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irosper necaneaMvnnKui.ixH oi' hkv. tiiomasWILLIAMS IXDKITIOD AT HAKBOCRVILLKTho grand Jury now' in sossiou at Itartxmrvftto. Knox Co., indicted for murder in tho first degree. Chnrlois and D. D. Lawson, brothers, accused of the murder of the Rev. Thomas Williams, of 'Prosper. The Rev. gontlonmn was well known to many of the citizens of this place, and only a few days before his doath was! here for the purpose of leasing some coni lands .lying on the headwatersj of Creasy Creek. His foul murder is a blotch upon the hislory or our civilization and deserves the sever-! ost punishment. Brother Williams' war, quite nil evangelist, and fre-: fluently held meetings at. Molua and Puckett's Creek, and at times at Callaway. He had his peculiarities like all other men, tint take it all in all he was a man who liked to preach tho gospel, as ho saw it, and there are many who will remember him kind Iv.
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Middlesboro Pinnacle News
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Tue, Sep 11, 1917
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Jane K.
TN, USA 28 May 2018
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