The link is no longer good since Rootsweb rearranged their files.
orig link:
http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/bastrop/newspapers...
BASTROP ADVERTISER
Newspaper Abstracts
03 January 1874 - 19 December 1874
31 January 1874
The jury summoned by B. LYMAN, Mayor of McDade, finds that J. Hunter BELL came to his death by pistol shots at the hand of Jno. LAWRENCE, 23 Jan 1874. LAWRENCE was arrested and turned over to Town Marshall NASH, but in the night LAWRENCE escaped.
Jury members: Y. L. HEMPHILL, M. S. HUGHES, R. L. SMITH, T. W. SMITH, S. B. WILLIAMS, M. B. HIGHSMITH, A. B. THOMPSON, J. D. SMOOT, J. C. PICKEL, H. A. HIGHSMITH, S. G. AMSLER, and W. M. BRYCE.