Evening star., 1933-07-14
INTENDED TO SHOOT
SELF, SAYS WOMAN
IN AUTO Staying
Learning Fiance Had Co|ored
Blood, She Declares, She
! Tried to End Her Life.
WOUNDED MAN DRIVES
WILDLY FOR HOSPITAL
Taken From Car, He Is Rushed to
Hospital, but Dies on 0per-
ating Table.

Shot during tuSSle with his sweet
heart over gun she said she had in
tended to use to commit suicide, Al
bert Fletcher, 81, of the 1900 block T
street, died in Emergency Hospital early
this morning with bullet wound in
his chest
The woman. Frances Katherine AL
len. 20, of the 1900 block Twelfth street.
told police she planned to kill herself
after she discovered Fletcher had col
Ored blood.
A few minutes before his death,
Fletcher was dragged from his coupe
by two policemen who had seen the
car streak down twelfth street at high
speed, swerve dangerously close to a
tree and careen to stop on the side
walk just north of New York avenue.
The officers Sergt. J. j. Ronayne and
Pvt. w. G. Fawcett of the first pre-
and found Fletcher slumped over the
wheel with blood pouring from his
wound. Beside him sat Miss Allen. The
gun with which Fletcher had been shot
was lying in the car between them
Victim Refuses Address.
The woman was arrested and her
companion taken to the hospital. where
he died a short time later. He was
CONSCIOUS uu Als luc Piiysieioll eAoAii
ination and told police his name. but
refused to reveal his address or to make
q statement about the shooting.
All he would say to the officers was:
''Don't arrest the girl who shot me-
He would not give her name.
Questioned this morning by detec-
tives at the Womens Bureau. where
she is being held for investigation. Miss
Allen is said to have admitted she
owned the gun with which Fletcher
was shot She said she had taken it
with her when Fletcher took her mo-
toring last night. and that she had
intended to use it to kill herself.
She said when Fletcher returned her
TO her apartment house she started to
20 in the door, but walked back out
t. the car to ask him question He
noticed then she held her hand under
her coat, where she clutched the pistol,
and he grabbed her arm. When he saw
the weapon he wrested 1t from her
hand. she told police. and she attempted
to recover it. During the tussle the
gun was discharged and Fletcher cried
Tim shot"
On Way to Hospital.
Miss Allen said she got in the car
with the wounded man to go to the
hospital, but just as they passed the
officers he lost control OF the car.
The woman told Detective Sergeants
John C. Dalglish and w. S. Beck OF
the homicide squad that she met
Fletcher about year ago. shortly after
she came to Washington from New
York State. She said they had gone
together steadily until this May. when
he was arrested for investigation. and
she went to the precinct to aid MIN:
An officer there told her the man had
cclored blood, she said, and when she
investigated she believed this to be
true.
After that she attempted to break
of with him. but he persisted in see
ing her. She said once when she
threatened to leave town he fired a
pistol near her while she was stand
ing short distance from his car. and
said, You may be going somewhere.
but you won't leave this town. I mean
business"
The Emergency Hospital doctor who
examined Fletcher today said the man
had colored blood in him. When he
was arrested, in May however, Fletcher
WAS booked at the Second precinct as
white.
Miss Allen told police the shock OF
her discovery about Fletcher had made
her i'll, and she had been taking medl-
cine for her nerves. She became
tysterical at the Women's Bureau this
morning and required medical treat
tnent.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, acting
Coroner of the District, will perform
an autopsy today to determine the
exact course of the bullet which killed
Fletcher. The shot entered his body
at the shoulder and took a downward
course into the chest, it is believed.
An inquest will be held.