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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF BRANN THE ICONOCLAST
VOLUME XII

CONTENTS A

CHAPTER WRITTEN
IN THE LIFE BLOOD OF W. C. BRANN AND THOS. E. DAVIS
OTHER STATEMENTS BRANN'S DEATH DAVIS FOLLOWS
BRANN W. H. WARD THE OBSEQUIES THE LATEST TRAGEDY
BRANN AND BAYLOR TERRIFIC DEADLY CONFLICT THE
LATE TRAGEDY THE PASSING OF WILLIAM COWPER BRANN
REST--REST IN PEACE A MEMORIAL TO W. C. BRANN DEATH
OF W. C. BRANN A PEN PICTURE OF BRANN SEMPER
VIVATIM MEMORIAM BRANN'S BRAVE BATTLE BRANN IS
NO MORE BRAVE AND BRAINY BRANN BRANN, OF THE
ICONOCLAST A MARTYR TO FREE SPEECH EDITORIAL
ETCHINGS SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACTS LET THE PLAIN
TRUTH BE TOLD THE LAST LESSON SALMAGUNDI THE
DEATH OF BRANN PRIVATE VENGEANCE BRANN, THE FOOL
WILLIAM COWPER BRANN SPEAKING OF GALL BLUE AND
GRAY HUMBUGS AND HUMBUGGERY BEAUTY AND THE

BEAST BRANN'S REPLY TO SLATTERY THE LOCAL OPTION
LUNACY OLD GLORY THE LONE STAR SLAVE OR
SOVEREIGN RAINBOW CHASERS
Extracts from The Waco "Weekly Tribune," Issue of Saturday, April 2,
1898.
A
CHAPTER WRITTEN
IN THE LIFE BLOOD OF W. C. BRANN AND THOS. E. DAVIS.
THE STREET DUEL TO THE DEATH IN WACO STREETS.
THERE ARE TWO MORE WIDOWS AND EIGHT MORE
ORPHANS.
The Full Recital of the Double Tragedy, the Deaths, the Burials and
Subsequent Events--Will This End It? In God's Name Let Us Hope It
Will.
Died--At 1.55 o'clock A.M., April 2nd, W. C. BRANN. Died--At 2.30
o'clock P.M., T. E. DAVIS.
Friday afternoon, November 19, 1897, marked a street duel and tragedy
in which two men were killed, one lost an arm, and an innocent
by-stander was injured. Friday afternoon, April 1st, 1898, within an
hour of the time of the first tragedy, and within a half block of the
locality of the other, W. C. Brann and Tom E. Davis engaged in a street
duel in which each of them was mortally wounded, and three others
received slight wounds. Four fatalities within five months of each other
are bloody records in the history of the city of Waco, all of which can
be traced to the same source, all of which were born of the same cause.
The publication last year in the ICONOCLAST and the incidents
following the publication are well known. They have been published
far and wide, the kidnaping of Brann, the assault upon him by the
Scarboroughs, the Gerald-Harris affair, and the hurried departure of
Brann on one occasion. During all these incidents Tom E. Davis was an
outspoken citizen of Waco. He denounced the author of the
ICONOCLAST articles and said he should be run out of town and had
continued throughout it all to condemn the "Apostle." This caused bad
blood between them, and although Davis had remained in the city all
the time, and Brann had been on the street constantly, there had been no
outbreak or conflict. Each knew the feeling of the other in the matter.

Such are incidents preceding the shooting and leading up to it.
. . .
To trace the movements of the two men during Friday afternoon
appears easy at first, but as the investigator proceeds in his search for
information he meets conflicting statements. Tom Davis left his office
on South Fourth Street, No. 111, about 5 o'clock or a few minutes later.
Brann, accompanied by W. H. Ward, his business manager, is alleged
to have been standing at the corner of Fourth and Franklin Streets as
Davis passed to the postoffice corner, en route to the transfer stables. In
his ante mortem statement Davis says that he heard Brann remark,
"There is the s----of a b---- who caused my trouble." Davis didn't stop
or resent the insult, but passed on. Soon after he called on James I.
Moore at his office in the Pacific Hotel building and together they were
discussing the