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El Paso Daily Herald
Tuesday, 20 November, 1900

         JOHN L. FROST, sheriff of Chambers county disappeared about
       ten days ago and it was the general belief of the people from
       the start that he had been murdered. He went up into the south-
       western end of the county to serve writs of sequestration and
       the last seen of him alive as near Lake Superior, not far from
       the home of the man upon whom he served the writ. The sheriff
       having sworn charges of murder against CAPTAIN WILLIAM KENNEDY,
       his son, LEE KENNEDY, and a young man named ROBERT HEINMANN,
       it was supposed at once that they had killed him. They were
       arrested and are in jail at Galveston. SHERIFF THOMAS , of Gal-
       veston, claims to have secured a statement from one of the men
       and that he is in possession of the details of the murder;
       also that the three men are the murderers. SHERIFF THOMAS says
       that SHERIFF FROST  was foully murdered and his body consigned
       to the waters of the lake. A party of officers have gone to
       the lake to search for the body. If they are guilty and proven
       so beyond a doubt in the minds of the people of Chambers county
       there is strong possibilities of the three men never living to
       stand trial for the dead officer was a great favorite with
       his people.
       
       NOTE: The body of Sheriff JOHN L. FROST was never found.
       With no body being found, the case against the three men was
       dismissed in 1902
       
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