Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — A Negro Murderer Lynched. [ARTICLE]

A Negro Murderer Lynched.

[Aavasota. sTexas' apecial.] . _ , Monday Deputy Sheriff Upchurch was shot by Jim Richards, a negro, at Dedias, thirty miles from here. Upchurch had Richards under arrest, and the latter, watching his opportunity, jerked Upchurch’s pistol out of its scabbard and in--flicted the fatal wound. About sundown Monday evening over seventy-five masked men, armed to the teeth, took Richards from the custody of the guards and swung him to a neighboring tree. Ax editor baying charged a eertain Govmmmestjofficial__with receiving a comfortable sum for his influence, the official wrote the following note of explanation: “Dear Sir—The statement maotf by you that I received money for my influence is a wicked lie lam us iunocent of any such charges as the babe unborn. I got no [.money whatever, and I am an honest man. f-Tlwpiftiesm charge of the seheme never off er c< l meanything. Y ours truly ■ ” ■' ~ Strange but true: A word in season is scarcely ever spoken by a man in a peppery frame of mind. ' ‘ /