Anderson County, Texas - News: Palestine, Texas, 1886 ---------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Don R Brownlee USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ---------------------------------------------------------- From New York Times July 28, 1886 Page 5: Found Murdered in Texas SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 27. - The body of a man was found Sunday near the station of the International and Great Northern Railway with a bullet hole through his head. The body is supposed to be that of J. L. Holcomb, of Palestine, Texas, a jail builder and contractor, who was to have met his partner here on Tuesday last with $6,000, but failed to appear.