People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — MURDERED BY DUPES. [ARTICLE]

MURDERED BY DUPES.

Bev. B. F. Gaston, Colored Immigration Agent, and Six Others Reported Killed. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5. —A report has been received that Rev. B. F. Gaston, a negro who has been getting immigrants for Africa, and who lay in jail in New York for a long time, was shot and killed, together with six of his friends, at Devorant, in Hancock county, during the morning. Gaston has been there some time working his immigration scheme. It is said his assailants \ ere negraes whom he had duped on a former occasion.