Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Couple Found Shot In
Dallas Hotel Room
This Morning
LEAVE NOTES
Can't Live Without Each
Other; Would Be Bu-
ried Together

DALLAS, May 29-P-Thonas
4. Davis. rs. or Verona. NJ. j., was
shot and killed and Mrs. Fannie
Anderson. "a. Of Graham. Tex, was
wounded probably fatally today In
a double shooting in a hotel room
here. Notes addressed by them ITO
whom IL may concern" indicated a
double suicide pact
The couple registered nc the
hotel Monday.
On letter heads OF the hotel a
note III the handwriting or Davis
was addressed To whom 10 may
concern
1T is impossible for us 10 live
ing sure we will not be separated
again. ever. We blame no one. We
request that we be buried together,
regardless Of anything. We do not
want TO be apart, even In death"
Thomas 4. Davis was the sig
nature, in the handwriting OF
Davis. and Fannie Anderson, in
the handwriting OF the woman.
WOULD BE BURIED
WITH "TONINIHE"
In a note addressed To Gus
Mrs. Anderson left this message:
Please do not claim my body
Il love Tommie and want 90 be
buried with him yer II It Is IN a
pauperS grave I want my mother
70 have all my possessions that are
in your care, also the few things
I have here and what little iewelry
] wear. Do not let my mother
know until after I have been buried.
This Is the only way out OF 10 for
Tommie and me-" The note was
signed Fannie"
In another note addressed To
whom ID may concern Davis left
directions 10 notify his father,
Warner T. Davis. of Parksley. Va,
and "a sister. Mrs. y. III. WandS .of
Verona. ~. j., and an uncle and
aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert <. Lee,
Columbia. Penn.
When doctors and police reached
the hotel. they found Davis lying
on his back In bed. "A bullet from
n large caliber revolver had pierced
his chest and he was dead before
he would be moved.
Mrs. Anderson was found sitting
on the floor in front OF the elevator.
She had been covered with n
blanket thrown about her shoulders.
She vas scantily dressed and a
bullet from the same pistol which
killed Davis had been fired into
her abdomen.
She told police and doctors she
had shot herself after Davis had
ended his own life.
CALLS FOR TOAIMIE
IN DELIRIUM
When asked. who shot your" she
said. L did IL myself. I could not
stand 10 live without him. How Is
Tommic?" She wal not told NE was
dead. doctors fearing 1t would only
hasten her death.
The couple registered nc the
hotel Monday under the name OF
-. ID. King and wife"
Employees of the hOlel had been
awakened BY the shots and the
cries OF the woman. She had walk
70 from tie ADDn ~ L4D IINN1lOE
entrance.
The notes we're left on a table
with personal effects OF the couple.
They we're turned over 70 Detec-
tive Chief j. Charles Cunning.
Shortly after reaching the hos
pital. Mrs. Anderson lapsed into
Inconsistencies and In delirium
continued calling for "T0mmie."
GRAHAM. Tex. May 29-R-A
man who registered In a Dallas
hotel A. Thomas r. Davis or YER
ona. ". J.. found shot TO death
there today. was a man believed to
be known here as Jack" Davis. "a
musician or Fort Worth.
Mrs. Fannie Anderson. found
wounded In the same hotel. was
the wife or Gus Anderson. operator
Of a filling station and restaurant
l IL miles from Graham lie told
officers that his wife had gone 20
Dallas several days ago. Officers
stated Anderson and Davis had had
trouble several days ago over the
purported ownership Of a diamond
ring. They said the matter had
been settled when Mrs. Anderson
claimed she had made Davis a
present or the ring.
The Andersons had lived here
about l l-2 years. coming TO Ora
ham from Coleman. Anderson told
officers ne and Mrs. Anderson were