The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-18
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young peOpie dtouBs III ~ suoFt ttH0 the young husbands old habits re- worked for a while at number of 'jobs." holding none very long. While working with the railroad bridge crew 1t is said he would frequently on "pay night" lose at i"craps" his en- tire months wages before going home. Tie result was inevitable. credit and jobs" both were lost and on MT. Clark fell the burden of providing the necessaries of life for his daughter and her children.
 Things reached climax in Septem- Der when leaving his family unpro- ,vided for, Robinson went to Grand Junction, Tenn.
 MT. Clark moved his daughter to his own house. Robinson came back after an absence of some six weeks. Mir. and Mrs. Clark forbade him com ing to their house, He tried in vain to induce his wife to live with him again. although he had nowhere to carry her and nothing to live on. He says his wife was prevented by her parents. MT. Clark says his daughter acted on her own volition, that both himself and wife were anxious for them to live together, provided Robin son would go to work.
 Mrs. Robinson filed suit for divorce Robinson made threats to kill the en- tire Clark family, his wife included.
 MT. Clark's oldest daughter had married Owen Robinson. a cousin of Tom. She was included in the threats.
 A few days before the killing Mir Clark swore out warrants for Tom, alleging assault with a gun on Mrs. Tom Robinson.
 With this warrant the officers hunt NHrN Hr.nra Al t~~a proved and it developed afterwards that he had taken refuge with a friend on the mountains. six or eight miles away, where "he was hunting and picking cotton" Robinson se- cured hts fathers shot gun before this time, carrying it with him every where. telling all he met he would not be S3Frested. but intended killing "the whole Clark family.s'
 saturday evening" October so, the sheriff was telephoned to here, that Tom Robinson had just come down the mountain bound on his mission of deaths to the Clark home. The sher tiff was getting ready to go to bar lington, four miles away. when a Ines- sage from that place told of the kili- ing.
 With his deputies he rushed to the scene to find the Clark home blood spattered shambles Mrs. Robinson lay dead in the entry or open hall be- tween the two rooms, Mrs. Clark was dead in the door of the west room. MT. Clark was on the floor of the east room under the bed where he had rolled an his agony apparently dying
 Of the details Mr., Clark and, other witnesses say In substance that after dinner MT. Clark leaving his wife and daughter and three little grandchild- rem in the west room or Kitchen. went out to his section gang just fin front of the house. After staying there awhile and as things were going right he walked up to Geises' store 200 yards away As he went on home Robinson was just outside the yard, and concealed from Clark by a honeysuckle bush. As the foot of the Clark touched the front step Robinson shot him shattering his right wrist He shot again. the second like the first being slightly too far forward to be fatal. The of Clark's left arm were torn away and his shoulder badly crippled by. the second shot.
 A Dramatic Scene.
 Realizing for the first time who it was and what he was up against Clark rushed into the hall and into the east room after his gun. Robinson follow ing. breaking his shot gun and reload ing as he ran. Reaching his gun. Clark found himself helpless, his hands, dangling useless at his side Robinson's rapidly approaching steps sounded on the little walk leading from the front gate. In frantic desperation Clark threw his arms around the gun his hands would no longer grasp, dragged 1t to a, chair and cooked 1t with his foot hoping as he says that in some way he could aim 1t and by striking the trigger save his family. The hope was futile. An accidental move and the gun fired sending its load harmlessly In the ceiling. A second move and Robinson stood in the doorway. There was a crash and This third shot Clark
 From where he had fallen Mir. Clark heard two other shots, a scream each from his wife and daughter and all was still.
 Which one Robinson killed first is not certain. Apparently his wife as she was out In the hall and near the door where she had rushed from the west room in a panic of fright fol- iOWSu dt once fDy ,HeT mother WnO, Tom says. came out of the west. room or, kitchen shooting at him. Rob- inSon killed the woman and took her pistol off with him.
 Before leaving Robinson went in the kitchen picked up his three tiny from fhe bed Y and, made of He carried them some little distance and dropped them. After shooting a few times at his brother in law and other neishbors who were rushing to home he disappeared.
 The whole county side turned out to join in the man hunt which was at once started. L lies at the foot of noun tain containing many coves .and the foothills covered with dense growth of cedar. It was an ideal hiding place The sheriff first move was to wire for which reached there about p. m. they were at once put on Robinson's tracks which had been found and carefully guarded. This they followed to his fathers barn and there lost It.
 member of the posse volunteered the information that Robinsons had previously beeu in hiding at friends house six miles out on the mountain Parties were sent to find if the fugi- tive had been there. They returned early in the morning with the news that he had beep there at midnight and was supposedly making for Hackel- h,irQ Sending the dogs and posse to