  Dallas Morning News November 24, 1926 GIRL WIFE DEAD, POLICE ACCUSE SPOUSE G.D. Ball, 28, is in the Grayson County jail charged with murder. This followed the death of his wife, Mrs. Annie Ball, 16. to whom he had been married only a month. Death occurred Sunday night north of Hagerman, and at first it was reported Mrs. Ball had been killed in a runaway in the buggy and thrown in a pond. But the husband was suspected. In a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Jap Phillips Tuesday, Ball was remanded to jail without bail to await the action of the grand jury. Ball is a farmer who resides on a dirt road that runs west alongside Hagerman cemetery. Mrs. Ball, who was an expectant mother, is alleged to have been killed by blows upon the head with a blunt instrument while she and her husband were riding to church in a buggy alone a lonely road. So tragically, two lives were lost there. Ball took his wife Annie out Sunday night, letting her think they were going to church, went to an isolated location, knowing everyone else was in church and wouldn't see them, plus it was dark at this time of year. He held her head up against a wood post (the post is still suppoed to be there somewhere) and bashed her head in with a hammer. He then threw her body in the pond that is known as the haunted Dead Woman Pond at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, which wouldn't have been very far from where they lived. He died in the State Penitentiary and is buried at Hagerman Cemetery. Editor's Note: Annie Ball is buried in Georgetown Cemetery under her maiden name - Annie Caddell and shares a tombstone with her mother.   G.D. Ball's Murder Trial Hagerman History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |