BADLY BURNED – Last Monday night while trying to carry a lamp that was about to explode down stairs, Mrs. Sallie Gray, who lives two miles north of town was badly burned. She wrapped her apron around the lamp and while going down the stairs she fell and her clothing caught on fire. Before the fire could be extinguished she was badly burned. Mrs. Gray is well known here and it is hoped that her injuries are not serious.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER
Was the Verdict in the Sallas Case… The case of the state against J. B. Sallas, who was indicted by the last grand jury for murder in the second degree for killing his son-in-law Wesley Mixon near Ealum last Spring was the only case of any particular interest before the Criminal Court, and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter, before a jury composed of Ben Spencer, J. A. Early, J. B. Francis, J. R. Chambliss, [William] J. Wasden and Sim Brown….
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
. . . in a short while Bunk was in custody, but kept away from Tom Johnson, the first arrested, and told that Tom was dead, but that before his execution he had told that Bunk was the guilty party. He [Bunk] then made a partial confession and implicated Tom. Finally by adroit questioning it was made certain that both these were concerned in the crime and that there was another . . . engaged in its commission with them. He was soon located and with this confessions in part were obtained from all of them, and they were brought together, and face to face with the fate they knew awaited them told the awful and unprintable details of the most atrocious crime ever committed in Florida.
. . . the crowd . . . of over a thousand men . . . made the [guilty ones to] kneel and a volley of shots literally tore their bodies to pieces, and it was over. . . It was only with the greatest difficulty that the [neighbors] in that section could be induced to take up the bodies of the murderers of little Bessie Morrison from where they were shot and given burial, but they were finally persuaded to do so.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
Assaulted and murdered . . . was the awful fate of little Bessie May Morrison . . . within half a mile of her widowed mother’s home, while on her way to school at Leonia school house in northwestern part of Holmes county, last Friday [July 29, 1910]. . . . The body of the victim was laid to rest in the Leonia cemetery Sunday afternoon.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
Advertisements in this [classified] column for one half cent a word each insertion cash with order.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
Announcement is made of the coming marriage of Miss Myrtle Bowers and Mr. Walter Kensaul which is to take place at Lockhart, Ala., early in August.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
THE BREEZE Established in 1892
According to the latest newspaper directory THE BREEZE has the second largest circulation of all the country weeklies published in West Florida, the Marianna Times Courier, the oldest of them all at the county seat of the second most populous county in this end of the state being credited with the largest. The next oldest paper, and the oldest under the same management is the St. Andrews Buoy being established in 1891 just a year ahead of THE BREEZE.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
Birthday Celebrated
Helen Cochran, Mary Burk, Myrl Tarance, Gladys Storrs, Massey [Jernigan] Ward, Ray Morris, Raymond Wickersham, were those present at a party given by master Douglas Johnson Thursday [July 21, 1910] in honor of his seventh birthday.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
Uncle Stephen McPherson, the old colored minister, who every winter visitor here for the past twenty years will remember as preaching on every occasion and at any place opportunity afforded, died last Thursday [July 21, 1910] and was buried Friday, his funeral probably being the largest in point of attendance of that of any colored person ever lived here.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]
