HEAMPSTEAD (sic) TRAGEDY
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A Newspaper Man Killed by a Justice of the Peace.
Mr. C. W. Newnam, of the Express composing rooms, received a telegram yesterday from Hempstead informing him that his brother-in-law, J. H. Farr, editor of the Chronicle, had been shot and killed by James Cloud, a justice of the peace. No further particulars were given of the unfortunate affair other than as above stated. Mr. Newnam will leave San Antonio for Hempstead to investigate the killing today. Farr was an old Confederate soldier, a member of Sibley's celebrated brigade when it made their famous march from New Mexico to San Antonio, almost naked and starved, and is said to have been a good man and brave.
"A Newspaper Man Killed by a Justice of the Peace.", San Antonio Daily Express, Thursday, May 6, 1886, p. 4, col. 4.