William Lacy
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 19 May 1910, page 2
SHOT-James Walls, 23, barber, shot and instantly killed William Lacy, 35, at his home on Southgate st. between Columbia and Central av. Newport, last night. Both are colored. The wife of Walls is held by the police as a witness. She says her husband had heard that Lacy had talked about him and invited him to their home for supper. the two men sat about the house until about 10 pm, when Walls suddenly charged Lacy with having maligned him.
Lacy denied it and Walls said he would fix him. He went into the rear room to get his revolver. Lacy ran for the rear door, and had some trouble in unlocking it, but finally got out and held the door shut by holding the outside knob. Mrs. Walls says that her husband finally pulled the door open and the men grappled and while fighting the revolver was discharged four times.
Lacy fell dead inside the door and Walls ran down Fourth st. across the Licking Bridge to Covington, where he was later arrested at the home of his mother and lodged in Newport Jail. One bullet had pierced Lacy's heart and the other three had entered his body just underneath that organ. The dead man recently separated from his wife and lived at 832 Putnam st. Coroner Digby will hold an inquest this evening and a preliminary hearing will be given Walls tomorrow in the County Court. The pistol with which Walls did the shooting was recovered by the police this morning, four of the five chambers of the gun being empty, one loaded cartridge remaining.