The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-15
KISSED RECORDER.
When He Bound Mrs. Stand
ifer Over for Murder.
JUDGE LOSES HIS HEAD
Shouts from the Bench That People
Who Kissed Him Were Them.
selves Lawbreakers public
Sympathy With Woman.

On the charge of murder, Mrs. VIII
sister, Miss Chapel Whiseuant was
remanded to jail without bail by Re
corder BroyleS in the Atlanta police 4
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 YVES Annie. VIII
iiams, the negro woman who cooks
for D. P. Durham, Of 261 South Bou-k
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, 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 vesys
slowly, and stopped at Z Collins street.
house of i'll fame, where the man
Yo6
about half an hour.
Mrs. Standifer made statement
She was perfectly calm and collected.
She tcld the story Of the shoohngs
and said that she did not know Low
many times she fired, as she had neye-
used pistol before.
Il talked with my sister," she said.
"and she taunted me with the state
ment that my husband loved her. y
begged her to reform, and she laugh
ed in my face. When I found OUT;
that only scorn and derision were 70
be the answer to my pleading, / drew
the pistol and fred at her."
This closed the evidence and At
torney Madison Bell made a 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 shock his finger IN
the face Of Standifer and said:
There sits the real murderer. ~
all ny experience at the bar l have
never heard Of or seen more cold
blooded fellow than this man, who ls3
the cause Of the death of a young
woman. Look at him. He is abso-
lutely Indifferent He has not shed
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 deluded5
sister,
Attorney Westmoreland followed
Mr.. Bell with a few remarks In which
he declared that the recorder should
establish a precedent in Georgia to-
protect the sanctity and purity Oh
the homes. He said If man Lad the
right to kill to protect his home, how
much more had woman the same
right. He referred to the Sanford
case in Rome, in which a man had
to Protect his flreside.
"We 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 Dy
the clerk. Recorder Broyles said N
a loud and clear voice:
"This is a most deplorable affair.
T 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 could
have had them arrested"
"But. your honor" interrupted At
tornev Westmoreland, REMEMBER
what a scandal that would have caus-
ed and that this poor woman thought
| OF that
eyes. that may have been go" re-
i pliei the recorder, "but she has vao.
lated the law and so has the man.
7 will hold him in $1,000 bond for
adultery and fornication. Mrs. stan
differ I will hold fer murder and COM
NIT her to the tower without ball.
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 sucn as
would commit burglary or a nigh
| way robbery if you thought you
wouldn't be caught. You do not care
for the law"