HEMPSTEAD.
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District Court — Cases on Trial — Promising Crop Prospects, Etc.
[Special Telegram to the News.]
Hempstead, April 9. — District court is still in session — Judge Burkhart presiding with his usual dignity. District attorney Davidson is as hard at work after the law-breakers as ever.
The case of the State vs. Hargraves, for killing Moscow (sic - Musco) Boulware, was tried yesterday. The jury after being out twelve hours returned a verdict of not guilty. The state was represented by district attorney Davidson, M. S. Rains and John Pinckney; the defendant by Boone & Griffin and Thos. Pinckney. Several important murder cases are set for next week.
((Ed. note: Musco Boulware was a brother to Reuben Boulware who had violent confrontations with and had shot at George Lynch. He was also brother to James L. Boulware who was married to Maria Hargrave, a sister of George Lynch's deceased wife.
(Ed. note: John and Tom Pinckney were brothers and were both prosecution and defense, respectively, of Frank Hargrave, the defendant.)
Crops are unusually promising and farmers in high spirits.
Conductor J. D. Peterson's dwelling house, situated about four miles east of Austin, on the Austin branch of the Central railroad, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Furniture, etc., was a total loss; cause, a defective flue.
"State vs. Hargraves." The Galveston Daily News, Saturday, April 10, 1880, p. 1 , col. 5.
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