The refusal of bail to Springfield and Jack McDade, murders of Steven Allchin at Hempstead, will have a salutary effect on the red-handed assassins of Waller county. It looks now as if both murderers might eventually ascend the gallows.
"The refusal of bail to Springfield and Jack McDade.", The Austin Weekly Statesman, Thursday, July 5, 1888, p. 2, col. 3.