Robeson-Durham County NcArchives Obituaries.....Flowers, May 1916
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Charlotte Observer - Jun 5
Lumberton Girl Victim of Her Lover's Anger

Jealous Because She Married Another Man, Mrs. May Flowers is Shot Through the 
Heart, by Don Anderson Who Then Kills Himself

Durham, June 4 - "He was jealous because I married another man, and told me 
that if I didn't leave my husband and live with him that he would kill me," 
gasped Mrs. May Flowers of Lumberton, NC, as she lay fatally wounded in a room 
of a Pettigrew street boarding house, in this city. She had been shot through 
the heart and body, the bullet from a new Colt revolver having passed into a 
wall beyond.

Don Anderson, 22, of Winston-Salem, NC, her professed lover, had done the 
shooting and afterwards had turned the pistol to his own breast and fired a 
shot into his heart that brought on instant death.

It was the most horrible tragedy that has ever occurred in this city, and 
hundreds of people flocked to the scene to witness the pale, pretty slip of a 
girl that lay on a bed, seemingly dying from wounds inflicted by Anderson, and 
Anderson himself stretched out on the front porch cold in death.

When the tragedy was enacted the husband of the woman was at work on the new 
Imperial Tobacco Co. building in this city. He was called to the scene.

Flowers said that he married May Stevens of Lumberton 18 months ago and that 
although he had heard her speak of Don Anderson, had looked at him for the 
first time, as he lay on the porch. The tragedy, he said, was a great surprise 
to him.

Mrs. Flowers in a short statement to officers said that she had rather be "in 
this fix than untrue to my husband."

Physicians said this afternoon that Mrs. Flowers cannot live. They say that 
the bullet passed through her heart, and that it is the first case on record 
where a woman lived for a similar length of time after suffering such a wound.

A letter from Anderson to Mrs. Flowers, in the possession of Sheriff John F. 
Harward, is filled with passionate love.


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