 Fort Worth Gazette October 16, 1894 Tioga, Tex, Oct. 15 - This morning about 7 o'clock Ely Krop was shot in the right breast and instantly killed in his room at Mr. J.F. Shurley's residence in the east part of the town. The fact in the case as near they can be obtained at present are as follows: his wife, who is the daughter a daughter of Mr. Shurley, reports that after breakfast Mr. Krop asked her to go to the cotton field with him to pick cotton, and she told him that she could not go, whereupon he picked up his pistol (a 41-Derringer) and she, thinking he would shoot her, grabbed up their baby and and ran out of the room. She did not get far when she heard the report of a pistol, and on returning, she found him lying on the floor of the room dead, with the pistol lying on the floor on the opposite side of the room. The coroner, who lives at Collinsville, was notified by wire, but has not arrived yet. Fort Worth Gazette October 18, 1894 Tioga, Tex., Oct. 17 - As a result of the coroner's inquest in the Krop killing, as reported a few days since, Tom Shurley, a brother of Mrs. Krop, was arrested and taken to Sherman and is now being tried, with an absolute certainty of acquittal. All the evidence obtained locates him eighty feet away from the house when the shot was fired.
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