Leon Metz, writing in 'John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel Of Texas' writes:
'James Gipson Hardin, the other surviving brother of Wes Hardin, taught school in Junction, Texas in 1897, and eloped in January 1898 with one of the local belles, Pearl Turner. Two months later on March 28, Gip shot and killed deputy sheriff John Turman, his best friend, as a result of an argument at a dinner table. A jury found Gip guilty of murder in the second degree, and the judge sentenced him to thirty five years in the penitentiary. However, a new trial at Fredericksburg led to a lighter sentence, and Gip spent only a couple of years at Huntsville. After his release, he and his wife separated following the birth of two daughters, and Gip worked in the stockyards of Fort Worth. When World War I started, he took a job transporting horses to Europe for the United States government.
Metz stated, "Two box cars on board a ship shifted and crushed him to death somewhere off the Florida coast in 1918." This is inaccurate. He was killed in a rail accident at Hog Island near Philadelphia, where the Philly Airport now stands.
'James Gipson Hardin, the other surviving brother of Wes Hardin, taught school in Junction, Texas in 1897, and eloped in January 1898 with one of the local belles, Pearl Turner. Two months later on March 28, Gip shot and killed deputy sheriff John Turman, his best friend, as a result of an argument at a dinner table. A jury found Gip guilty of murder in the second degree, and the judge sentenced him to thirty five years in the penitentiary. However, a new trial at Fredericksburg led to a lighter sentence, and Gip spent only a couple of years at Huntsville. After his release, he and his wife separated following the birth of two daughters, and Gip worked in the stockyards of Fort Worth. When World War I started, he took a job transporting horses to Europe for the United States government.
Metz stated, "Two box cars on board a ship shifted and crushed him to death somewhere off the Florida coast in 1918." This is inaccurate. He was killed in a rail accident at Hog Island near Philadelphia, where the Philly Airport now stands.
Leon Metz, writing in 'John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel Of Texas' writes:
'James Gipson Hardin, the other surviving brother of Wes Hardin, taught school in Junction, Texas in 1897, and eloped in January 1898 with one of the local belles, Pearl Turner. Two months later on March 28, Gip shot and killed deputy sheriff John Turman, his best friend, as a result of an argument at a dinner table. A jury found Gip guilty of murder in the second degree, and the judge sentenced him to thirty five years in the penitentiary. However, a new trial at Fredericksburg led to a lighter sentence, and Gip spent only a couple of years at Huntsville. After his release, he and his wife separated following the birth of two daughters, and Gip worked in the stockyards of Fort Worth. When World War I started, he took a job transporting horses to Europe for the United States government.
Metz stated, "Two box cars on board a ship shifted and crushed him to death somewhere off the Florida coast in 1918." This is inaccurate. He was killed in a rail accident at Hog Island near Philadelphia, where the Philly Airport now stands.
'James Gipson Hardin, the other surviving brother of Wes Hardin, taught school in Junction, Texas in 1897, and eloped in January 1898 with one of the local belles, Pearl Turner. Two months later on March 28, Gip shot and killed deputy sheriff John Turman, his best friend, as a result of an argument at a dinner table. A jury found Gip guilty of murder in the second degree, and the judge sentenced him to thirty five years in the penitentiary. However, a new trial at Fredericksburg led to a lighter sentence, and Gip spent only a couple of years at Huntsville. After his release, he and his wife separated following the birth of two daughters, and Gip worked in the stockyards of Fort Worth. When World War I started, he took a job transporting horses to Europe for the United States government.
Metz stated, "Two box cars on board a ship shifted and crushed him to death somewhere off the Florida coast in 1918." This is inaccurate. He was killed in a rail accident at Hog Island near Philadelphia, where the Philly Airport now stands.
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