Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....FLEMING, Bob February 1889
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Vernon Courier, Feb 22, 1889 - pg 4
Vernon Courier, February 22, 1889, pg 4
SHOT DEAD IN HIS TRACKS – A Young White Man Kills a Negro in an Altercation
	At Crews Depot on the K. C. M. & B. railroad, on Tuesday morning about 
8 o’clock, SAM HENSON shot and instantly killed BOB FLEMING, a colored man. 
Three hours after the killing a Courier reporter was at the scene of the 
tragedy.  The particulars, as given by those present are as follows:
	On last Friday, the two men had a fight in which the negro struck young 
HENSON with an iron clevis, and bruised him up slightly.  On Tuesday they met a 
t crews and the old quarrel was renewed.  The two men walked off some distance 
together, talking in an angry manner and HENSON was seen to kick FLEMING and 
immediately thereafter shot him through the head.  Only one shot was fired.  No 
person was near enough to hear what was said by either party. When the negro 
was reached he was dead, and had the clevis in his hand, which was the only 
weapon found on his person.
	The reporter met Mr. HENSON after the killing and talked with him.  His 
statement was: that the negro put his hand to his pocket as if to get his 
pistol, and knowing the negro made it a rule to carry a pistol he shot the 
negro while he though him attempting to draw a pistol.
	It is evident that neither of the parties expected a difficulty, as 
FLEMING had no pistol, and HENSON had only two chambers of this pistol loaded 
before the difficulty.
	FLEMING was a well doing colored man and leaves a wife and several 
children.	
Young HENSON is well known over the entire county as one of Lamar’s best young 
men, and his many friends regret very much his getting into such trouble.  He 
left immediately after the killing, and at the time we go to press has not been 
arrested.  No excitement whatever exists over the affair.


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