Typed as spelled and written
Kay Cunningham

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Fifteenth Year - Number 22
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 28, 1904

MORE ABOUT MART TRAGEDY.
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THE DOUBLE KILLING IS BEING FULLY
INVESTIGATED.
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     The officers are investigating the details of the double tragedy at Mart a few nights ago and while they are not ready to give out anything yet, some interesting developments may be expected when the matter is thoroughly aired.
     The tragedy took place at midnight at a negro dance just below the round house at Mart. It seems that Edgar Persons, a white man, and one or two other companions had gone to the negro ball, and while there he and some of the negroes became engaged in a quarrel, and in a short time Persons and a negro named Jim Scott were in a fight. In the melee three shots were fired. Scott, the negro fell, having a bullet hole in his left side, and same seems to have entered from the back. He lived only a short time. Persons, the white man, disappeared and nothing more was seen of him until early next morning, when his lifeless form was found in about twenty yards of where the shooting occurred. He had a bullet hole through the back of his head and it appeared as if he had died a short time after the shooting, as he was cold and stiff.
     Just what brought on the row and who did the shooting, is not fully known, however, the officers are making thorough investigations of the matter.
     Person, the white man who was killed lived at Prairie Hill and was well connected. He came to Mart the day before, and was well known in that city. He was 20 years of age, and was unmarried.
     The negro, Jim Scott, lived in Mart.
     Sam Foster, a negro of Otto, has been arrested charged with killing Persons.

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