A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Birmingham Ala the Scene of an Unprovoked Murder — - AN EDITOR KILLS HIS MISTRESS Thomas W Ellin the Slayer of Clara Koss-Her Body is Found Fuller a Bed-Jealousy the Cause— The Murderer Attempts Suicide— He Surrenders to the Au- thorlties A terrible tragedy occurred at Birmingham Ala about midnight Wednesday night Thomas V Ellis a young man well known in newspaper circles as the editor of the Birmingham Hornet shot and instantly killed his mistress Clara Ross After the tragedy Ellis went at once to the Florence hotel and asked for a policeman then placing a revolver to his head attempted to commit suicide This being prevented he was taken in charge and locked in a strong cell A visit to the place revealed a sickening sight The woman lay in a pool of blood under the bed with her cloihes thrown over her head as if to ward off the terrible results of her lovers jealousy Her long tresses were flowing loose clotted with blood her rigid features drawn with pain her eyes open with glassy wildness Around her were gathered her companions weeping bitterly The ball had entered tier head behind the right ear The unfortunate woman was about 25 years of age and originally from McMinnville Tennessee and had been in Birmingham but a few months having gone to that city from Chattanooga where she lived with her husband Reese Perrin although they were subsequently divorced Clara Ross was a beautiful woman and those who knew her in the past loved her for her sweet happy amiable disposition and graceful winning manner But it was the old story of a woman’s trust and man’s perfidy and she left her once happy home and became a “woman of the town” She had been living for the past few months as Ellis’ mistress occupying a house with another wo man of her class Jennie Dikes who gave a reporter the following information regarding the terrible tragedy : “Ellis has been in this room for nearly three months He was here last week He was not sick The reason he did not publish the Hornet Clara Ross was sick and he nursed her He was out to Avondale with her yesterday He was with her all day They have been quarreling all the time He left the house at 6 o'clock and did not return until 3 o’clock when he renewed the quarrel Clara called me several times in the night Ellis had locked her in and told me not to enter I tried to get in the door He said he would kill me if I did Soon afterward I heard two pistol shots and heard her say ‘Oh Lord’ I heard the back door open and Ellis slip out” Ellis is a young man unmarried and noted for his eccentric brilliancy He is highly educated and at one time opened a law office with the finest prospects of success but abandoned the law to entei the journalistic field The cause of the murder was jealousy which seems to have been without foundation and many think the murderer insane.
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