Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 41
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 12, 1907
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NEGRO KILLED WIFE.
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SHOT HER IN THE HEAD WITH
PISTOL---CLAIMS ACCIDENT.
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Tragedy Took Place Near St Paul at
One O'clock A.M.
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Mary Williams, wife of Sam Williams, is dead with a hole in her head made by a
pistol. Her husband admits the killing but says it was an accident.
The tragedy occurred at the of the
Williams, who are negroes, on the Robertson farm near St. Paul church in the
Brazos bottom at or near one o'clock Thursday morning.
There were no eye witnesses, Isaac Wilson,
who slept at the house, says that when he heard some rustling and scuffling he
stuck his head under the cover and saw nothing more until after the shooting was
over, when he saw the woman dead. He can give no particulars. He was
too scared to remember anything except that when he heard the noise he went for
more cover.
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