Ellis County Texas Archives News.....Bevel, John Murder Trial 1914
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Ennis Weekly Local 1914
John Bevel on Trial
120 veniremen were in District Court Thursday. 60 were excused and of the
remaining 60, the jury in the case of John Bevel, charged with murder was
selected. 10 Talesmen were picked up before a jury could be obtained.
Bevel is charged with killing a negro, Primus Bradley, near Palmer in June. This
is the first of the white capping cases to come before the court.
Sitting at his side was a close frined, and in the court room were many Palmer
people. The jury: CA Fox, AF Hancock, Phil Bertram, GH Buchanan, Field
Patterson, IN McCarter, Ned Oats, H.B. Poindexter, JB Baker, WH Bentley, Charles
Allen, Clyde Turns.

A.L. Ticer of near Palmer is charged with that offense and will be tried on
Thursday. It is alleged by the state that Ticer and his companions in an attempt
to rid the Palmer community of negroes frightened Primus Bradley away from a
farm. Bradley, the negro was kille. Bullet holes through the wall showed the way
in which he med death. Charles Ticer, brother of AL Ticer is charged with murder
and white capping.

Fate Ticer who is a renter on the same farm as Bevel, was state's principal
witness. He testified that he heard John Ticer, Ernest Cox, and John Bevel
planning to run the negroes on the farm away.
Mrs. Bevel, was the first witness Sat. Morn. She went into the witness box with
a small babe in her arms and spole clearly and distinctly of the a affairs
leading up to the killing of the negro.
Bevle himself took the stand and made a clear-cut statement. He denies that he
was with the party who fired shots through the negro house and says that he
knows the Ticer boys were planing to run the negroes away.

Additional Comments:
The Ennis Weekly Local
Thursday, Aug 6, 1914
Vol XXIX   No 32

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