Thomas Benton McComb
5 November 1820 - 26 July 1913
Mary Elizabeth McComb
9 June 1829 - 13 June 1919
SONS
OF
T. B. & MARY E. McCOMB
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J. B. McComb
12 September 1855 - 18 December 1900
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J. R. McComb
12 September 1855 - 3 June 1904
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December 19, 1899
MURDER IN VAN ALSTYNE
Ben McComb Found Dead in His Car-
penter Shop with Wound from
a Chisel in His Body.
Sherman, Tex., Dec. 18 - Meager information
of a tragedy at Van
Alstyne, Grayson County, has reached this
city, and Deputy Sheriffs
William Russell and Lawrence Etchison left
at 9:15 p.m. for that place
to assist the local officers in obtaining a
clew.
The information at hand is in substance that
Ben McComb, aged 43 years,
a widower with three children, was found
dead in his carpenter shop on
Front street within a block of the Houston
and Texas Central Railway
depot, with two stabs in his breast, at 5
o'clock this afternoon.
He was found by his brother, Joe McComb, who
saw no one about the shop, and can throw no
light on
the matter. Just how long he had been dead
no one seems to know.
It had been raining more of less during the
latter part of the
afternoon, and there had been very little
passing to and from the shop.
One stab is in the right breast and the
other near the center of the breast.
At 9:30 o'clock to-night the local officers
at Van Alstyne reported
that the matter was still as much a mystery
as ever, but there is no
cessation of vigilant search.
The quiet little city is in a ferment of
excitement, and every theory
imaginable is heard, and every report is
chased down as closely as
practicable.
McComb had been a resident of Van Alstyne
and vicinity nearly all his life.
The weapon with which been McComb was killed
was a one-half inch
chisel. It was found on a work bench near
where the dead man lay.
A more critical examination of the death
wounds show that the stabs
were not directly in, but appear to have
been made by a side blow, and
it is believed that the chisel cleft the
heart.
At 10:30 p.m. the officers believe they have
a clew.
Dallas Morning News
December 21, 1899
The Van Alstyne Killing
Sherman,
Tex., Dec. 20 - Having failed to make the
required bond of $1,000 Joe
McComb was brought to Sherman this afternoon
and placed in the county
jail by Constable Riddle on a commitment out
of Justice McDonald's
court at Van Alstyne, charging him with the
murder of his brother, Ben
McComb, in that town on the evening of
Monday, Dec. 18.
Justice
McDonald had not at a late hour this
afternoon returned a formal
finding on his investigation as coroner into
causes, circumstances,
manner, etc. of the death of Ben McComb. The
burial of the victim of this tragedy took
place at Van Alstyne today. The aged parents
of the deceased are prostrated with grief.
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