Morning World Herald, Omaha, Nebraska - Feb 12 1897 Sent by Bunny Freeman CC of Henderson County, Texas POSSE FIGHTS OUTLAWS Four Texans Resist Arrest and Three are Killed. Houston, Tex. Feb 11 -- A dispatch from Menardsville tells of a desperate encounter
with outlaws near that place Tuesday. Sheriff J. L. Jones of Kimble
county, with Tom Taylor, Oscar Latta, Bud Frazier and John Goodson, about
daylight came across a camp near the Menard and Kimble county line. There
were four men in the camp who the officers supposed were the cattle thieves they wanted. A command to surrender was replied to by a shower of bullets.
A pitched battle then ensued, which lasted half an hour. J. C. Johnson, alias R. J. Smith, and Jim Crane were killed by the posse. Another man, named Underwood, was shot through the thigh and backbone and will die. The fourth man, though wounded, managed to mount his horse and escape. |