The most recent article I found on the sensational news coverage of the 1923 coverage of the murder of Hemphill, Texas lumberman Hiram Knox and the subsequent arrest of his wife, accused of his murder. I found so many articles published at the time of the murder, which was in November 1922, and lots of coverage in January 1923 when Lillian Knox was charged with the murder. Unfortunately, I have found basically nothing on a trial and so it appears she never was tried. It seems the prosecution pushing murder charges on Mrs. Knox was unable to get a grand jury indicment and so she was freed.
Finding this article in 1936 was eye opening, as I learned how much tragedy in the form of death by foul play plagued this family. In 1936, when this article was written, the family matriarch, Mary Knox, was bludgeoned to death with a claw hammer as she relaxed in her Dallas home. Currency and bonds were missing from her home safe. Her murder appears to have been unsolved. Prior to her only son, Hiram, being murdered in 1923, her grandson, Hiram III was murdered in Lufkin in 1911. His murder was unsolved as well.
The will of Mary Knox essentially disinherited Lillian Knox and her six sons, leaving them with just $5 each.
Interesting article…From Waxahachie Daily Light, through United Press