Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — TEXAS JUDGESHCT BY A WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

TEXAS JUDGESHCT BY A WOMAN.

Another Added to the I.lst of Crime* That Ha« Mads Hidalgo County an Abode of Terror, T’ * . I . " • . „ At 1 o’clock on morning of the 18th* County Judge Max Stein, of Hidalgo coun. ty, the leading merchant and wealthiest and most popular citizen of Edinburg,Tex , was shot and killed in Renosa, Mexico, by Mrs. Adelia McCabe, of Caros county, Texas. The murderess is the wife of exCounty Judge McCabe, of Hidalgo. There is a fair at Renosa, and a large excursion went there on the 17th from Matamoras. A Mexican theatrical company gave a performance, which Judge Stein, with his wife and daughter, attended. After the performance the party went to one of the booths in the fair for supper. The ladies were seated, and Stein was just drawing up a chair when Mrs. McCabe, a tall) handsome, twenty-year-old woman, ap peared. Her long hair was blowing in the wind and her eyes flashed as she sprang upon Stein, grasped his left arm, and be*, fore he was aware of her presence) pressed her pistol against his breast and fired. As the unfortunate man fell dead his wife sprang toward the murderess. Mrs. McCabe felled Mrs. Stein to the floor with a savage blow on the temple with the barrel of the pistol. The chief of police rushed up to arrest the murderess, when she knocked him down also, and then, like a lioness at bay, she brought her ready pistol down on'the policemen who came up, and defied them to arrest her. The cavalry, always in attendance at a Mexican border fair, now came on the scene, and some of the soldiers crept behind the woman and pinned her arms. After a desperate struggle they succeeded in disarming and securing her. affair grew out of the election trouble in Hidalgo county. McCabe, who Is a lawyer, vvent into Edinburgh ten months ago, and on a compromise as the only man not mixed in local politics who would accept, was nominated by the Republicans and allowed by the Democrats to take the position of county Judge. At the last term of the county court he, being clearly ineligible, was unseated by District Judge Russell, and on the earnest solicitations of all parties, to conserve the county finances and against his own desires, Judge Stein accepted the position. McCabe, at the head of a party of maruders, tried the forcible, capture of the court-house, and failing, fled to Mexico, where he has since been. It is said that letters were written to Cams county to get the records from the McCabes, and that Mrs. McCabe heard about them aud swore vengeance on her husband’s successor. Mr. Stein's body was taken to Matamoras on a special train and buried in the Jewish cometery.