NEGRESS HAS SKULL CRUSHED Found Dead at Home With Bloody Ax Near Body-Baby in the
Same Room.
Special to The News.
Sulphur Springs, Tex., June 7.--Early this morning the body of Plugan (or Flugan?) Reed, a middle-aged negro woman, was found at her home with her skull crushed.
The body was about half way under the bed on the floor and beside it a bloody ax.
The negroes here are considerably wrought up, some believing it the work of the "axman."
When the dead woman was found her 2-year-old baby was found in the room unmolested, playing around the house, where it had evidently been alone from the time when the murder was committed.
Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, Saturday, June 08, 1912, Page 4
Mrs. W. E. Reed - Cumby, Texas, June 24, 1929 - A victim of mistaken
identity, Mrs. W. E. Reed of this city, was shot and killed Monday by Mrs. Ocar
Cross. Mrs. Cross surrendered to officers at once and told County Attorney
Emmet Thornton she had killed the wrong woman. Mrs. Cross was liberated later
on $10,000. bond after being carried to Sulphur Springs in custody of the
sheriff’s force. The shooting occurred on Main street in front of the post
office, Mrs. Cross firing four times. One of the bullets struck Mrs. Reed in
the head, killing her instantly. County Attorney Thornton said Mrs. Cross had
made a statement to him, saying the bullets were intended for a Dallas woman
who was supposed to be in the vicinity. The prosecutor said that Mrs. Cross had
told him, " I was neither a friend nor enemy of Mrs. Reed and my killing
her was not intentional. I have such trouble with __________, as in my opinion
warranted my act in the shooting, and the shooting of Mrs. Reed, as heretofore
related, was accidental." Both women have husbands and children. Mrs.
Reed, who was forty years old, is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Cross is the
mother of three children. She is about 35 years old.
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