 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
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.  Van Alstyne Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any links inoperable, please send me a message. |
