Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — Fate Has Pursued This Family. [ARTICLE]

Fate Has Pursued This Family.

Fate has, indeed, pursued the Bartlett, family, of Marshall county, Ala. Within a week three of them were murdered and one drowned. George artlet . the father, wan killed in a ‘luarro! with a nephew n Monday. A week bes >re, Bartlett's eldest so , John, while go ng h mo. was sho and Kd‘led from ambu li and robbe I of a 1 rge im f money by u known me n Two days later, another son Alexander, bee me involved in a di.t'culty ,vit a negro farm laborer, who stabbed him to dea:h near the sp t where the fa her was murdered I ast Saturday, Bartlett’s youngest son Tom, aged 15, was crossing the River vv en his tkiff was upset and he waj rowned.