Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-04
DIR. TERRELL
ASSASSINATED
Shot To Death By A Negro
Seeking To Rob Com.
miSsary.
KILLED WHEN HE APPEARED.
Remains Brought Here For
Internment Yesterday
Afternoon.

Mr.. ferrell mad taken his wife
and children into Birmingham that
morning and had returned in the
afternoon. Late in the night he
heard a suspicious noise about the
commissary, which was in a sepa-
rate building near the dwelling |
house. He arose and went out to
investigate, firing a pistol into the
ground to brighten off the thief. A |
negro man was under the commits
sary armed with a shotgun and fired
upon him with both barrels. One
load took effect in his left arm and
the other in the left side of his
bowels. He lived fifteen minutes,
conscious to the last.
Dogs were put on the trail at once
and went straight to the cabin of a
negro man who was found feigning
sleep with a shotgun in his house
and his shoes still wet with dew. A
negro man had been seen to run
away. He had a fifteen-year. old
boy with him, who had been playing
about the mines only the day before,
Both negroes were arrested and
the lynching of the murderer was
narrowly averted.
The body accompanied by Mrs.
Terrell, Maj. Taliaferro, his father
in-law, and Mr.. George Corners, his
cousin, arrived here yesterday morn
ling. 1t was met by a number of
friends and taken to the home of
Mrs. j. o. Terrell, on South Main
street.
| Chiles Clifton Terrell was born
near Greenville, S. c.. August 20,
1865. He was the only son and child
of James Overton and Elizabeth
Austin Terrell. He was 8 years old
when his father came to Hopkins
vile and his education was be-
gun in his fathers school here
from 1875 to 1881. He graduated
from Vanderbilt University with
A. B. degree in 1885 and with A. M.
the following year. He was in
structor of Greek in Vanderbilt from
1885 to 1889. In 1889 he became a |
student at the University of Leipsic,
Germany, from which he took the
degree of Phi. d. in 1892. He
travelled extensively in Great Britain.
Germany, Switzerland, Austria and
Italy and in 1894 took a course in
Paris and in 1902 returned to Berlin
for summer course. He became
professor in modern languages at
the University of Mississippi, at Ok
ford, in 1898 and remained there until
1907. He was a member Of the Mod
ern Language Association of Ameri-
ca, and was a member of the Van
derbilt Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married at Birmingham,
Ala, August l6, 1899 to Miss Tenney,
MARI Taliaferro, who survives him.
OF three children born to them two
survive. Chiles Clifton, Jr., age 8
and James Overton, aged 8.
In 1907 Mr.. Terrell gave up his |
work as an educator and went into
business with his father-in-law in
Birmingham. Since that time he
mad moved to suburb of Birming-
ham, % miles out. and was engaged |
in coal mining, having recently
opened the Pratt mine.
Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist church at $3.50 o'clock
by Rev. G. M. Thompson and the
interment was in Riverside ceme-
terry.
The pall-bearers were former
school mates of the deceased or pu-
pills of his father : Geo. E. Gary. Ira
l.. Smith, R. M. Woodbridge, w. A.
Glass. A. w. Wood. r A. Rogers,
w. Cooper and Chas. M. Meacham.