The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-26
COMMITTEE CALLED
WILL HEAR CONTEST OF EYRE
 DAMER.
Chairman Sullivan ls Presented Wihh Petition From Majority of Demo.
 cratic Executive Body for Meeting This Evening.
Advertiser Bureau,

l AQNertlSer Bureau, Mobile. oct. 25. | meeting of the Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee will be held at : o'clock tomorrow morn- | house.
 The order for the call was issued by | President George j. Sullivan to the
 secretary this morifng in conformity with the following petition from mcm-
 bers Of the committee.
 | 10 Hon. George J. Sullivan, ChairnlaN Democratic Executive Committed
 Dear sir-Without any comm,ttal as
 to what action snail be lakes when
 the committee meets, we hereby join
 m request to you to call the county | executive committee together at tae earliest possible moment, that a hear ing Way be had by 1t of the contest of
 Eyre Damer vs. Joseph H. Norville. understanding that a contest was filed
 both m the clerks office and with the l committee.
 Signed by Phil Cohminsky. J. N. Pol | lard. Hyman Baerman. G. J. Flourhoy.
 J R: Groom. J. C. Thompson. Dom,nicx | Zieman.
 In Issuing the call President sulii-
 van of the committee said he did go
 hearing to the contestant and the cun | testu m the matter of the Leg isiatiHS nomination.
 lNTSs DOvyGS INIkDs
 Mrs. Mary L.. Dover. nee Mary L. Burgess of Brewton. who snot her divorced husband at late hour last night talked somewhat freely for .
 few minutes from a cell at police She told, Of how she had been shot by her husband at Brewton and was
 paroled but snort time ago. She re.
 and pleading for him and of her final ly being compelled to separate from
 him. He had bounded her recently
 and last night. after repeated threats. She did not fear for herself. but had an idea Dower would kill her child ren. When Dower forced the door. I she closed her eyes and fired the fatal
 shot. Dover fell outward and on the
 He died shortly after midnight af-
 ter having been placed in the cSty am-
 bulance to be taken 10 the City Hospi- The body was then taken to police | headquarters and from there to tho CT. came to Alabama from Bay City. Mich. For time after coming hero he made efforts to secure signatures to
 a petition for absolute pardon. It was stated at police headquarters that pre- | vious to the killing it was known that Dover had bounded his wife and call l ed her vile names.
 Mrs. Dover, who is now held on a charge of murder and she will be de- tended at the hearing by Joseph Fl.
 Lyons and Edward M Robinson. Mrs. | Dower Is confiden< of an acquittal, | though she reports having killed the , man whom she claimed caused her an | arrangement from her family who are | respected people of BrewtoS; the man i for whom she had pleaded H)n pended knees to the Governor of Alabama and who lately and after they had sepa- | rated, bounded and threatened her life There is strong sentiment here for the woman.
 Attorney E. M Robinson. who, with Attorney J. H. Lyons, will defend Mrs Dover. stated this afternoon that pre- Recorded Clark, Saturday.
 Brief as has been his investigation
 to the shootin, Mir Robinson said he was confident Mrs. Dover would be dismissed from custody. On the person of the dead man. among his effects, was letter signed "J. w. w." addressed
 to Mrs. Dower in which the writer ask ed for clandestine meeting, and re- ferred to one previously arranged which was not kept Mrs. Dover when shown the letter declared she knew nothing of 1t, or the writer, but was positive was that of Dover, whom she | said had sent her similarly worded let ters over fictitiouR signatures. ..sShe knew his handwriting and was posit-
 I've all of the letters were of his writ ing. It Is stated that reliable wit
 nesses will testify fhat Dover was stated she heard Dover threaten the
 woman's life. bearing out her state ment made last night