1860 Criminal Events in Coryell

 


The Texas Republican (Marshall, Texas)
April 21, 1860 page 2

       Escaped -- Two Misses Lemly, who
       were captured in Palo Pinto; Mr. Fore
       and a negro man who were chased in
       Coryell; two men by hiding in a cedar
       brake in Burnett; Messrs Lowder and 
       Martin, who were surrounded in Palo
       Pinto, and a family of women and child-
       ren who were attacked in a house in the
       same county and relieved by neighbors;
       two young Tacket's in Young.
         These are such of the occurrences in
       January and February as we now re-
       member.  There are others we have for-
       gotten, and doubtless many of which
       we have not heard.  The number of
       horses stolen and cattle wantonly killed
       will never be known.




The Texas Republican (Marshall, Texas)
Jan 12, 1867 page 2

       The Register says that Mr. Diltz,
       living in the edge of Coryell county,
       was robbed a few days since of be-
       tween one and two hundred dollars
       while on his way home from Adam
       Bibles. He overtook two men in
       Federal uniform who asked him if he
       could change a twenty dollar gold
       piece.  He replied that he could, and
       upon offering to do so his purse was
       snatched.  When he expostulated, a 
       pistol was pointed at him, and he was
       ordered to hold his "rebel tongue."




The Galveston Daily News
April 14, 1869 page 2

       A Gatesville correspondent of the Reg-
       ister says the man Hendricks who was ar-
       rested in Waco week before last, for forg-
       ing a note on Solomon Barron, of Hamil-
       ton county, and selling it to Fields &
       Love, at Gatesville, was pursued and 
       brought back on Thursday, and on Friday
       he was tried, convicted and sentenced to
       the peneitentiary for two years.  He is a 
       man fifty odd years of age




The Texas Republican (Marshall, Texas)
May 29, 1868

        The Waco Register of the 13th
       had just received a private letter from
       Gatesville, as follows:
         There was a man by the name of 
       Dial hung near Gatesville on the
       night of the 8th inst; he was sup-
       posed to be one of the Hamilton
       and Bishop party.  Another man by
       the name of Lee, of the same sus-
       picious party was supppoed to be 
       drowned on the 4th inst.  his horse,
       saddle and equipage was found near
       the river and he has not been heard
       from since.




The Galveston Daily News
Oct 21, 1869 page 2

Bloody Fight near Waco -- The Military Kill Two Men.

       We have received from the Waco
       Register an extra, dated October 18th
       giving the particulars of a bloody 
       affray, in which two men were killed
       by the military:
         Two brothers named Grimes getting
       under the influence of liquor this morn-
       ing and becoming boisterous, the police
       attempted to arrest them; they re-
       sisted, firing upon the police with their
       six-shooters, wounding Mr. Conyer, a
       Federal soldier, in the hand.
         They then mounted their horses and
       started out of town, taking the Austin
       road.  A squad of Federal soldiers, un-
       der Lieut. Sands, immediately started
       in pursuit.
         They were overtaken about two miles
       from town, on the Gatesville road.
       The two Grimes immediately com-
       menced firing on the soldiers, five in
       number, who returned the fire with
       their carbines, killing both of them in-
       stantly.
         We are informed by responsible par-
       ties, who reside in this city, and know
       the two young men that were killed,
       that they are of highly respectable
       parents and have heretofore borne a
       good character themselves, their father
       resides on the Leon river in the edge of
       Coryell county.






Research by Christine Morton
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