Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — BORED WITH BULLETS. [ARTICLE]

BORED WITH BULLETS.

An Officer in Austin, Tex., Shot and Killed by a Drunken Scion of a Good Family. [Houston (Tex.) special.] For several days past Mr. Kyle Terry, a handsome man, about 26 years old. whose home is near Richmond, in Fort Bend County, has been visiting friends in this city. He has been indulging in liquor pretty freely, and last night became Somewhat intoxicated. Officer Williams arrested Terry against the latter’s protest,taking him to the station, but was released on the pledge that he tvould appear before the Mayor and answer to tho chaise of being disorderly. This luorning he came upon Officer Williams, who was going toward the Court House. The very sight of Williams seemed to drive Terry crazy. He sprang toward the officer, uttering a terrible oath. Williams saw he was confronting a man crazed with drink, and jumped behind a passing colored man. When the negro saw Terry advancing, pistol in hand, he became frantic and tried to run, but Williams clung to his back with deadly tenacity.; The colored man from sheer fright, it is thought, fainted, aud with Williams still clingiug to him they rolled off the sidewalk into the gutter. Terry followed, becoming apparently more excited at Williams’ effort to escape. Bending over the prostrate negro, Terry emptied his selfcocking six-shooter into the prostrate form of his victim. He literally pumped lead ini§ Williams without moving his arm. Each ball entered the body of the unfortu* nate man. The effects were noted by people who witnessed the affair from a distance, who say the body seemed to jump a few inches from the ground each time a bullet penetrated it. The fifth ball passed through the heart, and Williams rolled over dead, one hand still grasping the negro, who lay in an almost comatose condition, an unwilling witness to the awful crime. .Terry was immediately arrested without resistance and taken- to Jail. Intense excitement has prevailed here all day, and an extra guard has been placed inside the jail Jo prevent possible lynching. Officer Williams was a general favorite on the force, and leaves a wife and three children. The Terrys have been for three generations among the most honorable citizens of the south. The prisoner is a son of General Fiank Terry, of Confederate renown. Terry’s Rangers were far-famed in war days. He comes from a. fighting family, being a nephew of Judge A. W. Terry, of California, the slayer of Senator Broderick. Other members of the family have achieved distinction in legislative halls and on the bench of Texas.

A young man at Santa Barbara, Cal., was arrested and fined for practicing on the clarionet in his own apartments. Fifteen men went out to hunt rabbits in Modoc County, California* recently, and in a short time lolled 450 of the little animals. ’ v ■ Sawdust burned to the windward saved many Florida orange groves from the biting frost. - 11 —" f It is said that more than a thdumnd NewYorkers axe already booked to sail far Europe. '