument over a 10-cent wager on the dice.