Crosby County, Texas News

Accidentally Shot by Another, Boy May Die
LUBBOCK, Texas, July 12 (AP). —Lloyd Carson, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Carson of Crosbyton, is In a local sanitarium fighting for his life as the result of wounds inflected accidentally by a rifle late Monday evening. Carson, according to his father, walked around the corner of a neighbor's house just as David Hines, age 12, fired a target rigle (sic) at a can. The bullet struck him in the lower abdomen, inflicting possible fatal injuries. [1927-07-13 Dallas Morning News]

Youth Thought Killed By Train, and Buried, Walks In on Parents
MIDLAND, Texas, Sept. 3 (AP).- Glenn Cody, 18, believed to have been killed here by a train Aug. 21, has returned to the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. V. Cody at Crosbyton. The body of a youth identified at the time as Cody was Buried here. The parents accepted the identification and filed a damage suit against the railway on whose right of way the body was found. They have with drawn the suit.1932-9-4 Dallas Morning News

Hunt Pressed For Crosbyton Store Bandits
| CROSBYTON. Texas. Nov. 27 AP).—Officers pressed a search Sunday for three young bandits who robbed, kidnapped and wounded a Crosbyton store owner. Sheriff James Poteet said he believed the bandits slipped through roadblocks set up Saturday night shortly after the robbery of their Wallace Dry goods Store in downtown Crosbyton. The sheriff said' he had no leads. A. W. Wallace, the owner, was reported in good condition. "I think he'll be all right" his doctor said. Wallace, about  fifty-two, was shot in the arm when he refused, at first to open his safe for the; swaggering youths. Then, as some! ten customers watched, the bandits grabbed more than S300 from the safe and forced Wallace to go with them in a 1950 automobile. The bandits dumped Wallace on a side road about six miles east of here, after shooting him in the back of the head. The doctor said, however, the bullet glanced off without penetrating to the brain. The shot in the store broke Wallace's arm, the doctor said, and he was bruised, as though beaten with a pistol butt. [Dallas Morning News, 28 Nov 1949]

Crosbyton Students Leave for College
CROSBYTON, Crosby Co.. Texas, Sept 19.—Following are students from Crosbyton who are entering the various colleges: Fred Smith, University of Louisiana; Fred E. Sherwood, University of Virginia; Miss-Pauline Buck. Texan Woman's College, Fort Worth; Miss Willie Fern Curry. C. I. A., Denton; Miss Eura Waldren, Wayland College. [Dallas Morning News, 20 Sep 1925]

CROSBYTON WOMAN IS BURNED IN GASOLINE STOVE ACCIDENT.
Crosbyton, Crosby Co.. Texas June 14. —Mrs. Rex Lotspeich of Crosbyton was seriously burned yesterday as a result of a gasoline stove accident and was taken to Lubbock Sanitarium this morning The family residence was saved by Quick work of the fire company. [Dallas Morning News, 15 June 1919]

100 WITNESSES CALLED IN CROSBYTON SLAYING.
CANYON. Randall Co.. Texas. July 16.—One hundred witnesses have been summoned to appear In  District Court In Canyon on Aug. 1 to testify in the case of the fate of Texas vs. D. L. Payne,  Charged with the killing of J.  Sweaze and Maud Rippy In Crosbyton a few months ago. The case was transferred to Randall County from Crosby County when the indictments were returned by the grand Jury in the latter county. [Dallas Morning News, 17 Jul 1923]

WAXAHACHIE. Texas. Sept. 15.  — Miss Ruth Dunaway of Waxahachie has gone to Crosbyton to teach English in the public school  Miss Dunaway, who is a member of  one of the pioneer families of Ellis County, attended Trinity University three years. At Crosbyton she will make her home with her sister. Mrs. F. A. Green. [Dallas Morning News, 16 Sep 1928]

CROSBYTON HAS COSTLY FIRE ONE THIRD OF BUSINESS SECTION IS SWEPT BY FLAMES 
Plainview, Tex.. Feb. 20.—One-third of the business portion of Crosbyton was destroyed by fire, which broke out at midnight last night The loss is estimated at $25.000. . Among the business houses damaged by the flames were the Citizens National Bank. Snell  Mercantile Company,-Lamar Building:, a small office building, and a  barber shop and restaurant. [Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb 1912]

Ex-Convict Arrested In Slaying of Sheriff
AMARILLO. Texas. Aug. 3
-George Holland. 33, ex-convict, arrested here Sunday morning in connection with the fatal shooting Saturday night of Crosby County  Sheriff J. J. Pierre at Ralls, is being held in the county jail at Lubbock. The shooting occurred shortly before midnight, fifty yards from Holland's cafe. Officers said Pierce had gone to Ralls to make an arrest involving illegal sale of liquor. Several bottles of liquor were found with the sheriff's body, they said. Sheriff Brady Harris of Lubbock County said the Negro served two years of a three-year term for perjury in 1935. He was dishonorably discharged from the army at  Camp Hood in August, 1946. [Dallas Morning News, 4 Aug 1947]

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