The Countryman reports that on Wednesday afternoon last Mr. B.B. Lee was shot and killed by Mr. Joseph Farr, in the saloon kept by Mr. G.H. Wheeler at Hempstead. Farr left, and has not been arrested.

"Mr. B. B. Lee was shot and killed by Mr. Joseph Farr", Galveston Daily News, Saturday, May 2, 1868, p. 1