Tom Ellis, of the Birmingham " Hornet," is in jail again. This time for shooting a detective. Another term in the Insane Asylum..

1. United States
2. Alabama
3. Jackson
4. The South Alabamian
5. 1888
6. Jan
7. 28
8. Page 2
9. Article clipped from The South Alabamian

Tom Ellis, the notorious editor of that dirty sheet, the Birmingham "Hornet," is again in trouble. This time he becomes involved in a difficulty in a back of a grocery and shoots, a man by the name of Scarbrough. About the best thing now to be done with Tom is to hang him, crazy or not crazy..

1. United States
2. Alabama
3. Seale
4. Russell Register
5. 1888
6. Jan
7. 21
8. Page 3
9. Article clipped from Russell Register

Tom Ellis, the editor of the wicked Birmingham Hornet, a Sunday paper, is being stung by the law. Last Sunday's number of the Hornet was more impudent and salacious than any previous number and Tom was hauled up before the Mayor, Monday, and fined $ 50 on the charge of indecent publication. A pistol being found on his person he was assessed 150 more. Tom is in the wrong city for his journalistic gymnastics ; Mayor Lane and his police force form one of the best and most active teams in the country..

1. United States
2. Mississippi
3. Jackson
4. State Ledger
5. 1887
6. Dec
7. 03
8. Page 2
9. Article clipped from State Ledger

The editor of the Birmingham Hornet, Tom Ellis by name, has at last shared the fate of his prototypes of the Hot Springs Hornet, the New Orleans Mascot and other adepts in the art of personal defamation. He was shot by one of his victims, a policeman. He was full ripe, rotten indeed, for his nue..

1. United States
2. Mississippi
3. Greenville
4. The Weekly Democrat-Times
5. 1888
6. Feb
7. 11
8. Page 2
9. Article clipped from The Weekly Democrat-Times
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