Murder in Coweta County is a true story based on a murder that was calculated to begin when the courthouse clock struck twelve. In her own words author Margaret Anne Barnes states, “That in 1948 Georgia’s Meriwether County law enforcement was dominated by the wealthy, influential land-baron John Wallace. If he figured a man needed killing that was reason enough. William Turner, his white sharecropper tenant had given him reason, he had stolen two of Wallace’s cows. Wallace chased Turner down and killed him in front of eight eyewitnesses, threw his body in a deserted well and figured that was the end of the Turner affair.
Wallace’s fatal mistake: in chasing Turner down, he crossed the Meriwether County line into adjoining Coweta County, the domain of Sheriff Lamar Potts, a determined, dedicated law man who believed in even-handed justice. To prevent discovery, Wallace forced his two black field hands to help him burn Turner’s body and throw the ashes into a nearby stream thus destroying corpus delicti and thereby prosecution.
Sheriff Potts continued his relentless pursuit of Wallace, with the help of a local fortune-teller, finding enough burned bone chips in the stream to establish corpus delicti and brought Wallace to justice in court. This landmark case in Georgia history is the first time that the testimony of two black field hands convicted a man of such prominence to death in the electric chair in November 1950.”
Part one: Travel to the cache coordinates. This is where the famous trial took place and John Wallace was sentenced to die in Georgia’s electrical chair. If you are at the cache co-ords, there should be a statue in front of you. This stature was erected in ????. Take the date, multiply it by the number of eyes on this statue and subtract 447 to find the North heading. To find the West heading take the date and add 2906.
N_ _ _ _.213
W084 _ _. _ _4
Part two: You are here! This was the man who brought John Wallace to justice. You will notice that he has a first, middle, and last name. His first name has how many letters? Multiply that number by 6 to find the next North co-ords. Take the total number of letters in his name and add 35 to find the West co-ords. Be real careful at your next stop, as the super-natural are watching you.
N33 2_ ._17
W08_ _1.963
Part three: Take plenty of pictures, but do touch anything lying on the ground or disrupt the site! Next to this cache is the mother whose initials are E. H. L., and the father whose initials are J. W. B. L.
Take the birth date of the mother and add the month, day, and year together. Subtract 210 from that number to find the North co-ords. Next take the year J. W. B. L was born and add 2748 to find the West co-ords.
N33 _ _._ _5
W084 _ _._ _9
Part four: This is where it happened…the murder. The chase ended here when William ran out of fuel. John clobbered William on the head with a pistol in the parking lot of the Sunset Inn. Not much left here now. There is a highway sign at the intersection where two US highways meet for a short time. Take the lowest number of the two and insert it in the West co-ord below. Take the higher number and subtract 11 to fill in the North co-ords. Now drive south.
N33 0_._02
W084 4_._63
Part five: You should be standing in front of an older building where William was jailed for a short time. The main exterior material used in the construction is ? Add the letters together that spell the material, and multiply that times the number of open arches on the front corner of the building. Do not count the arched windows on the 3rd floor. Take that number and add 32 to find the next North co-ords. Use that same number and add 31 to find the West co-ords.
N32 _ _.020
W084 _ _.084
Look down at the good earth. There is the man, who in the 1940s ruled this county. Justice was by death on November 3, 1950 in Georgia’s electrical chair.
After John’s death his wife, a good woman, worked for many years at a local department store in LaGrange.
And life goes on…
 Kid Friendly  Dogs Allowed
 Available year-round  Restricted hours  Bicycles permitted on paths  Less than 500 ft. from car to cache
 Restrooms available
 Accessible in Winter
 Bring a pen or pencil  Historic Site |
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