Clay County AlArchives News.....Worthy, James Shoots and Kills James Trammell  November 28, 1907
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The Montgomery Advertiser November 28, 1907
Ashland News:
The financial worry has not stopped work in this town, though it has caused many 
people to hold their cotton in hopes of getting higher prices. The crop is 
considered short. 
Information has reached this place that a negro. Will Trammell was shot and 
killed at Pyriton, in this county, Sunday night, by James Worthy, white. Only 
meager details of the killing are obtainable. It is reported that the negro was 
under the influence of cocaine and attacked Worthy's son and wife, with a knife 
and absolutely refused to leave the house when ordered to do so, but made 
desperate attempts to murder Worthy's family, whereupon James Worthy struck him 
with an axe and then shot him with a pistol, killing him instantly. The whole 
matter will be investigated by the grand jury which meets December 9. 
The track of the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic is now laid to Pyriton. and a 
train schedule will soon be put on.

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