Sheriff Noble received a letter to-day from the District Attorney at Leadville, Col., asking particulars regarding Geo. W. Lynch, formerly of Hockley, Harris county, and stating that Lynch had been convicted of murder there.  Lynch formerly resided at Hockley, where his ten (sic) children were burned, and it is said that he suspected some party of having caused their death and having threatened to follow and kill the party if it took him a lifetime.  It is thought that in pursuance of that determination he killed the man at Leadville for which he has been convicted.  Lynch shot a man named Beuford, and was under a $15,000 bond here which he forfeited, and ran away.

"Questions about George Lynch.", The Galveston Daily News, Sunday, July 3, 1881, p. 2, col. 4.

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