Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 14
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 30, 1907
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AFRAID TO LEAVE GUN AT HOME.
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Was the Negro's Defense But It Did
Not Work.
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Will Walker, a negro
denizen of the Hog Island baliwick, plead guilty to a pistol charge in county
court today and was fined a hundred plunks and the perqusites, which brought it
up to $122. The negro is a tenant on George Lenoir's farm and George paid
the cash and carried Walker home.
Walker's defense was out of the ordinary.
He was at a revival meeting and the preacher was expounding the word when
some other negro "jostled" Walker and the gun fell from his pocket to the floor.
His excuse was that he left his children at and was afraid they would get the
pistol and hurt themselves. His explanation failed to explain to the
satisfaction of the court.
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