Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Fate Has Pursued This Family. [ARTICLE]

Fate Has Pursued This Family.

Eate has, indeed, pursued the Bartlet'. family, of Marshall county, Ala W thin a week three of them we. e murdered and one drowned. Geor t a ijartlett, the father, wag killed In a quarrel with a nephew on Monday. A week before, Bartlett’s eldest so >, John, while going h me, was shot and Killed from ambush and robbed of a large .um <. f money by unknown men. Two days later, another son, Alexander, became involved in a difficulty with a negro farm laborer, who stabbed him to death near the spot where, the father was murdered. Last Saturday, Bartlett’s youngest son, Tom, aged 15, was crossing the Tennease River, when his skiff was upset and he wa? . rowned,