Show COLONEL RANDLE KILLED Welkown Texas Citizen Shot Down I the Steet St Louis Dec 19A special to the Republic from Dallas Tex says Colonel I G Handle one of the best j known men in Texas was shot to death near the city hal at S oclock thIs evening by H P Erwin of For I ney Tex Colonel Handle was talkIng to I frIends when Erwin walked up brisk Iy and with the words Ive got you I now fred fye shots just a Randle drew his revolver Randle dropped dead shot through the bran ErwIn I at once surrendered but declines to discus the killing further than to declare de-clare that he was justified that it was the result of former trouble and that Randle had threatened his life at various va-rious times For nearly a year Randle has been identified with extensIve electrIc street railway and other Important enterprise enter-prise He shot and killed Ed Randal I in 1892 ErwIn ha served a term In the penitentiary for forgery I |