Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 21
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 24, 1902
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A NEGRO KILLED.
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Shot To Death By Another Ne-
gro Saturday Night.
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Had Had Trouble Before.
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       Silas Griggsby living on R. J. Garrett's farm near Stranger was shot to death Saturday night by Aaron Thomas, also a Negro.
       The killing was the result of a trouble of several weeks standing between the parties starting over some trivial matter.
       The fight that lead to the killing began between Griggsby and Alex Payne a half brother of Aaron Thomas.  Griggsby fired two shots at Payne and snapped his pistol a third time.  Payne fled from the scene.  Thomas, who lived near by, was attracted by the row and came down with his shotgun.  One barrel of the gun was emptied into Griggsby's anatomy, near the heart at close range, and death was instantaneous.
       Justice J. S. Hayes held an inquest over the remains of Griggsby and rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts above stated.

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