San Antonio, Tex., June 4. - Ex-Deputy Sheriff Alfred Y. Allee shot and killed W.C. Bowen, editor of the Cotulla Ledger, on the south bound train at Dilley station. From a passenger on the train which arrived here this evening The news correspondent received the following account of the affair: Bowen had published an article in his paper reflecting on Allee and Bowen had been looking for Allee but they had not met since the publication of the article, until the shooting today. Bowen and his brother, W.J. Bowen, formerly county attorney, were on their way from San Antonio to Cotulla, where Allee got on the train and seeing them went into another coach which was crowded, and there being no other vacant seats Allee and Jasper Symmes, who was with him, returned to the car where Bowen and his brother were seated. As they did so it is said W.C. Bowen picked up his pistol which he had lying on the seat beside him and opened fire on Allee, holding the pistol with both hands. Allee ran toward the Bowen brothers and tried to draw his own pistol, which caught in his vest. Just as Allee grabbed Bowen's pistol the latter fired it. By this time Allee had his weapon out and stuck it close to Bowen's breast and fired. Bowen then fired another shot while Allee was holding his pistol, when Allee placed his pistol to Bowen's head and blew Bowen's brains out, firing two shots into his head. Bowen then relaxed his grasp on his pistol and fell dead. Allee took the pistol from the dead man's hand. W.J. Bowen shot at Allee and Jacob Symmes, who was in the line of fire, imagined that Bowen was shooting at him and he fired and broke the arm of Bowen, who then ceased firing. Allee and Symmes then got off the south bound and boarded the north bound train, the two trains meeting at the place where the tragedy occurred, and they went to Pearsall, where both surrendered to the sheriff there, and Allee delivered up his own and Bowen's pistols, each of which had three empty cartridges, the charges of which had been recently fired. The tragedy created intense excitement on the train on which it occurred. Women fainted and screamed and men in a panic jumped over each other and out of the windows. The shooting causes great excitement in Frio and La Salle counties, where all of the parties connected with the tragedy are well known. Allee was formerly deputy sheriff at Cotulla and killed the celebrated stage robber, Dick Cornot, alias "Captain Dick."
(Galveston Daily News - June 5, 1891)