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Mr. and Mrs. Webb operated the Pacific Laundry, which was a domicile attached shed on First Street and Rosser Avenue.  
 
Laundry proprietor W. P. Webb told the Chief of Police he wanted to give himself up. He told the Chief that he had grown tired of his wife’s “continual jawing.” Mr. and Mrs. William Webb had been drinking, and were both a little inebriated when the murder took place.  
 
“My wife went out to fetch in one or two sheets from off the clothes line, and was Scolding me as she went out, and while she was doing this, the awful thought came to me. I got a cartridge, and put it in the gun. She went on Scolding me as she came in, so I picked up the gun, and raised it.  
 
She said ‘Now Bill’ and began to scream, which was cut short after I fired. I put the gun down, and Billie came between us with his hands up saying, ‘Papa, Papa! What have you done?’ It was too late, as the Murder was complete. He was sent to Trial.  
 
Source: Brandon a City by G. F. Barker