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Show RACE WAR IN TENNESSEE. White Woman Uses Shotgun In Fight With Negroes. Memphis, Tonn. -Mrs. Jnmcs Wright of this city on Monday shot and killed Leila Gordon, a negro woman. Mrs. Wright used a single-bar-rclcd shotgun. Sho then reloaded tho weapon and started In pursuit of Mary Davis, another negro woman. Sho shot nt hor onco ntter a chase ol nearly a block, but the chargo went wild. Tho homlcldo followed a desporato strugglo between white and negro women, In which Mrs. John Wright, n sistor-ln-law of Mrs. James Wright, who lives with her, received a bad beating at tho hands of tho Davis and Gordon women. A quarrel over tho children of tho white woman bolng stopped from playing with some nogro children living In tho vicinity led to tho fight. |