Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 31
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 7, 1907
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NEGRO WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN BED
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It is Believed Her Death Due to
Heart Trouble.
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       Mattie Spillman, a negro woman, who lived on Park street, near the fair grounds, was found dead at her Wednesday night.
She and her husband had been picking cotton for J. E. Connor, north of Marlin, until Wednesday, when she returned to this city.  About ten o'clock Wednesday morning was the last time she was seen and it is suposed that she died shortly thereafter.  Only her two children were in the house at the time of her death, both of whom are too small to give any information in regard to the affair.
       Wednesday night one of the neighbors called at the house and found the woman dead.  The officers were notified and a doctor summoned, but at the inquest held by Judge Dashiel is due (sic) was ascertained that she had been dead several hours when her body was found.

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