Crawford County, Indiana
San Jose (CA) Evening News, September 17, 1895, p. 1. NOTE: Consider
Elwood as a spelling variant of Ellwood.
SHOT HIS DOCTOR
English, Indiana, Sept. 17-Telephone advice from Petrona, a village twelve
miles southwest, tell of the shooting of Dr. Ellwood Oversteel by Thomas
Beyers with probably fatal results.
The doctor was called to treat Beyers for spasmodic trouble in which he
deemed morphine necessary, but Beyers refused this internally and warned the
doctor against hypodermic treatment. Oversteel disregarded the warning and
was in the act of forcing the patient to this form of treatment when Beyers
shot him, the ball entering the stomach.