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»uw ou-iiuy go UL Huge. .v From the San Antonio Express,] 1Mubdeb of Judge Hibam: Christian.—A caee of the most horrible atrocity, proving the , inhuman spirit of the rebel murderers, has just come to our knowledge. Judge Hiram Christian was Chief Justice of Bell county under Governor Hamilton. Daring his official • position frequent threats were made against his life, and after the inauguration of Throclt-inorton the lives of Unionnjen became so insecure that the Judge felt it to be/ absolutely necessary to move ^waj^rpm the scene of his early days, so disposing^hs he could of. naosfc of his property he moved with his family to Springfield, Mo. ,, On the 2d day,of June last two Texans, from Bell county, who had been hired to assassinate; the Judge,} had went all the way to Springfield and shot him down in c old blood in them arket house where he was cutting up beef, after dark. ; A son of the Judge, who had started ft few days before the tragedy for Bell county to attend to some business, saw for the first time, the .account of the murder, together with a description qf the murdeiers, and a statement that one was cap-„ tured and the other escaped, in a Missouri paper, and recognized the murderers by the description, and the one who had escaped- was then in Belton, Bell county. V
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Galveston Flakes Evening Bulletin
Galveston, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 19, 1867
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