On July 14, 1920, Mrs. Tennie Morris shot and killed Mrs. Leater "Lela" Smothers Farrar on the corner of Main Street and Rusk Avenue. On March 1, 1921, a Denison taxi driver testified at Mrs. Morris' trial that the victim had a "bad reputation." A jury of 12 men deliberated for less than an hour before acquitting the defendant on grounds of "unwritten law."
Mrs. Morris was still living with her husband when she died in California, 36 years after the shooting.