Show RACE WAR IN TENNESSEE White Woman Uses Shotgun In Fight With Negroes Memphis Tenn Mrs James Wright of this city on Monday shot and killed Lelia Gordon a negro woman Mrs Wright used a singlebar reled shotgun She then reloaded the weapon and started in pursuit of Mary Davis another negro woman She shot at her once after a chase of nearly a block but the charge went wildThe homicide followed a desperate struggle between white and negro women In which Mrs John Wright a sisterinlaw of Mrs James Wright who lives with her received a bad beating at the hands of the Davis and Gordon women A quarrel over the children of the white woman being stopped from playing with some negro children living In the vicinity led to the fight |