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Tom Ketchum and J.N. Powers

by | Dec 31, 2015 | Uncategorized

Tom Ketchum
It’s not clear why J.N. “Jap” Powers was murdered. Maybe he was a cattle thief. Or he was unpopular with his neighbors around Knickerbocker, TX. Or his wife wanted him out of the way to take up with someone else. Or a combination of those things. He was in his pasture on December 11, 1895 when two men came to talk. Powers ran; they put four bullets in him. Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum (photo) and others were indicted but nobody ever went to trial. Ketchum basically admitted to the cr


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