Van Alstyne Leader
April 10, 1919

One Negro in Grave, One in Jail.

B. C. Stone, a young Negro man of Sherman, better known as "Dude" was shot and killed by Homer Murphy, another young Negro, in front of the Andrews building, 215 East Mulberry street, at 1:30 Thursday afternoon of last week.
Murphy used a 38-caliber revolver and while he fired four or five times at Stone, only one shot took effect, striking Stone in the small of the back to the left of the spine. Stone was taken into the rear of Goodson's drug store, a Negro establishment in the Andrews building, where he died about 1:45.
Murphy was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Allen, and is now in the county jail. The cause of the shooting is unknown, though it is said to have arisen from a quarrel over a dice game. Both Negroes were about 2_ years of age. Stone was the son of Bill Stone and lived on South Montgomery street near the Texas Nursery. Murphy lives on the farm of John McKinney, two miles southeast of town, but had been working at Nall's drug store, the Binkley hotel and other places in Sherman for some time.