The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, September 12, 1886
pg. 5

On Monday George Massingale, aged about 50, who lives near Pottsboro, came to the city, accompanied by his son, a youth of 14, and his son-in-law, Thomas Colbert, aged about 25.   They got to drinking and before leaving town all 3 were pretty salubrious.  They had got about 3 miles out of town in the direction of home, when they began to quarrel.
The quarrel ripened into a fight and Colbert, who seemed bent on making the affray a serious one, drew a knife and attacked his father-in-law.  Young Massingale prevented his doing any serious damage to the old man by knocking him back with a double barreled shot gun, but he instantly returned to the assault, striking the old man in the abdomen, but inflicting only a slight wound.  Upon this the youth raised his gun and struck Colbert a terrible blow in the head with the barrel, felling him to the earth and inflicting an in jury from which he died the same night.  The father and son gave themselves up to Squire Cummins, of Pottsboro, but it is expected that nothing will be done to them, as the killing was done by the son in defense of his father.