Columbus Daily Enquirer, Georgia
31 March 1922
ATLANTA WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND
Mrs. Mary Lon* Vinson Shoots and Kills Dr. W. V. Vinson In the Latter's Office On Marietta Street.
ATLANTA, Mar 30 -- Mrs. Cora Lou* Vinson, fourty four, whom a lunacy commission found sane Tuesday when her daughter tried to place her in an asylum; shot and killed her husband, Dr. W. V. Vinson, 68 [65?], in his office on Marietta street here late today.
The shooting, according to the police was a climax to a series of law suits over property between the two who had been separated for several years. Dr. Vinson recently filed suit for divorce, claiming his wife had threatened his life, and she had charged inhumane treatment in a counter petition. Each had been married before.
Mrs. Vinson was held in the county jail without bond on a charge of murder. She shot the physician before he knew she was in the office, the police were told by G. L. Edwards, clerk in a drug store. She had gone to the office in a taxicab and was arrested by two county policemen as she got into the cab to leave.
"I did not intend to kill him, but when I thought about how he had treated me I just shot him," the policemen said she told them when they took her into custody and later they said she declared Dr. Vinson had chided her with being sickly and threatened to kill her unless she deeded some property over to him.
Dr. Vinson was sueing [sic] his wife to recover property which he claimed to have deeded to her. Their divorce was to have come up next Monday.
[The names were typed as they were in the article. A quick check of census records suggests the correct name is Cora Lou.]
