Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 40
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 9, 1907
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Neck Almost Severed.
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Two Negroes Have a Fight: One is
a Corpse.
Longview, Tex., Oct 8.--Near Elderville, Nathan Cotton, Jr. and in this county,
Nathan Cotton, Jr. and another negro had a difficulty. A shotgun was
discharged almost against Cotton's neck, which nearly severed the negro's neck,
killing him instantly. Jim Blackman was jailed.
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