Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 83
Marlin, Texas, Friday, August 7, 1931

SLAIN OFFICER FATHER
OF BOY FATALLY INJURED

Marlin Man Tells of Two Tragedies
Occuring (sic) in Same Family
Recently.

       M. H. Mimms, director of physical education in Conroe High school, who is spending the summer with parents in Marlin, wishes to call attention to the readers of The Democrat concerning tragedies happening to the same family as published by The Democrat recently.
       In the issue of June 20, a short article was printed concerning an Associated Press report of the injury of a Conroe High school athlete, Thomas Beyett, of the little town of Magnolia, who died a day later as the result of diving in a shallow pool of water.  Thomas graduated from Conroe High school in May and was considered as the best left-half back in the district.
       Thursday's issue of The Democrat carried the news of the capture of one of the two negroes who slew Constable T. J. Beyett and wounded Justice of the Peace B. H. Dulaney while they were carrying the two negroes to the Conroe jail.  Constable Beyett of Magnolia is the father of the young athlete.  Thomas Beyett--two untimely deaths occuring (sic) in the same family within a period of less than two month' time.

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