Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
April 18, 1890 Friday
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A BLACK VILLAIN
He Assaults a Farmer's Wife Near Denison - In Jail and Strongly Guarded

Special to the Gazette
Denison, Tex., April 17. - About 3 o'clock yesterday evening a Negro criminally assaulted Mrs. Emeline Brandenberg, the wife of a farmer living three miles northwest of the city.
A Negro named Simon Ingram is under arrest and in jail. Sheriff McAfee and a strong posse are guarding the prisoner, while out from the city a short distance is an armed body of men, who are ready to take the prisoner
and hang him. Considerable excitement prevails, and a bloody climax may result.


The Austin Weekly Statesman
Austin, Texas
May 1, 1890 Thursday
pg 5

An Outrager Identified

Sherman, Tex., April 29. - Mrs. Brandenburg, the old lady who was raped by Simon Ingram, colored, near Denison several weeks ago, confronted the accused in the county jail the afternoon in company with her husband and daughter in the presence of the jailer and the foreman of the grand jury. Mrs. Brandenburg when asked by Mr. Cashion, foreman of the grand jury, if he was the man replied with emphasis: "He is the very man!"


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
May 15, 1890 Thursday  
pg 8

Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., May 14. - Simon Ingram, colored, is on trial in the district court for rape committed in Denison on
the person of Mrs. Brandenburg, a white lady.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
May 17, 1890 Saturday
pg 3

SHERMAN
Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., May 16. - The jury in the case of Simon Ingram, colored, for rape committed on the person of
Mrs. Brandenburg, has been out twenty-four hours, and no telling when a verdict will be reached.


The Democrat
McKinney, Texas
May 22, 1890 Thursday
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The Death Penalty
Sherman, Tex., May 17. - The jury in the case of Simon Ingram, colored, charged with criminally assaulting a lady, at 3 p.m. Friday returned the following verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment and assess the penalty at death." The prisoner did not seem to pay any attention to the verdict and talked to his lawyer as if it had been a fine assessed against him. A motion for a new trial will be filed at once.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
June 23, 1890 Monday
pg 5

Killing Near Whitesboro

Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex.,  June 22. -  The sheriff received information to-day from Whitesboro that Sam Jumper, living four miles west of Whitesboro, in the coon flats country, was shot and fatally wounded by Abe Kinslow. The sheriff is
in pursuit.
The higher courts have reversed the rape case of Simon Ingram, convicted in the last district court, giving him the death penalty. Ingram's victim was Mrs. Emeline Brandenburg, an old lady living near Denison. Ingram is a Negro nineteen years of age.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
November 18, 1890
pg 1

Sherman, Tex., Nov. 17 - The Simon Ingram (colored) rape case was post-poned in district court to-day until December 2.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
April 9, 1891 Thursday
pg 3

A NEW TRIAL

Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., April 8. - The Simon Ingram assault case went to trial this evening, but the court had much trouble in securing a jury. Ingram is a Negro, was convicted at the last term of court and given the death sentence, but the higher court reversed the finding of the district court. The victim is a very old white lady, living near Denison. The question of age was the grounds upon which the lower court failed to determine and the year of the birth.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
April 10, 1891 Friday
pg 3

Given A Life Sentence

Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., April 9. - Simon Ingram, the Negro on trial for criminally assaulting Mrs. Brandenberg near Denison, was given a life sentence in the district court here to-day.


Fort Worth Daily Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas
April 28, 1891 Tuesday
pg 4

DENIED A REHEARING

Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Tex., April 27. - Simon Ingram, the Negro rapist, was denied a new trial in the district court to-day, and received sentence to  life imprisonment.


Dallas Morning News
June 11, 1891

Sherman, Tex., June 10 - The transcript in the case of the Negro Ingram, who took an appeal from a term of ninety-nine years given him for criminal assault, were today forwarded to the court of appeals.