Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 14
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 5, 1902
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NEGRO KILLED AT TEMPLE.

       Walter Childs, a negro about 23 years old, was shot to death at Temple Wednesday afternoon by a posse of citizens who were trying to effect his capture.
       The negro had been arrested by an officer on some misdemeanor and had asked permission to go to his house for some purpose.
       When near his house he snatched the officer's pistol and ran in to the house where he secured his own pistol and stook the officer off.
       In trying to arrest him the posse killed him.

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