The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-02-18
THE POPE'S AMERICAN SUB
JECTS LIVING UP TO THEIR
MURDEROUS vows.
They Take a NiggeP Along, to
Help Them Murder a White
MAN i'm His Room at
the Hotel.
FROM the Dallas, Texas, Dispatch, we clip
the following:

Marshall Tex, Feb. 4,-This town has gone
mad with excitment and religious frenzy, fol-
lowing visit of four armed men to the room of
an ant-Catholic lecturer in the Capital hotel last
night Two men killed and another was
mortally wounded in the fight that followed
When the smoke of the fusillade of shots had
cleared away William Black of Beaire O., who
claims he was an ex-priest and had delivered
lecture at the court house the night before on
Effects of the Confessional Box was dying.
John Rogers a Marshall contractor, Catholic
and prominent member of the Knights of Colum-
bus, who is believed to have killed the ex-prest,
was dead; and John Copeland, cashier of the
First State Bank, member of the Knights of Co.
lumbus, was mortally wounded.
George Ryan, Marshall Catholic and Knight
of Columbus was arrested, but was released on
bond.
John Teese, negro porter employed at the bank
where Copeland worked is held
Clarence F. Hall, companion of the ex-prest,
is in jail, charged with murder.
Miss Sadie Black, adopted daughter of the
priest and an eyewitness to the tragedy enacted
in her fathers room, is at the home of sympa-
thizers.
Stories of the tragedy vary as to details, but
1T is generally believed Rogers killed Black, the
'eX-prfest, and was shot to death by Blacks
companion, G. F. Hail. who also shot Copeland.
Black did not shoot. He armed, but the
officers say that all of the cartridges in his
yolver were uneXploded
The Catholics claim they went to the hotel to
ask Black not to deliver the lecture Convent
Life, which he had advertised for last night.
0OOu dIC0T the men entered the room the S1OtS
were fired. Miss Black claims that all the three
Catholics and their negro companion fired, and
that her fathers companion shot in self-defense.
81 There is good deal Of sentiment here in favor
OF the visitors. Many persons went to the jail
today and told Hall they would aid him in getting
bail if he would speak again tonight.
Girls Story.
According to the statement Of Miss Sadie
Black, the two men met her father in the hall
way and followed him into his room She said
father was in thn vrho tho thar
men came up and the shooting commenced.
She said three Of the men shot at her father
while the fourth attempted to catch his hands,
and then when she saw that her father be-
ing shot she threw her arms around him and was
holding him when the last shots were fired.
Just who fred the first shot is not known,
could it be learned how many shots were fred,
because the fusillade became general in the room
and in the hallway.
Black shot through the heart twice IN
the right side, in the stomach and in the head.
He died instantly.
John Rogers was shot twice through the head,
and died at 1925 o'clock at his home, surrounded
by his wife, a number Of relatives and Father
Granger. He is survived by his widow and five
children.
John Copeland was shot throgh the stomach
and in the left He is in critical condi~
ton. He was removed to the Memorial hospital
Copeland is cashier Of the State Bank and is
son-in-law of Major E. j, Fry very wealthy
East Texas banker. He is connected with several
Of the best families in Marshall.
Black a Mason and a member of the
Il lights of Luther.
George Ryan is young attorney
Miss Black says William Black her cousin
and adopted father. One of the shots that killed
Black passed through the adoption papers in his
inside coat pocket.
John Teese, porter for the bank who accom-
panied Copeland Rogers and Ryan to the hotel,
had not been located up to a late hour Wednes-
day night
The shooting created the widest excitement.
1t was necessary to place officers around the
hotel building to keep the crowd out.
After preliminary investigation by the local
coroner, formal charges of murder were filed
against G. F. Hall, Blacks companioas and