Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-01
MAN IS shot;
WOMAN HELD.
CoIored People Are Held Fol-
lowing Shooting ARRAY in
the Dublin Section

Two persons are being held at
police headquarters in connection
with the shooting on Prospect street
late yesterday afternoon, the wo-
man who did the shooting and the
man who was shot.
Anna Holmes, colored, of 335
Prospect street, formerly of 30
Borden avenue, Asbury Park, is the
party charged with shooting Teddy
Dixon, colored, twenty-six, of rs Elm
street, Newark. The woman gave
herself up at police headquarters
about two hours after the shooting
occurred.
According to a statement made by
the woman. Dixon, unknown in the
Dublin section, strolled into the
building at 335 Prospect street with
out knocking and proceeded to in
terest himself in a game or
cards being played. Watching a
card game, evidently did not get the
visitor necessary action AND when
he asked one of the players who's
the woman" he started something.
The woman" happened to be
Anna Holmes, quite bit taller than
Dixon. She Immediately told the
visitor that as he did not know her,
he had no right to talk about her
Dixon retaliated with vulgar name
it is charged and the woman pro-
ceeded to throw him out. The
Holmes woman is roomer in the
Prospect street home, the police say.
Knife anC Gun
Dixon made up his mind to rem ain
and when the woman reached for
him, he pulled knit, and carved
the air, it is charged. Seeing the
knife the Holmes woman grabbed
for revolver laying trunk, and
fired at the intruder. The bullet en-
tered Dixons left shoulder. Satisfied
that the woman meant business he
left the house.
The wounded man walked around
for a while and at the corner of Le-
high avenue and Prospect street,
about a block and half from the
scene of the shooting, a small boy
noticed the blood on his shirt and re-
ported same to Traffic officer Patrick
Dwyer and officer Frank Rubaha at
the corner of Prospect and Fayette
streets.
Police headquarters was notified
and Chauffeur Koyen brought the
police car to the scene. officers
Koyen and Dwyer took Dixon to DR..
Smfth's office where the bullet was
extracted, it having taken an upward
course, hitting the collarbone- and
lodging in the back of his neck.
Officer Rubaha was joined by Ser
geant Frank Kasprzak and Charles
Jorgenson in his search for the
Holmes woman. She showed up at
headquarters at 5:45 o'clock and
made a complete confession. Three
witnesses were taken to headquarters
by Officer Rubaha and released until
this morning.
After the bullet had been extrac-
ted, Dixon was taken to the hos
pital and about 9:25 o'clock the po-
lice were notified by DIR. Smith that
the negro was making trouble at the
taken to headquarters by officers
Rubaha and Koyen. and a disorderiy
conduct charge was lodged against
him. The remains of the revolver
shot evidently mixed with liquor
"shots" the man had imbibed be-
fore the shooting.
This morning Dixon was undecid-
ed about pressing a charge against
the woman, and the two were lock-
ed up for a later hearing. The gun
used by the woman was obtained by
the police in an establishment on
Prospect street and the knife WELD
ed by the wounded man was found
in an ash barrel by officer Rubaha.