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THE DAILY
DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 104
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, September 1, 1931
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TWENTY-SIX INDICTMENTS
RETURNED by GRAND JURY
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Report Says Officers 'Should Make
Diligent Investigation
of Shooting'
Twenty-six indictments charging felonies were returned by the grand jury for the
May term of Falls county district court at its final session in Marlin Monday
afternoon.
Names of defendants in custody or on bond,
with charges against each indicted, are:
G. W. McFadden, two cases of (missing); C.
C. Graves, Jake M (missing) - Pate, John Henry White, Elvin Arnold, one case of
burglary, each; Charlie Young, five cases of passing a forged instrument; Monroe
Reddick, failure to stop and render aid; Ermon Arnold and James Witherspoon,
assault to murder. The defendant named in one of the indictments has not
been arrested.
Report on Shooting.
In
addition to the indictments, the grand jury made a written report, which read:
"To the Hon. E. M. Dodson, Judge:
"We, the grand jury for the May term of
district court of Falls county, Texas, beg leave to report that we have finished
our labors at this time and ask that we be discharged. At this, our last
sitting, we learn that three white men have recently gone to the of a negro,
called him from his house and shot at him several times. That no arrests
were made for said offense, and that there was practically no investigation made
by the officers. We believe that the officers should make a diligent
investigation of this matter and that it should be called to the attention of
the next grand jury.
"We wish to thank the district judge, the
district attorney and his assistant and sheriff for their co-operation and
assistance to the grand jury. W. F. McKinley, Foreman."
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