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IKILLSWHOLIDIVORCEDHIMIWilliam Florence- Launch Engineer, Shot to Death byNoah Biship at BayouStreet Home.William Florence, aired 23, a launch engineer employed by the Jett-Mutha Construction Company, was shot and Instantly killed at his home, 765 South Bayou street .this morning agrout 6:30 o’clock by Noah Bishop, aged 38 years, a laborer employed at night at the plant of the Hempstead Lumber Company at Cedar and Tennessee street*. Bishop surrendered atsiyfhe police station'shortly afterwards andif. charged with murder. Both men are former residents of Baldwin county and had been In Mobile about five months and were all living together In the homewhere the killing occurred. Mrs. Florence who Is th« divorced wife of Bishop, was the only eye-witness to the killing. Florence was shot in the right shouldor with a bullet from a 88 caliber revolver. The body was taken In charge by Roche Burke and is being held for instructions.Bishop made the following statement at the polk* .alaUon to a MowanHaaa.ratura-' shortly after being lockedI had been working all night at thetock-down house plant at. Cedar andiTennessee streets and came Into thehouse and asked my former wife, who **«in bed at the time with her husband, ifshe would get up and fix .some break fa*t7telling her that my brother had lighted the fire. Florence jumped up and using an oath said that hUs wife did not have to get up and that he would fix me. I cursed him and told him to get ou^ of the house and 'then I drew my revolver and .shot him T went into the kitchen and told my brother that I shot the man and we both came to the police station.”Bishop Married Woman Whois Mow Florence's Widow.t he was married to theI■ Bishop said t woman who Hf now Florence's widow about eleven years ago and that they separated five years ago. She secured a divorce, he said, and married Florence about six months ago. I was sent for by my former wife several months ago. who told me that she wanted me to bring our three children to Mobile and educate them in the public school* hare, I brought the children here and paid the house rent and expenses of the children and lived In the same house with her and Florence,*' said Bishop.Howard Bishop, brother of the.man who is charged with the killing, made a statement at the police station that his brother paid the* rent for the house and that all of them, meaning himself, his brother and Florence, the wife and three children were living In the same house.Sergeant Joseph Connlck and William Arnold, who made. further Investigation of the killing, went to the Florence home this morning and found the pistol that Bishop is alleged to haver used to do the killing, hidden on a shelf in a clothes closet. The two officers said that there were few articles of furniture in the house.!IiIWoman In Case Is’Nisce of Her First Husband.Mrs. Laura Florence, wife of the dead man and divorced wife, of the alleged slayer, according to a statement, she is said to have made to Detective. Joseph. Lacey, is a niece of her first husband. The detective says that the couple formerly resided at Bay Mlnette and that the marriage was declared null and void on account of the relationship. The detective said that. Mrs., Florence told him that Biahdp came Into her room and demanded that she get up and fix breakfast and that Florence wanted to know what he had to do with her, that the two menwere about to fight after cursing each other and that as Florence was putting on his clothes. Bishop fired the fatal shot.!*11
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The Mobile News Item
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Mon, Dec 03, 1917
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