New York Times
16 Dec 1886 -  page 16

        TWO HORSE THIEVES SHOT.
  Dallas, Texas, Dec. 14.--
News has reached the city of a fatal fight with horse thieves at daybreak yesterday near Kemp, in Kaufman County, on the Texas Trunk Road, 50 miles southeast of Dallas.  Two strange men were discovered near the village with 15 horses in their possession.  Hank Shelton, a Texas Trunk section foreman, and a man named Wright engaged the strangers in conversation, receiving inconsistent and conflicting statements from them, and arrived at the conclusion that the horses had been stolen and were being driven to Indian Territory.  Suddenly the men put spurs to the horses on which they were mounted  and fled for the timber, about an eighth of a mile away, leaving 13 animals behind.  Shelton and Wright opened fire, which was returned.  After several exchanges of shots the two  strangers fell from their saddles, one shot through the lung and the other through the hip.  They were placed on mattresses in the bottom of a wagon and started off for Kaufman Jail, 20 miles distant.  The one shot through the lung died before reaching there, and the other at last accounts was believed to be rapidly expiring.  All efforts to secure their names proved futile, as both refused to talk, and there was nothing on their persons by which to identify them.