Show MASS MEETING ENDS IN TRAGEDY hempstead texas congressman john M pinckney and three other men were killed at a mass meeting here monday night called tor the pur of petitioning the governor to send rangers here to enforce the lo 10 cal option law J M brown a leading lawyer and prominent anti prohibitionist began the shooting which became general in an instant the dead are J N brown con gressman john M pinckney tom pinckney brother of the congress man john mills a leading prohibit when the trouble began Tompkin ss private secretary to congressman pinckney was making a speech to a motion captain brown had the fit or he used language which was objected to and at the same time grasped by the coat congressman pinckney sprang forward and the shooting began no one appearing to know who fired the first shot though it is sad that a kinsman of brown fred and that congressman pinck ney was the first to fall A number of men appeared to be engaged in the shooting and something like shots were fired brown was a lawyer who had been practicing here for twenty years |