The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16

Jones says Webb told him that he had stopped the woman from calling him up with a view of getting rid of her.
 It was learned at the office of the lumber yards that he rendered his resig- nation Tuesday to take effect in ten days. He told the superintendent that he was going to Atlanta to do some work there Nothing was thought of the matter until he failed to show up for work yesterday morning. Mir Howard, the man with whom he boards, said Webb was at breakfast and said he would not get down to work until about 9 o'clock as he felt badly. A short while after MT. Howard went to work, Webb left the house and rode to the city where he met James Ellison. brother-in-law. who lives at Pelham. He told Ellison that he was thinking of quitting his job and intended to visit his wife at Pelham in the after noon.
 "He invited me to go with him to the home of d negro woman," said MT. Elli- son, just after the shooting, 'and I ac- companied him to the house where he was later found dead. He went early in the morning and told the woman he wanted his clothes in time to catch the Louisville and Nashville train for Pel- ham. It leaves about o'clock. We came back to town together and I left him at Second avenue and Twentieth street."
 Went to Union Station.
 According to tho statement of Edward Walker, a friend of Webb, and others, Webb was at the union depot yesterday about the time the Louisville and Nash vile train comes in from Clanton. where the parents of the wounded woman are thought to reside. It is not known whether or not the woman came in on the train All that is known Is that he went to the house of the negro woman, and that he was joined there by the woman
 After being shot the woman not only ran out of the house into the back yard and between the houses to the street but crossed the street to the house of another negro woman, where she fell ex- [ hausted Blood was flowing profusely from her mouth and nostrils.
 What Is the matter with all these people? It seems they never saw anyone beforel" she exclaimed as she was be- ing carried from the negro cottage to the ambulance. pr. Harwell, who was sum moned immediately after the shooting. said the wound was serious and that she was bleeding inwardly.
 Something About Webb. Prior to coming to Birmingham two months ago, Webb was employed at the lumber mill of J. M. Shoemaker at Pel- ham, where his widow and children live. He married Miss Emma Ellison four or five years ago and had the reputation of being a dutiful husband. He has a little boy three years old and girl of about six months of age.
 1 A brother of Webbs widow. James FL lson. has been at work at Rising Pawn, 1 Ga. for quite awhile and only recently returned to his home at Pelham. He Is a structural worker and after spending l few days at Pelham he came to Btr- mingham last Friday. He had seen Webb | several times and was the relative who accompanied him to the house of the negro woman early yesterday morning, when he wanted to see about getting his clothes. Besides James Ellison, another brother-in-law of Webb's makes Blrming- ham his headquarters. He Is A c. Elli- | son. an engineer on the Alabama Great | Southern. The father of the dead man, W. A. Webb, lives at Verbena, Ala. He | Is said to be lumber man in the employ of the Callahorn company.