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Show WOMEN QUARREL; ONE IS KILLED CAPITORA FROHMAN SHOOTS AND INSTANTLY KILLS LULA DICKSON DICK-SON IN A ROOMING HOUSE ON LOWER TWENTY-SIXTH STREET STRAY BULLET HITS FATHER OF SLAYER JEALOUSY, JEAL-OUSY, AROUSED BY THE BOASTS OF A WOMAN OF THE UNDERWORLD, UN-DERWORLD, GIVEN AS THE CAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY apitora Frohaui. a colored woman, aged 35 years, shot and killed Lula Dii kson, another colored woman, and inflicted a flesh wound iu the shoul-i shoul-i tier of Harry Brown, her own lather, who stepped in between the two, at a i colored boarding house at 135 T Went J sixth street, this morning, al ll:3n I o clock. The shooting was the eudiug; of a 'quarrel of several das duration and was caused by the alleged familiar relations lietween Lula Uickson and F.dgar Froham. the husband of the woman who did the shooting Brown received his wound while attempting at-tempting the role of peacemaker. The wound Is not serious but he was tak-' tak-' en to the Dec hospital to have the ball removed Mrs. Piohman ave herself up at tie police station Four cartridges had heen explode t In the revolver which was used bj the woman and which is a long-barreled gun of ".2 calibre hut no trace of the other bullets could be found ' In the room. At (Irst It was believed that three balls had lodged In the I bod of the Dickson woman, but an Investigation at the Lindqulsl morgue repealed onlv one wound The bullet entered the left side, about four inch- j e8 below the armpit and took an upward up-ward course entering the heart A call came to the police station shortly after 11 3(1 :i m. stating that j some one had been shot at 135 Twenty-sixth street and Detectives George Wardlawand Charles Plncock hurried to the scene. The woman who did the shooting came to the station voluntarily vol-untarily a few minutes after the detectives de-tectives had left, and she told her stor to the chief When the detectives entered the house thev found tbe Dickson woman wom-an lying on the floor in a hall clothed I state, where she had evidently fallen : as soon as shot for her head was cramped under her shoulder in an un. i natural position Very little blood was In evidence but a few drops were scattered over her clothes from herj m mi frli Dr. W. E. Whalen arrive,! shortlj. and after learning that the woman was dead, he attended the old lather Henry Brown, who was bleeding from thi wound In the neshj part of the shoulder fter being bandaged, the wounded man was taken to the Dee hospital to have the bullet removed. Although the wound was painful. It was not serious as he was able to put on his coat after the bandages had been applied Before the undertaker arrived. Detective De-tective Wnrdlaw removed a knife from the waist of the loarl woman' having been duected to search Tor oue which she was known to have carried. Mrs. Phiiiis Lawrence, the keeper of the boarding house, said that she wUs In the back vard at the time Mrs Frohman and Luis Dickson had finished fin-ished their morning and she rushed into the house upon hearing the Dickson woman ' ' Xre v" ready , for the settlement now ' As she neared tbe door, she heard the shots but she was unable to state how manv were fired I'pon opening the door' she saw one woman fall from th, coach of the dining room to the floor and Mrs Frohman shortly "fler left the bouse. Mrs. Lawrence 'hen attended to the old man who had j received the bullet wound. From the other boarders in the house it was learned that Lula DiCk- ison was a woman of the underworld and the police hae knowledge of her ;actlvitN along that line. The boarders board-ers state that the woman has delight-i delight-i ed in inflaming the jealousy of Mrs. Frohman ly telling oi the intimate relations between herself and Mrs. Frohman s husband They knew that j the two had quarreled last eveninj I but did not think seriously of th? , matter When Mrs Frohman was seen at . the city jail this morning, she said 1 always have tried to be a respectable re-spectable woman, bat was led to do this act b the words and actions of 'that woman. She Is a sporting worn-Jan worn-Jan who bus been engaging in her j trade in the front room of our board-(ng board-(ng house and has boasted before me I Of the actions of herself and my hus-j hus-j band. I She related an occurrence of unfaithfulness un-faithfulness on tbe part of niv husband hus-band a few days ago, and she has been tearing m feelings by bringing tip the subject on eer occasion. We had a quarrel last evening and this morning, when I had finished mv breakfast, she asked me if I cared to discuss, the situation further When I declare 1 would proied myself, she rushed at me and reached in herj waist for what I believed was a knife I hurried to my room and secured the revolver and fired while mv father ! tried to separate us I am sorr my j father was shot but I h.-ue given nionev tor him lo be treated at the hospital." Mrs. Frohman was not aware that I th woman had been killed She1 thought she had been injured only. I An evidence that she was close to the dead woman when the bullet was fir. I ed is the fact that the dead woman's dress was powder burned Lula Dickson had been living at the , rooming house for about three months and evidently did not have many friends The police have learned that she has two children with a Mrs. Wilson at 217 East Seventh South street, in Salt Lake City, but Informa- I tion as to whether she is married ' could not be obtained. She Is de- I scribed hv boarders in the house as a I "bulldozer." Edgar Frohman. the husband of the woman w ho di'l the shooting, is a dining din-ing car waiter on the Oregon Short I Line and is now out on his run He was at home last evening and had itried to prevent a quarrel between the! jtwo women. People livinjt n that neighborhood speak of Mrs Frohman with great respect re-spect All the effects of the dead woman (were locked in her large trunk pnd .will be held until the people to whom I they should go can be located he had two rings on her fingers which I appeared to be set with diamonds. oo |