Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Fowler, Lela May 23, 1920
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Ashland Progress
Gilles Grissett, a negro man, was lodged in the jail here Monday, charged with 
killing Lela Fowler, a negro woman, at a turpentine camp Pyriton Sunday. From the 
reports it appears that the Grissett negro claims that the woman had cut his 
mother in a difficulty, prior to the killing and, after learning of this, he 
procured a gun fired it upon her several times, some of the shots proving fatal. 
He is said to have made no effort to get away but remained about the camp until 
taken in custody by the sheriff.

Additional Comments:
Gilles Grissett was convicted of murder and sent to prison. 

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