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The LaFollette Times December 5, 1902
A Peculiar Suit



The suit of Dr. M. Cartwright against the Illinois Central Railroad for damages 

to an amount not exceeding $500 was tried at Ripley last week before Justice 

J.F. Dunavant. The suit grew out of an alleged failure on the part of the 

railroad company to sell plaintiff a ticket to Memphis on November 19, the day 

of Wrights reception in that city, for the fast train, thus, it is claimed, 

depriving him of reaching Memphis in time for the festivities, should he have 

gone. A verdict against the plaintiff was rendered for cost. An appeal to the 

Circuit Court was asked for.

 

   

 

Thanksgiving Pardons



Gov. McMillin, following an annual custom, handed out six Thanksgiving pardons, 

as follows:



Lee Griffin, sent up in October from Jefferson county to serve ten years for 

abducting Parlee Edwards, aged 20 years, from Jefferson county to North 

Carolina. The mother now says that she knows her daughter was not chaste at the 

time of the abduction, hence the pardon.



Thomas Scates; colored, ten years for killing of the city marshal of Huntington 

on Christmas. The presumption now is the killing was accidental.



John Graham, from Fayette county, ten years for murder in second degree, for 

killing a man named Boswell.



Morgan Donnell, from Wilson county, three years for larceny.



John Warren, from Giles county, three years for horse stealing.



Lee Dillard, from Hamilton county, five years for felonious assault.

 



Found An Indian Mound



Last week in District No. 4 of Tipton county Joseph E. Ross, discovered and 

Indian mound in the rear of his house, the skeleton of a man, in all 

probability an Indian, apparently about six feet tall in life. There are a 

number of Indian mounds in the neighborhood, this one being about two and a 

half feet height and fifteen or twenty feet in diameter. Mr. Ross was digging 

into the mound, intending to utilize it as a potatoes house. He had dug a hole 

about two feet deep and several feet in diameter when his spade struck a hard 

clayey substance, and upon investigation he found that the skeleton of a man 

had been enclosed in a clay wrapping and buried there. The clay had been burned 

and was almost as hard as brick.

Additional Comments:
The LaFollette Times

LaFollette, Campbell County, Tennessee

Friday December 5, 1902

Vo. 1  No. 47  

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