Jasper County Texas Archives News.....Robert (Tosie) Muckleroy Murders Henry Cooper 1932
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Newspaper Article 1932

TEXAS AMBUSH SLAYING CASE IS DISPOSED OF.

Youth Given Four Years for Conviction in District Court at Jasper.

Jasper, Texas, May 21. - Robert (Tosie) Muckleroy, 26, was found guilty in 
district court at Hemphill of the ambush slaying of Henry Cooper, aged and 
crippled Sabine county man, last February 7. He was sentenced to four years in 
state prison. Muckleroy had served a prison sentence on a felony conviction 
before.

Cooper was shot to death in the presence of his two small sons as he sat on a 
log with his shotgun near his home. Elvin, his 10-year-old son, testified that 
he saw Muckelroy behind a tree 30 yards distant. He motioned for him to move 
away and when he did Muckleroy fired. His father pitched forward, dead, his 
shotgun discharging and the load of buckshot burying itself in the ground. The 
other son was too young to testify.

It was testified that the two men were gunning for each other because of family 
trouble. Muckleroy had separated Cooper and his young wife, it was testified. 
Muckleroy testified he did not fire until Cooper raised his gun as if to take 
aim on him. He said Cooper had wounded him slightly a few weeks before Cooper 
was killed.



 



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