Show UNDER CONTROL OF THE RANGERS Hempstead Texas Quiet After the Terrible Tragedy Son of Captain Brown Charged With the Murder of Congressman Pinckney Tex April 23 As a U aj I H j result of the UC bloody blood bs here last lat night when four n men en were wele killed and others were wounded 1 Hemp Hempstead Hempstead Hempstead stead is tonight under un er the control of o the lh Texas rangers ranger Martial law I w 8 t b n declared 1 but hut the adjutant general sener l arrived to tonight tonight tonight night with a number of rangers and assumed charge of affairs No Ko one is I permitted to bear beai arms and the ex excitement excitement I manifested throughout the day has his quieted I il ted tonight and amid further trouble i it is unlikely I Browns Son Arrested Roland Brown son of one of oC the men killed at the time prohibition mass meeting I 1 last night was today placed under ar arrest arrest arrest rest on a n charge of the shot which killed d Representative Pinckney He Be stated that his father was ws wa under the time I influence of oC intoxicants when he ne en PIT entered I the meeting and that h he the th I son attempted to dissuade him hint from i attending His ilis lather was firm in his hi I intention and went vent to the meeting The I son SOil followed and took tok part in the shooting It has hag been hlen established that I the time trouble begun began when wh n Captain Brown BIown I attempted to secure recognition to speak at the time meeting It is i said Mid that th lt I his language langua e was MS offensive ve to several ladies ladles present and tile the begun began soon after I Congressman Shot Four Times 1 Congressman ons m m l gJ i f uh t teft and was wJ j Thomas kne a no brother of the time I congressman was hot phot twice In he I back and killed and Brown BroJ re received received received a bullet through the heart John JohnE I It E Mills 1 ills the fourth victim took no I part in iii the affair Hud and was ivas accidentally killed by a stray stra bullet The Th killings are the direct result or of a n 1 prohibition movement in Wo VAller Her coun county county county ty which was begun some years y drs ago aso and amid the feeling has been bl en Intense An election lection was held in Waller r county April 20 O and tue prohibitionists with whom the were were wele successful The Prohibitionist league was called together last night to I wind up UI Its affairs and disband A re resolution solution requesting the governor of Texas to wend trend troops to ller county I COI the purpose of enforcing the law luw a liquor selling was excitedly ex de do debuted bated buted It was ivas at this Juncture that Captain Brown who hud had figured red prom prominently prominently as an sought sou ht to haf the th chairman re recognize him I and soon afterward the thc firing began |