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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Murder and Lynch law. (search)
d Mr. Boon, of Cherokee co, Texas, were murdered in Montgomery county, Texas, a few weeks since, by C. C. Hall, a young man aged 23 years. Hall had some negroes of Boon's in his possession, which he could acquire by killing him. The Houston Telegraph says: Under the pretext that a valuable negro boy of Boon's was very ill atBoon's was very ill at his (Hall's) house, a fact afterwards ascertained to be false, Hall induced Boon to visit his house, some sixteen miles from Huntsville, in the direction of Montgomery. Although still quite unwell, Boon started, accompanied by Col. Hart, in his (B.'s) buggy. On their way down Hall shot Boon from behind, instantly killing him, at where his victims lay. Hall made a full confession; said how he had taken their lives, what he had taken from them, and the disposition made of it. He gave orders to have the negroes and money to be given up to Boon's family. On the gallows the culprit said: "Had I lived I should have become one of the worst men living."