Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 31
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, October 2, 1902

COTTON THIEVES CAUGHT.
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Had Stolen Four Hundred pounds Of
Cotton Seed.
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       Two negroes, Clifton and Henry Jones, were arrested Saturday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Frank Stallworth on a charge of stealing cotton.  Deputy Stallworth had a lively chase after them and fired a shot in the air, hoping to "slow them down."  He finally landed them behind the bars, however.
       The negroes are charged with the theft of about four hundred pounds of seed cotton from Steve Hamphill's farm Friday night.  The cotton was taken from the pile where it had been left and brought to town and sold to the Marlin Oil Company's gin and circumstances point very strongly to the parties now under arrest.

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