People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — A SOUTHERN TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

A SOUTHERN TRAGEDY.

Th® Slayer of a Texan and Illg Wife Lynched by a Mob. Greenville, Tex., June 30.—At 9 o’clock Wednesday night while Albert Waits and his wife were walking near their home at Sulphur Springs 30 miles east of here, they were fired on by John Williams., Mrs. Waits was killed instantly, Mr. Waits dying a few hours later. Williams had been in their employ, but was discharged for stealing. A posse captured the murderer near Weaver. An angry mob overpowered the guards who had taken the prisoner back to Sulphur Springs and swung him up to a telegraph pole.