Clerk Hanged in Waxahachie

“A young man who had been employed in a store at Waxahachie was hung a few days since for giving strychnine to slaves to put in wells.”¹

“. . . a plot was discovered to carry out murders and destroy the town on Sunday July 22 similar to the Dallas affair. Two white men were hanged on Saturday, July 21, and some twenty-odd negroes were to be hung also next week.”²