The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-01
Barlow Woman
Figures In
Tampa Shooting

Tampa, May Mystery sur
rounds the shooting of Paul Love
less by an unknown assailant on the
/ Washing ton street viaduet crossing
| the Seaboard Air Line railway
tracks at 1890 o'clock Thursday
night. Mr.. Loveless resides at 210
! Cardy street with his brother and
sister and has for years been con-
nected with the store OF Mas the
haberdasher. At the time of the
shooting last night he was on the
viaduct with woman, who says she
lives in Barlow, giving her name as
Mrs. ]. E. Mann.
Following the shooting Loveless
was taken. to the Gordon Keller hos
pital after he had first been taken
to the Plant Park Infirmary, where
he expressed wish to go. He was
not accepted at this hospital, and
was finally taken in the police patrol
wagon to the Gordon Keller hospital
after there had been much delay
| DR.. Helms was sent for and operat-
! ed upon him. 1t is feared he will
not survive and was reported today
to be in very bad shape. Three
bullet wounds were received by him,
one in the abdomen, one in the right
arm and the other in the chest. 1t
is thought the two latter wounds
were made by one shot.
Say Negroes Fired the Shots
Both MIR. Loveless and the woman
declare they walked across the via
i duet and had started to sit down to
rest on the steps when two negroes
came along, one a tall one and the
other shorta one. The tller fellow
is said to have turned around after
he had passed and called to them to
throw up their hands. At the same
time the first shot was fired, taking
effect in Mr. Loveless' body Mrs.
Mann said she asked the man why
! he wanted them to held up their
hands, just as the shot was fired,
and that Mr.. Loveless then called to
him not to shoot Another shot was
fired and then the two negroes
went on their way, where or in
which direction they do not know.
The sound of the shots attracted
the attention of crew of railroad
men who were shifting q train close
to the bridge. This train was back
ed to the viaduct and one of the
crew quickly climbed to the top of
car and from there to the floor of
the bridge. He told Detective
Rhodes it was not two minutes from
the time the shot was fired until he
stood on the bridge, and saw no one
there excepting Mr.. Loveless, who
was lying down, and Mrs. Mann.
: Other trainmen who were work,
ing close to the viaduct claim they
saw no one on the viaduct either
: before or after the shooting but the
man and the woman.
: In response to summons from a
woman who lives close to the via
duct and who heard the shooting
). Motorcycle Policeman Fuller re-
! sponded. Captain of Detectives
( Rhodes also went to the scene and
: closely questioned both Loveless and
: Mrs. Mann about the shooting, both
: telling the same story regarding the
two negroes. The neighborhoot
was Immediately searched, but nc
u trace of them could be found.
!, Woman Had Been Here Some Timt
l Mrs. Mann has been in this city
for some time, spending part of II
II at the hospital One week ago she
went to live at the Bristol hotel
next to the fire station on Zach
} street. She paid room rent for two
weeks in advance with the under
:, standing that one should be return
= ed to her if she decided not to sta!
more than one week. She was ir
the habit of going out evenings, thu
= landlady says, and sometimes stay
-" ed out until after IL o'clock. Sh,
this and in explanation stated tina
!. she was teaching and had to go t.
: her pupils at night.
When she came home last nigh
she was in an exceedingly nervous
condition and would not talk to any
one except Detective Rhodes. Frida.
:, morning early she sent a Telegram
r to her husband at Barlow and late
received a telegram and then wen
- out on the street.
v Police are Doubtful
:, The police are inclined to doub
: the story told regarding the shoot
6 ing and are working on other thee
e ries by which they hope to estab
!, fish the identity of the would-b
= murderer. There was no attempt a
- robbery and no violence offered t
- either Mr.. Loveless or the womal
o excepting the shooting, and the pc
- lice are not altogether ready to &C
- cept the statement that this was tn
le way in which the shooting was done
y first, because it lacks reason, and
" second, because onegroes ,wer