Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — A TEXAS DANCE. [ARTICLE]

A TEXAS DANCE.

It Winds Up with the Killing of Three Pooplr. [Rockdale (Texas) dlspatch.l Intelligence has reached hereof a desperate shooting affair last night at a point fifteen miles below this city, involving the fatal shooting Of three persons. A dance was in progress at the house of W. S. Davis. Fred Stephens, formerly a Deputy Sheriff of this county, started to go outside with Buck Scales to talk over a i old difficulty. As they passed out the doorway, Stevens shot Scales through the stomach and breast. As Scales f. il, Stephens tired a third shot, which passed through the chin of the 10-year old daughter of Mr. Sib ey. The bystanders at once seized and disarmed Stephens. The brother of Buck Scales then entered (he room and stalled for Stephens, who ran into the yard and shielded bimse'f behind a wagon, meanwhile begging piteously for his life. Scales fired several shots, but missed Stephens, when the latter ran into the house, followed by the crowd. Stephens picked up a shot-gun, and'emptied its contents into the breast of Mr. Hodge, an innocent bystander, killing him. Two other guests were also wounded. Stephens escaped to the woods, notwithstanding that twenty men followed and fired at him. The Sibley child will dieu

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