Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Shot and Killed on Train. [ARTICLE]

Shot and Killed on Train.

Edwin De Priest of Eminence, Shannon county, was shot and instantly killed on an excursion train just as the latter was entering Mountain Grove, Mo., bound for Springfield. The shooting was done by E. A. Woody, an employe of the Cordz-Fisher Lumber company of Birch Tree. De Priest accosted. Woody, it is said, calling him vile names, and made a threatening gesture, whereupon Woody shot him through the brain. De Priest was pardoned from the penitentiary by GovStephens a few days before Dockery’s inauguration. He had served three years’ time for the murder of Tom Woody, brother to the man who killed him. .-is ....