Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — TEXAS SHERIFF ASSASSINATED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEXAS SHERIFF ASSASSINATED

8. A, Brito, of Cameron County, Shot While Riding in a Carriage. 8. A. Brito, Sheriff of Cameron County, Tex., was assassinated Sunday night. He and two deputies had been to a Mexican dance just outside the city, and had taken a carriage to return to Brownsville. After they had started some persons rode up behind the carriage and shot through the leather curtain at the back of the carriage. Two shots were tb-ed. Both struck Brito in the back, killing him. Brito was well known on the frontier as a terror to evil doers, and as such made many enemies among the criminal classes. There is no clue to the murderers. Brito was buried next evening with Masonic honors. ,

“Why, Chumley, old fellah, what’s the mattah?” Chumley—Why, Miss von Boodles broke off with me last week. I pawned the diamond ring, and now she writes for me to come back. —Judge.