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.
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