The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-26
MURDER N fulton
ElC|TES P0PUlACE
HULA DAVIS SHOT DOWN WHILE
PLAYING GAME OF
CARDS.
FUsILLADE is FIRED
HENRY HEIGHT AND JAMES WAL.
LACE ENGAGE IN DUEL AND
WOMAN MEETS SUDDEN
DEATH.

With q squad Of First District off,
GERS securing Fulton in search of
Henry Height and James Wallace,
and the body of Lula Davis lying on
tue floor OF her dining room in Or
leans street, all that section OF the
city was aroused about II O'Clock
last night, and 1t Is believed that be-
fore the session Of the Police Court
begins this morning the hunted men
will be in the hands of the law,
charged With the shooting OF the wo-
man. All parties are colored.
The shooting occurred at All Or
leans street. Some time before IL
O'Clock, James Wallace, who had
been the close friends OF the dead
woman for some months, but who
had been on the shelf for more
than week. went to her home and
asked for her photograph. SO he
could enlarge it and place 1t on the
wall In his room beside his own.
She refused. declaring that he had
been carrying picture of herself
around and making remarks about 1t
for some time. Then Wallace went
away
Later Henry Height, who seems to
have supplanted Wallace in the
graces OF the woman, and two COM
panions. Stanley Henderson and
Howard Rhodes, went to the Davis
house, where game of cards was
started.
Fusillade Of Bullets.
According to fourteen-year-old
daughter OF the Davis woman, the
game had not progressed far, when
Wallace appeared at the side win
dow of the house. and In few min
ntes en- argument had arisen be-
tween him and Height. Then there
was a fusillade of shots--came so
not be counted.
She said that she went to the door
of the room in which the shooting
occurred and saw Height firing at
Wallace through the window. while
the latter was firing at Height. AS
evidence of the fact that many shots
were fired, there are three indenta-
tions In the wall. back OF where
Height Is said to have been standing.
q hole through the portiere between
the rooms. and broken pane of
glass in the window through which
Wallace Is said to have shot at
Height.
In less than two minutes after the
shooting Bicycle Officer Reed was
at the scene. He saw two men run
out of the house, and caught them.
They proved to be Henderson and
Rhodes. The other. Height. had
disappeared. From the fact that he
Is a lame man, using crutches. the
police do not think he could have
gone far.
When the officer entered the room.
he found that the lamp had been
out and that the portiere was on
fire. He lit the lamp. put out the
fire. and found the woman PROSTATE
on the floor with a bullet In her
brain. which had entered just above
the right eye.
In the meantime. officers TAFT.
Duggins. Wyatt 'and Jones reached
the place. and Sergeant Shepherd
took charge OF the situation.
From the statement of the daugh-
ter of the murdered woman. the off,
GERS Immediately began a search for
both Wallace and Height
Man May He Shot.
When Wallace ran across the
yard" said the gorl. he was
goraning. and said he had been
shot. He went over and lay down
by the fence"
Search was made, but neither
Wallace or Height could be located
in the neighborhood. Ohicer Dug
gins found one OF the reyolvers on
q shed next door to the house. placed
there, SO witnesses said. by Height
before he disappeared. Two negro
women said they saw him place
something on the shed when he came
away from the house. and when the
oficer investigated he found the pis-
toll . 30 cAlibre, with four empty
chambers.
\ The fact that there we're four In
dentions In the wall and . bullet In
the woman's head. proved to the sat-
isfaction Of the police that more than
one pistol had been used. and 1t Is
probable, from their view. that the
woman may have BEEN killed from q
shot fired by sore one other than
Height.