The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-10
KILLS SISTER HUSBAND LOVED
JEALOUS WIFE FIRES FIVE BUL-
LETS INTO GIRLS BODY.

she Had Come Between Vie and My Illus
band; when ] Begged Her to Leave Him
Alone she Gave Me q Cynical Smile
says Murderess- Victim Was Engaged,
ATLANTA, Ga, March 9.-Mrs. Willie w,
Standifer of 2C3 West Alexander street
early this morning went to the home of her
sister, Mrs. d. p. Durham of 2ei South
Boulevard, and after an argument with
Miss Chape Whisenant, her unmarried
sister, shot Miss Whisenant six times,
killing her almost instantly.
The shooting is the outcome Of a letter
which Edward Marion Standifer, the hus-
han Of the woman, is alleged to have writ
ten to Miss Whisenant, her sister. Going
to the home Of Mrs. Durham about 7:45
o'clock, Mrs. Standifer demanded that
Miss Whisenant go to her home with her
and apologize to her. Miss Whisenant
at first refused to do so, but afterward said
shewould go as soon as she could get dressed.
You will go now" Mrs. Standifer said
to Miss Whisenant.
She drew a pistol and shot her once
The second bullet crashed through a mirror
before which Miss Whisenant was combing
her hair. The young woman jumped into
the bed and covered herself. Going TO the
bed Mrs. Standifer pulled the covering off
her sister, grasped her by the arm and
fired four shots into her left breast in rapid
succession. Miss Whisenant died in a few
minutes.
1t is said that Mrs. Standifer called at the
South Boulevard house last night and asked
for her sister, but the girl was not at home.
She returned again this morning and found
he r in bed, and it was in the bedroom that
the shooting took place. Mrs. Standifer
is "a years old and her sister was 10.
After the shooting Mrs. Standifer went
to her own home, but she afterward sur
rendered to the police.
Mrs. Standifer is the wife of Edward Marion
Standifer, bookkeeper for the American
Canning Company. She is O in prison
with her baby, only a few months old.
She was a daughter of Ross Wood Whisen-
ant, who lived at 434 Washington street
until his death. Mr.. Whisenant came to
Atlanta from Jacksonville, Ala, and was a
large planter.
The murdered girl was engaged to be
married next Wednesday to j. Edward
Sitton, a prominent young man of Seneca,
S. c..
Edward Marion Standifer, the husband,
was also placed under arrest.
Mrs. Standifer declares she too the life
of her younger sister because she had come
between herself and her husband. After
taking her vengeance, Mrs. Standifer, with
out manifesting the slightest sign Of ner-
vousness, boarded a car and went to the
office of her husband and said: Il have
killed %Chappell."
Mrs. Standifer said: Il nave pleaded
with both my husband and sister TO cease
their sinful attentions to one another, but
without result.
Time and again l warned them that /
could not for my baby's sake, il for no other
reason, permit a scandal, and they always
promised that they would change their
conduct, but these promises were made
only 10 % broken.
This morning | went to my sisters home
and begged her to let my husband alone.
She gave me only a cynical smile. Their |
put the pistol to her left breast and fired
several times. | am not sorry"
Standifer admits he loved his young
sister-in-law, and that she loved, him but
says there was nothing improper in their
1t has been learned that Stand
ifer and the dead girl had been out in a car
rage until 2 o'clock this morning.
The parties involved are prominent.
Staudifer's parents live in Alabama, where
his uncle is a United States Marshal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whisenant both died two
years ago, leaving valuable property to be
shared by the murdered girl and her sisters.