Newspaper:  Annabel Woods killed, Franklin Parish,La. 1930
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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA    March 27, 1930

 
Negro Woman Is Held Following Fatal Gun Play
 
Kills Another Negress In Argument Over Husband.
Empties Gun At Victim
Sheriff Captures Fugitive After Short Chase. 
 
Charlie D. Allen, wife of Mose Allen, a negro, was lodged in the
parish jail by Sheriff Allen L. Price Monday night after she had
shot and killed Annabel Woods, another negress, following a hot
argument over which of the two women held the right to Mose Allen.
The shooting took place in a house in the negro quarters here,
where they met while calling on another negro woman. Six shots
were fired, three of which took effect. One entered the left jaw,
another the breast, and the third went in the right side of the neck
and lodged against the opposite collar bone. According to Sheriff
Price, anyone of the shots would have killed her.
The Allen Negro claimed that the other woman had lived with Mose
Allen before he was married, and was still trying to get him back,
which the other resented and challenged the Allen woman to a fist
fight. She was holding a baby, which she turned to lay on a bed,
and as she turned again to face the other woman, found herself
covered with a gun. The Allen woman began firing and Annabel
Woods crumbled to the floor in a lifeless heap. Sheriff Price was
immediately summoned, but the murderer fled before he arrived.
After a hasty inspection off the body the sheriff took up the chase
and captured her soon afterward near Lowentritt's store. She was at
once taken to the parish jail, where she will remain awaiting trial
at the April term of court.
The body of the victim was buried here Tuesday.
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