The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year Number 12
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 19, 1904
REV. CRANFILL PLACED
UNDER $1000 BOND
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For Assault To Kill
The controversity that has existed
between Revs - Editors Cranfill and Hayden for ten years has at last reached the
fire arm stage, two shots being fired in a personal difficulty in a sleeping car
near Texarkana early Thursday morning while the two were enroute to the Southern
Baptist convention at Nashville. Neither was injured as the shots went wild.
Rev. Cranfill was placed under $1000 bond to await the action of the grand jury
on a charge of assault to kill, filed by Rev. Hayden.
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