FRISBY SHOOTS BOARD

Board lived at Pottsville, in the west part of the county. Down in Gonzales County he was supposed to have shot Frisby’s brother and at his mother. Later, perhaps some years later, Frisby came to this county, held or claimed to hold a deputy’s commission and a warrant for Board. He was told to report to the sheriff here. George W. Wade was sheriff, but he did not consult him.

Frisby was kin to Roy Hammack, a noted old-timer in the southeast part of the county, and brother, I think, to Old Captain Hammack, once sheriff and saloon keeper in Gatesville. And he spent the night there with Hammack before he came on here. Hammack told him first to see Sheriff Wade. Wade had been appointed sheriff to succeed Terry, or possibly Smith who resigned. Wade was not supported by the George N. Gentry faction. He was a good man, but not their man.

So Frisby passed on through and went to Gentry’s Mill where George Gentry lived at the time. He picked on Gentry, George White, Rufe Rice, and Mat Carter and asked them to help him. They went to Pottsville and arrested Board. Board had started to go to a store. Frisby ordered him to stop, and he didn’t do it, and he shot him.

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