EXCITEMENT AT HOCKLEY.

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Shooting of Jno. Binford by Geo. Lynch – the Cause – Affairs in Montgomery County.

[Special Telegram to the News.]

Houston, Nov. 6. — Parties arriving on the Central train report great excitement prevailing at Hockley, occasioned by Geo. Lynch's shooting Jno. Binford.  Mr. Lynch is the man who was so badly wounded when his children were all killed and burned some weeks ago, but recovered.  To-day he fired both barrels of his gun loaded with buckshot at Binford, wounding him desperately.  Lynch is under guard, but the town is filled with arms.  He accused Binford of being concerned in the death of his children.

Later. — A determination of the deputy sheriff to fight before surrendering his prisoner quieted the mob.

From greenback sources it is learned that eleven other Montgomeryites were to have been arrested to-day for that bulldozing affair.

"Shooting of Jno. Binford by Geo. Lynch." The Galveston Daily News, Thursday, November 7, 1878, p. 1, col. 7.

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