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Who killed Charles Sessums?
A&M's investigation – interviews of more than 40 witnesses are on file at A&M's Cushing Memorial Library – produced a description: a man of medium height, stocky, dressed in a navy blue or black suit, wielding a four-foot piece of lumber.
But despite a wealth of witnesses and leads, no one was charged.
And for 84 years, that's been the end of the story. Unless you read what else is in A&M's file.
A two-page typewritten report, author and date unknown, levels an accusation:
The man who killed Sessums was Hubert C. Connally.
Connally's name never comes up in other research or stories. The only Connally mentioned is Dr. H.F. Connally, Waco's mayor in 1926. He also happened to be Hubert's cousin. Another relative of the era was U.S. Rep. Tom Connally, who would become a U.S. senator. In Waco, you can't drive long without passing something named after a Connally.
The two-page report makes no mention of Hubert's family ties or political connections, possibly because the author was unaware. But we know now. To say the least, it puts a new spin on an old story.
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