REPORT

OF THE

ADJUTANT GENERAL

OF THE

STATE OF TEXAS
 

1873

CONDITION OF THE STATE

ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE,
STATE OF TEXAS
AUSTIN, April 18, 1873.

SIR: In compliance with your order directing me to
prepare a statement of the present condition of the
State, I called upon the sheriff’s of the various counties
to furnish me with statements of all cases of murder and
attempts to murder in their respective counties since the
first day of January, 1873.

Up to the present time twenty-nine (29) counties only
have been heard from officially, and twenty-five (25)
unofficially, reporting seventy-eight (78) cases of murder
and seventy (70) attempts to murder as follows:

HAMILTON COUNTY

Mrs. Carpenter was killed by John Hardin, Jr., February, 1873.