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Show The Cost of Calling s 9lan a Negro. A county seat war has lauded J. V. Cut-rer, Cut-rer, a Mississippi state senator, in jail on the charge of shooting Freeland Chew, editor of the Friar's Point (Miss.) Coaho-mian. Coaho-mian. In a late Issue of his paper Chew referred to an old slander that Cutrer bad negro blood in his veins, and said Unit he believed the troth of the assertion. This for the first time located a muu asserting his belief In the report. Hounded ns he has been for years by such a rumor, and unable to bring it home to a parent author, Cntrer was driven to desperation on meeting meet-ing the man who bad fathered the story. Ue drew his pistol as Chew drew his and fired, tbe shot striking Chew in the abdomen. abdo-men. His second shot missed its aim, as did Chew's, and the sheriff took Cutrer in charge, hastened with him to the trainand securely lodged him in the Tunica county jail. He was only in time, for he was pursued pur-sued to the train by aimed hotheads, who would have mobbed him in the (treats. The feeling is intense at Friar's Point, because be-cause Cntrer has been for years the leader In seeking to remove the county seat from Trior's Point. |