30 December 1921
Columbus Ledger - Enquirer (Georgia)
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MAN WHO SHOT NEGRO WOMAN BEING SOUGHT
Willie B. Williams, Negress, Lies in Hospital, Wounded, Supposedly at Hands of Mell Bowman
Willie B. Williams, negro woman, just before 12 o'clock last night, was painfully shot in the left side, supposedly by Mell Bowman, negro, at her home near the intersection of Fourth street and Fifth avenue.
The woman was carried to the city hospital where the chances for her recovery and her demise are about equal, according to last reports. Mean while the police want Mell Bowman on a charge of assault with intent to murder, and are making efforts to apprehend him.
The victim of what is supposed to have been a quarrel between Bowman and Willie B. Williams was not able to give an account of the events leading up to the shot which found a place in her side, but others living in the neighborhood, which is settled largely with negroes, supplied some of the information.
