Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Twelfth Year - Number --
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, February 6, 1902
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MORRIS HANGED AT CORSICANA.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 31--Thomas Morris, a white blacksmith, who came to Texas
from Malvern Ark., was hanged in the Navarro county jail at Corsicana at 12:30
today, for the murder of W. G. Broome, a white carpenter, on June 7, 1900.
Morris was very weak, and could not give
attention to newspaper men or others, except spiritual advisers. He was 50
years old and leaves a widow, but no children.
The hanging was private on third floor of
the jail in the presences of thirty persons, including officials and physicians.
Morris killed Broome for robbery. He
crushed his head with an axe while asleep and threw the body in a pond of water,
and and (sic) confiscated his wagon, team. etc.
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