A serial killer known as the Midnight Assassin perpetrated a series of eight axe murders in this city three years before Jack the Ripper was active in London. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city, the capital of Texas.
ANSWER: Austin
[10m] During the Jack the Ripper case, London authorities questioned this man’s former employee and cowboy Buck Taylor. This man’s traveling Wild West show also employed the sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
ANSWER: Buffalo Bill [or William Frederick Cody or Buffalo Bill Cody; reject “Wild Bill” or “Wild Bill Hickock”]
[10h] Orange Washington and Gracie Vance were both killed in an Austin residence along a street with this name, a part of which is called “The Drag.” An 1847 treaty negotiated by Nicholas Trist was signed in a Mexican town with this name.
ANSWER: Guadalupe [accept Guadalupe Street; accept Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; accept Colonia Villa de Guadalupe; accept La Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo; prompt on Guad]
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