Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-08
HAMPTON STREET
| SCENE OF TRAGEDY
Two of Five Shots Fired From
Dark Doorway Take
Effect.
FILINGS PISTOL INTO GUTTER
Mrs. Matte Jester Cumming
Then Runs Into Nearby
Store and Collapses.
FILINGS PISTOL INTO GUTTER
LSPecfal to The Times-Dispatch.,

,ISPeGlal to The Times Dispa.ch.1
cu mnMpTo ons W. " Feb Is. Gordon
lawyers. one-tire candidate for Atior
mey.Generai OF the state. and former
tho General Assembly. was shot and
probably fatally wounded here late this
a1iernoon. by his wife, Mrs. Matte
place In front Of the Kecoughtan Build
ing. on South King Street, Mrs. Cum
se H99s' II Is se stated. having secrcted her
husband passed along tho street and
nr1ng hve shots at him.
Two Of the bullets took effect, one
s, ahs Cumming in the neck. another
,moedding itself in his liver. He was
taken to Dixie Hospital and early to-
nnrsh. an operation was performed by
1T. ~; ~ Eanderslie. but no prediction
would be made as regards Mr.. Cum.
minG Ss chances Of recovery.
Cumming flung the revolver into the
suttcs and, screaming Historically. ran
apsed. ned 1Ss SORE. sts. where she col
iGiu% by the police. She Is in jail to-
e n1sns; u Wfih ,ss, p,hysieians care,
INT MT: Cumming; who is a brother of DR..
h hus p- 5. Cumming. recently nomin ated
eral OF the United States Public Health
SRSir rEa haq arrived in Hampton from,
representtnE the city Of NswnoIt
News and other interests at the Cen,
eral Assembly. %
., II was stated By friends hero tonight
that Cumming had been followed nj
most mo entire day by his wife, from,
Mnom n, ne t, had been separated since the
an started to his own home af,outi. 4
oclocE. taking a roundabout way'sfny
2r 90 avoid coming into contact with,
reaehed lhe Kecoughtan Building, she
Seeppeu gut ana confronted him.
StnEEera Across Street
AS Tar rs could be learned no v,rds
passed. between the two befo,s tSa
shooting started. After being strue ee
abIs 20 sc is b,, to the street but was
across the street to tho real estats OF
nee OF his brother. William J. a. Cum
h h,ng; from where he was taken to the
viii, The wv woman nso,. who tenigh. Is charged
MI MIN c tne snooting OF her husband: is
wife, Topmerfy Mss ifsoG ses Mife his first
Old Point Comfort, Va. hayinr Al
G g0rne ed !, him h more than ten years ago.
ernoon in March 1914, shortly after
Worca MIS- Cumming fled suit for d.
meth who was then said 10 be about
n The wife failed to press the SUIT and
plant, charging cruelty and desertion
and was granted a separation nv Jndea
nooinson or the Hampton Court This
was year ago after which Mrs. Cum
E E,ns TOOK an appeal to the Virginia
n"Tre in ~. Sour. or Appeals. the argu-
Richmond about two weeks aeo Riehl
ara e. Byrd; United States District At
aJirney Tor the Western District OF viz
s'mnia ma, representing Mrs. Cumming
Mfi Mrsi M. Gt1mm Ing who was formerly
w Wvsn c9n s a. the time Of her marriage
tive women in Hampton. FrienSs
IoIhted out tonight that worry over
hhoi,nestic AFFAIRS during past months
hannro ken her down and that she had
During the past few weeks Il vas
stated tonight by friends. relation, baa
ILL ;MSen MT. and Mrs. Cumming had rap
h buiS become more strained and that
nc ~. han been warned to care for himself,
route "itow ~ T., the shooting and while en-
d miing urged leniency for his wife and
dictated several business messages to
Richmond men. ~
,, Served in State Assembly.
-, Nr. cumming is about 4S and his
and Mary college and mads O OF rs W,n,aIp
Virginia, through which he nasseS U o.
one year. He served as a nenbcr ~
me ne House OF Delegates from Ejizabeth
10y County in 190l-o2-03 at the ses-
s 81 which adonted the new State Con
for the Office OF Attorney-Generai Of
ne state; being defeated by John Gar
saha follard. He is counsel for the
wporI news and Hampton Railway,
.'as ana Electric Company and reDrs,
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