Carter Murders and Trial of 1905 In Lowndes County Georgia: The True Story of Ella Armstrong and William Lewis Carter is the story of two financially affluent rural Georgia families from 1890 to 1906. Using property records, open source information, family stories and other documents, the author details fifteen years of strife that spiraled out of control. The result of the conflict was the murder of two children and the hanging of two adults. The story depicted attitude changes from a rural vigilante mindset to the acceptance of the legal system. Another aspect of the story was the changing racial attitudes of the area. Possibly, for the first time, a black man’s testimony against white men was taken so seriously that his testimony led to the conviction of four white men.