Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
KILLS HER HUSBAND Town CHARTER VOID
Matte Lomax Says He Tried Act Incorporating Chevy Chase
! to Hit Her With Chair. Violates Bill of Rights.
QUARRELED OVER MONEY CONS TITUTIONAL DEFECTS
Woman Declares He Had Used Her Embrace. Subject Not
1 Cruelty Many Times. Title of Bill
THREE SHOTS FIRED BY HER TAX EXEMPTION NOT LEGAL
and Thsr Refused Give
to Her, She Says for Findings
Matte Lomax Says He Tried
to Hit Her With Chair.
QUARRELED OVER MONEY
Woman Declares He Had Used Her
Cruelty Many Times.
THREE SHOTS FIRED BY HER
He Promised Her Christmas Funds.
and Thsr Refused to Give Them
to Her, She Says.

Il have killed my husband.
Evidently laboring under mental stress,
Hattie Lomax, a colored woman. address
ed this statement to Policeman Joseph
Acton, on duty at the entrance to Police
Court. about o'clock this morning.
Il want to surrender" she added.
Quarreling over Christmas money
promised to her by him and then re-
fused. her husband, Cecil Lomax. tried
to hit her with chair, she told the po-
liceman, and she then shot him dead.
Lomax Found Dead.
She was put in a cell In Police Court.
Cecil Lomax, the husband, was found
dead in his room at 1923 18th street
northwest, short while before his wife
surrendered. Lomax and his wife were
both twenty-nine years Of age. He was
employed as cook at Sands oyster house
on 14th street.
During the nine years the couple were
married, the woman declares, ne had
frequently assaulted her. and only q few
weeks ago had Knocked out two of her
teeth. She did not prosecute him be-
cause she feared he would not continue
20 turn over s. a week he had been Or
dered to pay her.
The husband called at the room Of his
wife, 1851 4th street northwest, and told
her to call at his room in the 18th street
house, SO that he could give her money
for Christmas. He was not at home
when she went there late last night.
She went back home and returned to his
apartment between and o'clock this
morning
Husband and wife discussed their
troubles, but the husband did not hand
over the promised cash. He told her he
had no money when she reminded him of
the object of her visit
self-Defense, Says Woman.
Then we quarreled,'' the wife told the
police. "When he tried to strike me with
q chair I shot him. I don't know how
many bullets struck him, but I pointed
the pistol at him and kept on pulling the
trigger
Three shots were fired. The woman
says her husband did not fall until the
last bullet struck him.
The body was found on the floor by
other occupants Of the house. The police
were summoned.
The woman came from Houston. Va
Her husband was a native Of Caroline
county, Va.
They had never lived happily together
during the nine years they were married,
she says, and she has been forced to leave
him several times because Of ill-treat-
ment.
Found Two Bullets.
DR.. Charles S. White, deputy coroner.
examined the body at the morgue and
found that two bullets had taken effect
One bullet had passed through his neck,
while the other had entered the back Of
his head, the weapon having been held
close enough to his head to leave pow
der marks.
An inquest was held by Coroner hewitt.
Witnesses summoned by the police Of the
eighth precinct appeared and told what
they knew of the affair, while ne police
men told Of the woman's statement. 8.
7. Truitt, her counsel, advised her to
make no statement TO the jury.
The jury rendered a verdict holding Mrs.
Lomax for the action of the grand jury.
She was committed to Jail.