Tarrant County - Obituaries - Mr. Dickson

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Fort Worth Daily Democrat
Fort Worth
August 10, 1876
No. 31


Swung on a tree by Judge Lynch
A farm hand, by the name of Dickson, who has been working in Johnson County, was
arrested, charged by farmer Swafford of having illicit intercourse with his wife
and daughter. The evidence in the case was insufficient to convict him and he
was released. He started for Erath county where he was followed and overtaken by
Swafford, John Mayfield and a man named Marshberry within half a mile of Bill
Hodson’s farm house in that country. There they swung him without mercy, to a
large oak tree. Swafford at once made tracks for parts unknown, but Mayfield and
Marshberry were captured by a crowd of young men from Johnson County, They were
concealed and guarded all day long and were taken to the same tree upon which
Dickson was hanging, were made to cut him down and bury him, after where they
were in turn elevated themselves, by the infuriated boys.

August 11, 1876
No. 32




Granbury
August 9
A horrible crime was committed in Bosque County, a few days ago. A young man by
the name of Dixon from Johnson County was paying his devotions to a young lady.
The father gathered a number of men, followed him and came up on him in Comanche
County. They arrested him on a fictitious charge, and started back with him as
far as Hill Creek and hung him. Then they reported him as drowned. A few days
after his body was found fearfully decomposed, hanging to a limb in a thicket.
The murderers have been arrested.