Waller County Killing

The Man Who Killed Napoleon Farr is Assassinated.

Hempstead, Texas, July 9 — This morning about 10:00 at Waller station in this county, one Joe Driscoll, an Englishman, shot and instantly killed James Carroll, the man who killed Napoleon Farr at that place some time ago. The particulars are not known, but it is said that Carroll was assassinated. Driscoll is gone. Officers are in pursuit.

"Waller County Killing.", Gainesville Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, TX), Wednesday, July 11, 1888, p. 4, col. 2

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