The DeFuniak Herald – March 13, 1919

General News

Charles Carter acquitted. Newt Nowling testified that he didn’t even know what [day] Christmas was on, or the day of the week, but remembers Carter selling him rum. Marion Hall (who shot Carter and killed Arnold Mitchell) said he purchased two quarts of rum for $3.50 from Carter on the morning of the shooting. George Keen testified that Carter was hauling lumber from a mill south of Mossyhead to Mossyhead at that time of day until dark. Mossyhead is 12 miles from where Newt said he saw Carter at dark. The jury was about five minutes in returning the verdict.

Marriage Licenses returned: T. Scott and Isabell Dyson; C. Brown and Myrtle Pelt; A. Hunt and Clara Randolph; C. L. Brown and Lina Weatherspoon; W. F. Scarbought and Grace L. Adkison; B. Monroe and Nancy Coleman; M. Paul and Celia Clements; [Albert] Nowling and [Bernice Whitton]; W. McCracken and Myrtle Jackson; I. Turner and Ella Jackson.

 [Excerpted by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson]