The Baby Overland

<p>This book is a dramatization of a killing that took place in 1920 and documents the capture multiple trials and sentencing of a man who was suffering from a mental disorder.</p><p>This book's inspiration was planted indelibly in my mind by my late Uncle James Ellis Boyd. It happened when I was a young boy - sitting on a rock formation on the bank of Swift Creek in lower Toombs County Georgia. Just as a child listening keenly to someone reading them a bedtime fable I sat there entranced with my uncle's storytelling my feet dangling in the cool stream. Uncle James told me all about a horrific event that happened on February 19 1920 not far from where we were sitting. I became all ears!</p>