From "Death Notices Abstracted from the Douglas Co. [MO] Herald 1887-1910" by Laine Sutherland (published 1996 by Dunrobin Products) p 160 March 27, 1902 W. S. Dial, a young man wanted in Texas county for the murder of Reuben Isaacs in 1895, has been captured in Bowling Green Kentucky, and brought back to Houston where he will stand trial. The facts concerning the case with which Dial is charged are about as follows. In Novemenber 1895 Dial who was about 17 years of age and Isaacs was making an overland trip from Southwest City, Mo., to North Carolina, and had camped near Houston. As they did not seem to be in a hurry to start and Isaacs had disappeared, the horses having been turned loose and the dog gone to a near by house, while Dial went to his uncles, Judge Dial in Texas county, the people became suspicious and upon investigation found Isaacs body in the wagon bed. In the mean time Dial had fled and nothing was heard of him until some one saw him running on a train, between Memphis and Nashville Tennessee as news agent and knew him and reported to the Texas county authorities. [vks--Reuben Isaacs was a Sheriff in Taney County and a member of the Bald Knobbers. He resigned being Sheriff in Sep 1889, and fled to KS to avoid being murdered by Anti-Bald Knobbers, who had a "hit" list. He returned to Taney co. in 1895, shortly before his murder. According to Ingenthron and Hartman's book, his friends blamed Anti-Bald Knobbers. Dial is not listed in the book, but I remember typing that name in the "Marriages 1885-1900" on the Taney Co. webpage of the MO-AR-WRV website. He was a minister or justice of the peace, if I remember right. This should open up some new investigation on the part of Isaacs and Dial descendants! <VBG, no smile!>] Vonda