Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 11 | Convicted of Murder |

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Date	1906-01-02
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Convicted of Murder
Type	article
Date	1906-01-02
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	11
OCR Text	Show CONVICTED OF MURDER Appeal Taken on Ground of Coloi Discrimination. ROUBTQff, Tex.. Jan. 1. The Jury In the rnse of Marcellus Thomas, colored, teturned a verdict of murder In the first degree ami passed a penalty of death. Thomas was charged with ambushing am-bushing and assassinating B F Shropshire Shrop-shire and James Blair, prominent citizens cit-izens of Montgomery county. Conviction Convic-tion was had in the Blair case. The case will be appealed to the State court, and possibly to the Federal Supreme Su-preme court on the ground of discrimination discrim-ination because of color.
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