Source Type: | Newspaper |
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Place of publication: | Mount Carmel Item |
Date of publication: | 1894 |
Transcript: | Deputy Sheriff John Cowlett attempted to levy upon a cow owned by Melinda Douglass, an old colored woman, of Sherman, Ala. The woman told her thirteen year-old son Tom to shoot the officer if he attempted to take the cow. As the officer placed a rope on the animal the boy shot him dead. Later the boy resisted arrest when another officer went for him, and was shot and fatally injured. |