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Hello I read The Macon (GA) Telegraph's series of articles on capturing Paul John Knowles. He died in the gunfight NOT on November but December 18, 1974 (date per http://home.scarlet.be/frederic.staes3/serialk-pjk.htm). Other websites have made this miscue about Knowles' death.

I have in front of me the November 22 article on the finding of Florida Trooper Charles Campbell and Delaware businessman James E. Meyer. Knowles was still under indictment in Baldwin County, according to the article.

The bodies were found by deer hunters in the woods off a dirt road four miles from GA247 near Kathleen just inside the Pulaski County line in Georgia. In fact the fifth floor (or fourth; unsure) of the Bibb County Courthouse contained the jail in which Knowles spent some time after his Henry County capture. Next he went to Baldwin County GA. After this he made his way to Douglas County. According to http://home.scarlet.be/frederic.staes3/serialk-pjk.htm he tried to remove a sheriff's gun only to be shot by a GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) agent near Lee Road on Interstate 20 in Douglas County.

Thanks Ken Turner Macon, GA 66.32.147.184 05:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)