The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
BATTLE WITH A NEGRO
MOBILE POLICEMEN NARROWLY
 ESCAPE DEATH.
Warner Larkins Kills One Negroes, Wounds Another and Has
 Pistol DueI With the 0mcerH,

Mobile. Oct. Special. LA ne- gro woman dead. another dying from wound fin her side. a negro man shot twice and held on, charges of murder and assault to murder. and several police officers who went to arrest, the -negro offering thanks that they are not dead or wounded. is the result of a rampage that desperate negro went Dn shortly after noon today in the Southern part of the city.
 Warner Larkings. a ls-year-old ne- gro. Is held for the murder of Alice McCord, a negress. while Bettie Har- ris, another negress Is dangerously wounded in the back.
 Larkins went to the home of the Me- Cord woman at 407 Texas street and fired upon the negress shooting her four times in the head and killing her Instantly. his grievance being that she had quit him. Leaving the house where he had committed murder. Lar kins went to the house of Bettie Har- ris at GOA Conception street. whom he claimed was the cause of the McCord woman quitting him and opened fire on her.
 While the negro was on his way from the McCord woman's house to the other place, the police were notified Of the murder and which way the negro had gone
 Lieutenant Davis and officer Bress- ingharn went hurriedly to the scene in a blackboard whiie Detective Lacey boarded a car for the scene. When q few hundred yards from the Harris woman's house. Davis and Pressing ham heard four shots and knew the negro had started in 10 shoot the liar ris woman. Just as Lieutenant Davis started to get out of the blackboard, a magazine gun in hand. he spied the negro with a pistol ieveiied at him and Bressingham. just peeping over a high fence. The negro opened fire and Lieutenant Davis retaliated with q load from the shotgun. The negro fired again and right here was where Lieutenant Davis had miraculous es- cape. The ball from the negro's pis- tol either entered the barrel of the shotgun, or entered the magazine as Lieutenant Davis threw thetbreech op- en to extract one shell and let the other mechanically go into the barrel. The next time that Lieutenant Davis fired,. the. shotgun exploded. bursting the barrel, springs and all, five of the cartridges. An examination by a me- chanic later showed that the shotgun exploded by reason of the fact that a bullet from the pegro,s pistol later found crushed in th C lnfagaxine ecf the gun, had cIoRged it's working assl
 With his gun burst. Leutenaft Da- wis was practically out of the chase for the negro. but he gamely hung on watching chance to spring on the negro. In the meantime tho chase had gotten hot and the negro, the negro woman and the other officers were ex- changing shots at close range with Larkins
 The Harris woman, after Larkins en- tered her house and began firing, grab- bed pistol and exchanged shots with him. striking him in the, side.
 The negro then ran and got be- heath a house, where he was corner ed by officer Bressingham. who shot the pistol from the negro's hand. and compelled him to surrender. but not until Detective Lacey had gotten in- to the fray and tried to fire at the ne- gro. Ills pistol snapped twice, all the while the negro was. firing at him.
 The negro was taken to the police station and his angry wounds were dressed. He says he he was drunk. and angry because the girl had quit him.
 Tine escape of Lieutenant Davis and that of Detective Lacey whose pistol snapped, Is considered remarkable as the negro proved hifnsete dead shot.
 The affair created great excitement In the neighborhood. The negro Is not thought to be fatally wounded.