The courier-index., 1919-10-24
m Murderer of White 'ccirl Pays Death Penalty
 For His Dastardly Crime

.,ortv was the hiuiue
 '',lI'' wn,rah, aged 19, near her
 = skidmore Ridge, five miles
 'a sf Marianna, last Monday
 .hout 8 o'clock by a negro
 l1s ,Isy lsy' wilson, who fired e,. a
 ,.s,,, alsa a shotgun into Miss
 .,a liVis back, at close range,
 ',s ',,,,.rah was riding a horse
 san aa'isn she fell after being shot
 Fnsn a'l ~as sus broken. The negro
 asss a.sssntnred r Monday night about
 ssp'u,us P au Whiskey Island, above
 oeA .s"ut vS ten miles from the
 :, aISa' s;s crime. rim With Sheriff
 'l ware m John Thomas, Love
 .'d SI'J Jim Dickey. When the
 .aS snd his special deputies
 ]. ',.o route to Marianna with the
 .,s, ss they were met on Skid-
 sIs, u;a,s a near the Murrah place, sss sssse of 12 or IA men from
 .sssrn ps,sr section of the county. ss's,n ssssmsnded the negro and when
 \ Cotter remonstrated they
 M took him from the car, car <, s;m back to a place on the
 ',s near the Murrah home and
 him to death. Following the
 s , If the negro, Sheriff Cotter
 to the home of the negro's
 sr Calvin Wilson, a peaceable sard working negro living on Mann farm, and told him what happened, and suggested he |bstter go and get the body of |brotber. Calvin Wilson said EN not care to have anything
 with the body, that his
 er deserved death, and that Eould have nothing to do with kng the remains. The follow Hay John Mann got some dar- from his place and had the buried.
 ke negro confessed his guilt, and E his purpose was to assault girl. Miss Murrah, with her
 !, Miss Estella Clifton, daugh- |of MT. and Mrs. Will Clifton, ] riding horses driving some ] to pasture. Just before they Ito the pasture the negro met ! in the road and asked where |Clifton was. Miss Estelle told Her father was at the house The negro immediately "a the gun at the girls and |them to hold up their hands. reined their horses around |dzred to run. The negro fired Ex Murrah, who was closest to |he full load of shot penetrat- l9 back. It is said he was not than ten feet from Miss Mur- |Ehen he shot. Miss Clifton |hr horse home and gave the F then came to Marianna and med the officers. Sheriff Cot md several volunteers went to nore Ridge and started a search he negro. A score or more of ues living in that section join the search with the declara- that if they could find Wilson
 would relieve the officers of Aouble of disposing of him. ns pursued to Whitehall, then farm above Askew, where he captured.
 pylng to questions, the negro ne had been in this county ! few weeks, and was working Tom Wadley on a place MT. 'y leased from Will Clifton. ald he knew the girls some
 drove the stock to the pas and he had decided he would Il one of them. That morn borrowed a shotgun and two |
 rom MT. Wadley, stating he seen two squirrels in a tree | wanted to kill them. After he | lne Murrah girl Wilson said | OK the gun to the home of his q and left without telling him ne had done. '0r.s were current here Mon x lat w, Wilson was in fact wait v VIII Clifton to kill him be-
 VI a disagreement. This is ,I .l, nave been untrue. Clifton { ''u the negro to quit gathering | on, on the Murrah place, on Olliton lives, but there had " quarrel between them. The ,0 'Old the officers he had no nee against Clifton.
 s.. | hsurrah's mother, Mrs. c. ,,sa' ,a dled more than a year '0nl injuries received in Ma ! ,., snen she was run over by | Since her mothers a ner brother-in-law, Will !; ,;,, mas IS been residing on and ME N tne Murrah place, and k1