Saturday, March 2, 2019

I used to live there, but not when these killings happened


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.


 From history studies and reading court records, I know people today are no better nor worse than in years past.

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