Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 34
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 18, 1907
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BUNCH OF OFFENDERS ARRESTED.
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Show Day Followed b Heavy Re-
ceipts at Jail.
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Show day was followed by
heavy receipts at the county jail. All the peace offices had business
Saturday afternoon and Saturday night and Jailor Cooley was called upon to
provide temporary quarters for nine new arrivals.
Marshal Stallworth arrested two negroes
who, were engaged in a scrap at Peacock's, Jim Williams and Austin Coleman, by
name; an aged negro who was drunk and down at the postoffice, was placed in the
cooler by the marshal.
Policeman Gray took a negro in front of
Levy's store late in the afternoon. The negro was somewhat on the fighting
order, but came out second best. One other was arrested by Gray for being
drunk and a showman was allowed to sober up in the jail by the policeman.
Constable Hemphill arrested Jim Battle, who
stuck a knife in Jim Wiley Berry in rear of Reeeves & Kay's market. Walter
Daniels, a young negro who was trying to use an iron pin on one of his own
color, and Capt. Jack Duggan, at the corner of Bunch, Adams & Co's store, was
conducted to the bastile by the constable after he had been subdued with a
billie.
Sheriff Poole corralled a Kansas negro, who
was with the show drinking and not accustomed to the south, addressed the
sheriff as "brother", and in terms not recognized between the races in this
country. The colored sunflower from Kansas was given a few lessons in
racial equette, viewed from a southern standpoint and was conducted to the jail.
He was later released and was permitted to go on with the show. (Missing)
and costs amounted to $12.80. Davis Jones was also put in the jug to
answer an old case.
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