The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 16
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 16, 1904

NEGRO TAKEN TO ALABAMA.
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John Wesley Wanted For Killing
A White Man.
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     Deputy Sheriff W. H. Holt, of Wilcox county, Alabama, left Marlin Sunday afternoon having in charge John Wesley, a negro wanted in that county on a charge of killing a young white man named Melton.
     The arrest of Wesley was made by Deputy Sheriff Steen at the poor farm near where the negro had been working since January.
     The negro admits the killing but claims it was an accident, as the result of a squabble in a crap game. Another negro who was in the game was arrested and put in the callaboose which was burned down upon him by a mob of infuriated friends of the man who was killed.  The Wesley negro doubtless has visions of cremation or hanging himself when his arrival in Wilcox county. However, the officer who took the negro back, says he does not expect any trouble of this kind. 
     The papers brought by the Alabama officer were regular and Gov. Lanham honored the requisition promptly.

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