Emancipator and Free American
December 14, 1843
Murder in Missouri: S. B. WINGO, Esq., sheriff of
Shannon County, Missouri, by virtue of an execution, levied on property belonging to a man
named MOYRES, and set the 31st of August for the sale of it; while, on that day,
as he was proceeding to the place of sale, MOYRES had hid himself on the road on
which Wingo had to pass and shot him through the body. Wingo was in a few minutes
after receiving the shot found, but was unable to speak and soon died.
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Dallas
Weekly Herald
Dallas,
Texas
February 9, 1878
Gold in Shannon County, Missouri,
Rolla Herald: Mr. MORGAN WILLIAM, living south of Rolla, informs us that Rev. J. S. SPRINGER stayed with him a few nights since and reports the discovery of large deposits of gold and silver on Sinking Creek, Shannon County, and that some 20 men are mining for it, among them Dr. KIRKMAN of Spring Valley. Mr. Springer stated that the miners took out a thousand dollars worth of ore in three or four days. An old man named MAPLES is said to have been secretly working the mine for several years. The men now at work got a lease of the land and took possession, though MAPLES tried to prevent them. They drove him out and he is mining near by on other land.
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St. Louis Republic
Missouri
June 13, 1880
Escaped Punishment
WESLEY
GARRISON, the young ex-moonshiner who was arrested in
Shannon County, Missouri, sometime ago on the charge of illegally selling whiskey, was
brought to the U. S. District
Court
yesterday for trial.
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St. Louis Republic
August 22, 1889
JAMES
WRIGHT of Winona,
Shannon County, was arranged before commissioner
CRAWFORD yesterday, charged with dealing in manufactured tobacco and
retailing without a government license.
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St. Louis Republic
August 31, 1889
JOHN
JAMISON of
Bartlett, Shannon County, was arraigned yesterday before commissioner CRAWFORD for dealing in liquor without a license, and for selling tobacco
with having the special tax.
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St. Louis Republic
September 18, 1889
JESSIE WALLACE filed her petition for divorce against JOSEPH T. WALLACE, through
JEFF D. STORTS, the
Shannon County, barrister. She alleges that during their married life, the
defendant frequently beat and choked her, called her vile names and accused her
of adultery.
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St. Louis Republic
July 2, 1890
Piedmont, Mo., July 1: THEODORE
PARSONS, who last week it was charged, killed BEN
COLLINS and his five year old son, was taken by a mob and hurried in the
southern edge of Shannon County, near where he committed the murder. He remained stolid and
indifferent to the last. A card was pinned on the body forbidding anyone taking
the body down under penalty of being hung up in his place.
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St. Louis Republic
October 30, 1895
Brought Here from Shannon County,
PETE SUMMERS and BILL RENFROW, two residents of Shannon County, were yesterday lodged in jail at the Four Courts to await trial for moonshining. They were arrested yesterday by deputy marshals QUAYLE and FITZPATRICK of this city and taken to Poplar Bluff where they waived hearing before commissioner O’BRYAN and jailed.
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