»GIRL, 13, SEES
FAMILY SLAIN
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Claims Moonshiner Beau of Sis
ter Committed Quadruple
Murder.
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ONLY ONE ESCAPES
Facing Trial for Attack on Girl, Man
is Believed to Have Planned
to Wipe Out Whole
^ Family.
Amory, Miss.—Charlie Marshall,
moonshiner and backwoods beau, Is
under heavy guard in tiie jail at Aber
deen, charged with the- most brutal
<fladruple murder ever known in this
section.
For, when they buried the charred
and shattered bodies of Fannie Green
Miller, who had been Marshall’s sweet
heart; her elght-months-old baby, Bur
ley, said to have been Marshall’s son;
Robert Miller, Fannie’s father, and
Leonard, her brother, sixteen, the stage
was set for the lynching of Charlie
Marshall.
Pearl Miller, thirteen, the only sur
viving member of the family, says that
she watched Charlie Marshall at the
hideous task of slaughtering the four
victims of the swampland tragedy.
The belief of the countryside is thai
Charlie Marshall, facing trial shortly
for an attack on Fannie Miller,
planned to dodge this trial by wiping
out the whole Miller family, and that
the escape of the thirteen-year-old, girl
upset this plan.
From miles about the lean and
swarthy dwellers of the bottom coun
try drove in with their womenfolk
seated in chairs in the boxes of the*
'lumber wagons to discuss in shocked
vrtiispers what had been done in the
blackness of a stormy night. Then
were ominous bulges under homespun
shirts; there were well-worn shotguns
and rifles under the wagon seats.
Sheriff John B. Lewis fled, from
Amory with his prisoner in an automo
bile and saved Marshall from the ven
geance of the countryside.
There was much talk In the Tom
Blgbee bottom about the Miller family
aDd Charlie Marshall. Fannie Miller
had known Marshall all her life, but
started “keeping company” with him
* three years ago, when he “saw her
home” from a circuit rider’s meeting.
She was fifteen then, and Marshall
twice her age.
Tells Father of Attack.
About eighteen months ago the girl
returned one evening and tore up Mar
shall’s picture, scattering the frag
ments in the fireplace.
Her mother died 12 years ago, and
in the lonely farmhouse Fannie had no
^one to whom she could confide.
Later she was compelled to tell her
father what had happened. She said
that Marshall had seized her as sb®
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Clubbed to Death the Crawling
Baby.
was walking with him in a field, and
had dragged her into a canebreak,
smothering her cries by pressing his
hand over her mouth.
Robert Miller had his three mother
less children to care for, one of them
needing him more desperately than
ever, so he determined to let the law
take its course. He had Marshall ar
rested. Marshall said he was innocent
of the girl’s charges and his trial was
to have been held at the next term of
court.
.\ecordii)ir to Pearl Miller’s story
which site Tells with the self-control
of a strong-minded adult, Marshall en
tered her home after her father, broth
er and sister had been shot down and
the home dynamited. He clubbed to
death the baby crawling on the floor
beside its dead mother, soaked the
place with oil and set fire to it as
Pearl fled through the loft and ran.
with a sprained ankle, over a mile of
flooded fields to the home of a neigh
bor.
Prisoner Throws Self Under Wheel*.
New York.—To avoid facing a
charge of picking pockets, Nathan Pal
estine, while being taken to court, es
caped, placed his head on the elevat
ed railroad tracks in New York and
Set a car decapitate him.
THE BOY SCOUT'S BUSY LIFE,
Montclair, N. J., scout headquarters
reports over 500 visitors for week-ends
at its winter camp site. In view ol
the fact that this camp is sixteen
miles from council headquarters its
extensive use is significant.
Nearly a thousand boy scouts, rep
resenting fifty troops, scoured Kansas
City, Mo., for violations of the light
and fuel orders. Reports made by the
scouts to their scoutmasters will be
turned over to the fuel administra
tion.
Peyser’s new hat-blocking outfit if
in operation. Hats blocked, dyed anc
repaired. Phone 188.
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
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Ladies’ and gent’s shoes shined at
The Club Barber Shop. 12-tf
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. Tablecloths of real linen, well
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