FLAKE’S BULLETIN
(Galveston, TX)
March 20, 1886

Quoted from McKinney Enquirer 

A man named Sturdy was killed at Pilot Grove on the 6th inst. by a Federal soldier.  The circumstances, as near as we could learn them, are about as follows:
Sturdy had been gambling and drinking, and becoming boistrous, was ordered by the soldier, who was a sergeant, to be quiet.  It is said he hushed, and was molesting no one after this, when the sergeant, who was drunk, stepped to the door of the room, fired upon Sturdy, and killed him. - - - McKinney Enq.