Jury Probe Reveals Indictments In Lincolns District Crimes
A thorough grand jury inquiry into Colonial Lincolns segregated district yielded indictments for running disorderly houses. Details remain secret pending arrests as witnesses testified on illicit activity and ways to curb the evil. A separate fatal shooting near Rally Hill left Jim Broadway dead in a dispute over open gates. Bish Lee, a Negro, fled. marshals hunt him across Marshall and Maury counties. Broadway's funeral held at Derryberry.
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Colinia
Court of Justice
Rand
Grand Jury
Iowa
Jim Broadway
Bish Lee
Pegro
W. L Smith
Maury County
Marshall County
Rally Hill
Broadway
Lee
Herald
Columbia
Indaw
Smith Place
Derryberry
Pitts Convicted in Involuntary Manslaughter Case
Jon Pitts found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a jury trial. Verdict ahead of schedule, with some jurors seeking harsher punishment and others deeming the defendant justified. Judge will review motions, and sentencing could be indeterminate from one to five years in state prison. Pitts killed Nick Sharp on February 7 of this year.
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Jon. Pitts
Jory
Pitts
Nick Sharp
Tribute To Mrs Dedman Marked By Church Service
The First Baptist Church of Columbia Tennessee honored Mrs Mary Dedman on her eighty fourth birthday with a service and a loving cup presented by the church women. Mayor Joseph M Dedman gave a hero medal to Ruth Sampson for rescuing her little brother from flames. The program featured songs readings and a Bible gift from Dr Charles T Alexander and closed with the hymn Be a Hero and Where We’ll Never Grow Old.
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Mary Dedman
First Baptist Church
Miss Ussery
Misa Lera Ussery
Mayor Dedman
Choi
Cabbage Giveaway Draws 300 People in Horace Rainey Event
A Herald notice led to a cabbage giveaway Saturday at Horace Rainey’s residence. About 300 attendees received roughly 3,000 to 4,000 cabbage heads. All who called were given cabbages, and the supply remained nearly exhausted.
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Herald
Horace Rainey
Grand jury urges better jail cages and venereal disease quarantine
May term 1915 grand jury calls for a draft in heat prone jail cages and isolation for diseased prisoners. They praise the new jail, the poor farm, and the court house, urge night locking and Sunday closure, with updates to fences, screens, and safety practices.
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Circuit Court
Grand Jury
Blackened Record Stirs Tennessee Old Man’s Struggle for Honor
In a lengthy defense the old man, long respected for patriotism and public virtue, laments being jailed on a state warrant for a local quarantine offense. His son faces potential stigma from a distant court record while the father’s wartime service and integrity are invoked to demand redress for what is described as a lasting injury to reputation. The text ends with a Biblical quotation and the signature J. N. Meroney, Dark's Mill, Tenn.
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Common County
Vollinter
Scot
Nathan
J. N. Meroney
Dark’s Mill
Tenn
Masked man tries to rob car near Manchester
A masked man attempted a holdup one mile south of Manchester on the Tullahoma road last night. Elzy Winton, the bank four, sped away and escaped as several shots were fired at the fleeing car.
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Manchester
Tenn
Tullahoma
Elzy Winton
Bankfour
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G. W. Hays
J. H. Duke
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Allen Holt
Elmer Fraser
Forghy Fraser
M. J. Orr
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Alex Gray
C. J. Dugger
Baby
Willie
Mamma
Grandma
Thomas
Atacone
Culleoka Produce Company
Culleoka, Tenn
Meroney
Hog Cholera Association
Masked Man
Maury Undertaking CO. Funeral Directors, Carriage and Ambulance Service
W.g.jones
T. L. Cunningham
Wendley, Thomas & Wendley
C. E. Kord
Columta
Moore
Ron
Rall
Citizens Telephone
Bellaa
Columbia Bank & Trust CO
W. B. Greenlaw
Geo. E. McKennon
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