Gerald-Harris Shooting
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N 31° 33.468 W 097° 07.852
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This marker is on the northwest side of Austin Avenue, near 4th Street, in Waco.
Waymark Code: WM9749
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/07/2010
Views: 16
Marker erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry: Gerald-Harris Shootings
City: Waco
County: McLennan
Subject Codes: grave sites; journalists; judges; outlaws
Year Marker Erected: 1978
Marker Location: Austin & 4th Sts, Waco
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 2171
Marker Text:
(November 19, 1897)
James W. Harris (1863-1897), editor of Waco's "Time -Herald" and Judge George Bruce Gerald (1836-1914) argued over an article the Judge wrote. It supported William Cowper Brann's controversial magazine, "The Iconoclast", which denounced, among other things, Baptists and Baylor University. After a fist fight which Harris won, the Judge distributed a handbill branding Harris "a liar, coward and cur" and challenged him to a duel. Harris and his brother met Judge Gerald near this intersection in a pistol battle. The Harrises were killed and the Judge wounded. Judge Gerald won reelection in 1900.
(1978)
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