The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-03-16
CROWD KISSED
POLICE JUDGE
When He Bound Woman Over For
Murder Of Erring Sister.
TEMPER OvERCAME HIM
Shouted From Bench That Hissers
Were Themselves Lawbreakers at
Heart Trial Most Sensational.

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lie Standifer, who shot and killed her
sister, Miss Chapel Whisenant was
remanded to Jail without bail by Re
corder Broyles in the Atlanta police
court Saturday afternoon, and Marion
Standifer the cause of the shooting,
was held in a $1,000 bond for adul-
terry.
The investigation by the recorder
was replete with sensational features.
Spectators crowded into the room
until every space was full and many
stood behind the recorders desk.
The first witness was Annie Will
Iiams, the negro woman who cooks
for d. P. Durham, of 261 South Bou-
levard, at whose home the killing
took place. She was followed by Mr..
and Mrs. Durham. Mr.. Durham made
lengthy statement in which he said
that Standifer had been paying at
tention to Miss Whisenant for long
time He said that Mrs. Standifer was
terribly jealous. The next witness
was James BilbrO, a negro who drove
the carriage in which Standifer and
Miss Whisenant rode on the night pre-
ceding the tragedy. He said he carried
the couple on a long drive, going very
slowly, and stopped at Z Collins street,
a house Of i'll fame, where the man
and woman got out and remained
about half an hour.
Mrs. Standifer made statement
She was perfectly calm and collected.
She told the story of the shooting,
and said that she did not know how
many times she fired, as she had never
used a pistol before.
81 talked with my sister" she said,
"and she tainted me with the state
ment that my husband loved her. |
begged her to reform, and she laugh
ed in my face. When l found out
that only scorn and derision were 10
be the answer to my pleading, l drew
the pistol and fired at her."
This closed the evidence and At
torney Madison Bell made talk to
| the recorder.
When he said that no twelve men
in the state would find her guilty OF
murder there was so much applause
that the clerk had to rap for or
der.
Attorney Bell shook his finger III
! the face Of Standifer and said:
There sits the real murderer. In
all my experience at the bar | have.
never heard of or seen a more cold
| bIooded fellow than this man, who is
| the cause of the death of young,
woman. Look at him. He is abso-
| lutely Indifferent He has not she'd
! q tear or shown the least emotion.
There is only one regret in this sad
affair and it is that the enraged wife
did not turn her pistol upon her recre-
ant husband instead of her deluded
sister"
Attorney Westmoreland followed
Mr.. Bell with few remarks in which
! he declared that the recorder should
establish a precedent in Georgia 10
protect the sanctity and purity OF
the homes. He said if man had the
right to kill to protect his home, no"
much more had a woman the same
right. He referred to the Sanford
case in Rome, in which a man had.
to protect his freside.
eve have an unwritten law in the
SOUTH" he said, land to that law we
now appeal"
Applause again broke out in the.
court room, which was suppressed by
the clerk. Recorder Broyles said IN
loud and clear voice:
This is a most deplorable AFFAIR
I deeply sympathize with the woman
! but the law is the law and we must
respect it. If her husband and her
sister had violated the law she coulu
have had them arrested"
But, your honor" interrupted AZ
torney Westmoreland, remember
what a scandal that would have caus-
ed, and that this poor woman thought
of that"
Yes, that may have been So" re-
piled the recorder, "but she has Yio-
lated the law and so has the man
will hold him in $1,000 bond for
adultery and fornication. Mrs. stan
differ l will hold for murder and COM
nit her to the tower without bail"
There was loud kissing in the court
room, and the clerk raped for or
! der.
you people who have Kissed me-
called out the recorder, ARE such as
would commit a burglary or hlgn7
way robbery if you thought you
| .. --.-t-4 w. IL not care