Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-21
GUARD CHILD
SURVIVOR OF
SWAMP RAID
Mississippi Sheriffs Fear
Fiends Who Slaughtered
! Family VIII Get Fifth.
TELLS OF HER ESCAPE

AMORY, Miss, Jan. 21.-Charlie Mar
shall, moonshiner and backwoods beau,
is under heavy guard in the Jail at Aber-
leen, charged with the most brutal quad
ruple murder ever known in this sec
ton.
For when they buried the charred
and shattered bodies Of Fannie Green
Miller, who had been Marshalls sweet
heart; her S-months-old baby, Burley
said to have been Marshall's son; Robert
Miller, Fannies father, and Leonard, her
brother, is, the stage was set for the
Iynching Of Charlie Marshall.
Pearl Miller, IS, the only surviving
member of the family, says that she
watched Charlie Marshall at the hideous
Flask Of slaughtering the four victims
of the swampland tragedy.
The belief Of the countryside today
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 thar
the escape Of the 1S-year-old girl upset
this plan.
From miles about, the lean and swar-
thy jewellers of the bottom country
drove in, with their women folk seated
IN chairs in the boxes of the lumber
wagons, to discuss in shocked whispers
what had been done In the blackness
of stormy night. There were ominous
bulges under homespun shirts; there
were well-worn shotguns and rifles I'M
der the wagon seats.
PRISONER SAVED
FROM ANGRY POPULACE.
Sheriff John B. Lewis fed from Amorv
with his prisoner in an automobile and
saved Marshall from the vengeance Of
the countryside
&
Of Chief OF Police Cal Bolding of Amory.
The OFFICERS suspect that the men who
killed the four members of the Miller
family had an aide. And they are fear
full lest harm come to the only witness
Of the massacre.
There was much talk in the Tom Big
bee bottom about the Miller family and
Charlie Marshall. Fannie Miller had
known Marshall all her life, but started
keeping company" with him three years
ago, when he "saw her home from q
circuit riders meeting. She was 10 then,
and Marshall twice her age
About eighteen months ago the girl
returned one evening and tore up Mar
shall's picture, scattering the fragments
in the fireplace.
Her mother died twelve years ago, and
in the lonely farmhouse Fannie had no
, Later she was compelled to tell her
father what had happened. She said
that Marshall had seized her as she was
walking with him in a field, and had
dragged her into a canebrake, smother
ing her cries by pressing his hand over
her mouth.
MARSHALL is ARRESTED
ON FATHERS PLEA.
Robert Miller had his three motherless
children to care, for, one of them need
ing him more desperately than ever, so
ne determined to let the law take its
course. He had Marshall arrested. Mar
shall said he was innocent Of the girls
charges and his trial was to have been
held at the next term of court.
Fannies father and Charlie Marshall
went armed after that and and no word
was spoken between the two families.
MARSHALL has no reputation in this part
Of the country as q fighting man; he
was famed for his conquests among the
girls, ard as moonshiner.
According to Pearl Miller's story, which
she tells with the self control of a
strongtminded adult, Marshall entered
her. home after her father, brother and
sister had been shot down and the home
ydynamited. He dubbed to death the
pbaby crawling on the floor beside it's
. dead mother, soaked the place with oil
and set fire to 1t as Pearl fed, through
the loft, and ran, with a sprained ankle,
over mile of flooded fields, to the home
of neighbOr
Marshall was arrested near HIS cabin,
where Ii lived, apart from his father
He denied that he had been out the
night before, but his boots and overcoat,
mud-stained and wet, were found.
A quantity of moonshine mash, sugar
and sprouted corn was also taken from
his shack, together with several gallons
Of the white lightning" which the Mar
shall family was famed for producing.