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Show Woman Shoots Her Father. Gravenette, Ark. Mrs. Nellie Allen, 21 years old, shot and killed ber father, fa-ther, John H. Hoyer, a wealthy planter, plant-er, at their homo, near Maysvilie, on Thursday, after the two had exchanged ex-changed several shots. First Hoyer and the young woman's husband, John Allen, quarreled. The elder man, It is alleged, was ndvanclng on Allen with a drawn knife when Mrs. Allen opened fire. Hoyer returned the lire, it Is said, but his bullets went wild, while one of those from the woman's wo-man's revolver pierced his brain. |