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Sheriff A. J. Spradley, right, prepares to kick the trapdoor loose as a noose dangles around Jim Buchanan’s neck. (Photo courtesy of Juanita Tarpley Peters.) The grand Banita Hotel, along with a half dozen or so other inns, provided a haven for travelers to Nacogdoches around 1900. (Photo courtesy of the Center for East Texas Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University.) R. W. Haltom poses with a young girl, probably his daughter, Ruby, in front of the office of the weekly Nacogdoches Chronicle, a precursor to Haltom’s Daily Sentinel. (Photo courtesy of the Center for East Texas Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University.) Deputy A. Y. Matthews helped keep Jim Buchanan away from lynch mobs gathered throughout East Texas. ( Daily Sentinel file photo.) Curg Border went from gunman to lawman in the fall of 1902 and helped capture Buchanan. (Daily Sentinel file photo.) [54.175.59.242] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:25 GMT) Members of the Texas Volunteer Guard keep the crowd away from Jim Buchanan, who was hanged on October 17, 1902, after pleading guilty to murdering the Hicks family. (Photo courtesy of Juanita Tarpley Peters.) Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Nacogdoches to witness the hanging of Buchanan. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Larabee.) This headline in the Austin Statesman the day before Buchanan was hanged reflected the feelings of many of the white citizens of Nacogdoches. Headline of the Daily Sentinel story describing the hanging of Jim Buchanan. Headline of the initial story in the Daily Sentinel on the Hicks murders. [54.175.59.242] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:25 GMT) Duncan, Nerva, and Allie Hicks were found murdered at their home in Black Jack, about twenty-four miles east of Nacogdoches. (Graphic by Jaime Maldonado, Daily Sentinel.) A view of North Street, the main north-south thoroughfare in Nacogdoches in the early 1900s. (Photo courtesy of the East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.) The Nacogdoches depot, where an angry crowd gathered to lynch Buchanan. Soldiers kept Buchanan safe by taking him off the train before it arrived. (Photo courtesy of the East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.) Nacogdoches University provided an education for young men and women from 1858. This building still stands on Washington Square, just north of downtown. (Undated photo courtesy of the East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.) [54.175.59.242] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:25 GMT) The Perkins brothers, owners of a Nacogdoches drugstore, were major Sentinel advertisers. They bought the Old Stone Fort, hoping to expand their business, but eventually tore down the venerable structure. (Photo courtesy of the East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.) Downtown Nacogdoches, 1898. The town was originally laid out in the Spanish style, centered on an open plaza, and included a public well. (Photo courtesy of the East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.) After capturing Buchanan, lawmen took a circuitous route to protect him from lynch mobs: from Black Jack through Appleby to Tenaha, from there to Shreveport, then back through East Texas. (Graphic by Jaime Maldonado, Daily Sentinel.) [54.175.59.242] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:25 GMT) Opposite page: Sentinel editor Bill Haltom is barely visible through the doorway of his Church Street office as his children, Maury (on the pony) and Ruby pose in front. The photo is from either 1900 or 1901. ( Daily Sentinel file photo.) A typical front page from the Daily Sentinel in 1902—crowded with advertisements. Each issue was usually four pages. This picture of Jim Buchanan hanging was published on the front page of the Daily Sentinel on October 17, 1902. It is not clear if this is a photograph or a woodcut. ( Daily Sentinel file photo.) This photo of Jim Buchanan was taken at Dambly’s Studio in Shreveport and published in the Shreveport Times. (Reproduced from a microfilm of the Dallas Morning News.) A. J. Spradley in 1902 bore a resemblance to Bat Masterson, the famous gambler, gunman, and occasional sportswriter. (Reproduced from a microfilm of the Dallas Morning News.) [54.175.59.242] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:25 GMT) Duncan, Nerva, and Allie Hicks are buried in a small cemetery in Black Jack. ( Daily Sentinel photo by Andy Brosig.) Sheriff A. J. Spradley is shown in his later years with one of his famed bloodhounds . During his three decades as a lawman, his...