THE LYNCH ATTROCITY. (sic)

Further Attacks on His Life Feared.

The Lynch mystery increasing in interest.  Lynch has been moved to Hockley, as another attempt on his life is feared.  He is rapidly recovering.

County Attorney Booth is investigating it, and all efforts are being made to ferret out the assassin, and in case the governor offers a suitable reward, skillful professional detectives, already on the ground, will work up the matter.

The theory that Lynch himself had committed the crime in a fit of insanity is being abandoned because the wounding was done with bullets of 22 caliber, while his pistol carries a 44 ball.  Detectives say they can get the murderer in spite of efforts made to cover him up. — Houston Telegram.

Mr. John Pinckney, Justice of the Peace in Walker (sic) county, writes to the Telegram, giving particulars of the horrible affair, in which he makes the following corrections in the previous report:

I never heard of a masked person being seen until I found it in your paper.  Have seen no one who has.  Who could have made such statements to your reporter at Hockley I know not.  Lynch did not have the child in his arms.  There was no hatchet found near Miss Carrie.  There were no fractured skulls found.  How that idea got out I can't imagine, for the skulls were ashes.

"The Lynch Attrocity." Denison Daily News, (Denison, TX.), Sunday, September 22, 1878, p. 1, col. 4.

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