Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-03-07
MAURICE BALL KILLED
1t FORT WORTH
Brother Of s. L. Ball, Jr, a Music
Teacher in the Schools Of
This City.

S. l.. Ball, Jr., music teacher oil
this city, was called to Fort Worth
last night in answer tosa telegram an
nouncing the killing of his brother in
that city.
The following account of the killing
is taken from today's Houston Post:
Fort Worth, Texas, March Gone
man was killed and two wounded in a
Main street shooting tonight at s
O'Clock.
The dead
Maurice Ball, private secretary OF
Thomas B. Owens & Co.'S Cotton
Brokerage Company.
The wounded:
ODE Thompson, drug clerk, shot in
leg.
]. s. Phillips, Odeon theater man
ager, flesh wound.
The killing was the result of fam
lily trouble. Oscar Meyer auditor OF
1.-THE Fort Worth & Denver City Rail
way Company, is under arrest. The
trouble followed the divorce of the
wife of Ball.
An hour later Meyer had been re-
leased on a bond of $4,000, after a
brief preliminary hearing before JUS
ltice Thomas Maben in the office oil
Chief of Police Renfro.
Mrs. Helen Ball, the divorced wife
| is 26 years of age. She had been twice
married to Ball. The first wedding oc
Cured New Years Day, 1911. A di'
vorce followed in the spring. The
couple was again married last sum
mer, and in October Mrs. Ball again
secured divorce. Before he marriage
the woman was Mrs. Helen Adair. A
sister resides in Dallas.
The shooting was the result OF
trouble of long standing between the
two men. Ball and Meyer had been
rivals years ago in love affair. Only
few months ago Ball had become
separated from his wife. Some time
later divorce followed. Ball, the man
who was slain, charged Meyer with
running his home, moment before
he was shot.
Ten minutes after the killing had
occurred in front of the Stag saloon
so great a crowd had gathered that
the street cars temporarily were
brought to stop. Intense excitement
reigned and it took the combined eff.
forts of police and detectives to clear
a passageway when the body of the
victim was removed.
Friends of Meyer say that Ball was
the aggressor in a fist fight in the Stag
hat 20 NJ
separated. Ball went out of the saloon
jsut before Meyer ran out. Ball ran
into the doorway of the International
e. Great Northern Railroad Company.
w. S. Cantrell, who was in the rail
road offices, says he attempted to
open the door, but before he could
give shelter to the man the shooting
was over.
The stories of witnesses to the af-
fair differ. Most of them agreed that
a fist fight preceded the shooting. Very
few people saw the actual firing of the
shots.
j. B. Maginnis, linotype man, said
that he, Meyer, William Horribly and
a man named Dutton were standing
at the bar of the Stag saloon when
Ball suddenly entered the place and in
a moment stood confronting Meyer.
you have ruined my home!" he
shouted in an angry voice. In another
Meyer stood with a bruised
face and held by one man while two
others were escorting Ball out the
door. Ball was admonished to leave
the scene. Suddenly Meyer appeared
at the door and the shooting followed.
Maurice M. Ball was born in East
Texas. and educated in. Georgetown, at
which place he was graduated for the
ministry in the Southwestern Univer-
sity. He had been in Fort Worth
about five years and was private Sec
rotary to Tom B. Owens. He was 80
years of age.
Oscar Meyer, who did the shooting,
is about 40 years of age and unmar-
ried. He came to Fort Worth about
fifteen years ago, since which time he
has been connected with the general
offices, and is chief clerk in the pas
senger accounting department.
ODE Thompson, the innocent by