The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
FOURTH DEATH OF
 STEVENS TRAGEDY Little Jane Gives Up Brave
 Fight for Life
NURSE WILL RECOVER
Children Saturday Morning and Commits Suicide-FunernIs to
 He Held This Afternoon

Little 2O-months-old Jane Stevens, who was shot through the head Saturday morning by her demented father. died yesterday morning about o'clock at the Long & Hardness inlrmary, where the little one, with a bullet wound through her head had made a remarkable fight for life. It was stated at the Hillman hospital that the injured nurse, Priscilla Marshall, had gained consciousness and was expected to fully recover The nurse was shot by the same bullet that killed the baby, Sis as she was called. it being supposed that the bullet hit the bedstead and glanced striking the nurse in the right temple.
 The death of the baby, Jane, Is the fourth in the repulsive murders and sui- eide that took place Saturday morning at the Stevens cottage at 5l4 North Six teenth street, when Engineer George Stevens attempted to kill his whole fam fly of three girls. boy and himself
 Stevens sat up all night staring into the grate fire in his room before he made up his mind to commit the crueest and most bloody crime that has happened in this part of the country for years. He finally arose. blew out the brains of his two daughters Blanche and Elizabeth. mortally wounded the baby, Jane. and when blocked in his attempt to murder the last of his children, his son, George, Stevens killed himself.
 It is thought that the killing of him self and three children was the result of 1,t- It is claimed that Stevens was much worried over rearing his children with out the care of their mother He was a very conservative man, however; had very few friends. and did not speak of his troubles to anyone, It is probable that something else besides the care of his children was worrying him. but what 1t was will probably never be known.
 Stevens intention was to kill all of his family. This was prevented by the in tervention of. his two brothers-in-law J. w. Summers and Ed G. Wynne. It was when Stevens saw that he would be overpowered by the two men that he took his life before killing George. When MT. Summers rushed into the room where the tragedy was enacted, he saw the father casually aiming at the head of the child and the boy kneeling in his little bed. his hands clasped above him and praying to his father not to kill him.
 Stevens was an industrious man and was well thought of by his friends. It is supposed that he suddenly bscame in- sane.
 The funeral of the three murdered daughters and the suicide father will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the residence of MT. Stevens father, Robert Stevens, 800 North Sixteenth street. The funeral service will be in charge of the odist church, assisted by the Rev. R. D. Tyler of the Norwood Methodist church The funeral services will be pub lie and the friends of the dead are in- vited. But the interment will be private. as it was so requested by the immediate family Interment will be in Elmwood cemetery.
 Those requested to act as pallbearers are: Engineers J. s. Powell, J. D. Jessie and E. M. Chase. and private citizens Dr. George NJ Morrow, Robert Jemison and z. l.. Nabers.
 George Stevens was engineer on the Louisville and Nashville railroad and had been working steadily up until two days before the tragedy took place. He was apparently in good health and com fort a hla circumsfanceS