Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 51
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 16, 1907
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To Hang for Murder.
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Hopewell Cape, N. B., Nov. 14.--The end of one of the most noted murder cases
that has excited this section in recent years will come tomorrow with the
execution of Thomas F. Collins for the murder of Mary Ann McAuley. The
crime was committed a year ago last August. At that time Collins, of whose
personal history little has been learned, appeared in New Ireland and was given
employment by Father McAuley, a Catholic priest, for whom Miss McAuley was
housekeeper. One day during the absence of the priest at another mission
station, the woman was struck down by some person and killed with an ax.
Collins disappeared, and when arrested several days later was making his way
toward the Maine border. There were three trials of the case.
Collins was convicted on the first trial, but on appeal secured a new trial,
which resulted in a disagreement. The third trial took place last
September and resulted in a verdict of guilty and a setence (sic) of death.
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