The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-04-09
wife Killers Crazed by Drink.

There are but few daily newspapers
which fail to chronicle the murder or at.
tempted murder of some woman or child
by iuen crazed by drink. every day in the
year. 1t is painfully monotonous chroni.
cling. and the worst part OF the whole busi.
ness is the helplessness of the victims.
If there were dozen mad dogs in Geor.
gia roaming at large, that bit or attempted
to bite somebody every day, the people in
the vicinity would feel they were doing
good work in the service OF civilization and
for the benefit of humanity to turn out en-
massc and make finish OF the epidemic
of hydrophobia. No matter how much il
cost the county or the State they would
do their best to put an end TO mad dog
brutcs.
Nevertheless. the husband and father Of
a family can place himself in the cate
CORY of mad dogs injected with craze to
kill his wife and children, or any other
person who may rush in to the rescue OF
these helpless ones, and he is let alone
until he does his bloody work. 1t positive.
" fatigues the indignation to see the indif.
ference of public opinion to these daily
atrocities. Human life seems to be the
cheapest thing under the sun. For years
and years a few faithful temperance WON.
en- have petitioned the Georgia Legislature
to erect an inebriate asylum where these
drunkards may be imprisoned until they
are cured of this madness or kept sober un.
til they can be released under furlough
or ticket-ofleave and bond for good beha'
vior.
They have been met by the complaint
that it would be harbor for the drunkard
who would be fed and housed at public
expense. Granting this fact, if fact it be-
would it not have been better to have kent
that miserable creature in lookup who
killed his father-in.law, who did his ut
most to kill his wife and son and finally
killed his own desperate self? This sad
tragedy happened in, the last three days
within fifty miles of Atlanta, and it is sim
ply one of many that we read about every
dav.
Poor womanknd are the everyday vic
tins OF the drink demon, and whether it
is poisoned liquor or a decadence of public
virtue. | am unable to say. but no woman
Is safe in her own home with an inehriato
husband. and she is the prey to vicious
lust on the common highway from drunken
| fiends, as the records testify.
Something must be DONE for no woman
should be compelled to live in the house
| with a habitual drunkard. She should
have some protection.
| When | think of the licenses which are
| sold. the Dermits bought to make demon
| iacs out OF husbands and fathers, feel the
blood run hot in my veins to see the in.
| difference that prevails in this liquor bust
ness. Fifty wears from now the people of
that era will be ashamed to own as their
ancestors a lot of men who would license
the making OF these wife-killers and child
starvers. God help us to see this evil,
The tears filed my ewes as | read OF that
aged father vino met his death in vain
struggle to protect his dauqhter. and her
children from this demoniac drunkard
And vet the demoniac drunlard was a dep
uty sheriff under oath and bond to nre
serve the peace and protect the innocent in
the county he lived in!
What a travesty on our politics, What
a crime before high heaven. such Dretenccs
and shams. 1t is understood known
I publicly stated fact-thc deputy sheriff
was ir the habit of going on sprces"-a
fact so well authorized that his poor wife
felt obliged 10 get away from him and tc
take ler children out OF his reckless patti
| IN life. Because she notified the inehriat Il
| of her resolution she was shot down like q
| dog IN her own house and lay beside the
dead body OF her own honored father
who came in response to her frenzied cal
tor assistance and was brutally murdered.
Why is 1t that nobody helped that WON
m. or protected her from this confirmed
| inebriate who was by some strange mis-
chance fastened upon the whole county as
a deputy sheriff? 1t is time for plain
talk, and that man had no business in
such an office. He was unfit to live in the
same house with that long suffering wife
and her children, There should have beer
some pace OF refuge for this hunted -dowt
woman. or some look.rp for the infrriateC
drunk rd-Mrs. W. II. FELTON,, in the At
lanta journal.