Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Texas), Vol. 23, No. 291, Ed. 1 Monday, September 24, 1923

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    Luther Windham, about 35 years old, was shot and possibly fatally wounded this morning at his home in the Dullin community, W. J. Lewis surrendering and being lodged in the Brown county jail pending the outcome of Windham's wounds.  At 4 o'clock this afternoon the county attorney and coroner were summoned to the Windham home, on the advice of physicians attending the wounded man, it being apparent at that hour that death probably would result soon.

    The cause of the shooting is not known. To a neighbor who came to Windham's house a few minutes after the shooting, Windham said it was an outgrowth of a quarrel over cotton.  Windham is a son-in-law of Lewis.  Deputy Sheriff Carl Adams, who went to the scene of the shooting found a long barreled Colt pistol of and old model near the place where Windham fell.  The shooting was done with a shotgun, but it was not determined whether one or more shots were fired.

    A neighbor, who was at work in the corn field four or five hundred yards away, said his afternoon he saw Windham drive up to his home in a truck, accompanied by another man.  Windham, according to this witness, left his truck as a man came out of the Windham home with a gun in his hand, and began running, falling as he was shot.  The man who fired the shot, according to this witness, went first to the truck and then to the spot where Windham lay on the ground, and then left the place.  Windham a few minutes later was helped into the house and physicians and officers were summoned, according to this witness.