The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-28

soon such a crowd began to flock to the
station house that guards had to be placed
at the doorway to prevent their entrance.
When Post reporter reached the scene
everything was confusion, and very little
satisfactory information could be secured
as to the cause that led to the shooting,
or how It happened.
Everybody was excited over the sudden
and unexpected tragedy,
The body of Gin Ellison. still warm
but with life entirely extinct. was lying
upon a table In one Of the rear rooms OF
the station house with the fatal wound
plainly visible upon his right breast aud
DR.. Turner examining the body to ascer-
tain its range and the cause OF such sud
den death. which would have been readily
apparent had the wound occupied a CORE
spending position on the left breast. The
doctor soon traced the wound to the spinal
column. which was badly fractured. thus
producing instant death,
In their solicitude for the man that was
shot very little attention was paid the
man who did the shooting.
Alhers was seen TO pass into the sta"
ton house after he had fired the shot and
those who saw him enter naturally CON
cluded that he had gone In to give him
sely up and paid no more attention to him
until II was learned that instead Of stop
ping there he had passed out through Tho
rear Of the building, and then ii was that
some little apprehension began to be felt
until about an hour later when It was
announced that Albers had given himself
up to Night Sergeant Erickson by whom
he was afterwards taken to the county
iail.
The killing occurred Just after the
change OF watch and was witnessed by
several officers. whose testimony taken at
the inquest, which was held last night by
Justice Walter Malsch. tells the story In
detail OF the killing, the difficulty that
Immediately preceded 1t and the cause that
led up to 1t.
Officer o, j. Menard testified that le
did not know what the difficulty was
about, but he saw Ellison slap Albeiv and
Albers slapped him back and kicked him
Ellison then put his hand to his hip, but
did not pull pistol or attempt to pull one
officer Mechanism went in between them
and put his hand on Ellison, who was
laughing all the time. The next he noticed
was that Ellison was OFF the sidewalk
Did not know whether his horse had ierked
him on or he had stepped on He saw
Albers shoot Ellison, After the shooting
Albers walked into the police station and
witness went to pick Ellison up. He lived
about ten minutes. He said he was muir.
dered. Ellison tried to get his gun ou
after he was down, but he was unable tC
do it. Witness had picked up an oper
pocket knife where the difficulty had oc-
Cured.
This knife was shown to Mr.. George
Ellis, who was present and who statet
very positively that the knife did not be.
long TO Gin Ellison.
pr. Il. G. Turner. who had examined
the body. said he had been called TO So,
Ellison. hut found him dead when he ar.
rived. Death was caused from a gunsno
wound. The ball had entered the righ
breast about midway between tho nippl,
and the center OF the breast bone and max
ranged downward about four inches. -trllS
ing and badly fracturing the spinal col
umn He took II TO be 45-cabiler bullet
Deputy Marshal J, NJ. Ray, who was alst
an eyewitness. testified that he, Coghlar
and Ellison were talking on the Sidewalk
in front of the station. He had Wake,
over TO the fence. about thirty feet away
, talk with Coghlan. when he was startlo,
~ hearing shot, and looking around h
saw Ellison falling and AlbeVS rapidly
sideling away toward the entrance to th
station house with gun in his hand. III
seemed to be watching Ellison as h
went. He saw Ellison make an effort a
though to get something--a weapon--J1s
as he fell to the ground Ellsons las
and only words after he was shot were
Hes got me. He murdered me. "
wanted me 10 tell lie but wouldn't d
Il and he murdered me-
The cause thar led up to the difficult,
was that about two weeks ago there wa
a person arrested on suspicion OF havinl
stolen some diamonds. Ellison had as
sisted In the arrest When Ellison cam'
down the next morning TO see about tn