For those of you who have suffered my repeated inquiries concerning my grandfather, here is one result of our labors: H. H. HARGIS ASSASSINATED AT VAUGHN, N. M. ---------- Shot From Second Story Window While Leaving Barber Shop Thursday Morning After Having Trouble With McNabb. ---------- HE WAS AGENT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN ---------- News was received in this city Thurs. at noon that H. H. [Herbert Henry] Hargis, agent for the Southwestern [RR] at Vaughn, had been assassinated. It was quite while before any of the particulars could be learned. It seems that Mr. Hargis had some trouble with a traveling man, Bert [Edward] McNabb, and on Thursday morning at about 9:30 as Hargis was leaving the barbershop at Vaughn, McNabb fired from a second story window of the house opposite, the ball striking Hargis in the back and killing him almost instantly. H. H. McElroy and several Tucumcari citizens went to Vaughn Thursday night and the preliminary trial is being held today. The body of Mr. Hargis passed through Tucumcari this morning en route to Kansas, where his wife resides and where he will be buried. We have been informed that Mr. Hargis was preparing to leave Vaughn and had requested the officials of the road to send the auditor and check him out. This was being done when he was shot. He had wired his wife that he was coming home Tursday [sic] night. H. H. Hargis is well known in Tucumcari where he and his most excellent wife had many friends. He came to Tucumcari several years ago, and was agent of the E.P. & S.W. until two years ago. He was employed by the M. B. Goldenberg Co. as bookkeeper. About a year ago he went to Torrance to take charge of the railroad office there, and was transferred from Torrance about six months ago. He was at one time Master of the Masonic Lodge at Tucumcari, was a member of the I.O.O.F. No. 18 of Tucumcari, and at the time of his death was master of the Masonic Lodge which was recently instituted at Vaughn. He leaves a wife [Margaret Drach] and one child, a son of 11 years of age [Gerald Drache Hargis]. - The Tucumcari News and Tucumcari Times, Saturday, October 15, 1910, Vol. 9 No. 3, p. 1 It's always a pleasure when the family legends turn out to be true! Nancy Hargiss California, USA