Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-15
| LOVE HER STILL,
Walls SLAYER
FROM CELL
Her Confession That She Loved
Goddard Made Life a Tor
ment, He Cries.
Continued from Page One.


little ones at the home in East ave-
nue., Kirkwood
Il have been married nineteen years"
he said; nineteen years of happiness
surrounded by happy. loving family
a paradise on earth"
Tells of Happy Life.
And now this" he continued bitter
ly This man came between US. IN
I'll four months ago the lives Of my
wife. my children, and me. happy with
them. had flowed along like an IN
troubled brook. I knew Goddard; we
all knew him and thought he was a
friend. neighbor
lone day. about four months ago,
noticed a thing which caused me to
| become observant. I had reasons 10
believe that, in my absence, Goddard
was paying attention to Mrs. Darden.
"One night l could stand it no long
er. ! confronted her and asked her
plainly what Goddard was to her. I
love him. she replied. Just three words
they made my life a torment
! And then followed her declaration
each word cut me to the quick-T love
! him more than love you, more than
! love my home, more than everything.
He is mine
Then followed the separation. Since
then l have been a wanderer in At
! lanta, and every day the determination
had grown stronger to meet this man
face to face and coolly and deliberately
kill him.
Says Wife Defed Him.
When I saw Goddard and my wife
together Thursday afternoon 1 accosted
my wife
What does this mean| l said,
pointing to Goddard.
What does it matter to you?' she
said and she walked away with him.
And / stalked him and killed him that
night.
And today l love her as much as I
did nineteen years ago when she be-
came my wife-more, I believe, for she
is the mother Of my poor little chill
dren"
At Stone Mountain the family Of
Goddard are gathered around the bier
and will this afternoon follow to the
grave the aged mothers favorite child,
and in her sorrow the mother is sure
her boy could not have done The
things Darden has charged him with.
In the meantime little Naomi Darden
is watching over the home in East ave-
nue., Kirkwood, that, until the night
Of the shooting-although the children
say their father was seldom there
was as happy home as would be
found in a days journey.
Girl Rocks Little Cradle.
When Mrs. Darden Is away from
home, which is necessarily often the
last few days, Naomi holds three roll
licking youngsters in check and rocks
the Dardens three months-old baby to
sleep. grooming the songs that are by
no means unfamiliar to her young ears.
Except Naomi the children do not real
ize the seriousness of the position Of
their father but they say they have
no affection for him. Even pretty little
Naomi, his favorite child, has turned
against him.
He has never used mother right"
she sobs, land / just hope he stays in
jail"
Mrs Darden has been TO the city
several times from her home in Kirk
wood 10 confer with her eldest daugh-
ter Mrs. L. c. Pearce, as TO whether It
would he necessary to engage an at
torney and the features of the case in
which her husband has charged her
infidelity as the cause Of his stalking
and shooting to death Goddard the
Stone Mountain stone cutter.
Brothers and the family of Goddard
have engaged Paul Lindsey to prose-
cute the case against Darden, and ac-
tive steps will be taken the first part OF
next week, when a preliminary hearing
viii be had before Judge Ridley, who
issued a warrant charging murder yes
terday afternoon. The case will proba-
bly, be heard Monday or Tuesday Of
next week
The funeral Of Goddard will be held
from Bethel Baptist church. two miles
south of Stone Mountain, tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock. The Granite
Cutters union will act as escort