A correspondent of the Houston Telegram says the detectives are at work on the dreadful Lynch crime. It is reported that they have information that, if published, would startle the people of Texas at the deep and damnable guilt of a plot that in a single hour swept a whole family of beautiful children into eternity.
"Detectives at Work on Lynch Crime." Denison Daily News, (Denison, TX.), Thursday, October 17, 1878, p. 2, col. 1.
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