Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-01
THE MARRIAGE.


The event was duly celebrated and
happy future was prophesied in q
married life where there was so much
love, and according to the report, il
was not many days after this event
when the jealousy of the husband be-
gan TO be stirred up by grave sus-
pic ous, but upon what foundation in
truth can not be made out. AT any
rate. few days after they were mar.
ricd young Ellis returned his bride
10 her father with the startling an
nouncement that he had found her
no virgin. lie stated that there had
been u criminal intercourse previous
to his marriage, between mis- wife
ard Chas, Stonestreet-a young man
who had married her elder sister. lie
also stated that this had been learned
through her own confession.
The family of the bride felt the
disgrace of the charge very sharply.
The return of the bride TO her father
house, and her separation from her
husband, TO whom she had been so
newly married, soon became notori-
Gus, and was the gossip of the neigh
borhood.
The young lady, on being question
ed by her people, denied the charge
in toto, and stated that she had been
compelled TO make the confession by
her husband, who threatened to take
her life unless she acknowledged that
she had been ruined by her brother
in-law. Unable TO flnd any truth in
the charge made by young Ellis, the
brides brother, John Storts, and
Chas. Stonestrcet, her brother-in-law
undertook TO punish him for the dis
grace he had SO recklessly devolved
upon their family.
THE DUEL.
II is said that they have been arm
ed against each other for some time,
but had not found a convenient meet
ing till yesterday evening. AT that
time John Ellis was loading some
stock at the station and was standing
in field across the track from the
depot. Young Storts, the brides
brother, was standing on the platform
of the depot and Stonestreet was
coming up the lane. They espied
Ellis, and Stonestreet crossed over
into the field, and took up the quar-
rel. 1t is said that he struck Ellis
in the face, and then began to throw
rocks. Ellis drew his pistol and fired
one shot as Stonestreet retreated. BY
this time young Storts had come up
with a revolver in his hand. He
faced the slanderer of his sisters
virtue at fifteen PAGES and began
firing. Ellis glared at him over the
pistols muzzle, and returned shot
for shot. Without tlinching, the men
emptied their pistols at each other.
The field was clear, and the wonder
is that both were not killed. When
the last shot was fired from Stort's
pistol Ellis weapon dropped from his
hand. Storts then went up to him,
and, producing box of cartridges,
asked him coldly if he wanted to re-
load.
1t was found that one of the balls
pierced Ellis right ear close to the
head, while another took effect in his
left arm, entering at the wrist and
cOursing up along the elbow. Neith-
er of the other men was injured.
Ellis came to the city on the early
train this morning and had his
wounds dressed by DR.. G. W. Kelly.
He is putting up at the Farmers
Central Hotel. A reporter of The
Post visited the hotel for an interview
but could not find him in. He is ad-
vised by his friends to shake the dust
of that section of the country from
his feet, as more trouble is sure to
follow till some one or the other of
them is killed. 1t is said that he
will stay in the city till his wounds
heal. In the duel both men used
double action pistols Of thirty-eight
All the young men engaged are
said TO be highly respectable, and
belong to the wealthiest families in
that section.