The BANNER'S report of the Hempstead assassination was generally commended as being more accurate, minute and fuller in details than either the account published in the Houston Posst or Galveston News, although both of these papers had reporters on the ground.

"The BANNER'S report of the Hempstead assassination", Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, TX), Vol. 13, No. 272, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1888, p. 4, col. 1.

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