Not Hockley's Horror.

[To the News.]

Hockley, Oct. 1, 1878. — Please give space in your daily to the fact that the murder and cremation of the Lynch family did not occur in our very quiet and peacable village, as the title to the piece would suggest — Hockley horror — but in Waller county, and distant from this place at least 8 miles.  The press are, unconsciously no doubt, doing our interests here much damage by persisting in the use of the mistaken title to the fearful tragedy.  I have never lived in a more peacable community than is ours.

There is yet, I believe, no clue to the perpetrators of the foul deed.

H. J. Montgomery.

"Not Hockley's Horror." The Galveston Daily News, Thursday, October 3, 1878 P. 2, col. 3.

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