Show R JI R r or Women Shoot Stab Stab- Police ChIef ATTACK ArrACK FOLLOWS fOllOW MANS MAN'S ACQUITTAl A IN TRIAl Relatives of Dead Girl Make Ass Assault Officer Falls in Jury Box WOUND IS SERIOUS Court Thrown n Into Into Turmoil Tur Tur- moil moi 2 Arrested COLUMBIANA Ala March 2 22 H. Ai pl-H pl H. H F F. Blake Bake C Calera lera ol of police was fired at and then stabbed tabbed by two women In the circuit cir cir- c it court c ur here today after hi he h had haC been acquitted of the murder their of-their relative Miss Miss Miss- Louise Won Mon Mrs Mabel mother of ot the girl f fired red a a a- from pistol from a distance of five five feet as as Blake was being congratulated by by- his friends The shot sho w went n wild Miss Cecil Cecil- TUbbs i an-i the tr leaped at th police poUce chief drawing a knife knie as she flung herself toward r 1 him lm- lm and st stabbed him in th the neck fleck Blake fell teB tho the blood streaming from froni the wo wound nd COURT IN TURMOIL The courtroom w was wa's s in a turmoil in a moment and Charlie C. C McCall McCali state attorney general who had personally prosecuted Blake fainted faint faint- ed from the ex excitement PhysIcians Physicians Phy Phy- said sald Blakes Blake's wo wound niI was seri serious us He had toppled Into the jury box from which the m nun n who fr freed ed him were slowly filing out They assisted in picking him up and carrying him to toa a hospital Mr Mr McCall quickly recovered ed himself and ordered the two women taken custody Both were frantic from the strain of the trial and and their their deed deed and Mrs Montea- Montea baro fought hysterically with court officers before she sho was subdued She he stilt still tried to get to Blake as the bailiffs bailiff's overpowered her WEAPON EXHIBIT Officers said th the omen women had obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed the weapons from rom the box in which Miss clothIng clothing clothing cloth- cloth Ing was kept the trial The pistol used In today's shooting was one one- of those used by the state Inexpert in inexpert inexpert expert testimony regarding the manner of the girls girl's death About thirty persons were in the tho courtroom at the time Louise a sewing machine machine machine ma ma- chine saleswoman was shot to death on the night of last November November Novem Novem- ber 14 shortly after Blake and V. W. D. D l Farmer armer another Calera policeman policeman policeman police police- man had arrested her on the Montgomery Mont gomery highway They swore she killed herself after atter her arrest for Continued on page 5 ATTACK FOLLOWS MANS MAN'S ACQUITTAL IN MURDER TRIAL Continued from page 1 s speeding and while they had momentarily mo me- left the car to examine a bottle which they said she had flung nung from the he machine when they hailed bailed her WOUND SERIOUS Blak Blake's Blakes s 's trial had lied lasted a 8 little mUa littleover littleover over oyer two weeks and the case laid had gone to the Jury last night The verdict was returned shortly after court was convened ned today Farmer was indicated with Blake and his trial i is pending Blake was taken to a hospital where physicians s aid id his his- wound was serious The knife wound was about two Inches long and two inches deep After a preliminary examination an ambulance was called and he ha was started for a a. hospital in Birmingham At BlaM's Blakes trial the state stale attempted attempt attempt- ed to show by testimony of physicians physicians clans and firearms experts that the bullet wound In the girls girl's head was not cauS caused d by the 32 32 caliber pistol she carried but by a a. bullet of larger l bore borc such as might ha have ve been fired filed by Blake's Blakes pistol The state also aiso contended the absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence e of ot powder burns around the wound in the girls girl's head lea would tend to show the th the bullet had been fired tired from some some distance away More Mare than thail witnesses testified at th the trial trIa Miss was 24 years old oM Her mother is 45 years old and Miss s Is 15 43 baro Mis 1 Tubbs and A. A H. H Tubbs brother of Mis I Tubbs lubbs Were p placed ced in the Shelby Shevy county jail here on charges of f assault With intent to I Tub Tubbs Tu-b's s not participating in th the attack on Ohl f Blake was I arrested with the women Witnesses said he att attempted m ted to restrain hl lila his sister when she stabbed Blake u |