Show TELEGRAP3IC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS TALE 01 TERROR What One Murder Uost Little Rock 1STh3 following has jUt come to light At the beginning of the rebellion Abraham Hall lived in one of the thinly settled border counties He was 70 years old and wealthy owning a large tract of land greatherds of cattle and a large but not costly residence He had a family of one boy aged 10 and lour girls from 8 to 16 years old The man claimed to be neutral and while his neighbors were buckling on the armor ar-mor Hall remained at home The south called for every man capable of bearing armsg Texas was ecuurei and Hall called on to volunteer but be declined One night a party of twelve persons rode up to the house and repeated dam at d for volunteers The old man said ho preferred death He was taken from the bouse to a little ravine 200 yards away a rope was put round his neqk the end was thrown over a tree and Httll was asked to reconsider He dodmetl whereupon where-upon ho WAS drawn up and let down senseless This horrible scene was continued con-tinued until tha victim ceased to breathe and the party rode away A Eon of Hall had followed the party and hiding behind clumps of bushes was a silent horrible spectator He recognized every actor in the cruel affair When the men galloped away ho ran from his hiding place cut down the body and flinging himself upon itregistered an oath to slay every man who had taken part in his fathers death The war ended young Hall managed his fathers estate and prospered His sisters aided him Almost Al-most their nearest neighbor was Frank Park lei tbe band whi hung Hall in I8G5 Twenty miles east lived Join and Thomas fliantooto two member of the party The icroninder were Ecattred throughout the suf la October 1878 youi g Hall bade his timers gotdtye forever for-ever sayn g tho timo for revenge hud come and withim IUd her explanation mounted a horo and rdd swiftly away An hour later ho drew up in font of Frank Parkers dwelling Parker was in tho yard I come to ask you why you killed my father Hall said to him Parker gave his reason adding hit his conscience had troubled him ever since Hall asked him if ho was armed and when the man drew a pistol Hall did likewise and fired Parkar dropped in the agon PS of death Next day Hall visited Mantoothn John Mantooth he shot dead en the open prairie after explaining ex-plaining his visit Thomas Ma tooth met a similar fate on the public highway high-way Before spring another of the tftev had been slain Hall killing his man in a saloon brawl in San Antonio By this time the remaining members of the bund became alarmed and Hall suddenly paused in his career of bloodshed blood-shed For more tht n a year nothing heard of him rnd the surviving objects of his hatred were beginning to think he had perished whoa he suddenly reappeared reap-peared This time his victim was named Kindred Hose one of the twelve who died only after a Jesperate struggle TLey met one afteraoon in the winter of 1880 in a littla village on the Mexican border A street fight ensued and Rose was killed tailing from his horse and dying on the spot while Hall though wounded in three places put spurs to his horde and dashed away Friends of Rose pursed aim into Tezas The pursuit was continued three days friends of his former victims joining in the chase Hall at last was run to cover in sight of his home and near tho spot where sixteen years before his father had met with his death Here Hall turned on tbo pursuing party and fought until his body was riddled wih bullets His eldest sister was a horrified spectator of the murder of her brother A year fler she met one of the party in a neighboring town She was in company with a female fe-male friend ani despite the entreaties of her companion called the man to her slipping her nand into the pocket her dress as she did so Captain Davis said she when the men came up you helped kill my brother she asked and drawing a revolver fired at him Davis was seriously wounded and in the confusion con-fusion the girl ecaped This act alarmed all who had taken part in the death of yaung Hell and they ro olved upon the extermination of the eutie family of Hall of whom only three were living tho eldest girl and two sisters Oue night after Davis life had been attempted attempt-ed the Hall household was surrounded by masked men the barred doors were broken down and the three girls mercilessly merci-lessly murdered Tho assassins then fired the h Use and disappeared Tho tragedy caused a sensation but the explanation ex-planation was made by interested patties that Indiana or greasers had murdered the girls plundered the hoiue and then ret it on fire This was generally accepted ac-cepted and only lately have the facts leaked out |