Sherman Daily Democrat
Thursday, April 10, 1919
pg 4

Serious Charge
R. B. Holden, a merchant of Tioga, was arrested yesterday on complaint from the county attorney's office charging criminal assault.
Holden waived examination before Justice R. A. McCrary yesterday afternoon and his bond was placed at $2,500, which he gave.
The defendant, who is in the furniture business in Tioga, is married and has a family. The complaining witness is a fifteen year old girl who gave birth to a child yesterday morning. The girl lives at Tioga also.


Sherman Daily Democrat
 Monday, April 14, 1919
pg. 4

Arrested on Indictments
Sheriff Boyd Craig and his dep uties were kept busy Saturday and  Sunday making arrests on true bills returned by the grand jury which is now in session in the 59th District Co urt, and which recessed Saturday afternoon after finding 137 bills during the week....
Among those who have been arrested and are either in jail or out on bail are:...R.B. Holden, rape.


Sherman Daily Democrat
Friday, April 18, 1919
pg 2

Criminal Settings
Several special venire cases are included in additional criminal docket settings for the present term of the Fifthy-Ninth District Court announced this morning. Most of the cases set result from grand jury indictments returned at the present term of court and in some cases the alleged crime has been committed only a few weeks.
Other special venire cases are: . . . . . . ; and R. B. Holden, set for May 15. These are all criminal assult cases.


Sherman Daily Democrat
Wednesday May 14, 1919
pg 4

Fifty-Ninth District Court
R. B. Holden, a merchant of Tioga, was placed on trial in the Fifty-Ninth District Court this morning. Holden faces a statutory charge, and a special venire was on hand from which to select a jury. The defendant is represented by Wolfe, Freeman. Woods & Buster, attorneys of Sherman. Holden is a man of family and is well connected.


Sherman Daily Democrat
Thursday May 15, 1919
pg 1

Fifty-Ninth District Court
On account of the critical illness of the mother of one of the jurors, Judge Frank E. Wilcox last evening discharged the jury in the case of the State vs. R. B. Holden, on trial in the Fifty-Ninth District Court, and the case will be reset for the August term. At the time the testimony was more than half finished, and would have been completed today. Holden is in the grocery business in Tioga and faces a grave charge involving a fifteen-year-old girl, Wennie Kemp, also of Tioga. The girl took the stand yesterday and finished her testimony.

Sherman Daily Democrat
Wednesday, May 28, 1919
pg. 5

Real Estate Transfers - R.B. Holden and wife to Mrs. Mary C. Barham, 2 tracts near Gunter, $2,000; May 15, 1919.