A sensational case that created considerable excitement at the time was the shooting at Hector of William C. White, an attorney, with a pistol in the hand of Lincoln H. Parker, on the afternoon of July 31, 1888. White died on August 11. His wife, who was a sister of Parker, had died but a short while before, and it seems that the shooting was the outcome of a quarrel that arose between the two men concerning her. Parker had just arrived on the train that day and the affray occurred at the post office a short while after. The jury acquitted Parker "by reason of insanity."