Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 30
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 4, 1907
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PAID THE PRICE FOR GUN TOTING.
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Bunch of Pleas Of Guilty in County
Court.
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       J. W. Madison was assessed a fine of a cool $100 in the county court Tuesday on the charge of carrying a pistol, to which he plead guilty.
       There have been an unusually large number of pleas of guilty at this term of the court, the last batch including the following for gaming:

       Sam Mack, Mack Smith, Jim Dixon, Van Dephreo, Taylor Waite, Sam Waite, Will Russell, Box Section, Ben Menefee, Frank Trivena, Frank Flores, Monk Williams, Major Babels and Tom Moore.  In each case the defend(ant) was fined the sum of $10 and the trimmings.
       Richard Elligan, charged with theft got $5.00 and a term in jail.
       Monroe Brady, the negro who whipped his wife with a china limb got $5.00.

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