[TEXAS - CRIME]. Manuscript document signed by the jurors and certified by Justice of the Peace W.W. Arnett. Fort Clark, Texas, 5 March 1871.
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[TEXAS - CRIME]. Manuscript document signed by the jurors and certified by Justice of the Peace W.W. Arnett. Fort Clark, Texas, 5 March 1871.
1 page, 4to, on a ledger sheet, a few small losses to left margin.
"We the jurors find the said man came to his death...by gun shot fired by soldiers of the post of Fort Clark while he was attempting to escape." A jury's ruling, certifying that an unknown suspect was killed March 4 at 9 p.m. by soldiers of the fort while attempting to escape trial for murdering soldier Charles Shepard. William W. Arnett served as a private in Capt. John A. Veatch's company of Col. Peter H. Bell's regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers during the Mexican War.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler
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