The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-28
THE MURDERESS' STORY.
JULIA FORCES STATEMENT GIVEN
TO THE PUBLIC.

She T6K65 Up her Lie From the
Time She Was Born-Her Mother
Alleged to Have Had An Unnatural
Hatred for Her From the First-Her
Life at Home Pictured as Made q
Burden to Her.
ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. q. - Miss Julia
Forces statement of the causes which led
her to kill her two sisters, Florence and
Minnie, on Saturday has been given to the
public through her attorneys, to whom the
document was delivered to-day by Chief Of
Police Connolly. Opinion is divided as to
the mental responsibility of the woman who
committed she shocking homicide, in view
Of the publication of the family trouble,
real or imaginary, contained in the state
ment, the writing Of which was begun
year ago and finished few
hours before the tragedy. A
warrant charging Miss Force with murder
was sworn out to-day by Chief Connolly,
and later the prisoners brother and mother
took out a writ Of lunacy, upon which she
will be tried tomorrow before the ordinary.
Miss Forces statement is a remarkable pro-
duction, and has added fresh fire to the SEN
sation produced by the tragedy. The uu-
fortunate woman believes that from her
birth she was the especial object of her
mothers hate, and throughout her life dis
liked and mistreated by her brothers and
sisters.
OPENING OF HER STORY.
ITO any one who may read this story Of
trouble,n she begins, II would say that
where so many lives are so closely inter
mingled, it is often difficult to preserve
clearness in recital. But will try to fol~
low each separately to certain points. As
ID Is my trouble which l wish understood,
will begin with myself" Then referring to
her infancy she says her black nanny"
gave her the details of her birth. 1.-TWO or
three months before ! was born mother
developed an unsuitable appetite for
the coarsest food, condiments to an East
India degree of fiery seasoning. l was
born an apparently healthy child, mothers
morbid taste continuing against the doc
tors advice (who told her she would kill
herself and child If indulged in. When
was about 10 weeks old my body beclme
spotted into bolls, which breaking instead
of healing, spread into discharging sores,
covering my entire person except my face.
Following this paragraph is a narrowing
description of alleged cruelty and neglect
on the part OF the mother of the homicide
my eyes became frightfully infamed aud
from that time have never ceased to be a
source Of modification, detriment and pain
TO me. and this owe to my mother.
CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN RIDICULED.
soften in after years she would gibe me
about it. The inflammation of the lids pre-
bo
she said to me- laughing heartily, as IL she
thought she very witty L declare, Julia
yon look ridioulous-exactly like a house
without blinds, and again: You ugly thing,
/ should think your face would hurt
you There was never any considera
ton from her OF my hurt feelings" ."
From her mother the statement
follows to the death Of Miss Forces father
who had, she says, been her only friend.
His business was left to the sons for the
family's benefit. But the brothers soon
began to complain of the care of support
ing the family and Julia left home TO sup
port herself and was away for year, when
her brother Allie came to her and brought
her back. 1t was then, she states, that her
real life of drudgery and cruel treatment
S0Noh' AoAo o0"SO AOA ASE younger slbkeT5
and kept house. In return her sisters made
life miserable
WHY SHE DIDN'T TELL HER BROTHERS,. a
"We had all determined that none of the
difficulties and Quarrels of the females
should be brought to the notice of the men
at the store, thinking they had enough TO
contend with there. I believe, with after
experience, that 1t was a mistake. They
would have been, must have been,
Just in their decisions afterward.
But after all one cannot tell
This do know, that among themselves for
an insult men will fight, for a growl or
snarl they will retort with q curse, for one
annoyance they will do many dlsagreeable
things. Let man quarrel with another
and retorts more or less serious follow. But
tell them of the daily annoYances, quarrels,
acts OF spite and meanness of a woman
which makes the happiness of family
impossible and they pass it by as of little
Importance. In other words woman must
stand daily what they will not bear one
hour. Florence became worse and worse,
more and more unbearRhle. When she was
angry with me she had two ways of show
ing it, Any housekeeper will understand
now unbearable they were"
FIGHT WITH HER SISTER.
Describing scene between herself and
Florence, growing out of a protest on her
part against some insult Of the latter Miss
Force wrote "She drew her hand back
and slapped my face with all her strength,
the print OF her fingers remaining for hours.
had never received blow in all my life
My father had always said that his children
should never be slapped in the face; that 10
was an indignity he would never suffer
them to endure. l was speechless with as
tonishment for few moments after the
blow, and stood gazing at Florence. Sne
gave one OF her ugly laughs Then the
temper which | had inherited from my
father and mother took possession of me,
and catching her, would have thrown her
out Of the window, but fortunately for us
Doth she fell over q chair, and in disen-
tangliDg her / had moment to think
and turning her over, gave her
one OF the worst spankings
she ever had. When mother returned and
heard OF it she did not blame Florence at
all, but poured out all her wrath on me.
Later on, when l reproached her with the
injustice that she had always treated me
with, she said: Il have gone on my knees to
Florence and begged her to behave herself,
put l can do nothing with her; 1 have no
influence over her, The day after Florence
slapped my face my mother was talking and
laughing with her as if nothing had ham