Jack County, TX - Obituaries - M.H. Comstock ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Rural Citizen Jacksboro, Jack county, Texas Thursday, October 29, 1885 Horrible Murder Near Chico, Wise County Thomas Comstock, a boy 19 years old murders his aged father, without any warning or provocation shoots him four times. Yesterday morning as the sun was rising, M.H. Comstock, an old man of some 50 years of age, was murdered by his own son, Tom Comstock, a boy 19 years old. The family had just finished breakfast and were gathering around the fire in their cabin home, when in come young Comstock, and take seat on a trunk, in one corner of the room. The old man rose in a few minutes to go into another room, when Tom got up from his position and with a Colt 45 pistol (which he had taken from the trunk) stepped up behind his father and shot him four times in the back, one shot taking effect in the back of the neck, one passing through the heart and the other two striking the trunk of the body. Immediately after the patricide the wretch caught his horse, and without saddle or bridle jumped on the ponyÕs bare back and fled. Information of the killing was sent to L.J. Peters, constable at Chico, who in company with J.T. Stanfield, Constable of precinct No. 7 Wise county, set out in pursuit of the slayer. The shooting took place about three miles west of Chico, Wise County on the Jacksboro and Hogeye Road. He came into Jacksboro after dark, but the news of the murder had proceeded him, and he was at once placed under arrest. A pistol being found on his person he was fined before Justice Moore $25 and costs for carrying concealed weapons. Officers Peters and Stanfield came yesterday evening after the prisoner and will carry him back to Wise County today.