Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — A YOUNG TEXAS FIEND. [ARTICLE]

A YOUNG TEXAS FIEND.

Twenty-Two Years Old and the Hero o Half a Score of Murders. Sinco the capture of Bill Hudgins and most of his gang, Feb. 5, at Paris, Tex. ( officers have received information that Shows Hudgins’ connection with at leas; four mnrders that have hitherto remained a mystery. One of these was The shooting from ambush of Alex. Handlin, thirty miles west of Purcell, I. T., on July 9, 1890, and for which two men named Samuel and Ramey were arrested, biit subsequently released for want of evidence. Soon after the opening of Oklahoma an old German and his son were called out of their cabin and the double murderer was never captured. A year or so ago the office of the Santa Fe railroad at Wharton, in the Cherokee strip, was entered, the agent shot and the station robbed. Fvidence is now accumulating that will prove that Hudgins committed all of these murders, and three others that have partially developed' Hudgins is only twenty-two years old.