Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 55
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 30, 1907
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MAN KILLED AT OTTO.

Lawrence Ferrell Dead
At Hands of C. H.
Leuschner.
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Defendant Granted Bail in $3000.
Promptly Given.
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       Lawrence Ferrell was shot and killed at Otto about seven o'clock Thursday morning by Charles H. Leuschner.
       Two shots took effect--one in the left side of the head and the other in the bowels, a little over the groin.
       Ferrell was in the employ of Leuschner and had been for some time. There had been no previous difficulty between them.
       Leuschner immediately surrendered to Constable Krumnow and the officer and a large number of citizens from Otto came with the defendant to Marlin where an investigation was held in Justice Dashiell's court, Judge Faudi of the Otto precinct presiding.  The state introduced a number of witnesses whose testimony related principally to matters at the time of the killing and just after.  The court fixed the bond of the defendant at $3000, which was promptly and amply made by neighbors present.
       The defense will be that deceased had offered an insult to Mrs. Leuschner and that the killing occurred at the first meeting of the two men after defendant had been informed of the acts of Ferrell.
       Both the parties to the tragedy are well known and the killing has attracted a great deal of interest.
       Charley Leuschner is the son of J. G. Leuschner, was reared at Otto and was until recently engaged in business at that place.  He is about 23 years of age.  Ferrell had resided in that section quite a number of years and has a family.  He was about 30 years of age.
       The investigation also developed the fact that Ferrell was armed when shot.

      

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