The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-01-31
N ARMS OF DEATH |
Hattie Scarlet and Her Baby Are
Dead.
Ga.tOn Workman, BrOther-in-LaW,
Tells About 1t.
4 LEGISLATOR is IMPLICATED IN 1T
rho Burial VIII Take Place from Hills
borO at Some Time in the
Morning.

there is a thing at best which suggests
,,tv. Not pity alone for the fallen one,
bpt commiseration for her father and her
mother and others who are near and
dear, tied by the strongest bonds on
esrth-the ties of blood and love.
over in the cellar Of the O'Briant store
,oom-the rear end of the cellar facing
in an alley-there is to day to be seen a
spectacle which brings, or which should
bring, to fathers and mothers a thought
full and a guarded care.
The spectacle also calls from those
who believe in humanity, from those who
believe in chastity, from those who be-
eve in virtue and in purity of woman
hood not words Of scOrn for the girl
dead, but bitter denunciation for him
who wrought her ruin.
As to who may be the guilty party, as
to who was the father Of the girls child,
which died in her arms, and she dying
with it, no one until that dread day but
God in heaven will know.
In the remOrselessness of her shame, in
the delicate condition in which she found
herself, after having consented by one
way or another and God knows how, to
become the mere tool and bubble of
man-it is not for THE GLOBE nor is it
Tor any community to attempt to say
what were her thoughts or what her mo-
tives.
In that deep and dire desperation into
which she may have been driven by ma
tnres weird and wonderous laws, she
may, in her ante mortem statement have
said things which she did not mean and
which might serve to injure another.
Below will be found the statement of
thegirl-of Hattie Scarlett, 20 years of
age, who died this morning in cellar in
Durham which was worse than a garret
III clty-and on her arm, also cold in
uealh, was a babe whose father is un
known.
Hattie Scarlet lived within four miles |
u lilIlsbOrO, and the inference Is that |
while Hattie was a sweet faced girl, she |
was also one uneducated. A week ago !
sunday she gave birth to u child, but the !
F'erS and mysteries surrounding such !
cases brought 10 them a ticket from this |
world Of woe, and this is why the mother |
'Da the babe lay cold and beautiful in !
VIC embrace Of death, yet not more beau
""I was the embrace of death than was !
'-al OF the girl, mother about the slender |
Ofm OF her dead child.
lHE GLOBE had received some infOr- |
-"'on concerning this case over two |
week; ago, and while it felt that it should .
positively demand some investigation, it |
'''SIned from so doing from the fact |
'-'' Il knew that since the information
~'' oee1 filed. Squire Gunter had writ
10 the alleged father of the expected
spring, and this alleged father had
'''ui'Sed to come, yet had failed to ma
'siiali1e.
'ns alleged party in this case, apart,
'''I The charges in the affidavit follow
IS so far as we have ever known a
''"'euan and law-abiding citizen.
NO"eVer, as the mother and the child
1ead in the damp and dreary cellar,
'' Squire Gunter tells us that he has
'en lor this alleged father to come,
-e says that he believes he will come
D'sAt' it is only left for THE GLOBE,
0uShel of regrets, to subjoin the
*'"'ng affidavit made by the mother
~ nled with Squire Gun,er on tn. 11,h
JANUARY, A, D. 1898, /