The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-24
FRED P HOLLIS IS
 KILLED BY NEGRO Father of Murderer Captured
 and is in Jail QUARRELED OVER A DEBT After the Quarrel Hollis With Others
After the Quarrel Hollis With Others Heavily Armed Returned to the Negro's Home and Renewed
 the Difficulty With Him.

Selma, May S-(Special )-This morn- ing on the Conner place, near Thomas ton, in Marengo county, Fred P. Hollis, a prominent young planter of Thomaston. was shot and killed by Ed Glover, d negro.
 Late yesterday afternoon Hollis went to see the negro Glover and his father. Fanin Glover, to collect debt quarrel ensued between the men in which it is stated the negroes cursed young Hollis. This morning, accompanied by his cousin. Charles Hollis, and an other young man named O'Neal all three armed with shot guns, Hollis went down to tho cabin of the negroes.
 Who fired the first shot is not known, but young Hollis received a ball from E Glover's pistol which struck him near the temple His companions attended to him and the negro that did the shooting es- capped.
 E. c. Coates, a deputy, reached the scene of the shooting about twenty min- utes after 1t occurred. and found Fanln Glover seated on the steps of his house with pistol in his hand.
 The officer but the negro in a buggy and hastened with him toward Uniontown, where he expected to take the train fer Selma. In the meantime a posse went hunting for Ed Glover
 Threatened With Mob.
 When Mir Coates and his prisoner reached the vicinity of Uniontown the prisoner was taken to the home of Val
 
 noon train for Selma. News of the shooting of MT. Hollis, who was a social favorite in all this section, had reached Uniontown, and when it became known that one of the negroes implicated in the shooting was near that place move ment was started looking to wreclxing summary vegeance on the negro.
 Deputy Coates, learning of the move ment. hastened back to the home of Mr. Taylor and taking his prisoner walked and ran all the way to Tayloes, a dis tance of five miles.
 Rain came up as he was making the trip, and his Journey was anything but pleasant. The train was boarded at Fay loes, and the negro was brought to Selma, where he was safely landed in jail.
 MT. ftOlHS lived untll aDOut 1.d0 O CLOCK, and the news of his death was tele- graphed to Selma about that time. When the train from Uniontown came in there were twenty-five or thirty persons at the depot but no violence was attempted here it having become known through the afternoon paper that the negro being brought here was not directly charged with the killing of young Hollis.
 Son of J. P. Hollis.
 Fred Hollis was 25 years old. his birth day being in August He was the son of J. P. Hollis, a well-to-do planter of Marengo county. The young man had a large circle of friends in Selma, and the news of his tragic deth created no little indignation. There Is little room to doubt that had the father of Ed Glover been left near the scene of the shooting he would have been summarly dealt with. as the feeling is intense and in addition the shooting having occurred near the same place where a young man named Allen, companion of Hollis, was shot by a negro in a difficulty about a year ago. Fann Glover stated upon arriving in Selma that Ed Glover could not get away as he was shot In the shoulder from the load of MT. Hollis gun.