A dead drunk Thomas Haldeman went to sleep under a tree near Nopal, Texas on December 17, 1872. He never woke up. Brown Bowen, brother-in-law of John Wesley Hardin, put a bullet in Haldeman’s head, supposedly because the victim was an informer for the state police.
Bowen was arrested but Hardin engineered a jail break. He was recaptured in Florida four years later and convicted in the Haldeman killing. Bowen accused Hardin of the murder, but an eyewitness said Bowen pulled the trigger.
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