DELIBERATE ASSASSINATION.
James Carroll Is Instantly Killed by Joe Driscoll — Lookout for Him.
HEMPSTEAD, TEX., July 9. — A cowardly killing was committed near Waller station, ten miles south of this place, on the Houston and Texas Central railway, about noon to-day. James Carroll was shot twice by Joe Driscoll and instantly killed. Driscoll, Carroll and another man were on their way to work the public road and without saying a word Driscoll commenced firing on Carroll, both shots entering the back and going through his body. The other man of the party made an effort to arrest the murderer, but he snapped a pistol in his face, and fortunately it failed to fire. He then went to a neighbor's stable and stole a horse and equipments and escaped, going in an easterly direction towards the piney woods of east Texas.
On the 4th of last May Carroll killed N. B. Farr at Waller station. On examination he was granted bail. Driscoll was at the time employed by Farr. Since then Carroll and Driscoll have had several wordy spats.
To-day the men met on friendly terms and no ever dreamed that such a tragedy would take place. Carroll was tried in the Lake City (Fla.) court for killing two brothers named Barr fifteen or twenty years ago. He was arrested on his farm near Waller about a year ago and gave a bond for his appearance in the Florida courts. About six weeks ago the case was tried and the defendant was honorably acquitted.
Reports had reached Driscoll that Carroll had made various threats, the trouble originating in his being a witness of the killing of Farr. Thi is believed to have been the cause of the assassination to day.
Carroll leaves a wife and one child. He was a farmer bout one mile from the station.
Officers throughout Texas and Louisiana will please aid in capturing the assassin.
Description: Joe Driscoll, about 38 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, thin face, sharp chin and high cheek bones, with a scar on corner of mouth, picture in India ink on left arm, blue eyes, upper teeth prominent and project, teeth much stained with tobacco, and Englishman, talks broken English, has a very nervous disposition, claims to be a sailor, has brown hair, wore away a blue suit of clothing, has a red mustache, and whiskers about one inch long, wears No. 9 shoes.
Description of stolen horse, etc.: Sorrel horse, branded U V on left hip, hind feet white, white star in face, 14-1/2 hands high, shod on all feet, English saddle with steel stirrups. He may hide in big thicket, Montgomery county, awhile. Formerly lived at Timpson on the Houston East and West Texas railroad. May try to make for Galveston or New Orleans and ship as a sailor on some ship.
Governor Ross will probably offer a reward for his capture as soon as he learns the facts of the case. Driscoll had no relatives in this county, and few people knew him.
"DELIBERATE ASSASSINATION." Galveston Daily News, Tuesday, July 10, 1888, p. 10, col. 2.
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