Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
SObs Out Her Dread Of Brother
in-Law as She FondIes Little
Niece.
ACCUSING FATHER IS GRIM
Determined to Pursue Case to
End, but MeIts When He Talks
Of His Daughter.
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.


MILNER, GA, Oct. 1.-THE mys-
terious death of Mrs. Sallie Lou Bar
ron. whose young husband, DR.. Carey
A. Barron, is in Jail in McDonough
accused of poisoning her, came as
the tragic climax to a warning from
her sister, Mrs G. w. Maddox, ac-
cording to Mrs Maddoxs statement
to- day.
Mrs. Maddox the wife of a promi-
nent Miner cotton dealer, says she
told her younger sister in the latter
part Of March that she would be dead
in six months if she went back to her
husband. Mrs. Barron and her hus-
band had been separated since Janu-
airy % He deserted her, 1t is said,
for another woman. .
It was but little more than six
months later that the elder sisters
prediction of death came true.
Four Children Motherless.
Il Just felt that DR.. Barron would
Kill my poor sister" sobbed Mrs.
Maddox. as she sat on the front
porch of her home half a mile from
Miner, her arm around pretty Dor
othy Barron, the 2-year- old daughter
Of the dead woman.
There are three other little children
left motherless by the strange death
of the former Miner girl. They are
being cared for by Dr. j. NJ. F. Bar
ron, father OF the accused husband.
whose home at Liberty Hill, Pike
County, is but five miles distant from
the home of w. R s. Mann. a pros
porous farmer and the accusing IA
Their Of the dead woman.
I've oil Of
the Iann family. thinks DIR. Barron
TOOK the life of his young wife, and
as she related the story of her fruit
less efforts to keep her sister from
going back to the man who once, she
SAYS, had spurned her love for that Of
anoti or woman. cried out for venge-
ante ~
IF Sallie Lou had only listened
10 me, she would be alive today" she
cried; L''but she loved that inhuman
husband and she would take no heed.
1t was not alone but father and all
of the family feared that man. My
heart sank wien Il saw that Sallie
Lou had yielded to his words of per-
suasion and was going again into his
clutches, When / told her she would
not be alive IN six months, she mere
ly laughed at me.
"'Oh, sister, I'm not afraid Of him;
be- won't hurt me- she replied. She
told me that he loved her and de-
Clared she loved him Better than any
thing in the world sOf course, there
was nothing else for me to do. She
and DR.. Barron left here and moved
TO McDonough II"
Counted the Months.
Il just watched the time and count
ed the months When the sixth
month had passed, remembered my
warming, and. still felt that something
get away from that, dread. When I
heard Wednesday a week ago that
sister had been taken suddenly Ill,
lump came into my throat.
Il believed that this was the be-
ginning of the end and FASTENED to
her side. ] was not surprised at her
death. That man poisoned my sister
S sure as the world, and he should
pay the penalty. I'll never rest until
Justice has been done for this crime.
He had my sister fooled; that's all.
If he loved her as he made her be-
iieve, why did he rush out the vety
next day after her funeral and mar
Ty another woman? Could anything
be more Yheaftless? D. Oh, it doesn't
even seem human! But thiss,'only
makes 1t all plain He killed my sis
ter that he might live with this other
woman But this will never be-his
sin has found him out" -
Mrs. Maddox, after thus dramati-
cally denouncingf her brother law
as wife slayer, sorrowfully related
the incidents attending the last hours
of Mrs. Barron, circumstances that
strengthen the belief of the family
that she was murdered by some quick
and terrible poison.
Mrs Maddox arrived in McDon-
ough Friday morning after Mrs. Bar
ron was stricken suddenly i'll We'd
nesday night Mrs. Maddox declares
DR.. Barron's conduct was so strange
as to attract not only her notice, but
others. She mentioned as one of the
strongest circumstances showing DR..
Barron's lack of love for his wife the