Albert Jennings Fountain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Jennings Fountain

Union Army soldier, politician

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1838

Place of Birth: Staten Island, New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1896

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain (October 23, 1838 – disappeared February 1, 1896) was an attorney who served in the Texas Senate and the New Mexico House of Representatives.
Following a purge of corruption among cattle rustlers that Fountain investigated and prosecuted, he and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near White Sands, New Mexico.
Their bloodstained wagon and other evidence of an ambush were recovered, but the bodies were never discovered.
Suspicion centered on two rival landowners, Oliver M.
Lee and Albert B.
Fall.
Lee and two employees were tried for the murder of Henry Fountain, but acquitted after a defense by Fall.
No charges were ever filed for the death of Albert Fountain.