Fort Worth Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas Newspaper Extractions 1891

April 20, 1891

KILLED HIS BROTHER

Two Youths, Brothers, Quarrel, and One is Killed.

Cookville, Tex., April 19,  Yesterday evening about 3 o'clock, six miles north of Cookville, Charles May and Reuben May, N. C. May's sons, became engaged in an altercation in which Charles May knocked Reuben May over the head with a hoe handle twice, and immediately Reuben May stabbed Charles May in the main artery of the neck, Charles May dying immediately.  The two brothers were fourteen and sixteen years old. Since the killing the justice of the peace of the precinct has had a coroner's inquest, and bound Reuben May over to await the action of the grand jury which meets to-morrow, the 20th.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT

Mount Pleasant, Tex., April 19,  A terrible tragedy was enacted yesterday evening about 4 o'clock ten miles northeast of this place.  N. C. May and a younger brother were at work in a field when a quarrel arose between them, the younger brother striking the older on the head with a hoe handle, knocking him down.  When he arose he drew his knife and stabbed his young brother to the heart, killing him instantly.  Sheriff G. B. Dickson is ?? ????? after the murderer.