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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 33: Texas and Texans. (search)
ve been injured by the other party are ready to enact the parts of sheriffs, jurors, judges, and hangmen, on the shortest notice. Take the latest case, as an example. On Sunday last, Zete Fly, a stalwart Negro, trudging on the road near Moulton, a village in Gonzales County, passed a White boy, named Dick Dixon, who was hardly fourteen years of age. Some words arose. Fly whipt out his pistol, fired at the lad, tearing his arm from elbow to shoulder, and left him bleeding in the road. Tom Dixon, elder brother of the boy, ran after Zete, and finding him shut up in his shanty, challenged him to come out and fight. Instead of coming out to fight Zete barred and logged his door. Come out! cried Tom. Zete skulked behind his logs and bars. Then Tom began to beat the door and threaten to smash the planks. Zete slid his bar, opened his door, and fired his pistol. Tom fell dead. Four or five settlers, hearing the shot, came up from Moulton, and were soon aware how matters sto