The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-22
COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS
DEATH IS MYSTERIOUS
Body Of Well-Known Psychologist
Is Found In Bed With Towel
Wrapped Around Head.
HE WAS UNHARPLy MARRIED
Husband and Wife Separated After
-Four Months, and Former Often
limited ut Suicide-Rigid Enquiry
Is Under Way.

Philadelphia. Pa, juno 21.-Tha
death of George w. South Jr, recent
| " an Instructor In psychology at tho
University OF Chicago, which was sur
rounded with mystery following tho
| finding OF his body by his brother Ed
win at the lattcr's apartments, POLL
Arch street. yesterday morning will
| not be explained publicly and official-
| ~ until Wednesdays or Thursday. ac-
cording to attaches OF the coroners
| Office. In the meantime evidence which
| first aroused the suspicion of DR..
Charles Barnes, In addition to other
facts affecting the finding of the body,
the family life of the psychologist, and
his state OF health, point strongly to
the conclusion that he committed sui
eide by poison. That death was not
the result Of heart disease or apoplexy.
us ut first announced by Deputy Cor
| oner McKeevcr, Is evident from the
! fact that DIR. Remig. OF Coroner
Knights office, said last night that he
will not make his report for some
time. This lends color to the belief
| that blood tests and a search for poison
are to be made
WAS Unhappiiy ,IurrIed.
Married about IA year ago in Chicago
tho Instructor. who was thirty-six
years OF age, was separated from his
wife within four months. little
while afterward nc went to Downing
town, where his parents have a rnagni-
iicent estate. and took his mother to
Los Angeles, presumably for the sake
of her health. 1t was learned that
there were disaSrcemeuts between his
mother and his wife, and he had told
Dr. y. w. Fritsch. his physician. that
ne feared his wife would try TO poison
his mother.
Following the brilliant completion
OF courses in the University of Penn
A u In al, ,Ixs
oxford TO his credit, South entered
into his work at Chicago University
and gained reputation for scholarly
attainments. He married, the separa-
;ion followed and. after the Western
trip. with his family troubles still prey
ing upon his mind. he came to Phila-
deiphia 20 take a course OF treatments
from DR.. Fritsch. After three weeks
Of these treatments he seemed much
benefited. according TO DR.. Fritsch.
Found Dead In Bed.
Yesterday morning, when Edwin
South knocked at his brothers door to
awaken him he got no response En-
AT the instance of DR.. c. J. Barnes OF
80 South Nineteenth Street that the
coroner's office was notified and he
declared yesterday that the peculiar
circumstances OF the psychologist hav-
inS tied q towel around his chin, as IL
his body. from disagreement Of the
face. was what made him suspicious
OF irregular!ty in the circumsta
Dr. Barnes declared positively that Ed
win South had said he did not so ar
range the cloth
4 brother, William South OF Down
ingtown. has a large analytical labora-
tory filled with chemicals of every de-
scription. To this George South had
access. According to DR.. Fritsch, his
patient had not been TO Downingtown
for about ten days. but on Friday ex-
pressed desire to go there for week
or So DR.. Fritsch declared that the
man had not weak heart. was of ro-
bust physique, and gave no indication
OF apo2lectic temperament
In the earlier days Of his course of
trea tment. when he brooded most over
his separation from his wife, South
talked very frequently of powerful poi-
sons, their work and how they might
be used to end his troubles. DIR. Fritsch
tried to cheer him up, and believed that
the mans gradual physical upbuildine
was acting as an antldotc for his mel
ancholia.
AS soon as the inquest is over and
the body formally released b. Coroner
Knight, the funeral is to be held at
Downingtown. Al the present time the
body Is at an undertaking parlor on
Arch Street. where the preliminary
steps or the autopsy were taken by DIR.
Remig yesterday afternoon.
Edwin South and wife, who was with
him at the time of the discovery of
the brothers death, have left for Down
ingto~n. 1t was stated yesterday after