Dallas Times Herald
January 18, 1895

CHARLES SHOOK
KILLED BY OFFICERS.

HUNTED AS A HORSE THIEF.

Surrounded by a Posse,
He Fought Desperately.

HE EXPIRES ON A TRAIN.

   Deputy Sheriff John Bolick and Jim Lewis arrived at 1:45 p. m., on the delayed Houston and Texas Central train, with the dead body of Charles Shook, which was turned over to Undertaker Linskie.

     At daylight yesterday morning, Deputy Sheriff Bolick, assisted by Deputy Sheriff R. H. Haynes, and Constable J. P. Darder, of Ellis county, and deputies from Kaufman County, along with a farmer named Lon Neal, surrounded Shook in the Trinity river bottom, sixteen miles east of Ennis near Telico.

     Shook opened up on the officers with a couple of long-barrel Colt's 45's. The officers returned the fire and Shook fell, shot through.   Mr. Bolick says they sent for a doctor three miles off, who extracted the bullet and said it would be safe to move him, and they then hauled him in a wagon to Ennis, where three of the best doctors in town were called in, and they said it would be safe to bring him to Dallas.   When they boarded the train, Shook, who had been cursing the officers ever since he fell into their hands, kept up his abuse of them and told them they would never have the satisfaction of getting to Dallas with him, as he would die on the way. At Wilmer, he said he would not live to reach Hutchins and, true to what he said, he died before that station was reached, defiant to the last.  Shook's parents live over in the forks of the river, and as soon as Sheriff Cabell heard he was dead, he dispatched a messenger to inform them of the fact, and that the body was at their  disposal.

Charles Shook and his brother, Andy, are wanted in a number of places for horse theft and other offenses. There are affidavits against Charles in this county for horse theft and for carrying a pistol. Sheriff Cabell has capiases for the two brothers from Kaufman and Jack Counties for horse theft, and Charles was wanted in Kaufman for assault to kill.  Charles, who was the younger  brother, was between twenty-five and thirty years old and married.  Three days ago, the farmers of the neighborhood had the Shook boys and a third party, with a number of stolen horses in their possession, surrounded in the bottom near Wilmer, and wired Sheriff Cabell to come to their assistance. But, before the Sheriff could come to their relief, the Shooks managed to escape. Deputy Sheriff Bolick was detailed to follow them down the river. He did so, and assisted by the Ellis county officers, rounded up Charles yesterday morning, as above stated, with one stolen mule in his possession.

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