Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
WRONG VICTIM SHOT
BY JEALOUS WIFE

Jealousy led to a shooting We'd
nesday morning in a rooming house
at IL North Forsyth street, next
to the Austell building, which placed
one woman, an innocent victim, in
the Grady hospital, and two other
women, one the wife who did the
shooting and the other the alleged
affinity of her husband, behind the
bars at police station.
In the hospital, dangerously wound
ed with bullet hole through her
chest, is Mrs. Leila Howard, who
conducted the rooming house with
her husband, Ed Howard.
In one room at police station is
Mrs. M. W. Campbell, of Greenville,
S. c., formerly of Atlanta, who trail
ed her husband, a contractor, to the
rooming-house and there shot Mrs.
Howard in an attempt to kill him.
In another room at the station is
a young woman who gives her name
as Mrs. Sarah J. Ward, of Gaines
vile, Ga, whom Mrs. Campbell
charges with being her husbands
sweetheart.
Mrs. Ward and Mr.. Campbell oc-
cupied adjoining rooms. She denies
they were intimate, but admits he
"ate his meals" in her room. She
says they had been going out to-
gether for a week. Mrs. Campbell,
following her husband to Atlanta
from Greenvil1e, located him at the
rooming-house. Dressed In deep
mourning and wearing a heavy black
veil, she followed him up the steps
at s o'clock Wednesday morning. A
few minutes later a pistol shot rang
out.
Patro1nan Heard Shot
Patrolman A. G. Sinyard heard
the shot and ran up the steps. At
the top he found Mrs. Howard lying
in a pool Of blood on the floor.
Campbell and Mrs. Campbell were
standing nearby. and Mrs. Campbell
w DIS SAClGtlIIlHSs MY GOU1 L We SIlOI
the wrong womanv
Mrs. Howard was rushed to the
hospital. Mrs. Campbell was taken
to police station. Mr.. Campbell &C
companied her there. In the excite
ment Mrs. Ward fled from the house.
She was arrested about ~ o'clock at
the Terminal station, where she was
trying to catch a train to Gainesville,
police station.
Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell have been
married twenty-five years. Until last
December they lived in Atlanta. Tren
SO years old and he is a few years ner
senior. They have one child-an
adopted son, Fred.
1--WE had always been pretty hap
Ply until the last few years." declar-
ed Mrs. Campbell, at the police sta
ton. "Then my husband began go
ing with other women. / guess have
lain awake a million nights, worry
ing about him. For the last three
HlSllS nave 1ldu llO oICCp oI oAl'
Mr.. Campbell came to Atlanta a
week ago. According to Mrs. Camp
bell, they were planning to move to
Atlanta and he came ahead of her to
pick out a home for them. But Mr..
Campbell told people at the rooming
house, they say, that he came to At
lanta to get a divorce from his wife.
Ed Howard, proprietor Of the room
ing house, said that Campbell regis
whom he declared Campbell was liv-
ing as man and wife.
Unknown to her husband, Mrs.
Campbell reached Atlanta Tuesday
and went to local hotel. She ad-
mits she came here to spy on her
husband. She wore mourning so
he would not recognize her, she said,
and in her handbag she put little
revolver, her own property.
Followed Him to House
"I heard that Mr.. Campbell was
seen on the streets Tuesday night
with another woman" said Mrs.
Campbell. $50 1 waited around the
rooming house Wednesday morning
until he came out. Then L followed
him-trailing him till he returned to
the house. He didn't recognize me
because of the black disguise. fol-
lowed him upstairs. He was stand
ing at the top, talking to woman,
paying her some money. I went up
behind him and pointed the pistol at
him, but he turned quickly and tried
to knock it out of my hand. That
was when it went off. I didn't mean
to shoot that woman pray to God
she'll get we'll! That's what 1 meant
when 1 said I've shot the wrong
woman 1 meant L had shot the
wrong party
Mr.. Campbell confirms his wife's
story. He said he had left his room
money ty and pay Mrs. Howard what
he owed her for his bill. He said
he didn't see his wife until he had
premonition that somebody was be-
hind him, when he turned and looked
down the barrel Of her revolver.
However, the Campbells' account
Of the shooting disagrees in some
particulars with that of others. Mr..
Howard said he was lying on his bed
reading the paper, and that his wife
had gone into the hall to talk to the
maid, and that Mrs. Campbell shot
Mrs. Howard deliberately as she
stood there This is also the state
ment of the Towards nephew and
niece, Roy Shinn and Gladys Shinn,
who live with them, and of the COL
ored maid, Leila Ross.
The police hope to clear up this
phase of the mystery when they get
a c+o ire ri TNhnS
far she is too seriously wounded to
talk.