Extracted from The Fort Worth Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)
Monday, August 29, 1904

BOY DIES AFTER MONTHS FROM INJURIES

Chester N. Hustead Passes Away From Effect of Kicks
In the Side, Says the Attending Physician

As a result of a personal difficulty between two boys, Marshall Billington and Chester N. Hustead, at Wautaga, small town on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road, about eighteen miles from Fort Worth, the latter is dead and the former is under arrest with a charge of murder pending against him.

From what is learned about the encounter the two boys in January last were playing together in a cotton field. They were throwing cotton at each other when young Hustead was attacked by Billington, who knocked him down and then, so it is alleged, kicked him in the side, from the results of which Hustead died on last Friday.

Saturday C. C. Hustead, father of the dead boy, came to Fort Worth and made a complaint to Prosecuting Attorney Lattimore, charging the Billington boy with murdering his son, the attending physician giving it as his opinion that death resulted from the injuries inflicted during the fight between the two boys.

The warrant was served on the Billington boy by Constable Isbell and Deputy Sheriff Buck late Saturday night. Billington was admitted to bond and will have a hearing before Justice John L. Terrell September 1.

Young Billington is about 17 years of age, while the dead boy was about 16.