The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-16
MAN SHOOTS WOMAN AND KILLS HIMSELF w. R. Webb Commits Suicide in a Negro House WOMAN BADLY WOUNDED Man and Woman Said to Have Quar- reled Over Possession of
 Watch and Two
 Rings.
WOMAN BADLY WOUNDED

body of w. R. Webb. a married man, and lead the police to believe he shot and killed himself after probably fatally shoot ing Nora Scarborough. the woman they think the lines were dedicated to. The tragedy occurred at Il 30 o'clock yester- day in the home of a negro woman, Dora Edwards, in Alley A, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. Cause of the attempted murder and suicide is said to have been a quarrel over the posses sion of the womans watch and two rings, which she says Webb wanted to keep.
 'When I asked him for my watch :" said the Scarborough woman in weak voice a few minutes after she was shot, ''he told me that I would soon be in a place where I would not need a watch. With this he pulled revolver and fired at me. ran out of the room and then I heard another shot.'
 Negro Woman's Story.
 According to the story of the negro woman, the couple had visited her house on several occasions. She says Webb, for whom she has been washing, came to her house shortly after 2 o'clock yester- day morning and told her to have his clothes ready before o'clock as he wanted to catch train. He left and she saw no more of him until about 1O:S0 when he walked in through the front door of the house, which was open. "I told him." said the woman, that he had not given me time to finish the clothes. Hi said that all right and took a seat in the front room. A few minutes later I looked in and saw the woman. I though no more of the matter, although I could tell from the loud voices that they were quarreling about something. After they had been in the room for quite while, nearly an hour I should judge, heard a shot and ran to the back door leading to the room in which 1 was at work I had no idea 1t was in my house until the white woman came running out exclaiming: I'm klledl I'm killedv She had her hand on her breast near where the bullet entered. By that time I heard another shot and when I reached the front room I found the man lying on the floor. I was too badly frightened to enter the room. and sounded an alarm. In few moments the police arrived and took possession of the room.'
 Several negro women who live in ad- jacent houses told of hearing the shots and of seeing the woman run out of the house into the back yard. She was finally caught in the arms of negro woman just as she was about to fall to the ground from the loss of blood. An to the Hillman hospital. where she is in a precarious condition.
 Policeman Gates was the first police man to reach the scene. He found that a bar had been placed agast the front door. The body of the man was near ! the rear door In a few minutes other 1 policemen arrived and after the circum- stances were related by the negroes, the coroner was notified. He learned very little and ordered the body moved to Gaudin's undertaking establishment, where it will be kept until all facts in the case have been obtained.
 Coroner Investigating.
 A woman known to the police as Bes- sic Anderson, but who goes under the name of Ellis in the community at West Highlands on the Ensley car line, lives at 405 Kate avenue, the address given by the injured woman as her home The Anderson, or Ellis, woman came to the l city as soon as she heard of the trag- edy. and told a friend of the dead mar that he and the woman had known each other for some time and that Webb had written her many yetters since they first met She did not tell anything about the contents of the letters. but the cor | l1fa ,r renders a verdict. Policeman Gates, one of the first to reach the house in which the tragedy occurred, was detailed on the 1 case until late hour last night. He | visited the house at 405 Kate avenue, but found all the doors locked the An derson woman having evidently re- turned to the city a second time. She | had not been located at late hour last night, although the officer did not re- | turn to her house. Policeman Gates wanted to get information from the wo- man about her wounded friend
 | While the coroner has about reached | the opinion that the man killed himself after shooting the woman. his mind was not quite clear on the subject al o'clock last night, nearly eight hours l dlleT ne began du lINtSllBdllOn. lie VII hold post mortem examination this morning and see If the bullet In the body corresponds with the empty shells In the | revolver which was picked up on the floor near the dead man. The bullet en- tered just to the right of the breast bone and the coroner thinks the hole is toe large to have been made by 32-calibr, ball, the size of the pistol which WebE told friends he found two weeks agc near East Lake.
 Wrmar Called Up.
 Webb came to Birmingham from Pel ham, twenty-two miles from here or the Louisville and Nashville railroad about two months ago and was mad, foreman at the lumber yards of A. J Krebs and company, Fifth avenue anc Thirty-ffth street. He secured board witt fellow -employe at the lumber yard but moved about two weeks ago to tn. home of A. B. Howard, who also work for the Krebs company. and who Ivei at Woodlawn.
 Several times since going to work h. asked for leave of absence to yisi his wife and children at Pelham. Hi habits were considered good. but on sev eral occasions he was summoned to thu telephone to answer the calls of wo man. Information was volunteered to J R. Jones, the superintendent at the yards that the woman who called him tIn wa