The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-04-15
ANNA HOWARD
KILLS HUSBAND
BEFORE OFFICERS ARRIVED.
GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILED
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF A MEAL
Murderess Arrested by Deputies Wells
and vaught.-Anna Has Preliminary
Trial and Was Held for the Grand
Jury.

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It IS a common occurrence for one
negro man % kill another negro man,
and occasionally kill a negro woman,
but it Is not SO common for woman
to kill a man. This last named act
was committed in proximity to Green
vile last Sunday evening between 6
and clock The course of true love
never runs smooth, and that seems to
have been the cause of the tragedy.
Ana again, the affinity crank is
not entirely confined to the white race.
The Negro is a great imltator, and
where the papers Of the Gay teem with
scandal and revolt ting stories of sensu-
ahty as practeed by his saperiors, is
it any wonder that the negro ttgets
the habit'' But strange to relate, the
gastronomie taste OF this Lothario was
in great sense the cause of his de
mise. Now for the story.
About $50 Sunday evening Deputy
q
sage that negro woman named Anna
Howard had shot to death her husband
Dan Howard at their home on the Ar
cher plantation about two miles east
of the city Deputies Wells and
Vaaght proceeded to the scene of the
tragedy at once, and there found the
dead body of the man, and the murder
ess, who had been held in captivity by
the neighbors. Great excitement pre-
vailed and il was some little time be-
fore the officers couid secure a state
ment of the affair, as there were no
witnesses present when the shooting
took place. The officers secured the
first statemeat from Anna Howard, the
slayer She said:
Dan had been TO town all after
nooH, ana when he came home [ had
supper ready for tim. He dida It like
| the looks Of what / had on the table,
AMI said nc was going back TO his te'wn
was He then went ont in the yard
| and commenced putting the saddle on
his nnuls. at once got my six-shooter
! from tin der tAe efftow on the bed and
! going out on the gallery opened fire on
| him ana kept 1t up until 1T wouldn Il
| shoot any more This was about the
purport OF her first statement
! The deputies then brought her to
town and placed her In the county Jail
| Upon an examination of the body be-
| fore they left six bullet wounds were
found, and the head of the victim had
also been shot with a shotgun. Both
| a single barrel shotgun and 3Seali
bre revolver with every cartridge emp
ty were taken in charge by the depu
ties. The negroes around the scene
told the officers that when they arriv
cd on the spot Anna was praneing uE
and down the gallery of the house
| with a pistol in her hand and defwns
| the world, the flesh and the devil They
deployed, reconnoisered and schemed
finally making her prisoner.
Deputy Wells told the Times report
! er that when he first saw the womas
she was aching as bhough she was IN
der ths influence of liquor or seme pow
erfal drug After having spent on,
| night IN the jail, on the following morl
ing the woman told a different story
and this time it was a plea of self de
4 fan Tr he Il -
tion of the country, the woman afte
being scanned would be pronounced
genuine .old burr. Very black, rou
stature, ne teeth: apparently not stron,
and with > look that wopld betske1
her Is being perfectly harmless. But
alas, ~ sayetA this poet, .Aen hath =.
fury like woman scorned
| A great many persoas say that bosl
she AID her husband were regarded i
hal1iee, but by Others this IS oontra
aicted. The gsnsTad spinion exprsase
rsgarhng Dan Howara IS that be va
just = nAo1thy nigger with Ne AAr7
shout him. = This may be true, bn
L when be sold Ais wife that the othe
g. Tor In more re6nea socist
phr&ss, he AFFINITY, cooked hsttsr gru
than che did, his gaetronDmical desir
esrtainIy made him very naouthy, =
| eardin9 TO Anna,s idea, and a1e pr
eeeded = close his mouth forever.
Yester3sv sAe - siven prskn
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