Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 36
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 25, 1907
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Riesel Has a Shooting Affray.
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The refusal of a negress to repay borrowed money, and the "cussing out," she
gave the lender, by whom the demand was made, was the cause which led up to a
shooting in Riesel Saturday night, in which the woman was dangerously wounded
and a negro man who was in her company was painfully though not seriously
injured.
The man, who did the shooting, is known as
Bill Reed, and when the woman refused to pay the money back he went off, and as
it developed a little later, secured a double barrelled (sic) shotgun. The
woman, Lavinia Ross, escorted by another coon, John Harrison, shortly came along
and when about forty or fifty yards away Reed proceeded to crack down, one
charge striking the woman, scattering from her chin downward, and the other shot
caught her escort in the middle rear as he was making an effort to put distance
between himself and the warlike son of Ham who was bent upon perforating his
anatomy. That they escaped instant death is ascribed to the fact that the
shot was small.
The Reed negro was consigned to the Waco
jail.
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