Typed as spelled and written

by Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth Year - Number (Missing)

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 25, 1907

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CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES.

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Negro Mortally Wounded--Tinner

Drops Dead--Brakeman Dies.

    Waco, Texas, Dec. 23.--At 3 o'clock this morning Gabe Wesley, a negro undertaker, was shot and mortally wounded by a burglar.  Wesley was returning from a belated train, where he had gone with a corpse and passing a store he heard or saw some one inside.  He called to the party and was answered with a shot which it is believed will prove fatal.

(not printed) from Paris, Texas, fell dead today from paris, Texas, fell dead today (sic) while unloading his goods at the Katy depot.  Heart disease is assigned as the cause.

J. W. Bass, a Katy brakeman whose leg was ground off under the wheels at Granger Friday afternoon, died here last night.  He will be interred in Illinois.

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