The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday,
September 15, 1901
pg. 4
ZAC MISEKEY
KILLED
Thursday
about 10 o'clock p.m., Ella Porter killed
Zac Moseley, colored, on
Austin Avenue and Waler Street. Ella
is a niece of the dead man,
The circumstances which led up to the
tragedy are about as
follows:
Moseley
claimed that his niece had visited his wife
and told her a story to the
effect that Zac was in the habit of visiting
another woman and that he
was untrue to his marriage relations.
It is alleged that Moseley
ade threat of vengeance against his niece.
When they met Thursday
night Zac commenced to abuse and upbraid his
niece and assaulted her.
The woman in pure self-defense
defended herself and slashed Zac
on the arm with a razor. Moseley
lingered until Friday morning,
dying about 7 o'clock.
Ella
Porter was arrested and conveyed to jail.
She was raised in Denison and
Mayor Knaur and others for whom she has
worked speak of her in the
highest terms.
Zac
Moseley is a pioneer resident of Denison and
conducted a barber shop on
Main street a few doors east of the
Gazetteer office.
