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5;1IRSj Fly*be ofrrson* mis at Ter-it with b*mb •tor®* nd fif-up to Ulst r Firms * havbe d«*iic Ar*M•Ai|occowill be a City, Jackin MSC-ui h#lnHenry Payne Dies at a Dothan Hospital After . Being Shot LastHenry P®yw% who wm shot ofl themorning of March UHh, while on hi* way homo from a negro frolic died in a local btmpiUl Friday. Payne wa* brouxht to Dothan from hia home near (irangerburg, where he had b*en tarried directly after the shooting.In a statement msd. to an Eagle representative before death, Payne *aid that he had been to a frolic on his place that was being giv n by one of his tenants. While at the house tv'o Brookins boys from Florida came in. They stayed for a while and after the festivities had b en go-ing on quite a while one of the men came to him and accused fdm of snatching a fing-r ring from him. Payne told Brookins that he didn’t get hia ring. Brokins p rsisted that he lid steal the ring, and said that if he didn’t give it back to him they would have trouble-Pay/ie states that he told the man that he didn’t want to have any trouble but if nothing els? would do him but that, he wouldn't run awayfrom him. Nothing more that time.Later on when the Bi left they came to Payne and that it was alright that they him. tat r. When Payne left home, a negro started with t®r getting considers!*!* the house they saw two ms* the side of the road The who they were and were theii Payne asked who th y they told him they were the boy*.Peyn*» states that he th* and started to the nearest ign that they would have he turned ofte of the nilt;-gun, the load taking effect it side and puncturing the iiAfter coming to a Dot I Pane stat d that the net lt;«*ted him were the Bi and that he thought that of he two, who is Ben, did hrBrookins is being held in h*i jail awaiting a h aring.HAN RARF RUTH IIINfl.F. KIMS
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Dothan Weekly Eagle
Dothan, Alabama, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1922
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