Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-03
Tots Made FatherleSS by Death
Plot of Mother Are Offered
Homes and Parental Care.
By Evelyn Wren

Sunny-e Mamie King, swinging
on the garden gate which closed only a
few days ago on "a mother with the
specter of the gallows before her
doesn't know that she is a central fig
ure in curiously enthralling study of
the psychology of a city of $4,000 souls.
Psychology? Pooh! When you're
ten and healthy and dimpled there are
lots more important things to think
about. A city and a state may shud-
der at the story of woman coldly
and calculatingly plotting the death Of
the father Of her children to enjoy I'M
disturbed the love (save the world of
her paramount
You and 1, although we're old and
wise in the ways OF buffeting world,
may shiver in dismay as the details of
crime like that which has stirred
Macon from one end to the other is un-
folded before US.
At ten--thank God-crime and muir
DER and love like this are so much Chi
nese. You and l vlrtuously may nod
approval at the conviction OF the dyna-
miters and hold up our hands in hor-
ror as Nick Wilburn tells how he sent
the fatal bullet into the brain OF his
friend,
Still in the Fairy World,
But while were reading of the things
that make this sad old world, Mamie
King and Mamie Kings thousands and
thousands of sisters are playing with
the fairies or following Brer Rabbit
across the unaccustomed SHOWS or
helping Cinderella rule her court.
And Mamie King, swinging on that
garden gate and being just lovable
little grille, has accomplished a thing
far nobler than most OF US may attain
to with all our vain struggling.
For she has given the second city in
Georgia-formal, dignifed and blase
old MaCon--a chance to show that II
has heart, a human, pulsating heart
and Macon has indicated her faith
Against the picture of a wickedly
etring mother, lost to all her most sa-
cred instincts in the grasp Of a fatal
fascination accepting the embraces Of
a farm hand while her husband toiled
for her and the children she bore him,
and finally helping to send him into
eternity, Macon has limned the spec
tacle of a modern day municipality,
putting pity above vengeance, seating
charity and mercy on the throne OF
Justice, and shielding with its left hand
innocent children while its right seizes
the pair that put desire above every
thing precious in life.
Charity Eor kba Cbildr.n
Ten days have not elapsed since
Georgia was startled by the astound-
ing confession Of Mrs. Katherine King
that when Nick wilbur said he and
she had plotted TO Kill her husband so
that they might enjoy their evil bliss
undisturbed, he spoke the truth The
first sensation undoubtedly, was a
thrill OF horror, the second. perhaps.
an indignant and instructive demand
for the punishment of this monstrous
crime, and now-charity.
Charity, not so much for the impris- !
oned mother praying behind iron doors
adrighted at her own deed. certainly |
not for the man who deliberately shot
TO death the man who had befriended !
him, but for the poor stricken children !
left worse than motheress to bear
through life a name that Shall cause |
them anguish every time It is uttered |
Macon has opened its generous heart |