New York Herald-Tribune, September 17, 1895, p. 1. NOTE: A very similar item appeared in a newspaper from San Jose, California, in which Dr. Ellwood was identified as Oversteel as opposed to Overstreet. It is not known which of the two spelling is correct. A DOCTOR SHOT FOR PRESCRIBING MORPHINE English, Indiana, September 16-Advices from Petrona, twelve miles from here, report the fatal shooting of Dr. Ellwood Overstreet by Thomas Beyers, one of his patients. The physician was treating Beyers for a spasmodic ailment for which he prescribed morphine that Beyers refused to take. Dr. Overstreet then undertook to administer the medicine by hypodermic injection upon which Beyers seized a revolver and shot him, the ball penetrating the abdomen. Beyers has become so violent that four men are required to keep him in bed.