The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-06
HARVEY TELLS OF HIS CRIME.
HIS WIFE's UNFAITHFULNESS
DROVE HIM TO IT.

An Alleged Conspiracy between His
wife and Another Man TO Ruin His
16-Year-OId Daughter the Last
straw-LearninE of IL He Decided
to Kill Both the Nan and His Wife,
He Accuses Well Known Men Of In
timacy with the Woman Now
Dead.
Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 5.-The trial Of DR..
Louis Harvey for the murder Of his wife,
whom he shot down within a few yards OF
her house on South Pryor street las,
spring. was concluded to-day. except the
charge to the jury. which will be given
tomorrow. No evidence was introduced
by the defense but the prisoners state
ment was highly sensational
DR.. Harvey defended his act by declar-
ing that his wife had not only been I'M
faithful to him, but she had entered into
a compact with a man named +. =.
Finkel of the Georgia Glass Works, to
ruin his little daughter. Ethel, who was
the principal witness in the case to-day.
In order to save his child from ruin at
the hands of a depraved mother and "A
villianous man. he said. he had killed the
mother in a mt of mingled rage and des-
pair and would have killed the man if he
could have found him.
While the statement was being read.
Ethel the pretty l6-year-Old girl who
was so deeply Interested in il all. sat
by the prosecuting attorney with down
cast eyes and a crimson hush on her
face.
Il believe Ethel to be as pure as snow,
and i killed my wife because / thought
] could save her, was the mai sem
tence in the prisoners sensational state
ment.
The testimony in the case was of an
uninteresting character, except the ap-
pearance on the stand Of Miss Ethel
Aanvey, the daughter, who has played
such a tragis part in the case all the
way through. II was she VINO brought
about the reconciliation between her
father and mother, only to see the latter
shot down before her eyes, ana later
to hear her father relate that he took
her mothers life to save ner from lie
The girls testimony which was given
with much embarrassment and between
frequent sobs was mainly description
of the meeting on the street on the night
of the murder, she being the only actual
eve witness. and of the domestic relations
in the unhappy family, with an identnca-
ton of several wen known men, VINO,
Harvey in his statement, declares, We're
intimate with his wife. The names OF
these men created a sensation in the court
room and their part in the case has been
widely discussed about the hotels ana
public places tonight.
has been well known in the city, said that
he was married to his wife twenty years
ago She was Miss MOllie Mitchell, the
beautiful daughter of well-to-do parents,
who still live in this city, on South Pryor
street.
me young wife was too fond of other
mems attentions and IL was not long before
there was a temporary arrangement.
Harvey says his troubles began while he
was working for G.. V. Gress. president OF
the Gress Lumber Company. lie went to
- 40 20, 1an mil In o.
getcd that he bring mis- wife down there
and ne finally did SO. Next he was employ
ed at the Jacobs pharmacy, his wife draw
ing his salary. Then on account OF trouble
with her, he went to Chicago. He sus-
pected her fidelity and upon investiga-
ton found that she frequently had money
that he could not account for. In August,
1893, when he came back to Atlanta. Han
vey said he found that his wife was being
visited by Frank Coker, a well known
banker SsT bed that Too he had and sent h %ne be
would visit her and remain late at night.
He also alleged that old Man Coker,"
as +. NJ Coker, head of the bank of the
State of Georgia" is designated, had been
intimate with her. Mr.. Cocker, the pris-
oner declared, has since made efforts to
get back from him notes that he wrote
Harvey then rehearsed his wanderings
over the face of the earth on account OF
his troubles with his wife, finally his re-
turn to her from England and a recon-
citation and mutual confessions and for
giveness, this reconciliation having been
brought about by Ethel who arranged
for a meeting between her father and
mother at the cemetery Soon, however,
he said, he found that his wife was per-
sistent in her unfaithfulness, and he
mentioned the name Of George
Stiles, a well-known railroad man.
He also found, he alleges,
that his wife had engaged a house on
Lloyd street, together with the man Fin
kle for the purpose of sending Ethel
there to be ruined by him. On the dis
coyery of this, he declared that he hunted
Finkle up to kill him, but did not do so
when he promised to leave the town az
once. Finkle did not leave, however, ana
in despair at the designs which he be-
leved he and his wife had upon his daugh-
ter, the prisoner said he determined to
kill them both. He went in search OF
Finkle, but could not find him. but car
RED out his purpose with regard to his
wife, shooting her down upon the street,
first imploring her to give up the man,
Finkle and her evil life.
Harvey admitted his own dissolute char
acter but declared that his trouble with
his wife was the cause of his dissipation
The publication of the sensational state
Inent this afternoon has excited public
interest in the case to a high degree, ana
the court room will doubtless be unable
to accommodate half the crowd that will
assemble there tomorrow to hear the
charge to the jury.