Anderson County, Texas - News: Palestine, Texas, 1905 ---------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Don R Brownlee USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ---------------------------------------------------------- From New York Times September 17, 1905 Page 1: Death Follows Insult Police Kill Man who Wounded a Telephone Official DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 16. - R. J. Hyatt, a traveling salesman of this city, was killed at Palestine, Texas, last night by Officers Watt and Rogers after Hyatt had probably mortally wounded A. D. Henderson, who had knocked Hyatt down for using insulting language to a telephone exchange girl over the wire. Henderson was an official of the telephone company. Watt is in jail.