Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-23
UNHAPPY WOMAN
COURTED DEATH
IN WATER
MAYBELLE McRARY WHOSE LIFE
HAS BEEN ONE FILLED WITH
SENSATION CAME NEAR
ENDING EXISTENCE.

The woman who ATTEMPTED to drown
herself in Proctor's creek Wednesday af-
ternoon proved to be Maybelle McCrary, a
girl we'll known to the police. Within a
couple of hours after the time she was
found she had sufficiently recovered to
tell her rsscuers who she was and where
she lived. Later in the afternoon the
county police took her home.
The life OF Maybelle McCrary has had
many tragic incidents crowded into it.
She first came into public notice through
the shooting of a man by her brother.
The man was shot while sitting on the
front porch of the McCrary residence talk
ing with the girl. Since then she has been
taken in charge more or less frequently
by the police. Last Sunday she was found
wandering in the woods near KirkwoOd.
where she had been all the night before.
She appeared then TO be demented.
The girl is a daughter Of Frank McCrary,
a carpenter, who lives at No. Kirkwood
avenue. IL was Lee McCrary who shot
the man and the man shot was James
Ray. He had called to see the girl and
the boy did not approve Of his attentions.
Getting shotgun he fired upon Ray In
the presence OF the girl. Ray was badly.
though not seriously injured.
The story OF the attempted suicide We'd
nesday was told in The Journal. G.. b.
McCravy, his son-in-law, II. G. Hubbard,
and a nephew, Ed McCravy. noticed
young woman walking along the road be-
low the city dumping grounds early in the
afternoon She carried several packages
and the elder McCravy noticed she had
dropped one.
He informed her Of the fact. The wo-
man regiied that she did not care. Alto
gether the woman acted strangely and the
men after going home decided to return
and see what had become OF her.
Fv-se "a ~ 49,
creek. In a small washed out hole her
body was found. She was apparently dead,
but the men managed to bring her to con-
seriousness after hard work. Hubbard
then came into the city and notified the
police. The other men carried the woman
to the McCravy home about half mile
from where she was found and the ladies
in the family supplied her VITA dry cloth
ing. She is said to have declared at the
McCravy house that she intended to kill
herself or her father.
Girl Wants Death as a Sweet Relief.
But for the watchfulness of Matron
BOhnefield at police headquarters May
belle McCrary, the unfortunate young
woman who attempted TO drown herself
I'm Proctor's creek Wednesday, would
have ended her life by cutting her throat
I'm her cell Friday.
A large knife was found in her posses
sion and she says she intended to cut
her throat. Mrs. Bohnefield noticed
something in the girls hand and asked
what IL was. The woman denied having
anything and before the matron could
get into the cell had concealed IL. A
search was made and a long sharp knife
found. The girl insisted that IL be re-
turned 10 her because she wanted to cut
her throat. The poor girl having fallen
TO a depth that few women ever reach,
has become mentally affected, II is be-
lieved. from grief over her condition.
Thursday she was found by Policeman
Hewell wandering around Grant park
with her clothing not properly adjusted.
Only Wednesday she had attempted to
drown herself and last Sunday she had
been found in the woods near Kirkwood
wandering aimlessly about.
Concealed in the coils OF her long black
hair the girl, struggled some red and yell
low paint powder into the station house
and lasts night painted her face. hands
and arms. Relatives of the girl have
taken blanks for an application for a
writ Of lunacy from the office of Ordi-
nary Wilkinson.