Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 52
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 20, 1907
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LIVELY SHOOTING SCRAP.
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Two Negroes Engage in Fight at
a Festival.
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       A lively scrimmage was pulled off at a festival given by some of the colored population at Givens hall Friday night.  T. D. Seeley and Geo. Carroll were the participants.
       Seeley claims that Carroll was reaching for him with a knife when he, Seeley, pulled his gun and got busy.  He fired four shots at the fleeting form of the Carroll negro, only one of which came near to finding a mark.  It grazed Carroll's head and dislocated a few tufts of wool.  Some of the bystanders were scared with in an inch of their lives and for a time things looked panicky thereabouts.  The fight occurred in the outskirts of the crowd and was not a part of the festival.

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