The Washington herald., 1920-07-28

| Girl Firea Wild Shot.
The sister. seeing the struggle
from her room, ran into the room
OF fhe men and grabbed the re-
voiver, IL she did did not have II
with her. Running out she shot
through the hall. The shot went
wild and sent her lover, whom she
| was attempting to save, to eternity
The brother turned and wheeled
the woman around, knocking her
hand as she shot. the bullet enter
Ing the wall at an angle of forty
hve degrees. He turned to escape
to his room, but she shot again as
he was entering the door and sent
the bullet crashing into his brain
! Turning about she saw her lover
! sprawl headlong on the stairway
blood streaming from his wounds
and realized it was over for him
She raised the revolver to the side
| of her head and fired, falling on her
| back the revolver tumbling to the
feet of the brother a few feet be-
| hind her, where 1t was found by
the police.
| With the announcement of Cor
oner hewitt that the woman's wound
was possibly self inflicted and the
only one which could have been
self inflicted the police are inclined
to discredit the fourth person theory.
The motive and causes are still
| unsolved.
1t was learned yesterday from
Ernest Phelps, the roomer in the
third room of the upper floor of the
building and in the room next to
that occupied by the two men and
separated only by partition with
a door in it, that the three were up
late Saturday night and early Sun
day morning. All were in the same
room. Was Odiscos attempting to
reach an agreement with Apostolos
for the marriage of his sister?
That they disagreed Is supported
by evidence that Koukos was ny
himself all day Sunday up to the
time of the tragedy. He was seen
in a barbershop on Ninth street at
about IL o'clock Sunday morning
and later by himself at Greek
restaurant on Ninth street At the
latter place he is known to have
spent most of the afternoon and was
apparently in a morbid state of
mind, according to the restaurant
owners. He entered the place about
O'Clock and ate dinner, going up
stairs from there to the drinking
parlor where he ordered a cup of
coffee and spent about a half hour.
He talked to no one and appeared
in deep thought. He spent the re-
mainder of the time until about )
o'clock reading Greek papers.
Did koukos go back to the rooms
determined to obtain the woman he
loved who was being withheld from
him for reasons unknown?
Was Odiscos's motive in with
holding the marriage money or love
for his sister?
Supporting the latter is the fact
that he was known to be a docile
man. Ernest Phelps the roomer
who roomed with Odiscos when nc
was here in the winter, said yester-
day Odiscos was quiet and studious.
he told how the Greek had begged
him not to get into an argument
with other roomers once because
the latter were making a lot of
noise. If Odiscos was dociIe as this
ne must have been stirred to furry
by threat of Koukos against the
virtue of his sister. furthermore
he must have been suspecting such
an emergency by carrying the
hatchet with him.
Was Money Involved!
He was known not to have been
In the best of financial circum-
stances, for his last statement to
Fletcher Nance, colored janitor at
the place, before he left last April,
was: I can get more money at the
place am going to-"
Did koukos refuse the cash and
the death struggle ensue?
what was the position of the sis
ter in the fight between the men?
Considering where the bodies were
found. the action described above
must have been necessary, police be-
lieye. The older man was her choice
then. He was shot first and there
fore accidentally, or the woman
would never have shot the man
after he had left the older man on
the stairway and wss about to enter
his room to escape the shots of the
infuriated sister.
The fact that the bullet which en-
tered the wall must have been shot
from the stairway toward the room,
is explained by the fact that her
brother struck her arm upward in
her first attempt to shoot him. 1t
Is believed be then attempted his
escape before she shot again, but
was caught as he entered the door,
way to the room. The woman was
found lying fiat on her back, her
head toward the front of the house
and the rooms. Did she turn and,
seeing her lover fatally wounded,
deliberately shoot the final shot? !
Interval Between Shots.
That there was an interval be-
tween the third and fourth shots is
testified to by Mrs. Minnie King,
owner Of the house. Mrs. King said
she first heard a scream, followed
by a second one and then three
shots with intervals of about fifteen
Or thirty seconds.
She then ran from the house and
It is thought by the police that the
fourth shot with which the woman
killed herself was fired after Mrs.
King left the building to call the
police.
Coroner hewitt opened the oficial
Investigation yesterday, calling a
Jury which met at IL o'clock. 1t
was brought up in the jury hearing
hat the wound of the woman might
have been self-innicted. contrary to
lrst statements in the case. Testi- |
nony Of DR.. w. B. Marhury, sur
yeon who operated on Odiscos at the
Hospital Sunday night, |
shattered the possibility of the
bullet having been seif-infiictsd. !
as said the coUres oe the bo1aet