Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-23
mrs. ELSIE DAVIS,
GUN VICTIM, DIES
Mother of 10, Who Admitted
Shooting, Is Rearrested
on Murder Charge.

The bullet fired into her head last
Friday morning by a jealous La Plata,
Nd, wife claimed the life of Mrs. Elsie
Davis, %, former Washington woman,
at TAO o'clock this morning in Provi-
dence Hospital
Mrs. Davis death came after q long,
grim fight, when for more than four
days she lay unconscious. She never
spoke after the bullet hit her between
the eyes and plowed through her head.
With the receipt Of news Of Mrs.
Davis death. Charles County, Nd,
States Attorney Edward J. Edelen
made preparations for coroner's IN
quest.
In the meantime he ordered the
arrest on q murder charge Of Mrs. Lulu
May Gamble, mother Of 10 children.
who has admitted she shot Mrs. Davis
when she found her husband, Joseph
Gamble, seated in an automobile with
her ct about 2 o'clock last Friday
morning.
Authorities sent to washington At
about IL o'clock for Mrs. Davis' body.
to be returned to La Plata for an
inquest scheduled some time this after
noon. before Magistrate George II.
Gray.
Mrs. Gamble was rearrested shortly
before the inquest was scheduied to
have been held.
Out Under $500 Bond.
Mrs. Gamble has been at liberty in
La Plata since Friday morning under
$500 bond on an assault charge. She
was ordered held for the Charles Coun-
ty grand jury shortly after the shoot
ing, following hearing on this charge
before Justice walter II. Gray at La
Plata.
The shooting, which has given the
little town Of La Plata its most sensa-
tional crime news in many years,
occurred in front of the little house
Mrs. Davis had rented from Raymond
Grim, q stepson Of Gamble, about 400
yards from the Gamble home on the
outskirts Of La Plata.
Mrs. Gamble told Justice Gray and
States Attorney Edelen that she had
warned Mrs. Davis to stay away from
her husband, and had warned Joe Gam
BILE to stay away from Mrs. Davis. On
the night Of the shooting, she declared,
Gamble went OF in his automobile with
Mrs. Davis between 8 and o'clock
and did not return until o'clock in
the morning. She said she obtained
an old automatic pistol that had been
lying about the Gamble home for years
loaded it and lay in wait, with her two
sons. Billy, IL. and Chester, 10, for
her husbands return.
When Gamble and Mrs. Davis drove
up. she declared, she went to the cal
and cried:
i've got you now. Right is right
| and wrong is wrong"
Then she shot, the bullet entering
Mrs. Davis forehead between the eyes.
Repeated Threats Claimed.
81 didn't mean to shoot her. / didn't
aim at anybody" Mrs. Gamble declared
after the shooting.
She TOLD the States attorney and the
justice that MRS. Davis repeatedly
threatened her with bodily harm when
she confronted her with accusations OF
haIboring Gamble in the little house
across the road.
Gamble Is q thrifty farmer and bee
Keeper of La Plata. He has several
parcels of land. acquired in the past Ii
years, which he farms, and maintains
about 800 hives Of bees, which form
the chief source Of income for the large
| family.
Mrs. Gamble is As years old, her nus
band 80. She had six children by q
former marriage and four by her pres
ent husband
Following the hearing last Friday or
the assault charge, Mrs. Gamble ap.
peared against her husband, alleging
that four days before the shooting
he beat her. She exhibited bruises or
her arms as evidence. Gamble pleaded
/ not guilty to the charge and was helc
in $500 bond for the Charles County
| grand jury.
Gamble and his wife have gone theil
separate ways since the shooting, Mrs
| Gamble staying at home with the chill.
dren and the husband attending to hi.
affairs elsewhere
After she was released from custody
Friday Mrs. Gamble laid her case before
State Senator Walter H. Mitchell ar
attorney.