Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty First Year - Number 58
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 9, 1931

FEMALE OF SPECIES PROVES
BETTER BATTLER THAN MALE

Negro Boy Suffers Knife Wounds in
'Kid Fight' in South
Marlin.

       The female of the species proved a better battler than the male, attested by knife wounds on the face, hand and breast suffered by Freddie Johnson, negro boy, in an altercation in South Marlin Tuesday afternoon.
       A 14-year old negro girl did the carving, according to Deputy Davis of the Falls county sheriff's office who investigated and described it as a "kid fight."  Another negro boy was allied on the side of the vanquished, he reported.
       Beginning with a battle of bottles and rocks in the open between the two boys on one side and the girl on the other, the conflict surged into a nearby house where a butcher-knife was added to the implements of warfare.
       This proved the "difference" for the girl, who registered a speedy
victory, and resulted in a call being sent in for "the law."

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