Anderson County, TXOBITS FROM - Palestine Daily Herald
3 August 1921
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Palestine Daily Herald
3 August 1921

A. L. CORNWELL and C. B. BRANSON (BRANSOM)
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MURDERED MEN

Adam Cone, real estate man, and former resident of the Cayuga community, went 
there Thursday afternoon to attend the funeral services for A. L. Cornwell 
and C. B. BRANSON, the two men who were shot and killed in that section of 
the county Monday. The funeral services were under Masonic auspice and Mr. 
Cone says there was a very large crowd present, in fact the largest he has 
ever seen at a funeral. Mr. Cone says both of the dead men stood very high in 
the community and their untimely and tragic deaths has caused widespread 
sorrow.
Mr. Cone says that notwithstanding Cayuga is one of the oldest communities in 
the county. This is the first murder ever committed there and it has caused 
much feeling among those good people.
Young Cornwell, who was shot and injured at the same time his father was 
killed is reported getting along very nicely and will recover.
Mr. Cone says he could find little additional facts to those already printed 
by the Herald. He says the most reliable story about the killing is that the 
two Cornwells and BRANSON and Henry, who were in an automobile, stopped in 
front of the Norman place to take inquiry about an axe they claimed Norman 
had borrowed and failed to return and that Norman began to abuse them leading 
up to the shooting. 
An examination trial for Norman had been set for this afternoon and a large 
number of people from the northwestern part of the county are expected as 
witnesses and spectators