Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 24, 1902.
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OTHER HANGINGS.

       So far as the information of the Democrat extends, the hanging of John Roan makes the sixth legal execution that has taken place in Falls county since it was organized, but this is the first one for the crime of which Roan was convicted.
       In 1859 a white man named Hinton was hanged out near what is now the old fair grounds, for the murder of Whittaker, his brother-in-law, near Reagan.
       Silas Woods, a negro, was hanged in the old jail yard a few years later.  Woods murdered his wife and then hacked her to pieces.
       In the early seventies two white men were hanged at a point near where the oil mill lake is now.  One of the men was named Jones and he was convicted on a charge of murder committed east of Marlin.  The other was named Milton and he paid the penalty for the killing of a man near Perry.
       Later on Wash Washington was hanged in Oltorf pasture for killing another negro in the bottom.
       WesWilliams was hanged about twenty-five years ago for murdering his wife on Col A.E.Watson's place.  Williams was hanged at Bean Hill.
       All threse were public, before the law was changed to a requirement of private execution.

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       During the past forty years there have been a number of hangings by Judge Lynch in this county, five having occurred within the past ten or twelve years.  All five were negroes and dealth was dealt out to them for attempting to assault white women.

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