Callaway County MO Archives News.....A Jokers Last Joke December 18, 1889
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Chillicothe Morning Constitution December 18, 1889
A Jokers Last Joke - Dec 18, 1889 CMC MO - pg1.....
	Jefferson City MO, Dec 17...Near Bakersville, Calloway Co, nine miles 
from this city, at noon yesterday, Miss Louisa Epperson, daughter of a wealthy 
farmer, shot and killed Julius Hofer, a young German farm hand, as he sat at 
her father's table eating his dinner, because he teased her too much about an 
admirer.
	The news of the tragedy was brought here last evening by a brother of 
the murdered man, a boy about 18 years of age and an eye witness of the 
killing.
	Hofer, the brother said, was employed by Epperson, who is an extensive 
farmer and stock raiser, and had been in the habit of teasing the girl about 
her admirers and one in particular, Philip Akerson, who called Sunday 
afternoon and spent several hours with her.
	At the breakfast table yesterday morning he began twitting her about 
this young man and made some allusion which caused her to become very angry, 
when she told him that if he repeated that remark she would shoot him.
	Hofer promised to refrain, but at the dinner table began again on the 
same subject, and in the same strain, when the girl, without a word, left the 
table, walked deliberately into another room, picked up a 38 caliber revolver 
and returnign to the dining room shot Hofer. The ball entered the right side 
of his head near the temple, and he fell to the floor dead.
	Miss Epperson is known to several persons in this city and they 
describe her as an unusually attractive country girl, nineteen years old. Her 
father is a well-to-do man and the family is regareded as one of the best in 
Callaway county.


Additional Comments:
Louisa B. Epperson appears to be daughter of Abner T. Epperson and Amanda D. 
Oliver??? Phillip Akerson may be Philip Thomas Adkinson who lives 9 houses 
away in 1880 census?

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