Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-11


was the scene of a murder on
Sunday evening in which Henry
Davidson, one of the proprietors
of the Infamous resort, was shot
and instantly killed by Lena
Metz, one of the unfortunate In
mates of the dive.
The murder was the culmina-
ton of a quarrel between David
son and the Metz girl, who were
illicit lovers, engendered by Dav-
idson's intimacy with another
inmate of the resort, which so In
furiated the Metz girl that she be-
came a frenzied beast and com
mitted the horrible crime.
The resort where the tragedy
was enacted was owned by the
murdered man and Ernest Daugh-
erty, who is known in this city.
Some two weeks ago the Metz girl
and several others went to Plne
Grove from Sistersville, and IN
augurated the traffic which con-
tributed to the crime. Last week
several other soiled doves went to
Pine Grove from Sistersvllle and
were added to the resort, and 1t
had become a loathsome place hill
ed with the lowest vices. The
Metz girl and Davidson formed
an illicit attachment for each
other and were known as 'lov-
ers." After the other women ar
rived at the resort Davidson for
sock the Metz girl to some extent
and attached himself to Mamie
Montgomery, who resorted to
pimping" to win her prey. For
some days preceding the murder
trouble had existed between the
Metz girl and Davidson, and they
had fire. uently quarreled.
Sunday evening Lena Metz and
Nav Davis went down into Pine
Grove and shortly afterwards
Henry Davidson and Mamie
Montgomery met them on the
board walk. The Metz girl and
Davidson renewed their quarrel.
The other women stepped away
some distance, and d not hear
what was said, but could hear
the angry upbraidings. ALI OF
the parties started for the house
and Davidson took his revolver
and gave it to the Metz girl,
which she carried in her hand to
the house. Davidson and the
Metz girl walked through the
first room to a rear room which
was occupied by Davidson. AS
they passed into the room a boy
who had been delivering goods
at the house passed out and no
ticed that the Metz girl was still
carrying the revolver in her
hand. What followed in the
room preceding the shooting no
one but the Metz girl knows, but
it had a fatal elimination. AS
the boy stepped on the porch he
heard a shot, and then silence
prevailed. The women who hab-
tied the resort learning what had
happened left the place. and the
Metz fend was left alone in the
house with her murdered para
mOur.
When the shot was fired David
son still had on his overcoat. The
ball entered just to the left OF the
center of the breast and severed
the pulmonary artery. Death
must have occurred very quickly,
and the Metz girl says that David
son never spoke. When he was
shot he grabbed the lapels of his
overcoat and evidently tried to
stop the flow of blood. Failing
in this he stepped to the bed and
threw off his coat and overcoat,
and then fell to the floor dead.
The scene which followed in the
room could only have been with
stood by a frenzied and Infatuated
women. Alone in the house she
took the lifeless body of her lover
and tried to place it on the bed.
The room was a horrible sight.
Where the body laid are marks
of where it had been dragged to
and from in the vain efforts of
the woman to lift it to the bed.
The shooting occurred about
7 80, and it was not until an hour
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