The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-19
ANNISTON

Anniston, November 19.--(Special)- )-Mrs Lee Whatley, who is confined In cell in the Calhoun county jail here on a charge of murder as a result of the shooting of .'Stye" Mammett, aged 20, at Jacksonville, Wednesday night frankly admits that she fired her weapon with deadly aim. T meant to kill him when l shot him." said Mrs. Whatley. who alleges that Mammett had broken down the door of her home with a large stone and was trying to effect an entrance to her apart 1 ments after having been warned by her to keep away.
 l Neither the woman nor the young man she shot stood well in the community. The woman had been ordered to move, and had been on the lookout for another l home. When she returned she found Mammett at her door. He was ordered
 away, but soon returned and is said to | have made the attack on the door when | he was refused admittance.
 | Persons here from Jacksonville today state that several shots were fred but
 the woman says she fired only twice. She | used .3S-calibre revolver. One bullet entered Mammett's body and another 1 crashed through his brain. He died in stanty and was unarmed when his body
 was taken in charge by the authorities.
 He belonged to a Rome, Ga, family, and had worked in a cotton mill here. l Congressman John l.. Burnett of Gadsdeu
 and Fred I. Blackmon of Anniston will speak from the same platform here at
 the county courthouse next Friday night ! Mr. Burnett has been invited to speak
 on immigration, which is the subject of 1 his committee chairmanship at Wash | ington, the address being under the auspices of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He will be intro- duced by Congressman Blackmon, who will speak in behalf of the school bond
 issue to be voted on here next Monday
 The fashionable army wedding, in which l Lieut.. B. M. Bailey was united to Miss ROsaJie SDavis, society belle, in At lanta, Thursday evening, was of inter- l est to AnEistonians, inasmuch as Lieu
 tenant Bailey was stationed in this city | during the artillery maneuvres last sum. l rner as rspector-instructor in charge ot
 the camp.
 l The landing of a big contract for the manufacture of munitions of war in this
 city and the indications that this con- 1 tract will be augmented by the fed eral government in accordance with
 the, Wilson preparedness programme will inure to the advantage of this city 1 in the hope that it will become per l manent army post, according to those
 who have studied the proposition. l J. B. Carrln5ton. president of the An niston Chamber of Commerce. stated Thursday afternoon that Anniston was able to land this big contract by req son of the fact that this city not only has plant suitable for the manufac- ture of electric steel and war muni- tions, but that tncre is also here ar excellent field range for testing of tho shells as they are turned out.
 1 MT. Carringt m states that the indi- cations of seiecung an interior pos for the manufacture of war munitions
 by the United States and for the train. | ing of the regular army and militis I troops are very fiattering. Ever since | the Spanish American war Anniston has
 at regular intervals been the camping
 place for state and federal troops. hay.
 ing entertained several hundred las1
 summer.
 I Ed Gouche, the United States revenue I agent who was shot while acting al peacemaker in the attempt to separate ] two young men who were fighting al 1 Eqwardsville late Tuesday night, is sai(
 to be in .precarious condition at Sellers I hospital here.
 l Mrs. Schultz Eason. who was shot by hel
 niece. Fife Fincher. aged IT., just after she had left Sabbath school last Sunday is sald to be convalescent at Sellers hos pital, and the chances of her recovery are more favorable. The girl Is still con fined in the county jail. She says shs
 shot her aunt because the aged woman
 had slandered her reputation.