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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Queer Methods Exposed in Trial.
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       A. J. Jefferson, a negro hack driver, was acquitted in county court Thursday of a charge of theft of $20.  The case was somewhat out of the ordinary; inasmuch as the defendant was charged with collecting and appropriating to his own use, a fee from a physician that was alleged to be due another negro for "boosting" a patient into the office of the said physician.
       After hearing the evidence the county attorney asked the court to dismiss the case and the court did so on the ground that the money alleged to have been stolen was not in fact stolen from the complainant, but that it was either the money of the doctor or of the patient and that the prosecuting witness had no case in court.
       The evidence submitted establishes a condition that will rise to curse this town as a health resort unless it is discontinued.

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