The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-10-30
Ho 'ihla ard Cold Blood Murder and
Robbery, near Washington.


crime. About midnight Sunday the
18th September, our youngest son,
wss violently takca from a house
about me mile from Washington, b.
a party Of men in disguise, robbed Of
his six -shooter aud the contents Of
his pocket and assassina,ed. The
circumstances as we gather them
from reliable sources arc these. On
the Friday previous to bis murder he
left his Unclo's in Fsyette county 10
90 to Nayascta to visit his mother
whom he had not seen for some time
He reached the vicinity of Wash
ington, Saturday night, and being
tired be remained over until Sunday
night a, the house of freedman aud
his wife, who had nurscd and partly
raised him, she having been our
faithful lousehccpor and nurse for
near eighteen years. About mid
night on Sunday, these men forced
open the dor aud entered Zone re-
naming outside as guard they
( lighted candle, when the freedman
and bis wife die. cred they were
white men, with painted faces and
otherwise disguised. They went TO
the pallet of the unfortunate youth
with si1 shooters cooked and present.
ed, took his pistol FROM under his
head, and awoko him lie asked
them what they wanted. One man,
who was the spokesman, replied that
they wanted him to put on his co'thcs
aud go with them. He asked them
what he had done but received no
saswcr As they dragged him out
Of the door, he asked them TO ALLOW
the negro man to 20 with them, that
he might sec what they were going
to do with him, They p~remptorily
refused, telling the negro man to re-
lain in the house until morning
They then started off with him on
foot, telling him that they were not
going to hun him, but would send
him back in the morning. At tho
dawn of day the negro tracked them
aLon, Yoo ,ards below tb, bouso
- l;s:oYoroa ,ho ,r,cts az tn,r
r.. haJ hoon ,;od /, tho woo1s
from which place he tracked them to
a., c,,ts az tho main road in the al.
-. Wv ~ Ivash;n.ton A. tL;s
i,',I l,,,ia - No crr,hor H.
-. s'"' ~ .nJ ae,o. so,roh;,,,a,o,nd;n
a.. -. h. ,r,coodc1 n W.sb.
w "O'1 VI =" s,.,"1 ,ho r,o,s 10 Inc.
- La HI ~ ~ J,s,icc Of tho Peace
=, soaroh u,s Instituted hat 10 mo
,,n, 80 Teo d,ys .l,crv,rds !, no
po' ~ - 20 bo', ,as a,,r,o,od
~ J." 49, - - ~ hv
-. ~ hnsv,,5s av;,o oro,ud-
III" -. " - III -. 10 d;soo,.r
cd Inc remains Of our murdered son
suspended to tree. His hands werc
tied behind him so tight that the
rome cut through the flesh his shoes
and paaialoons we're covered with
mud showing that the inhuman
monsters had forced him to walk
through sa rough and rugged road
his blackcned flesh was falling from
the bone. and had it not been for his
clothes and hair, he would not have
been recognized.
The i'm orlant question is, "Who
are the N ,r,lerers 1t was no good
citizens of Washington, but like
other cor nuni,ies i, il likely to be
infested With some black hearted
sco,ndrol who MANNED the murder
aud nrodured his emissarcs to carry
ont the midnight plot. All that We
have oonyersed with on the subject,
,rroe that some one who is familiar
with the country around Washing
~, il moving to the bloody work
that the place where the victim was
fund asleep could not have been
,onnd by stranger in the day time,
inch less at NIGHT: and the secluded
90, where,be murder was committed
lpne mia from the place of capturo)
eor ,hc nurnose of eoneealing the
hnay win The expoc,ntion of its
,o,or be;ng found could not have
heen scler,nd onfy by those familiar
with tba, mart of the country the
TEARING down of the printed notices
H. Wa,hing,on Offering $500 90 re.
s,,d Far any information that would
lo,d IN tho detection of the murder
ora. the hand of armed men that as.
sombIsJ /, The town Mt the time we
van, ,born with three peaccable and
~narmeJ c;,;yens of tbis plaoe. to
hun, tho bodv Of our son. is conclu.
s;,o ov;5.nce that some parties in
,ho neighborbood. arc guilty of par
,;";na,;na In ,bc crime ard for WHAT
W. bayc been 10 Washington and
ma1o enou;res among the GOOD eli.
1ens as 10 what the unforiunats
mnn,h bod dane in tina, neiehbor.
iooJ bn, M ous knew Of any thing.
/, i lnown that he had one bitter
enemy there. who.had made serious
,Lraa,s and ia moi too GOOD to carry