News-Star--April 09, 1947
Services for Mrs. Lucille Elledge Adams, who died at a hospital Tuesday afternoon a short time after she received a bullet wound in her left chest, were held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were held at Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel with Rev. C. Roger Johnson pastor of Central Baptist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Riverview Burial Park. Mrs. Adams was the wife of J.R. (Rudy) Adams, a city bus driver, who failed in what police said was a suicide attempt here last February 01. The shooting yesterday occurred at 3016 Lee avenue while Mrs. Adams was alone at home, it was reported. Her mother whom she was staying while her husband is a patient in a Baton Rouge hospital was said to have gone to a neighborhood grocery store, and returned home to find her daughter in a dying condition on the bathroom floor. Desk Sergeant George Wood, at police headquarters, received a call on the case at 12:37 o'clock and immediately dispatched police Captain Frank Pettit and officer M.L. Peters to the scene. The officers said Mrs. Elledge was the first person to reach her daughter and helped her to a bed, after that Sammie Sax, living on the Dixie-Overland highway, West Monroe, was the first person outside the family to appear on the scene, and that Sax had quickly realized the young woman's condition and instructed that an ambulance and a doctor be summoned while he administered first aid. Police said Mrs. Adams had been shot once with a German Luger pistol, the bullet striking just above the heart. The pistol was reported found under the wash basin in the bathroom, and the discharged shell was under the bathtub. A Mulhearn ambulance rushed Mrs. Adams to St. Francis Sanitarium where she died a few minutes later, it was said. No cause was given for Mrs. Adams action, but she was believed to have been despondent since her husband attempted to take his life by discharging a load of birdshot from a shotgun into his face. The blast took off his lower jaw, and he was in a critical condition for some time at Conway Memorial Hospital here. Since his recovery from the wound, Adams had been in a Baton Rouge hospital where he is undergoing plastic surgery operation on his face. Sax, as the first outside witness to reach the scene, made a written statement to police in which he declared, " I had just driven my boss to dinner, and had stopped at the small café at the corner of Thomas and Lee avenue for something to drink. While there I heard a muffled sound followed by hysterical screaming coming from close by…and on rushing out of the café, I knew that the screams had come from the house, located next door to the café on Lee avenue, when I entered the house an elderly lady was screaming something about her daughter, with a mention of poison. I immediately went into the front bedroom where I found the victim…lying half off the bed… examining the place where blood was coming through the dress I saw a large hole…made by a large bullet..I immediately had an ambulance and a doctor called while I administered first aid in the form of towel compresses and finally using wash cloths made damp to aid in coagulation. Mrs. Adams, who was 31 years old is survived by her husband; one child, Glen Lee Adams; a brother, Lawrence Elledge and her mother, Mrs. Eva Elledge, all of Monroe. Pallbearers at the service for Mrs. Adams, Wednesday were Bert Coverdale, E.F. Brown, Joe Airaldi, Louis Savanna, Walter Ottendorffer, Sam Gaingame, and U.W. Pickens.
Services for Mrs. Lucille Elledge Adams, who died at a hospital Tuesday afternoon a short time after she received a bullet wound in her left chest, were held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were held at Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel with Rev. C. Roger Johnson pastor of Central Baptist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Riverview Burial Park. Mrs. Adams was the wife of J.R. (Rudy) Adams, a city bus driver, who failed in what police said was a suicide attempt here last February 01. The shooting yesterday occurred at 3016 Lee avenue while Mrs. Adams was alone at home, it was reported. Her mother whom she was staying while her husband is a patient in a Baton Rouge hospital was said to have gone to a neighborhood grocery store, and returned home to find her daughter in a dying condition on the bathroom floor. Desk Sergeant George Wood, at police headquarters, received a call on the case at 12:37 o'clock and immediately dispatched police Captain Frank Pettit and officer M.L. Peters to the scene. The officers said Mrs. Elledge was the first person to reach her daughter and helped her to a bed, after that Sammie Sax, living on the Dixie-Overland highway, West Monroe, was the first person outside the family to appear on the scene, and that Sax had quickly realized the young woman's condition and instructed that an ambulance and a doctor be summoned while he administered first aid. Police said Mrs. Adams had been shot once with a German Luger pistol, the bullet striking just above the heart. The pistol was reported found under the wash basin in the bathroom, and the discharged shell was under the bathtub. A Mulhearn ambulance rushed Mrs. Adams to St. Francis Sanitarium where she died a few minutes later, it was said. No cause was given for Mrs. Adams action, but she was believed to have been despondent since her husband attempted to take his life by discharging a load of birdshot from a shotgun into his face. The blast took off his lower jaw, and he was in a critical condition for some time at Conway Memorial Hospital here. Since his recovery from the wound, Adams had been in a Baton Rouge hospital where he is undergoing plastic surgery operation on his face. Sax, as the first outside witness to reach the scene, made a written statement to police in which he declared, " I had just driven my boss to dinner, and had stopped at the small café at the corner of Thomas and Lee avenue for something to drink. While there I heard a muffled sound followed by hysterical screaming coming from close by…and on rushing out of the café, I knew that the screams had come from the house, located next door to the café on Lee avenue, when I entered the house an elderly lady was screaming something about her daughter, with a mention of poison. I immediately went into the front bedroom where I found the victim…lying half off the bed… examining the place where blood was coming through the dress I saw a large hole…made by a large bullet..I immediately had an ambulance and a doctor called while I administered first aid in the form of towel compresses and finally using wash cloths made damp to aid in coagulation. Mrs. Adams, who was 31 years old is survived by her husband; one child, Glen Lee Adams; a brother, Lawrence Elledge and her mother, Mrs. Eva Elledge, all of Monroe. Pallbearers at the service for Mrs. Adams, Wednesday were Bert Coverdale, E.F. Brown, Joe Airaldi, Louis Savanna, Walter Ottendorffer, Sam Gaingame, and U.W. Pickens.
News-Star--April 09, 1947
Services for Mrs. Lucille Elledge Adams, who died at a hospital Tuesday afternoon a short time after she received a bullet wound in her left chest, were held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were held at Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel with Rev. C. Roger Johnson pastor of Central Baptist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Riverview Burial Park. Mrs. Adams was the wife of J.R. (Rudy) Adams, a city bus driver, who failed in what police said was a suicide attempt here last February 01. The shooting yesterday occurred at 3016 Lee avenue while Mrs. Adams was alone at home, it was reported. Her mother whom she was staying while her husband is a patient in a Baton Rouge hospital was said to have gone to a neighborhood grocery store, and returned home to find her daughter in a dying condition on the bathroom floor. Desk Sergeant George Wood, at police headquarters, received a call on the case at 12:37 o'clock and immediately dispatched police Captain Frank Pettit and officer M.L. Peters to the scene. The officers said Mrs. Elledge was the first person to reach her daughter and helped her to a bed, after that Sammie Sax, living on the Dixie-Overland highway, West Monroe, was the first person outside the family to appear on the scene, and that Sax had quickly realized the young woman's condition and instructed that an ambulance and a doctor be summoned while he administered first aid. Police said Mrs. Adams had been shot once with a German Luger pistol, the bullet striking just above the heart. The pistol was reported found under the wash basin in the bathroom, and the discharged shell was under the bathtub. A Mulhearn ambulance rushed Mrs. Adams to St. Francis Sanitarium where she died a few minutes later, it was said. No cause was given for Mrs. Adams action, but she was believed to have been despondent since her husband attempted to take his life by discharging a load of birdshot from a shotgun into his face. The blast took off his lower jaw, and he was in a critical condition for some time at Conway Memorial Hospital here. Since his recovery from the wound, Adams had been in a Baton Rouge hospital where he is undergoing plastic surgery operation on his face. Sax, as the first outside witness to reach the scene, made a written statement to police in which he declared, " I had just driven my boss to dinner, and had stopped at the small café at the corner of Thomas and Lee avenue for something to drink. While there I heard a muffled sound followed by hysterical screaming coming from close by…and on rushing out of the café, I knew that the screams had come from the house, located next door to the café on Lee avenue, when I entered the house an elderly lady was screaming something about her daughter, with a mention of poison. I immediately went into the front bedroom where I found the victim…lying half off the bed… examining the place where blood was coming through the dress I saw a large hole…made by a large bullet..I immediately had an ambulance and a doctor called while I administered first aid in the form of towel compresses and finally using wash cloths made damp to aid in coagulation. Mrs. Adams, who was 31 years old is survived by her husband; one child, Glen Lee Adams; a brother, Lawrence Elledge and her mother, Mrs. Eva Elledge, all of Monroe. Pallbearers at the service for Mrs. Adams, Wednesday were Bert Coverdale, E.F. Brown, Joe Airaldi, Louis Savanna, Walter Ottendorffer, Sam Gaingame, and U.W. Pickens.
Services for Mrs. Lucille Elledge Adams, who died at a hospital Tuesday afternoon a short time after she received a bullet wound in her left chest, were held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, were held at Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel with Rev. C. Roger Johnson pastor of Central Baptist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Riverview Burial Park. Mrs. Adams was the wife of J.R. (Rudy) Adams, a city bus driver, who failed in what police said was a suicide attempt here last February 01. The shooting yesterday occurred at 3016 Lee avenue while Mrs. Adams was alone at home, it was reported. Her mother whom she was staying while her husband is a patient in a Baton Rouge hospital was said to have gone to a neighborhood grocery store, and returned home to find her daughter in a dying condition on the bathroom floor. Desk Sergeant George Wood, at police headquarters, received a call on the case at 12:37 o'clock and immediately dispatched police Captain Frank Pettit and officer M.L. Peters to the scene. The officers said Mrs. Elledge was the first person to reach her daughter and helped her to a bed, after that Sammie Sax, living on the Dixie-Overland highway, West Monroe, was the first person outside the family to appear on the scene, and that Sax had quickly realized the young woman's condition and instructed that an ambulance and a doctor be summoned while he administered first aid. Police said Mrs. Adams had been shot once with a German Luger pistol, the bullet striking just above the heart. The pistol was reported found under the wash basin in the bathroom, and the discharged shell was under the bathtub. A Mulhearn ambulance rushed Mrs. Adams to St. Francis Sanitarium where she died a few minutes later, it was said. No cause was given for Mrs. Adams action, but she was believed to have been despondent since her husband attempted to take his life by discharging a load of birdshot from a shotgun into his face. The blast took off his lower jaw, and he was in a critical condition for some time at Conway Memorial Hospital here. Since his recovery from the wound, Adams had been in a Baton Rouge hospital where he is undergoing plastic surgery operation on his face. Sax, as the first outside witness to reach the scene, made a written statement to police in which he declared, " I had just driven my boss to dinner, and had stopped at the small café at the corner of Thomas and Lee avenue for something to drink. While there I heard a muffled sound followed by hysterical screaming coming from close by…and on rushing out of the café, I knew that the screams had come from the house, located next door to the café on Lee avenue, when I entered the house an elderly lady was screaming something about her daughter, with a mention of poison. I immediately went into the front bedroom where I found the victim…lying half off the bed… examining the place where blood was coming through the dress I saw a large hole…made by a large bullet..I immediately had an ambulance and a doctor called while I administered first aid in the form of towel compresses and finally using wash cloths made damp to aid in coagulation. Mrs. Adams, who was 31 years old is survived by her husband; one child, Glen Lee Adams; a brother, Lawrence Elledge and her mother, Mrs. Eva Elledge, all of Monroe. Pallbearers at the service for Mrs. Adams, Wednesday were Bert Coverdale, E.F. Brown, Joe Airaldi, Louis Savanna, Walter Ottendorffer, Sam Gaingame, and U.W. Pickens.
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