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Newt Ford Assassinated.Shot From Ambush by Unknown Party.Load of Shot Lodged in Side of Head and Neck and he Fell [From his Wagon a Dead Man.I __Jeff Harwell Arrested and Lodged in Jail by Sheriff.Ou Tuesday morning about 7 o’clock Newt Ford was shot from ambush while driving along a private road through the woods abou a half mile southeast of his home one mile east of Saltillo. The sound of the gun attracted the attention of Mrs. Sallio Hall and her son who were picking cotton within fifty yards of the tragedy The mules ran with the wagon and the boy followed and caught them while his mother went down to the road and fouud Ford’s body, lie was not quite dead but breathed only a few times after Mrs. Hall got to where he lav. The boy w. nr to iSaltillo and reported the killing. Squire McNeil summoned a jury of inquest and went to the scene and held an inquest over the body, the verdict being that deceased had come to his death by a gunshot wouud inflicted by unknown party. G. W. Long, the sheriff, was notified aud getting D. W. Robins with his bloodhounds aud summoning a small posse at Saltillo, they went to the scene. The dogs took a trail aud ran to a li'tle branch wheie the tracks of a Small mule were fouud. This track was followed to the path east of where Ford lay and took down this path running east aud was followed m that direction some distance. Fi-ually it led to a broom sage field aud was there lost. The posse here divided and went to the home of Mr. Harwell, some going up mi the north side of the house ami some on the south side. As the sheriff approached from the non 1 he saw Mr. Harwell witii his two boys in the cotton field. WKn the latter discovered the sheriff the two boys started to the house wulkiug rapidly, Jeff Harwell ear. ryiug his guu. The eld man um-the sheriff and asked if he bad any other warrant agaiust his boy than the one for cutting Ford, an indictment having been fouud by tna grand jury for this latter offense. Wheu informed by the sheriff that he had no other warraut old man Harwell went back to the house and brought both boys back with with him. The sheriff theu to-.k charge of Jeff Harwell aud brougiit him to Saltillo, where an uffiduv, was sworu out before Squire McNeil charging him with the kiliii „ of Ford. The arrest of von;\r Harwell was on suspicion, he m i 1 Ford having had a difficulty rumc I time last wiuter and bad blow w».| kuown to exist betwteu them. ..eff Harwell left soon after the d»l«-oi 'ty and weut to Texas. Ho re turned, lying out around home a short time when lie went to Alabn-ma. He stated that he left 8om- pomt on Cedar Creek Saturday at one o’clock and walked thro irriviug Ht home before day M- ;-day morning. He lay up all u \ Monday. He states that ho kno nothing of the killing. Harwei. is twenty-five years of age and hi s a wife and two ohildren who are at the home of his father east of Saltillo.The defense has secured the vices oe Clayton Clayton wl .. ‘Auderson Long have been I tinpd to prosecute. The pneli. i. loamy trial will be held at SaltilloI Monday before Squire McNeil,
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Tupelo Journal
Tupelo, Mississippi, US
Fri, Sep 25, 1903
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