Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 5
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 03, 1902
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NEGRO COMMITS
GRAVE CRIME.
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Charged With Assault Upon A
Little Girl.
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Had a Bad Record Before Him.
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       Sheriff Carlton is looking for one Alf Mimms, who is charged with having committed a very grave crime, his ten year old step daughter being the victim.
       Alf has been working on the farm of Mr. Geo. W. Barnes on Blue Ridge for some time and it was there that the crime was alleged to have been committed.
       The culprit made his escape and has not been captured, though the sheriff's force is scouring the country and will probably be only a short time until he is behind the bars.
       Mimms is a sharp featured, high cheeked, coal black negro, with a bad record.  He has been on the country road divers and sundry times during the past few years, having been sent up for various crimes from "rolling de bones" to wife beating.
       When he is corralled this time he will be tried on a much more serious charge and a long term in the pen or a short engagement with the gallows may await him.

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