This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Diches, Beard Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5320 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Fri., 4 Nov. 1875, p. 1, c. 4 “Murder by a Desperado” Rockdale, Nov. 3 - Neptha Diches, of Circleville, Williamson county, was killed, on Brushy Cree, 3-days ago, by a noted desperado and horse-thief named Beard. Diches met Beard in the road, and as he was well armed, arrested the latter, who surrendered, but seeing that Diches had no caps on his gun, drew a revolver and fired, inflicting fatal wounds on Diches, from which he died the next day. A posse is now in pursuit of the murderer.