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Khj.i i» is Lkk (‘.u stv,- We leum from u gentleman who reside•» ut Me bade that twi) men, named Turk Turner and James II. Crow, were killed in Lee county, a few mlfei from McDiide, on Wednesday of lout wh'k. Tho circuumtanoea are tljte-e: TwoIwcviMt lire) been ki1led and «»kinncrlt;lv and in t lit nine oi*e of the port its wlio did it, the • iircitiM wire lt;IU cove rod, uni wru- i kepi to see who would rut urn to tarry away the \u-vt ami the Ui.l**’*. Fnmlly tin* sUive pur-tlrk itimud with s wagon, mid after having lamb-d up mi*! **turud a w i v, ihey were tire. I u^iuii by unknow n purl it * and baihkilled. The bodies were found lv n son of old man Crow, who had been sent out to look for htx father after lie hud returned front school in the evening. The remains were found several hundred yards n|mrt, att i lliv’tduii tied to a tree* neat which the W* vc* had Iw-i ktlh d. Thu mark* and brand* mi the hides showed that the aul-tnaU were not the property of the raeti w ho were hauling away thm beef and the hides. Turner had long ht-en regarded as a law teas, di* honest character and dewier ado, hut old man Crow, though he had a io» in the penitentiary,- was not so regarded. The gen tU»m*u who furnishes u* this inform dha say** that in the last three or four month*,twelve alt tllie v«# am I desperadoes,have been kilted in that country within raditl* of about twenty-live mi lea, and that the K’tng 1ms pot yet been entirely wiped out.
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The Weekly Democratic Statesman
Austin, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 30, 1876
Page 3
Full Page
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