Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
BULLETINS GIVEN
ON WOUNDED GIRL
La Plata Victim OF Jealous
Wife Has Bare Chance
of Recovery.
emit of The Star.

BY stan Correspondent of The Star.
LA PLATA. Md, September 20.-This
little town, where the Sunday base ball
game and the weekly movie are the
principal events of the week. tonight
was, to a man, anxiously awaiting the
bulletins that come every hour on the
condition of Mrs. Elsie May Davis, %,
who is gamely fighting death, in a
washington hospital, from a bullet
fired into her head early yesterday
morning by Mrs Lulu May Gamble,
mother of 10 children, when she found
her husband in an automobile with
Mrs. Davis.
An enterprising druggist in the center
of the town, has established service OF
bulletins on Mrs Davis condition, by
which the residents of La Plata are
apprised every hour of the shooting
victims condition, based on telephone
calls to Providence Hospital in Wash
ington.
Hour after hour, today and tonight,
the bulletins have been issued, and the
populace for miles around is on hand
to read them, buy soda pop and discuss
the most sensational case that has oc-
Cured in La Plata In many year.
Home Duties As Usual.
Meanwhile, a multitude of duties in
Gamble goes about her housewifery as
always, her two sons, Billy and Chester,
helping her out with most of the work,
and with her husband, Joe Gamble.
about whom all the row was raised, on
attending to business elsewhere.
An irritating situation removed from
her daily routine of things. Mrs. Gamble
was represented by other members of
her family as ready to bury the Ratchet
with Joe, take him back in the house
hold and go on about the business of
raising bees, tending farm and raising
children.
Mrs. CANDLES affairs at present are
in the hands of her attorney, State
Senator Walter H. Mitchell. She went
to Senator Mitchell yesterday after
noon, Just after she had been released
from custody on an assault charge in
$500 bond, to lay her case before the
legislator attorney, and, while he has
not made a final decision as to whether
he will handle the case, Senator Mitch
ell is handling her present affairs at
law.
Meanwhile, Charles County States
Attorney Edward j. Edelen stands ready
to order Mrs. Gamble rearrested If Mrs.
Davis wound proves fatal.
Victim Has Bare Chance.
Doctors at Providence Hospital have
been working valiantly to save the life
of Mrs. Davis. She has just bare
chance. La Plata was told last night.
The CANDLES live down across the
railroad tracks, on the outskirts of
town, most Of the large family in the
shabby little farmhouse surrounded by
its orderly array of 800 beehives which
form the basis of the family income.
People of La Plata say that Joe
Gamble. 40 years old, is an industrious
and thrifty man, willing to work and
putting his extra money in land. In
recent years he has acquired several
parcels of land which he works. and,
in addition, the farmers hereabout say
he has been as busy as any in the
wheat threshing helping out the other
farmers as we'll as keeping his own
holdings in good shape.
Mrs. Gamble is a short, stout woman
of about As. She has gray-streaked
bobbed hair.
Life, she told Justice Walter H. Gray
at her hearing on the assault charge
Yesterday, has been hard for her She
has paid, she said for the pleasure she
has gotten out of life, and now this
thing comes along to comolicate Lat
tiers
She told the justice and States At
torney Edelen that her first husband
went off and left her with six children.
Two of the children, twins, she said,
she hasn't seen tor years. They we're
taken, she said. shortly after her first
husband left her and put in an orphans
home. Fine twins they were, she de-
clared
The rest Of her family she has man.