| BROOKS FAMOUS CALHOUN CHARACTER
Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm of the Calhoun
Chronicle
10/8/1901
Creed Requests Clarification
We are requested by Constable W.C. (Creed) Brooks to say that he was not
intoxicated
when the altercation between himself and Murry occurred a few days
ago,
as has been reported.
Brooks says earlier in the evening he had Murry
under
arrest, but released him upon the promise of his friends to see after
him.
He was taken to a room, and about midnight Brooks went into the room
for
some purpose, and Murry attacked him, one of his friends holding the
door
shut.
Brooks warded off the blows as best he could, until Murry
attempted
to hit him with an empty beer bottle.
He then struck him with a
beer
bottle laying him out for some time.
All of which, he says, he
did
in self defense.
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