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the latter went to get the animals Jack- son’s son-in-law, Wm. Neal, claimed to hold them for the satisfaction of a claim. Frazier went away, and afterward, fearing litigation, it is said, Neale wrote Frazier that the writer would have no more to do with the affair. ( 11 ) Frazier then went to take possession and was shot twice with a Winchester in the hands of Jackson. The latter claims that Frazier dis- mounted, threatened and drew a knife and was advancing on him. A knife was found in the grass, at the spot, next day. Jackson fled and hid until court time when he came in and surrendered to the sheriff. The prosecution holds that Jackson laid for Frazier, shot him from his horse at a distance of forty yards, and committed a cold blooded and unnecessary murder. There is a story, not proved, however, that Jackson furnished Frazier with $700 in counterfeit money and then quickly put officers after him, and caused him to be sent to the penitentiary. It seems that about the same time this trouble is alleged to have occurred in Texas, Frazier put four horses in Jackson’s pasture, and they disappeared. Jackson says that Frazier’s son-in-law got away with the horses. Yv^hile public opinion, so far as one hears it expressed about town, holds that Frazier was a bad man, it also condemns the slayer. The jury could not agree.