Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-07-11


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On list Thursday afternoon
man, driVin. span ii light sorrcl
hyrses, alta hcd Ia covered wagon,
CROSSED the Mississippi at Louisiana,
No. lie was trsycling alone aud
his, team WIS considerably jaicd,
M IS IL had been driven a long dis,
tanrc. Upon tho bna, at the same
time there crossed n foot passenger,
VIII" is evidently the person who
subsequently, commrilcd the murder
al which wo write, II would seem
from the circumstances ~ thus lar
developed, that the man with the
team cncampcd on the banks Of
cuckleburr ''.nush, anh while sleep,
ing was slI,t through tho head, the
hall entering the temple, aud then
with his coat wrapped around his
head was thrown int0 tho slough.
Tho murderer then hirched up the
team and coming this way campcd
upon the banks of the Sni, being
unable TO cross withoI, the ferry.
boat. Here he waited until morn.
ing, when he was ierricd over aud
JmRediatoly drove w Atlas, where
he offered tn sell rhe horses and wa.
gon for $3.50. Meeting with no
purchaser, he started UP tho blul' 10
Quincy, aud was subsequently, seen
at several places trying to sell his
team. All this time, however, the
murder had not yet come to light.
On Monday Hobart s. Horton, Of
Louisiana, Mo, coming over to his
farm, above Rockport, discovered
the body of man upon some drift.
wood, under Cuckleburr bridge. Ho
immediately came to Rockport and
gave information of the finding,
and, q party Of its citizens went out
and found the body as 10 had stated.
At the'inqucst the foregoing facts
wero brought out. The only clue
TO a knowledge of tho partics-thc
murderer and the murdered man,
yet obtained, is from a letter found
floating in the Sni BY the ferryman
on. Friday, when he terried the
team across. Thinking it might 10
of value he picked it out of the wa
ter and laid it on tho bank to dry.
A subsequent examination showed
5, 20 h"vo boon written at Peters
burg, Ills, by a woman to her hus-
band at Springfield, Mo. 1t was
signed by Susan Kimball, and adj
dressed, to il d.. Nmball. In the
letter. she speaks of her joy, and
that Of tbsir children, in knowing
that lie WIS on his way home, and
the lot,eu was cvilcntly written to
BE- takcn out at Springfield, by tho
husband Of the writer on his way
back to his home in Illinois. TO
which of the parties it belonged
cannot of course DO told, but it
would appear most probable that it
was wristen to him, who was most
foully murdered while Fastening
home to'gladden the hearts of his
wife and Tito ones.
A letter to gentleman in this place,
from one of Kimball's friends in Peters.
burg, ILL.,, gives the additional information
that the detectives were ON the track Of the
murderer, who is supposed to be the man,
Stout, who left here with him.
Tom Kimball has long been known in
this community, as ono of the steadest
qu'etest and most amiable young men of
the place, and was during the war mem
Der of Hawpe's regiment in the Cen federate
service. he had an enemy we do not
know It. lie was Industrious, and most
expert workman at his trade-tllat of
blacksmith. His early death is deeply
lamented by his many friends in this place,
and his family have the earnest sympathy I
of this entire community in their deep AZ !
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