The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-14
WOMAN INTRUDER SHOT AT BRIGHTON Large Crowds Attend Sum- day School Convention GRAND ORGAN RECITAL CoIored Glee Club and Choirs Will Give Musical at Colored Settle
 ment House-The Public
 Is Invited
GRAND ORGAN RECITAL

Ressemer, March 13.-(Special)-An un- Identified negro woman was shot and in- stantly killed last night, 1t is alleged, by e I Mendenhall at his home at Brighton. It appears that MT. and Mrs Mendenhaii were returning from church and on entering their house heard noise in the kitchen, and MT. Mendenhall went to investigate. When he turned on the light it Is said that the negro woman, who Is thought to have been insane, ran at him with knife, cutting his coat, He fired at the woman, the bullet taking effect in the left breast just above the heart. The body was turned over to Arthur Jacobs, where it is being held pending identification.
 Although a large number of people have looked at the woman today, none have been able to identify her While she was fully dressed, her clothing was wet to the skin and coating of sand gave
 the impression that she had been wander ing ainlessly around through the woods. A verdict in the amount of $10o0 was re-
 turned in the case of Barry o. Webb vs. h. O. Taylor. which has been on trial in
 the Bessemer division of the circuit court
 for the past two days, after the jury had
 been out five hours. The plaintiff was seeking damages for the death of his child, which is alleged to have been caused by being struck by an automobile driven by the defendant
 SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
 A large crowd has been attending the
 Sunday school convention being held at the First Methodist church today and
 Wednesday under the auspices of the
 County Sunday School association. Dr.
 William c. Brown of Chicago, field sec retary of the International Sunday
 School association, was present and made
 several interesting talks. Leon c. Paln4r
 of Montgomery, general secretary of the
 Alabama Sunday School association, as
 well as number of other prominent
 Sunday school workers, are in Bessemer
 attending the convention. The public is
 invited to be present at the session Wednesday.
 Plans are being made for the organ
 recital which will be given Thursday
 and Friday nights by Professor Baldwin at the First Methodist church on Thurs
 day and at the First Baptist church on
 Friday. complete change of pro-
 gramme will be rendered at each per-
 formance and the public is invited to
 come and hear him. Professor Baldwin has appeared in Bessemer before and is
 we'll known as a great organist. No
 charges will be made but free will of- fering will be taken.
 The Bessemer Lodge No. 721 Benev- olent and Protective order of Elks held a regular meeting last night at winch time the following officers were elected James Ross, exalted ruler; Girad Crook. esteemed leading knight; F. R. Mathews, esteemed loyal knight; Roy E. Ling, featuring knight; A. W. Deason, secretary; G. B. Hollingsworth, treasurer; George Jones, tyler. The other officers will be a.1s.f-~ed by MT,
 Ross. Samuel Stein, the retiring eX-
 alted ruler. was elected as Gele-
 gate to the grand lodge, while Clip
 Hocutt was named alternate