This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks, Buchanan Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5861 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 23 Oct 1902 Deaths - Some days ago, Duncan Hicks and Alice Hicks were murdered in Nacogdoches county. It was a case of outrage coupled with murder. Jim Buchanan, negro, was arrested and was spirited away by the sheriff to the jail at Athens, Henderson county. Infuriated citizens followed and Buchanan was taken to the penitentiary at Rusk and placed under heavy guard by state troops under Maj. Raines. Buchanan confessed his desire to be executed. The negro was removed from Rusk to Nacogdoches and taken to the district courtroom, where the judge, district attorney and a jury awaited him. In less than an hour, the verdict had been rendered and the accused personally waived all formalities and relinquished the 30-days due him after conviction. The scaffold had already been prepared and the execution took placed as the law directs. Telegram - Nacogdoches, Tex., Oct. 17 - Gov. Sayers, Austin, Tex. - The prisoner has waived all rights and wants to be hanged at once. Will be done by sheriff. The district judge and sheriff say it is legal. I have written order from sheriff to allow him, the sheriff, to hang the prisoner at once. Telegraph in haste. G. P. Raine, Major Commanding. Telegram - Austin, Tex., Oct. 17 - Hon. Tom C. Davis, district judge, Nacogdoches, Tex. - As Major G. P. Raines of the Volunteer Guard has been directed to obey your orders and instructions in all matters respecting the custody and protection of the prisoner, Buchanan, I have to request that you will reduce all such orders and instructions you may see proper to give him in writing, so that he may make a report of same to Adjutant General when his present service shall have terminated. Jos. D. Sayers, Governor.