Hopkins Co., TX - Obituaries - Mat Wallace *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: June E. Tuck Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** From the files of June E. Tuck WALLACE, MAT - Waco, June 30th - Last night about 30 men rode up to Mat. Wallace's house, about three-quarters of a mile from the public square, called him out, took him about 50 yards and hung him to a tree. The limb being low, they tied a rope to his feet and attached it to another tree near by to prevent him from touching the ground. He died from strangulation. Wallace was a brother-in-law of Bill Posey, and had been attending to Posey's affairs, which he was fast converting into his own, thinking Posey would hardly dare return to these parts; but he reckoned without his host. The deceased was considered a very bad man, and was considerably mixed up with all the cattle stealing going on in this county. He lately "shook" Posey and his crowd and moved near town. It is generally thought that Posey's gang "treed" him, while it is supposed by others that he was hung by the men who have been robbed of horses and cattle. The verdict of the jury reads that he came to his death by unknown hands. Galveston Weekly News July 7, 1873