Ellis County Texas Archives News.....Shippey, Lizzie Murder - Auburn 1888
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The Dallas Morning News 1888
Dallas Morning News
August 13, 1888

A Most Diabolical Murder
A Lady Killed on her way to Church

Joe Shippey Assaults His Cousin, Miss Lizzie Shippey, and Instantly Kills Her.
The Country Aroused.

Waxahachie, Tex Aug 12. One of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Ellis
County was perpetrated in the Auburn neighborhood, about twelve miles south of
Waxahachie this morning between 9 and 10 o'clock. The particulars as far as can
be learned at this writing are as follows:

Miss Lizzie Shippey, a young lady aged 17, dressed to attend church, but had to
go about a quarter of a mile to a neighbor's house with whose family she was
going to church some distance away. She started alone to the neighbor's but on
the way and about 200 yards from home she met her cousin, Joe Shippey, aged
about 28, when some think he assaulted and attempted to outrage her; others say
he tried to persuade her to marry him, but on her refusal to comply with his
demands, the circumstances show that a struggle ensued, where Shippey drew a 44
Colt's revolver and shot her three times. The first two shots only grazed her
forehead and ear; and it seems she had started away from him when the third shot
was fired, the ball taking effect in her back, and passing through her body,
coming out just below the left nipply, killed her instantly.  Two small boys
heard the pistol shots and started in the direction of them, and as they came in
sight Shippey fled, leaving one shoe and his hat behind. The two boys coming up,
found the deat body and the young lady lying in the road with her hat and fan
some distance away.

The news of the crime rapidly spread through the neighborhood and soon over 100
armed men were scouring the country for the fiend.  The officers were sent for
to this place, who left with about twenty others for the scene of the crime so
about 2 o'clock. Sheriff Ryburn secured two bloodhounds from a convict train and
left here at 4 o'clock to trail him if possible.

Great excitement prevails in the  community and should Shippey be captured he
will all probability be lynched.

The father of the murdered young lady, E. N. Shippey, is a good citizen and
thought well of by all, and Joe Shippey, the murdere, always had a good
reputation. The country in which the murderer escaped is very thickly settled,
and there are at this writing at least two hundred men searching for him and it
is thought he will be captured before morning.

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