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1 Jeff Harwell Arrested and Lodged In Jail by Sheriff.; Ou Tuesday morning about 7 :oOo’clock Newt Ford was shot from 1 ambush while driving along a private road through the woods abou.■ a half mile southeast of his hou ■' oue mile east of Saltillo. Thesonmiof the gun attracted the attention of Mrs. Sallie Hall and her sou who were picking cottou within fifty yards of the tragedy The 1 mules ran with the wagon and the boy followed aDd 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 wmif to Saltillo and reported the killing. Squire McNeil summoned a jury of inquest und 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. VV. Long, the sheriff, was notified and getting D. W. Robins with his bloodhounds and summoning a small posse at Saltillo, they went to the scene. The dogs took a trail and ran to a li‘tle branch where the tracks of a Smell mule were fouud. This track was followed to the path east of wheie Ford lay and took down this path runuiug east and was followed in that direction some distance. Fi-ually it led to a broom sage field and 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 and some on the south side. As the sheriff approached from the uortu he saw Mr. Harwell with his two boys in the cottou field. WKn the latter discovered the sheriff the two boys started to the house walking rapidly, Jeff Harwell car. ryiug his guu. The ©Id man urn; the sheriff and asked if he bad any other warraut agaiust his boy than the oue for cuttiugFord, au indictment having been found by tue grand jury for this latter offense. When informed by the sheriff that he had uo other warraut old mm, Harwell went back to the house and brought both boys back wilu with him. The sheriff theu im.x charge of Jeff Harwell and brought him to Saltillo, where au uffiduv k was sworn out before Squire McNeil charging him with the kiiii. .. of Ford. The arrest of yourV Harwell was on suspicion, he imi J Ford having had a difficulty un-c I time last wiuter and bad bloor w».| known to exist betweeu them. .ie,f Harwell left soon after the difii ci ’ty and weut to Texas. He re turned, lying out around homo a short time when he went to Alabama. He stated that he left some point on Cedar Creek Saturday at one o’clock and walked tkro» •irriviug at home before day M-day morning. He lay up all i. \ Monday. He states that ho kno „•* 1 nothiug of the killing. Harwei. is twenty-five years of age and hrs a 1 wife and two ohildren who arc at 1 the borne of his father east of Sai-1 tillo.The defense has secured the »'••• vices of Clayton Clayton w) 'Anderson Long have beenjtinpd to prosecute. The p*di u •loamy trial will be held at Saltulo [Monday before Stjuire McNeil,
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Tupelo Journal
Tupelo, Mississippi, US
Fri, Sep 25, 1903
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