TYLER COUNTY, TEXAS

CRIME NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

WOODVILLE EDITOR IS SHOT TO DEATH
Beaumont, Texas - Aug. 2 (AP) George K. Gibbs, 55, publisher of the Tyler County Optimist was shot to death in his printing plant at Woodville, Tyler County, Sunday afternoon. J. B. Glover, 30 a Deputy Sheriff, went to the home of the Sheriff W. A. Ferguson, to surrender in connection with the shooting. The shooting was the outgrowth of a fight between two sons of Gibbs and two other boys on a street. One of the Gibbs boys, witnesses say, fired a pistol from the printing office at the boys and then went home and got his father. Gibbs is survived by his wife and two sons. (Dallas Morning News, August 3, 1931, Section I, Page 1)

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NEGRO IS PUT TO DEATH FOR SLAYING OF WIFE
Huntsville, Texas , Jan. 13 (Monday) (AP) - Henry Carr, Woodville Negro, was electrocuted in the State prison here early Monday for slaying his wife. Carr, who previously had escaped from a Louisiana prison, said he preferred to die in the electric chair rather than return to finish a fifty-year term in the Louisiana State penitentiary. (Dallas Morning News, January 13, 1936, Section II, Page 7) submitted by Peggy Thompson