Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 10
Marlin, Texas,Thursday, May 2, 1907

ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGES
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Negro Held a Second Time for Simi-
lar Offense.
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       A negro named Pittman was brought to town by a number of other negroes Wednesday and delivered to Sheriff Poole.
       He is held for attempting a heinous crime east of town early that morning.  He was but recently discharged in a similar case for want of sufficient evidence to convict.  The negroes, who brought thim (sic) in were armed with shotguns and formed a cavalcade that looked menacing to the prisoner.
       The complaining witness is a young negro girl.

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