The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-30
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
JUDGE ROBERT B Triple BLOWS
OUT his BRAINS.


Dependency, on Account Of Sickness
and Consequent Loss Of Practice,
Drove Him to the Fatal act - a
scandalous story About a Female
Doing the Convict Camps as an
Evangelist
ATLANTA, GA, Nov. ga tragedy was
enacted in a Marietta street law Office this
morning, in which Judge Robert 3. Trippe,
a well-known young attorney. took his life.
Judge Tripps went to his Office shortly after
s O'Clock, and in q few minutes fred the
fatal shot, using sdouble-baTrelsd derringer
and putting q bullet in his right temple
The hall went through his head and lodged
near his left ear He was dead before the
people on the same floor could get TO him.
They found him stretched out upon the
floor. His overcoat was still on, his hat
was near by, and the pistol lay at his feet.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
The deceased was son Of Judge Turner
II. Trippe Of Barlow county, who was
superior court judge before the wra, and a
relative Of Judge R r. Trippe. He was a
State university graduate of the class Of
1873. and was judge Of the city council OF
Cartersvile before moving to Atlanta,
which he did ten years ago. He has been in
had health for some time. 70 the dstrimeut
OF his law business, aid the two brought on
a settled dependency which ended in to-
days tragedy. He leaves a wife and three
children, two Of whom were by former
wife. He had policies Of life insurance
amounting to $1,000, which, it is under
stood, will not be resisted.
SCANDAL ABOUT AN EVANGELIST.
Mrs. Wheaton is prison evangelist who
Is now making tour of the convict camps
of Georgia and Alabama. Lately she has
been preaching to the convicts in the Dade
county coal mines, where she created a
favorable impression. After she left there
Supt. Conner received through the mails a
marked COPY of a Toledo paper calling
attention to presumably the same woman,
and announcing her as bad character. 1t
charges that she left her husband
sometime ago TO live with a man named
Raper, and the two have been travelling
over the country, using the cloak Of prison
evangelism TO gain the confidence of com
munities for corrupt purposes. The matter
has been called to the attention of Principal
Keeper Towers. If the charges have foun-
dation he Will forbid Mrs. Wheaton con-
tinuing her tour through the Georgia
camps.
WON'T MEET THE GOVERNOR.
The party Which was to have left here
to meet Gov. Gordon at Chicago failed to
get off. The governor is expected home
Tuesday.
DALE's ALLEGED DOUBLE LIFE.
Rev. Walter f. Dale has severed his con-
nection with the Christian Lndec pending
the investigation of the charges against
him. He may resume work, and he may
not In the afternoon the ministers who
have been sitting the story came together to
hear from other witnesses. Rev. DIR. Nc
Donald, Rev. Mr.. Mitchell, and Rev. Mr..
Jameson of West End constituted the
board. Mr.. Shelby, one Of the gentlemen
MIR. George said knew Nutall in North
Carolina, identified Mr.. Dale as Nutall
Another witness did the same, but when
asked if there was possibility of mis-
take, said:
lob, yes, / may be mistaken, but he looks
like Nutall."
Two witnesses, Mr.. Fetzer and a Mr.,
Faulkner, and another one whose name
could not be ascertained, were intro
duced. They had all known Nutall in
Mr.. Dale, asserted most positively
that he was not Nutall. A dispatch
from Dallas, Tex, was read. 1t was as
follows: 'Mr. Dale came here from Rock
mart, Ga, in 1881, and opened a silver
smith shop. For some time there was but
little seen or heard OF him, as he did not go
into society much. Finally there was a
rumor in the community TO the effect that
there was criminal intimacy existing
between him and a certain married lady in
town, and at the August term Of our
superior court bills of indictment were
preferred against them both. MIR. Dale
then attached himself to the Methodist
Episcopal church. Afterwards. when
superior court commenced in February
following, the bills were both mol. pressed
without trial He afterwards joined the
Baptist church, and was soon, according to
their creed, ordained to the ministry 1t
should be stated, however, in justice to
him, that from the day he attached him
self to the church to the time he left here TO
take charge of his present church, his
walk was orderly and, to all outward ap-
pearances, that Of christian gentleman"
Concerning this dispatch Mr.. Dale said
''It is true that an indictment was found
against me, but that charge was not true.
There was no evidence TO sustain it. |
made three demands for a trial, but could
not get it, and then the case was abandoned.
The records are there and speak for them
selves. The charge was wholly untrue"