The
Marlin Democrat
January 8, 1908
FIGHT
OVER CIGARETTE
Sheriff Poole arrested Robert Richardson, a negro youth Thursday afternoon on
the charge of fighting. The charge grows out of a free for all fight that took
place on New Years night on the Battle farm south of town. The fight started
from a dispute over a cigarette stub which two of the boys wanted and ended up
in one of them. Elisha Hayes, became seriously cut in the neck and in the back.
Parker Richardson, father of Robert, is charged with the cutting and the Sheriff
is looking for him.