Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-06-06
1rs M. Washburn Shoots flames H. South, 65, and RMrs. Evelyn Conant, 30.
hrAD MAN FATHER
 OF LARGE FAMILY
oot;nu Takes Place in Delicatessen r,on Where Jealous Woman Had Endowed Rival, Whom She Had Employed as Domestic.

1atle Rock, June 5.-Mrs. Mollie ashburn, 56 years of age, shot and He'd James H. South, aged 65 and arrjed. and seriously wounded Mrs. rpvn Conant, 90 employed by Mrs. ashburn as a domestic, this after bon at 2::30 o'clock. The shooting ok place in 2 delicatessen shop at west Seventh street, where Mrs. ashburn had followed Mrs. Conant, Id found her conversing with buth.
 Mrs, Washburn was arrested i'm ediately after the shooting, and is bW in the courty j.ii. She talks eely of her past life, tut declines discuss the shooting.
 According to Mrs. Fannie Horner, oprietor of the shop where the bgedy took pla ,e, Mrs. Colant came 10 the shop first and Yves followed sotHi. They as,! exchar=ad but few words, waen Mrs. Washtur.. tered. Sha Df gan fir ,:r wit'. a volver, aiming at South. who went En with bullet through the dead. e then turned the gun Cn Mrs. bnant, firing once. The bullet tered the left breas;. narrowly ssins the heart.
 Fights for Pistol.
 After the shooting Mrs. Washburn from the delicatessen shop on to Tenth street, but was intercepted Charles Cohn, who held her until arrival of Patrolman Moore. The Pman still was carrying the re- ver with which she had fired the pr shots. As the officer wrested weapon from her hand and took m it the remaining cartridges, s. Washburn exclaimed:
 If what I gave her the first time t enough, I'll give her the rest of B." and attempted to recover the n conversation with Officer Pore, it is said, Mrs. Washburn de- fed that she had contributed to pths support at various times fing the last two years and that dld not "propose to See any wo- n step in now and win him away |m her"
 Mrs. Washburn resides at 1885 St Thirteenth street. she told of- 'als at police station. South had employed as a carpenter at the Moderate home.
 Estranged From Family.
 ils family. which has been ranged from him for more than years, lives at 412 Cross street. South, her daughter, Miss rue South, and Floyd South. a son llve there, were deeply grieved afternoon when the news of the sedy was sent to them from the
 detective department. Accoro- to their statements. MT. South known Mrs. Washburn for more n two years, and has continued to ueate with her against the pro- or his daughters. Mrs. w. R. 'e't Of sOS East Fifteenth street sister. of Mir. South. A "er' Niles South, is local dairy
 Widowed s4 Years Ago.
 o' a. Washburn has been a widow ", ~ years, her only living son, 's nashpurh, being lumberman a, dead. o' friends sI are engaging attorneys, ''o; and I will have nothing to
 nne discussed very calmly ner onh hae, however. telling of her s"aood as and her various struggles ,tha ban livelihood as a cook "s .mer than to say that she had l;n. fn MT. South for two years, she med to talk.
 s. I,s. Washburn is q small woman d., d.. under medium height, with ss ss,,l, nalr. Her eyes give the i'm. oush Ja o1 I, ~akness as she peers ssss sA u'l uo'lla-fashioned, gold-rimmet rsya, s, when her gaze is once fixed tnea,, ,e,, she gives the impression O ber ess S and vivacity, and mention 0sr , narkmanshin a brought glean K eyes as she told of man, olveU,l Ul practice with a rifle and ; 'ssi ss;a l can shoot tolerable we'll, am,,, ,Nerhew Lives Here.
 dent os jarrett. assistant saperin hpanv " tue Pine Bluff Cotton Oi Ith s;,, IS a nephew of James H
 Al''ed in Little Rock.
 ch saclurers sas of enameled ware ne M oe osme call by the old fashione,