Grand Rapids Press (Michigan)
25 March 1913
(Viewed online at GenealogyBank.)
WHITE CLOUD MAN IS KILLED BY MEXICANS
Hal David Patterson, Trying to Save Brother-in-Law, is Shot at Langtry, Tex.
VICTIM OF A REBEL RAID
Disorder existing in Mexico near the border caused its effect to be felt here by friends of Hal David Patterson, who was killed March 8 at Langtry, Tex., in a heroic effort to save his brother-in-law, George O'Hara, formerly in the shoe business here at Crescent street and Monroe avenue N.W.
Information received by friends is somewhat meager, but the word is emphatic that Patterson sacrificed his life for the relative's sake. Mr. O'Hara is said to have escaped uninjured in the raid which was made by rebels in his resort hotel. The insurrecios [sic] attempted to rob the place and Mr. O'Hara was endeavoring to protect his property when Patterson interceded in O'Hara's behalf and received the fatal bullet wound.
Mr. Patterson formerly resided at White Cloud. His father, David Patterson, Sr., was engaged in the lumber business there for many years. The son recently went south in search of health. He was thirty-four years old and was popular in this city as well as in White Cloud, where he had many friends. The body probably will be sent to White Cloud for burial.
It is said the murderer of Patterson was captured and that he now is in jail at Del Rio, Tex., awaiting trial.
2 comments:
Spent all morning looking at the Grand Rapids Press at genealogybank and didn't see this!
We visited Langtry, TX, a few months ago -- here's my husband's blog entry about it.
http://palms-americana.blogspot.com/2010/11/law-west-of-pecos.html
I just read it -- very interesting! Sounds like a place I might like to visit. Would like to have been a fly on the wall in the Jersey Lilly during Judge Bean's days, too! ;-)
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