The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1894-09-27
T WAS DELIBERATE MURDER.
Prot. t;-"r2e L. Ellis Was Shot While
CnArni-a.
The Prime pals Former Sc,lool Teacher
In Bates County.

A te!. Z - st S..tuld day night
from TexarsAna says that there is
consldel able tx of lynching the
man WHO shot Prof. Ellis. Of the
shooting it say:
Tex ,nana, AK Sept. 22.-At 8
o'clock Iast night G.. L. Bryant,
president of the Texarkana Inter-
state Normal aud Business College,
shot aud fatally wounded Prof. Geo
L Ellis, former teacher in the col
lege, and at present the principal in
school of his own. The trouble
grew out of rivalry, and it is known
that Bryant has for some time been
in correspondence with parties in
other States, where Ellis previously
lived, a1d it is asserted, he had re
csived letters of q damaging charac-
ter to Ellis. The two have had
several angry quarrels within the
last month.
last night Bryant, while riding
down the street, saw Ellis sitting at
Ragland's book store, talking to
some gentlemen, and called to him,
saying: "Come down to the Cosmo
politan Hotel. l want to talk to you
and show you some letters" Ellis
accepted the invitation, but whom
they reached the hotel, Bryant pro-
posed that they 60 outside the city
limits and settle their difference by
a fist fight. This invitation was also
accepted, and they proceeded to
point near the Cotton Belt and Texas
Pacific Railway crossing where they
pulled off their coats and laid them
down, preparing for the encounter.
Ellis then, in his shirt sleeves, turn-
cd his back to Bryant and said: "See,
am unarmed,' but as he turned
around again, Bryant said: Il am
armed and am going to shoot you >
Ellis said, you are a coward to talk
Of such thing" Bryant leveled the
pistol which he was heurishing and
fired. The bullet struck Ellis in the
center of the body, an inch above
the navel, and passed out at the
back. Bryant escaped after the
shooting, but was arrested near his
home two hours later and brought
into town. There WAS 10 eyewitness
to the shooting besides the partici-
pants, and the statement of how it
occurred is based upon the dying
mans affidavit.
Bryant declines to make any state
ment, but says that he was justified
in what he did. and will be acquitted
when tried in court. Ellis is still
alive. put is rapidly sinking, and the
doctor says be can not live. Both
parties are prominent i'll the com
: muuity and the affair has created a
sensation. Bryant waived examina
ton at noon to-day and was granted
bail in the sum of $4,000, but has
not yet succeed in making it. Public
opinion is. loud and almost unani.
nous in condemnation of the shoot.
ing. The friends of Bryant talk
mysteriously of woman in the case,
but do not say who she is.
Nevada MALL
Upon his arrival at Texarkana,
Sunday, A. 7. Ellis wired his broth
er Robert of this place that Prof.
George Ellis was still alive but badly
wounded. The telegram did no,
say whether hope of recovery was
entertained The man who commit
ted the murder was at Que
time resident of Vernon county
and taught school in Mezt township.
He is now about forty years old and
is married. The two principals il
the tragedy were engaged about foul
years ago III school at Sprague
Prof. Bryant was the principal and
Prof. Ellis the assistant After leav
ing here Bryant went to Hot SPRING
and started school, and it Is saiG
that he wrote to Ellis to come Their
and assist him, but that gentlema,
j-oz tbop ef work in Monfana- Prot