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Reason C. “Reese” Roberts

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Reason C. “Reese” Roberts

Birth
Hamilton County, Illinois, USA
Death
16 May 1897 (aged 44)
Pope County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Broughton, Hamilton County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Reese Roberts, one of Flannigan Townships leading citizens and a stockdealer, was murdered near Carrier Mills, Pope county last Sunday evening about 7 p.m. Mr. Roberts had went to Pope county to buy some stock and was spending the day and night with his brother-in-law, a man by the name of Lightfoot. About 7 o'clock, Mr. Roberts and Lightfoot went a short distance from the house to get a bucket of water and there, on the way back, Lightfoot says two masked men stepped from behind the fence and shot Roberts and Roberts handed him his revolver saying "Kill'em. They have killed me." Where upon he [Lightfoot] opened fire on them and they fled. Roberts died almost instantly. The facts in the case are yet a mystery. Lightfoot, the murdered man's brother-in-law, has been arrested for the crime and public sentiment in that locality is strong against him.
[McLeansboro Times, McLeansboro, Illinois; 21 May 1897.]

Submitted information indicates Mr. Lightfoot was acquitted of the murder.
Reese Roberts, one of Flannigan Townships leading citizens and a stockdealer, was murdered near Carrier Mills, Pope county last Sunday evening about 7 p.m. Mr. Roberts had went to Pope county to buy some stock and was spending the day and night with his brother-in-law, a man by the name of Lightfoot. About 7 o'clock, Mr. Roberts and Lightfoot went a short distance from the house to get a bucket of water and there, on the way back, Lightfoot says two masked men stepped from behind the fence and shot Roberts and Roberts handed him his revolver saying "Kill'em. They have killed me." Where upon he [Lightfoot] opened fire on them and they fled. Roberts died almost instantly. The facts in the case are yet a mystery. Lightfoot, the murdered man's brother-in-law, has been arrested for the crime and public sentiment in that locality is strong against him.
[McLeansboro Times, McLeansboro, Illinois; 21 May 1897.]

Submitted information indicates Mr. Lightfoot was acquitted of the murder.

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