HEMPSTEAD.

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Death of City Marshal Adams — Citizens' Meeting — Vigilance Committee Said to be Organized, Etc.

[Special Telegram to the News.]

Hempstead, November 8. — City Marshal Adams died on Saturday night and was buried yesterday.  A great deal of excitement is prevailing.  Two meetings of citizens were held yesterday and last night, the last a select session.  Rumor on the streets to-day is that a vigilance committee has been organized.  All officers of the law and lawyers were excluded from the last meeting.  Peter Moore is under arrest, and proof is positive that he shot Adams.  Moore waived examintation to-day, and was refused bail and remanded to jail.  He will be taken to Brenham for safe-keeping.

"Death of City Marshal Adams." The Daily Banner (Brenham, TX), Tuesday, November 9, 1880, p. 1, col. 5.

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(Marshal John Howell Adams was 42 when killed and survived by a wife and two children, 1 and 3. See Officer Down Memorial Page.)