Dublin TX Progress July 29, 1892 MURDERED Last Saturday evening about 7 o'clock one of the most cold blooded murders that has come to our knowledge for some time was perpetrated. Mr. R. L. Haley [sic Richmond Love "Bill" Hailey] a highly respected citizen of near Dublin had been to town after his mail and had brought in a load of rails which he sold and was on his way back home, four miles south, when within two hundred yards of his house and had got out of his wagon to gate he was shot from ambush with a load of buckshot from a shotgun and instantly killed. Mrs. Haley was standing on the porch awaiting the return of her husband and saw the flash of the gun when it went off. She, with others of the family , ran as fast as possible to the spot only to find life entirely extinct in the lifeless body of a loving husband and father. The neighbors were aroused by the shot and cries and rushed to the scene and immediately sent for Justices H.A. Peacock of Dublin and J.S. Watson of Alexander; to hold an inquest and who arrived early Sunday morning. A diligent search was commenced and the tracks found where the assassin had stood and appeared that he was there an hour or more waiting for his victim. The tracks were then traced to the residence of G.W. McKinnie a near neighbor of Mr. Haley, who appeared to have heard nothing of the noise that had aroused all the other neighbors. The house was searched and a pair of old shoes were found wrapped up in a blanket and under the bed that exactly fit the track they had traced to the house and a double barrel shotgun was found with one barrel bearing evidence of having been freshly dischared and the other also being empty. Upon this circumstantial evidence Mr. McKinnie was arrested and placed in jail at Stephenville to await an examining trial next Monday at that place. The fatal shot struck the unfortunate victim in the left side and out of the three buckshot entering the body, one plowed its way to the heart. Mr. Haley was a man of family and about forth-five years of age [born Nov 1850]. Mr. McKinnie is older and also has a family. ===================================================================== Mr. McKinnie was tried and convicted and sent to prison. Does anyone know the MOTIVE for this crime? davidnstrickland(a)yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXERATH-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message