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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'4» o’clock Newt Ford was shot from ambush while driving along a private road through the woods abou a half mile southeast of his hou one mile east of Saltillo. Thesonmi of the gun attracted the attention of Mrs. Sallio Hall and her sou 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. ut to Saltillo and reported the killing. Sqnire McNeil summoned a jury of inquest uud went to the scene and held an inquest over the body, the verdict being that deceased had come to his death by a gunshot wound inflicted by unknown party. G. VV. 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 whete the tracks of a Smell mule were found. This track was followed to the path east of where Ford lay and took down this path running east and was followed in that direction some distance. Finally it led to a broom sage field aud was there lost. The pos»e here divided and went to the home of Mr. Harwell, some going up mi the north side of the house ai.d some on the south side. As the sheriff approached from the uortu he saw Mr. Harwell with his two boys in the cotton field. When the latter discovered the sheriff the two boys started to the house walking rapidly, Jeff Harwell eno ryiug his guu. The eld man nn; the sheriff and asked if he Lad any other warraut against his boy than the one for cutting Ford, an indictment having been found by tue 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 wiln with him. The sheriff theu lo.k charge of Jeff Harwell aud brought him to Saltillo, where an uttidi,v k was sworn nut before Squire McNeil charging him with the kill;* .. of Ford. The arrest of yr.u;\r Harwell was ou suspicion, he i 1 Ford having had a difficulty ;x-n-e I time last wiuter aud bad bloor | kuown to exist betwteu them. Harwell left soon after the diffi-01 ’ty and weut to Texas. Ho re turned, lying out around home a short time when lie went to Alabama. He stated that he left some poiut on Cedar Creek Saturday «t one o’clock and walked thro* •irriviug at home before day M- -day morning. He lay up all « \ Monday. He states that ho kno „•* nothing of the killing. Harwei. is twenty-five years of age and has a wife and two ohildren who arc at the home of his father east of Saltillo.The defense has secured the vices of Clayton Clayton wl ii. ‘Anderson Long have beta itinpd to prosecute. The pt^li. t. Inaay trial will be held at Saltulo [Monday before 8lt;juire McNeil,
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Tupelo Journal
Tupelo, Mississippi, US
Fri, Sep 25, 1903
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