The record-union., 1894-04-18
SENSATIONAL SHOOTING.
Growing Out of Litigation Between
Sister and Brother.
THE LATTER AND A PROMINENT
LAWYER WOUNDED.
Not Over Two Hundred Miles Out OF
Nearly Five Thousand on the Great
& Northern Railway in Operation, as
the Result of the Strike of the En-
ployes
Special to the REcoRp.UNroS.

Special to the REC0RD-UNIoS.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 1.-THE law Office
of Miller, Winter IL Elan to-day was the
scene of sensational shooting. w. B.
Copeland of Madison, Ind, shot Addison
G. Harris in the arm, inficting painful
wound. He also shot w. III. Bruning of
Madison in the face.
A conference had been arranged at the
law office between William B. Copeland
and William B. Bruning, rival litigants
of Madison, Bruning. Copeland's attor-
ney, Hon. A. G. Harris and Ferd Winter
being already in the room. Copeland
came in, and, without saying word, be-
gan shooting at Bruning. The first shot
missed Bruning and struck Miller in the
arm. A second shot struck Bruning in
the mouth. w. III. Fl. Miller attempted
to seize Copeland, who, maddened by
the interference tried to shoot the ex-
Attorney General, but was prevented.
In the meantime he had used his weapon
as club, beating Bruning frightfully
about the head. Men in adjoini ng offices
prevented further shooting. Copeland
was arrested. Harris is not dangerously
wounded. He is one of The foremost
lawyers of the State. Bruning will prob
ably recover. Several snits are pending
between him and Copeland and very
bitter feeling exists.
In the suits which caused the shooting,
Clara Copeland is the plaintiff and Will
lam III. Bruning the defendant. The
question is the division of the estate of
John B. Bruning, father of Clara Cope
land and William III. Bruning. Cope
land married Bruning's daughter in op-
position to her family. Bad blood re-
suited. Harris is attorney for Copeland
and Winter for Bruning.
Copeland, in an interview, stated that
Bruning had brought undue influence to
bear upon his aged father and induced
him to make will almost disinheriting
the daughter. He also says the brother
took his sister to New York with him
and tried for four months to compel her
to leave her husband. On another occa-
sion, while she was visiting relatives at
Port Pleasant, o., the brother visited
her and threatened to kill her
husband unless she signed a deed
turning over to him property val
ued at $4,000 in Evansville. She was
afraid he would keep his word. and
signed the deed ,and il is to gain possession
of the property that she now has a
suit pending in court. On another occa-
home during his absence and made an
effort to break into the house, but was
finally induced to leave.
Attorney General Miller, who was in
back room, said that as soon as he heard
the firing he ran into the room and made
an effort to take the revolver from Cope
land. The latter was very much ex-
cited, and was trying TO shoot every body
in the room who interfered with him.
Mr.. Miller finally managed to get Cope
lands hands to his side. and with the as
sistance of others disarmed him. He was
covered with blood. but escaped unin-
jured.
Mrs. Copeland arrived and spent the
entire evening trying to secure bonds for
her husband. She will get him out to-
morrow. She confirms her husbands
story that only that morning she had told
her husband that years ago her brother
had attempted to assault her.