Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 46
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 30, 1907
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MEDICINE MAN AFTER HIM.
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Aged Darkey From the Bottom
Swears Out Complaint.
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Wm. Stafford, an aged and honest looking darkey from the Clark (f)arm in the
bottom was in town Monday with a story to the effect that the medicine men were
after him and that they had threatened dire vengeance on him if he did not at
once produce $10 which he owed them.
Stafford says that last spring his wife
purchased a "description" from an agent who guaranteed cure about everything
that the African flesh is heir to, and then some. That after the medicine
came it turned out to be no account. Still, says Stafford he
intended to pay the price, as his word was out, but that when the collector
called around Friday and Saturday he did not have the money and he hasn't got it
yet. He avers that the medicine man made ominous gestures and used
language more vigorous than polite, accompanied by a choice lot of threats as to
what he would do in case the money was not forthcoming today.
Stafford saw the sun shine on him Monday
morning and his financial condition was the same as on Saturday. Hence the
sun was not very high before he reached Marlin. He swore out complaints
against the medicine man, and armed with the processes he left to intercept
Deputy Watkins and to point out the offender against his safety and the peace
and dignity of the state.
It is evidently another case of the smooth,
city tongued representative of a foreign house preying upon the ignorant and
unsophistocated, (sic) by separating them from their hard earned cash without an
adequate return for the same.
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