A TEXAS LOVE TRAGEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2205, 26 August 1886, Page 2

A TEXAS LOVE TRAGEDY.

Wok I) has been received at Gahcston from Terrell, Texas, of :i serious shooting affray which occurred. Orange Tencll and MileHenderson have been paying suit to Mi*** Sophia Wickson, and the jealousy between the two led to several quarrels. On June 7th, about nine o'clock, Terrell went to the lady's house and found Henderson ahead of him. He immediately openeJ fire, shooting Mender.son in the centre of the breast, the ball glancing upward o\er his >hould«si\ Ten ell's aim \\a* then directed at the woman. After emptying his pistol, one of the shots taking effect in her lt'K, he fled, h'e-lo.idiug his pistol, he returned to the house, took off hi-. shoes, and lay down on a bed in the fiont loom, announcing that ho had come back to die in that house. In thf meantime. Citv Marshal Keller wa> notified that Terrell was in the house, nnd in company with many otheis went and .sin rounded it. Keller, entering the house by way of the back door, passed through the kitchen and came to the door of the front room. Seeing Terrell lying on the bed, he commanded him to throw up his hands and .surrender. Terrell' hand went up, but in it was his pistol, which he fired at Keller, barely mining him. The marshal thon fired five or six times, riddlin? Terrell with bullets.