A Texas saloon shoot ‘em up story. I had relatives living in this area back in the 1890’s.
Held Up Seven Men
SHERMAN, Tex., Jan. 17,–At Bell’s, twelve miles east of here, George Smith, a farmer, entered a saloon Wednesday night and compelled seven men at the point of a revolver to hand over their money and valuables. As he was leaving the saloon Jim Sibet, the town marshal, fired, but missed him, and Smith returned the shot and the bullet entered Sibet’s head. He will die.Smith was afterward captured, brought here and placed in jail in spite of the efforts of the mob to lynch him.
New Castle News (PA) 21 Jan 1891
