Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Thirteenth Year - Number 41

Marlin, Texas, December 11, 1902

(Paper may be Dec 1, 1902-lsc)

WITH THE COURTS.

County Court.

    In the county court Isaac Bowers plead quilty to abusive language and was fined $5.00 and the trimmings. The defendant is a negro.

    George Mack was taken to Reagan Friday by Deputy Sheriff Steen to stand an examining trial on a charge of robbing another negro of a pistol and some money.  The state is represented by Assistant County Attorney D. H Boyles.

    The county judge has instructed the county attorney to substitute the papers in the cases against Hugh Burnes, Tom Cronin and I. R. Thomas.  The original papers having been lost.  The defendants are charged with obstructing the public high way by laying the track of the I & G N railway on the public road leading from Marlin toward the Falls, the offense having been committed, as alleged, in November 1900, when the I & G N was entering Marlin.  The cases have never been tried but they have never been abated.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.