THE HEMPSTEAD TRAGEDY.

Great Excitement Over the Killing — Allchin Suffering rom His Wounds.

Special to the Gazette.

HEMPSTEAD, Tex., April 5. — Dick Chambers, the deputy sheriff who was killed here yesterday by Steve Allchin, was buried to-day.  There is great excitement here and throughout the county over the tragedy.

The article in the Advance-Guard over which the difficulty occurred was of a general character, charging various things to the grand and petit juries of the county, and intimated a stocking of the grand jury by the sheriff or his deputies to prevent true bills from being found, and grand juries and petit juries as mere figureheads to do the bidding of their masters, asking: "How long, oh, Lord, how long will the good people of Waller county stand it," etc.

Allchin rested tolerably well last night, but is very stiff and sore from the wound.  He is under guard, and no time has been fixed for the examining trial.

"The Hempstead Tragedy", Fort Worth Daily Gazette, Friday, April 6, 1888, p. 5, col. 2.

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