CROSSLIN FUNERAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the funeral of J.S. CROSSLIN was held from the residence, 1328 South Fifth Street. The services were conducted by Rev. J.L. WALKER, chaplain of Central Texas Baptist sanitarium. Appropriate scripture was read and a brief talk was made be Mr. WALKER. Singing by the choir of the First Baptist Church was followed by prayer by Rev. J.W. Wiggs, pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church and also of Baptist Churches at Axtell and Bowman Grove, Hill County.
Services were concluded at the grave, interment being made in the family lot at Oakwood.
Waco, Texas, Feb. 24.-Miss Marcine [Margie] Matthews, 17, shot and instantly killed J. S. Crosslin today during proceedings in the district court here. He was charged with criminally attacking the girl two years ago.
Crosslin, aged 69 [56]years, was tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary, but the case was reversed on an error in the admission of testimony and remanded for trial. The preliminaries had been completed and Miss Matthews had been called to the witness stand.
"He disgraced me, ruined my health and deprived me of school privileges," she stated after the killing. 'But he will never ruin another girl."
Miss Matthews walked to the witness chair, then turned with a pistol in hand and fired straight at Crosslin, who sat in a chair beside his attorneys, 15 feet away. She then took two or three steps forward and fired again. Advancing to within two or three feet of the man who had collapsed in his chair, she shot a third time the bullet penetrating his side.
Officer Burton seized the girl in his arms and carried her out of the court room. He took the weapon from her and locked her in a room in the sheriff's office. Confusion reigned in the courtroom. Justice Monroe discharged the jury indefinitely. Later a murder complaint was filed against the girl.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday March 3, 1922 Page 2
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the funeral of J.S. CROSSLIN was held from the residence, 1328 South Fifth Street. The services were conducted by Rev. J.L. WALKER, chaplain of Central Texas Baptist sanitarium. Appropriate scripture was read and a brief talk was made be Mr. WALKER. Singing by the choir of the First Baptist Church was followed by prayer by Rev. J.W. Wiggs, pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church and also of Baptist Churches at Axtell and Bowman Grove, Hill County.
Services were concluded at the grave, interment being made in the family lot at Oakwood.
Waco, Texas, Feb. 24.-Miss Marcine [Margie] Matthews, 17, shot and instantly killed J. S. Crosslin today during proceedings in the district court here. He was charged with criminally attacking the girl two years ago.
Crosslin, aged 69 [56]years, was tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary, but the case was reversed on an error in the admission of testimony and remanded for trial. The preliminaries had been completed and Miss Matthews had been called to the witness stand.
"He disgraced me, ruined my health and deprived me of school privileges," she stated after the killing. 'But he will never ruin another girl."
Miss Matthews walked to the witness chair, then turned with a pistol in hand and fired straight at Crosslin, who sat in a chair beside his attorneys, 15 feet away. She then took two or three steps forward and fired again. Advancing to within two or three feet of the man who had collapsed in his chair, she shot a third time the bullet penetrating his side.
Officer Burton seized the girl in his arms and carried her out of the court room. He took the weapon from her and locked her in a room in the sheriff's office. Confusion reigned in the courtroom. Justice Monroe discharged the jury indefinitely. Later a murder complaint was filed against the girl.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday March 3, 1922 Page 2
CROSSLIN FUNERAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the funeral of J.S. CROSSLIN was held from the residence, 1328 South Fifth Street. The services were conducted by Rev. J.L. WALKER, chaplain of Central Texas Baptist sanitarium. Appropriate scripture was read and a brief talk was made be Mr. WALKER. Singing by the choir of the First Baptist Church was followed by prayer by Rev. J.W. Wiggs, pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church and also of Baptist Churches at Axtell and Bowman Grove, Hill County.
Services were concluded at the grave, interment being made in the family lot at Oakwood.
Waco, Texas, Feb. 24.-Miss Marcine [Margie] Matthews, 17, shot and instantly killed J. S. Crosslin today during proceedings in the district court here. He was charged with criminally attacking the girl two years ago.
Crosslin, aged 69 [56]years, was tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary, but the case was reversed on an error in the admission of testimony and remanded for trial. The preliminaries had been completed and Miss Matthews had been called to the witness stand.
"He disgraced me, ruined my health and deprived me of school privileges," she stated after the killing. 'But he will never ruin another girl."
Miss Matthews walked to the witness chair, then turned with a pistol in hand and fired straight at Crosslin, who sat in a chair beside his attorneys, 15 feet away. She then took two or three steps forward and fired again. Advancing to within two or three feet of the man who had collapsed in his chair, she shot a third time the bullet penetrating his side.
Officer Burton seized the girl in his arms and carried her out of the court room. He took the weapon from her and locked her in a room in the sheriff's office. Confusion reigned in the courtroom. Justice Monroe discharged the jury indefinitely. Later a murder complaint was filed against the girl.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday March 3, 1922 Page 2
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the funeral of J.S. CROSSLIN was held from the residence, 1328 South Fifth Street. The services were conducted by Rev. J.L. WALKER, chaplain of Central Texas Baptist sanitarium. Appropriate scripture was read and a brief talk was made be Mr. WALKER. Singing by the choir of the First Baptist Church was followed by prayer by Rev. J.W. Wiggs, pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church and also of Baptist Churches at Axtell and Bowman Grove, Hill County.
Services were concluded at the grave, interment being made in the family lot at Oakwood.
Waco, Texas, Feb. 24.-Miss Marcine [Margie] Matthews, 17, shot and instantly killed J. S. Crosslin today during proceedings in the district court here. He was charged with criminally attacking the girl two years ago.
Crosslin, aged 69 [56]years, was tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary, but the case was reversed on an error in the admission of testimony and remanded for trial. The preliminaries had been completed and Miss Matthews had been called to the witness stand.
"He disgraced me, ruined my health and deprived me of school privileges," she stated after the killing. 'But he will never ruin another girl."
Miss Matthews walked to the witness chair, then turned with a pistol in hand and fired straight at Crosslin, who sat in a chair beside his attorneys, 15 feet away. She then took two or three steps forward and fired again. Advancing to within two or three feet of the man who had collapsed in his chair, she shot a third time the bullet penetrating his side.
Officer Burton seized the girl in his arms and carried her out of the court room. He took the weapon from her and locked her in a room in the sheriff's office. Confusion reigned in the courtroom. Justice Monroe discharged the jury indefinitely. Later a murder complaint was filed against the girl.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday March 3, 1922 Page 2
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