Marshall Wood, 39, white, shot and killed Bill Lindsey, 46, white, Monday morning shortly after six o'clock at the home in which Wood and his young daughter lived three miles northeast of town. The weapon used was a single-barrel shotgun which was discharged by Wood from the inside of his house, the load passing through the window and entering the bowels of Lindsey, who stood on the front porch outside the window. He fell instantly from the porch to the ground. He was carried to his own home two hundred yards west of the scene of the shooting and physicians were summoned promptly, giving him every needed attention. He lingered in agony until 4:00 p.m., when he expired.

Wood, after the shooting, left the scene immediately, taking his gun and going to the home of his wife, possibly a half mile South. The two had been separated for some time. Entering his wife's home, he went to bed, Constable W. L. Shackleford, living in the neighborhood, hearing the screams of Lindsey's wife and children, set out to investigate the trouble, but before reaching the scene learned the details of the tragedy and the whereabouts of Wood. He went instantly to his place of hiding and placed him under arrest. Sheriff W. R. Wright shortly arrived on the scene and brought the murderer to town in an automobile. He was carried before Magistrate H. E. Graper who remanded him to jail without bond. Fearing mob violence, owning to the ill temper of the murdered man's host of friends, Wood was spirited to Jackson Monday afternoon for safekeeping.

Lindsey and Wood are brothers-in-law, the latter being a renter on Lindsey's farm. In dying statements, Lindsey said he went to Wood's house Monday morning to urge him to start the cultivation of land which he had rented, or release it so that it could be cultivated by others. He had stepped on the porch and calling to Wood, he elicited no response. Thinking that Wood was not in the room he went to the window just in time to catch the full effects of the load discharged from the gun. Lindsey had on previous occasions urged Wood to give up his rental contract. Wood said he considered Lindsey, who married his sister, as good a friend as he had in the world, but that he made him do the rash deed which had been done. Public sympathy is very much against Wood, the consensus of opinion being that the murder was a deliberate, cold-blooded affair. Lindsey leaves a wife and six children. He was a farmer and merchant and universally regarded as a quiet, peaceful upright, honest, law-abiding citizen.

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