Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 13
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 23, 1907
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CONVICTS ARE TAKEN TO THEPEN (sic)
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Jim Nelson, Street Carnival Shootist,
Is On This Chain Gang.
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The state convict transfer agent took from Marlin Tuesday two convicts sentenced
in the district court to put up time for their wrong doing.
Jim Nelson, convicted and given thirty
years for killing the negro girl during the street carnival here last December,
was one of them. Jim appealed his case, but the higher court affirmed it
and Jim will have to serve the state. There is yet another murder charge
pending against him, for killing Paul Broadus, a negro man, at the same time.
He will be brought back in July to stand trial on this charge.
Peter Holmes, the other negro taken to the
pen, was given five years for assaulting Dr. Manny, a prominent physician of
Stranger on the streets of Marlin early in January.
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