TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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fo1lowed me about a mile or mile and a half. This was about three o'clock in the afternoon. S. W. McK.ibbin~ Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of September 1873. Moses Wiley J. P. This is to certify that I examined the body of the man rec- ognized by parties as that of Howell Walker and of a boy also recognized as his son Henry Walker. Found the breast of Howell Walker perforated by bullet holes and the body mutilated as follows:- The entire scalp stripped off-the right ear gone and an incision extending about one half round the body on the right side from near the backbone to a little beyond the middle line in front. cutting into the abdomen-wounding the intestines and making a large gash in the Hver. The body of the boy as follows- besides bullet wounds the scalp stripped of-a punctured wound in the right breast- the left hand gone being disarticulated at .the wrist with a knife or other cutting instrument. The lower rib was taken from the body of Howell Walker through the incision on the right side
R. L. McClure M.D.
State of Texas County of Jack
An inquisition taken this 14th day of September 1873, at Jacksboro Texas in said County of Jack, be- fore Moses Wiley a coroner of said County, upon view of the dead bodies of Howell Walker and his son Henry Walker by the oaths of 1 H. J. Thompson 3 E Sanders 5 R. L. McClure 2 E. Boone 4 John Hensley 6 J. P. Reagan good and lawful jurors of said county, who being in due form sworn, say that the said Howell Walker and Henry Walker came to their death from gun shot wounds at the hands of Indians, said Indians unknown, but from the character of their dress and arms and also the well known fact, that all depredations which have been committed in this portion of the State, when traced up have proven the same to have committed by Reserve Indians
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