A Blood Feud Comes to Bastrop: The Killing of Arthur Burford

Bastrop Opera House Presents The Seventh Annual Bobby Jenkins Scholarships Fundraiser Unable to seat a jury in Columbus to try Jim Townsend for murder because of the infamous Stafford-Townsend feud of Colorado County, the trial was transferred to Bastrop. It did not take long for the feud to spill over into Bastrop when young lawyer Arthur Burford was ambushed and murdered on Main Street. A Blood Feud Comes to Bastrop: The Killing of Arthur Burford Bastrop, Texas January 15, 1900 Directed by Chester Eitze and Sarah Loucks Written by David F. Bragg Assisted by Sam Damon Edited by Kenneth Kesselus The audience will be the jury. Come help decide guilt or innocence in The State of Texas v. Walter Reese