Thank you for the other site. Yours certainly had more information, but it seemed odd to me that it wasn't front-page news in the Nebraska newspapers of the day. So I entered Nicholas Craig Table Rock in the Chronicling America site, and found articles.

From McCook:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94056415/1899-11-03...

From Red Cloud:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022835/1899-11-03...

From Columbus:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95073194/1899-11-01...

These are all essentially the same story, but they should verify that the crime did occur.