Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 48
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 6, 1907
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NEWS AT THE COURTHOUSE.
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Two Lunacy Cases Tried--Jailed
for Burglary and Theft.
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       Two parties were adjudged insane by juries in the county court, John Childers, whie, and Bessie Washington, colored.  Both will be confined in the asylum as soon as admission can be secured.
      
       Bud Roberts, a well known character around Marlin, is in jail on a charge of burglarizing the safe of the McKinney store at Stranger, from which about $15.00 was secured.  Roberts has no feet and crawls as a means of locomotion.
      
       Selder weems, a negro was placed in jail on the charge of stealing a gun from a party at Highbank.  He was arrested at Waco.

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