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JAIL FULL OFMURDERER. SCovitgton County is in the Contest for theeHt!kV□BANNER COUNTY OF STATEFor the Gratest Number of Mur-'* ders and Other Crimes. jtFIFTY KILLINGS IN TWO YEARSIs the Record and the Number apparently on the Increase— Smith Showing Too.tcr\heoaiWilliamsburg, July 20.—Circuit court will be iu session at Williamsburg, Covington county, this week, and the criminal dcoket is the largest iu the history of the county, almost eclipsing the record of the Washington county circuit court which had •* | fifteen murder and manslaughter ■ icases docketed a few weeks ago. j iIt seems that Covington county is endeavoring to establish a record as the banner law-breaking county in Mississippi, and in a fair way to do so. Within the past three weeks six negroes have been killed in the county, and during the past two year period there have been fifty killings within the borders of the county. Eleven negroes are now in the Williamsburg jail awaiting trial on the charge of murder or mansluagh-ter, and the public is making a clamorou demand for some old fashioned neck-breakings as the surest detriment of a coutiuuanee of the carnival of crime.Smith county, which is an adjoining county to Covington, has also [
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Hattiesburg Daily Progress
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Mon, Jul 20, 1903
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