The Ouachita Telegraph - Sell Howell Shot and Killed by A. T. Wimberly
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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, February 28, 1879
Page 2, Column 2

        NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25 - Sell Howell, General Southern Passenger Agent of
Piedmont Air Line Railway, was shot and instantly killed by A.T. Wimberly,
merchant of Coffeevile, Mississippi, in an affray, at the corner of St. Charles
and Common streets.  Ed. Howell, brother of the deceased, then shot Wimberly in
the back.  The wound is dangerous.  About a dozen shots were fired.  A bystander
was also wounded.  Ed. Howell was arrested, and Wimberly sent to the hospital.
Physicians report that he will live until morning.