Wilson County Texas Archives News.....Floresville Courthouse Burns May 31, 1884
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San Antonio Light May 31, 1884
The burning of the Floresville court house last Tuesday night entails an
irreparable loss upon Wilson county and places a serious check upon the
administration of justice.  The fire originated in the office of the District
clerk, and the whole building and contents were soon a heap of smouldering
ruins.  Only a few papers in the small vaults are saved.  The indictments,
bonds, minutes and all the records are burned.  The deed was done by an
incendiary who was anxious to destroy all evidence of crime against himself. 
Language fails in power to express the baseness of such a dastard.  The records
of an entire county are sacrificed to insure the destruction of an indictment
against himself.  His crime is one from which most hardened criminals would
shrink and no punishment provided by the law is adequate to it.

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