Appears in the
Terrell Times-Star,
Terrell,
Kaufman County,
Texas, 19 April 1890...
Cattle King James Speed Murdered
San Antonio,
Texas, April 11 - James Speed, one of the wealthiest cattlemen of Southwest
Texas, was shot and killed this evening by John
Tomerlin at
Moore Station, about six miles south of here, on the International and Great Northern road. No particulars of the affair are attainable at this hour. The dead man was a brother of
President Lincoln's Attorney-General.