The Weekly Democratic Statesman, Austin, Texas 6/8/1893
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1010)
v. 22, p. 8
Killing In Temple.
Special to The Statesman.
Temple, Tex., June 2. — At 5 o'clock this afternoon C. G. Mooring, proprietor of the Exchange hotel, shot and killed W. F. Gilmartin, proprietor of Otto's saloon. Two shots were fired, each taking effect, and Gilmartin died instantly. The tragedy occurred in Mooring's residence away from the hotel. Rumors of the affair are various and conflicting. The accepted theory is that it was on account of Mooring's daughter, a young lady, but a good deal of that is based on rumors. Mooring went at once and surrendered to the officers and was put in prison, but has made no statement of the affair. Mooring is past middle life and has had the Exchange two or three years and has led a very quiet, sober life.