TX--Flake's Bulletin --5/8/1868

A Desperado Kill

Batesville, (Ark.) Republican tells the following story of the killing of a desperado: On Monday, the 13th inst., a desperado character, named, Dick Kitchen, came to the town of Hookram, Lawrence county, for the purpose of having a pair of navy revolvers repaired. Having left them at a gunsmith's, he stepped out, and went into an adjoining drinking saloon. He was there but a few minutes when two men, who doubtless were watching an opportunity to effect his capture, entered and called on him to surrender; but he refused, at the same time making an effort to procure a pistol, when they fired, killing him instantly. Dick Kitchen was from Missouri, and during the war was engaged in bushwhacking, robbery and plunder. He has been declared an outlaw and murderer by the authorities of that state, and a reward of $1,000 offered for his capture, dead or alive. It is believed he was one of the party that so foully murdered Dowthitt last December. In a conversation with the same men who afterwards killed him, held but a short time before his death, he stated that he intended removing his family to Texas, after which he would return to this section and murder five or six men whom he named, mentioning among the number the name of one of the men with whom he was conversing. The people in the neighborhood of Hookram have always regarded him as a notoriously bad character, and his death occasions but little regret. The two men who shot him came to this town on last Friday and surrendered themselves to the military authorities, but were immediately released. Their names are George Herrett and ------Lasserty.
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MOPHELPS/2004-10/1098026596

http://www.kks-fam.net/getperson.php?personID=I680&tree=1
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