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wive in -fa ofourinfiiSunday, July 8. ISISTALK OF TEXASDedicationEndedAs Feud1 andh By JACK MAGI IREsamp FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY when*. _ 0n Iuiv 7 ]«90, citizenswhich of Colorado County gatheredin the af Columbus to lay the cornerstone of their new court-their house. What they actually1 the,r witnessed was the beginningwards of a bloody feud that was to F1;0W last for almost two decades.35 . ]t began when Warren'1 Stafford, son of Roberthac a Stafford, the town banker, got2s® drunk while awaiting the courthouse dedication. Whenh’hJl this had happened on otheroccasions, friends had takenl’.rc,young Stafford to his home. u! I This time, however, a pair ofnritff r brothers. Deputy Sheriff *Larkin and Marion Hope, R (h decided to put Stafford in jail.Friends prevailed and 10 Stafford was released. Rutwhen his father heard of thisledical indignity to his son and heir,.1 In* he decided to teach the lawcome a ieSSon. With his brother,is for j0hn, a millionnaire rancher,these he located ihe two deputiessistent |n a saloon and an ar.gumentlitional began. The officers, drew theirguns and killed both of thehave Staffordslack Columbus was so shocked 15 that it never did get around^ to dedicating fh* courthouse.^ And the murder of the town’two most prom.mopt citizens set off a feud that was to c* last until 1906. Eventually it0 cost the lives of four othermen, seriously injured several^ others and made it necessary!t lor the county to call in theTexas Rangers to restoreorderTO UTI IVC TIT VAC
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Sun, Jul 06, 1969
Page 49
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