'A few minutes before 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the sharp report of a pistol was heard by hundred of people on Main street Between Missouri avenue and Fifth, and in less than it takes to tell it, it was known that Langhorn T. Abbott, a well known sporting man had been shot and mortally wounded by George Elder alias "Nosey George," a hack driver.
The shooting occurred in the doorway of the Marble Hall saloon...
Death came very quickly after the bullet sped on its mission, and in less than ten minutes after the shooting Abbott's body was cold and his soul crossed the dark river into the great unknown about which so much is written and so little known:..
"Lang" Abbott , as he was called by sporting men about the town, has resided in and about Kansas City for ten or twelve years, and is known to the sporting fraternity of all this section. He had the reputation of being a fighter at the fall of a chip, and if he supposed himself insulted would pitch into any man, no matter if he was as big as a mountain. He has also been engaged in several shooting and stabbing scrapes, and two years ago cut Ed Findley so badly that his life was despaired of. He resided in Kansas City during the years 1870 and 1873, but then went away, returning here again three years ago. He has a mother, sister and brother living at Weston, and a married sister in Leavenworth. Last week his sister came to Kansas City to visit, and was here when the shooting took place. Since Abbott last returned to Kansas City he has resided in one or two different localities, but for the past four months has been rooming at 723 Main street, with Jennie Abbott, a woman to whom it is said he was never married, but with whom he had been living during the past twelve years...' 06 Jul 1880, Tue. --- The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, Missouri)
***note*** I only quoted from a short section of the very lengthy article.
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