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There were two ways to go to Snell’s place down the Pecan where he lived at the time of his death. One was a trail that went toward where the city lake is now located and by the Dave Snell place, and the other was more along the route of the present road.

Dave Kemp, he said, was a boy not bad but was rather exemplary. But there come to live with them one Highsaugh, who he thought was a relative and that he was a "mean ... ... ... ..." and that this was probably what started Kemp on his career as a bad man.

Mr. Williams said it was believed that the night that Snell was killed that Kemp and Highsaugh posted themselves on the trail to the east, where they thought Mr. Snell would go and the way he usually went home, but they missed him. The other man, Walter Chapman, they thought was said to be on the other route and they killed him. Mr. W. W. Cropper ran a livery stable in the back of where he used to have the market (off the northeast corner of the public square), and Mr. Williams saw someone get a team and a buggy, and go for a short time and came back with the horses in a later of sweating. They supposed that he went out to tip Kemp and Highsaugh off that Snell had already been done away with and for them to come in.

He said that Mr. Snell was a good man, so far as he knew, though Mr. Will Claunch not long before said he was the cause of the killing of Adamson, who married the Claunch girl, the young lawyer, by one Hughes, but that he did not say how. He said he thought Mr. Snell might have been somewhat "meddlesome."

It was said Doctor George F. Perry discovered the body of Mr. Snell coming in from a night call. (Uncle Sid M. Ross, who sometimes drove for the doctor, told me he was with the doctor at the time, and as they came across the creek a bullet whizzed past them and they drove on as fast as the wheel would go.

He said that Crockett Hendricks was probably at the bottom of the whole thing.

WILLIAM SNELL

THE DAY SNELL WAS KILLED

MORE ABOUT MR. SNELL

SNELL  and CLAUNCH

MR. WILLIAM SNELL

WILLIAM SNELL, AGAIN

THE SNELL CASE

MR. SNELL, A GOOD MAN

WILLIAM SNELL, AGAIN

THE ASSASSINATION OF MR SNELL

AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. SNELL

ASA LANGFORD

CROCKETT HENDRIX

CROCKETT HENDRIX

GEORGE W. WHITE

ALEXANDER PERRY WHITE

 WILLIAM SNELL'S TOMBSTONE

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