m, 13, SEES
FAMILY SLAIN
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Claims Moonshiner Beau of Sis
ter Committed Quadruple
Murder.
ONLY ONE ESCAPES
Facing Trial for Attack on Girl, Man
Is Believed to Have Planned
to Wipe Out Whole
Family.
Amorv, Miss.—Charlie Marshall,
moonshiner and backwoods beau, is
^b'der heavy guard in the jail at Aber
deen, charged with the most brutal
quadruple 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 eight-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 that
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
t drove In with their womenfolk
seated in chairs in the boxes of the
lumber wagons to discuss in shocked
whispers what had been done in th<
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
Amorv with his prisoner in an automo
bile and saved Marshall from the ven
geance of the countryside.
There was much talk in the Tom
Bigbee bottom about the Miller family
and Charlie Marshall. Fannie Miller
raid 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
iufcihe 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 she
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Clubbed to Death the Crawling
Baby.
was walking with him it) 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 innoceni
of the girl’s charges and his trial was
tWjave been held at the next term of
court.
According to Pearl Miller’s story,
which she 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 baity crawling on t lie 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 Wheels.
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
let a car decapitate him.
HEARTBROKEN MAN
STARVES 23 DAYS
Wife Gone, He Crawls Into Woods
Where He Is Found
Emaciated.
Lathrop. Ind.—Not caring to live be
cause his wife had taken his savings
and eloped with another man, Melie
Relish, forty-three years old. crawled
into a clump of bushes in the woods
near his home to die of starvation.
Me was found 23 days later by farm
ers, clad only in summer underwear
and a light serge suit. He lay in a
clump of bushes, his body completely
emaciated, too weak to call for assist
ance.
When taken to town $133 in cash
was found in his clothes in addition
to a bank book which showed a good
account at a Lathrop bank. It Is
doubtful if he recovers.
After physicians had succeeded in
reviving the man so that he was able
Found 23 Days Later.
to talk In low whispers, he said that
16 years ago he came to the United
States from Vienna, leaving a wife
and children behind and promising to
send for them when he had saved
enough to buy a small farm.
Then the war came on and his plans
were thwarted. As soon after the
armistice as he was able to get In
communication with his wife he re
ceived a letter in which she said she
would come to him if he would send
$1,000 for transportation. He sent the
money, but never heard from her
again. Finally he wrote to relatives
of the woman, who told him she had
married another man.
THIS NEST MAKES HENS LAY
Egg Drops, Then Bell Rings Up the
Owner—There Are Few
False Alarms.
St. Louis—A bell rang in the
kitchen of the home of Robert W.
Maxton of this city, and was followed
by the cackling of a proud hen.
“There’s someone at the door,” a
visitor suggested.
“Oh., no.” replied Mr. Maxton. “One
of m.v hens has just .aid an egg.”
Mr. Maxton was tired of supporting
hens that would not lay, he explained,
so he installed “trick nests” in his
hennery.
When a hen enters a nest, a door
•lose- end imprisons the fowl until
released by the owner. In this way
Mr Maxton ascertains what hens are
laying the eggs.
An electric alarm is connected to
the doors of the nests, and when a
hen seeks exit by pressing against
one of the doors, the bell in the
kitchen rings.
The plan has worked successfully
for several months. Mr. Maxton said,
and there have been no false alarms.
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a postage stamp. The child lost the
purse in a field where she went on a
school picnic and in which the cow
was grazing. After the cow had been
butchered recently, the purse was
found intact in the stomach.
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