A Mexican Arrested
Sheriff White brings in a man named Joe Lopez from nearby Manor on charges stemming from a brawl, a routine but vivid slice of frontier-era law enforcement.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · 5
1 min readYesterday Sheriff White went down to Manor and brought back a Mexican named Joe Lopez on two charges, one for assault to murder and the other for carrying a pistol. It seems that on Saturday afternoon there was a free-for-all fight there and Lopez went into the affair for blood and came very near getting his man.
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