| Source Type: | Newspaper |
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| Publisher: | The Washington Post |
| Place of publication: | United States, Washington D.C. |
| Date of publication: | 1894-02-28 |
| Transcript: | Sherman, Ala. Feb. 27- Yesterday Deputy Sheriff John Cowlett attempted to levy upon a mortgaged cow held by Melinda Douglass, an old negress. 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. A later report says the boy resisted arrest when an officer came for him, attempting to use the gun again, when the second officer shot him, injuring him fatally. |
| Citation: | (1894, February 28th). All Over A Mortgaged Cow. The Washington Post. |