This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crow, White Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8438 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 02 June 1899, p.2 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Jim Bob Crow Trial Waco, Tex., 1 June – In the case of the state vs. Jim Bob Crow, charged with indictment with the murder of Miss Mollie White, argument began today and will close tomorrow morning, after which the jury will retire to deliberate. It is a trial of thrilling interest. Miss Molly White, after the death of her mother, took charge of the household and her devotion to her father and brothers won for her the esteem and respect of neighbors far and wide. On the night of July 10, 1892, at a late hour she suddenly left her room, fled swiftly thought that occupied by her father and brothers and passing out of the house fell on the portico. When her father reached her she was dead, a knife wound in the throat betraying the cause of death of the young lady. It was a warm night and the windows were open. Tracks beneath the window showed how the murderer entered and left the young lady’s bedroom. The grand jury returned a bill of indictment against Jim Bob Crow, and after three trials at Cameron, the case was moved here on an order changing the venue. The defendant’s witnesses are his neighbors from Milam county. The state relies upon circumstances to convict him with the murder of Miss White. The courtroom today was densely crowded. There are about fifty persons attending the trial from Milam county.