The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-06-19

Cruelty MURDERED i'm Their Bed at Atlanta
Ga.-Suspicion Points Strongly to the
Husband and Father as the Murderer
A TeII-taIe Piece of Putty.
ATLANTA, GA, juno Is.
Intense excitement exists in this city
over an assassination which took place at
one O'Clock yesterday morning. There
lives on Ezzard street the family OF
Mr.. Charles Rose, Yardmaster of
the Atlanta aud Charlotte Air
Line Road. Wednesday evening
he left his family, consisting of his wife,
baby and blooming country cousin. Miss
Nanny Frazer, all in good health. At one
O'Clock Miss Frazer gave the alarm of
murder. Her statement was that she was
in sound sleep, from which she was
awakened by what seemed to be the strik-
ing Of a match. Immediately a masked
man ran through her room, blew out the
light and jumped through back window
and escaped. Miss Frazer called TO
her friend, but received no answer. Re-
lighting her lamp she went into Mrs.
Roses room, where a hOrrifying sight
met her gaze. There lay the child fairly
covered with blood, beside it the mother,
stretching out in the agony of death,
with bullet hole through her
brain. Miss Frazer caught the dying
ladys hand, which gave slight pressure,
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house was filed with officers, and later
the husband made his appearance.
It was ascertained that box
had been placed under the Win
dow, upon which the murderer stood
while he cut away the putty and removed
two pieces Of glass, through which he
entered the house. Mr.. Roses pistol lay
on the mantel-piece. This the murderer
secured, and going into the lady's room,
it is supposed that he was rifiing a trunk
when, Mrs. Rose awakening, he placed
the pistol to her temple, fired and ran.
When daylight appeared the mystery
was increased by the discovery that there
must have been two persons connected
with the crime, a man and a woman.
There were steps to and from the
rear fence to the window, MS ii
a woman had been keeping watch
while the man was doing his
work inside. Bloodhounds were placed
upon the trail, but the scent was cold, a
slight rain having fallen, and the hounds
refused to follow. The Coroner sum
moned Jury of twelve leading citizens.
While waiting for meeting of that body
the opinion was freely expressed that the
man who committed the crime must
have been familiar with every detail OF
the house, and supicion began TO be di-
rected against the husband. So strong
did this feeling become that there were
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the best remedy for him. A
burglar would have gone there
armed, and would not have
discovered SO readily a weapon in the
house he was entering. No one but an
inmate could have opened the window in
manner in which 1t was done, and yet this
theory would throw completely upon Miss
Frazer was it not for a woman's steps on
the outside, which argued that 1t must
have been some other woman.
The story of Miss Frazer before the
Coroner's Jury mystifed them, and yet
there was no room to charge her with
guilt. Finally it was developed that Rose
had another love, female barber, named
Miss Suggs, and that he spent most of
his earnings with her
Late in the day, while Rose was under
surveillance, it was noticed that there
was piece of red putty stuck on the seat
of Roses pantaloons, the same as that
which had been removed from the win
dow-pane. This was considered Cllnch-
ing proof, and it may be said that from
that moment he was a prisoner The
whereabouts of the female barber then
became a matter of interest, but she was
not to be found.
After examining witnesses, taking sur.
veys of the premises, etc, the Coro-
ner's Jury felt that there was a deeper
design than burglary in the tragedy,
and ordered the Imprisonment Of the
husband and the arrest of the two
women. The town is full of wild rumOrs.
The investigation will be continued to-
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