This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murrell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2402 Message Board Post: I have no interest in this Thomas Murrell, however I found this newspaper article while browsing a film of the newspaper called "Souris Plaindealer", Souris Manitoba, Canada, Thurs Apr 19 1894. Gainsville, KY Apr 12 - Thomas Murrell, a leading farmer of this county, residing 10 miles east of here, while attending to his stock this morning about daylight, was shot throught the heart twice by his farm hand, Frank Crews. Mrs. Murrell heard her husband's agonizing screams and ran out to the barn to assist him. Crews at once grabbed her around the waist and fired two bulletts into her head, causing her instant death. The double murderer then robbed Murrell's body of a sum of money, mounted ahorse and departed for the home of Edward Murrell, a son of the dead man, residing two miles up the lane, saying he was going there to kill Edward and his family. The cause of the murder was a quarrel over wages. Fifty farmers immediately organized a posse and armed with Winchesters, began a search for the murdered. This is all there was. regards, Colleen Lill