The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-16
The Pity OF 1t!

with its incident gossip, misunder-
staining ard lack of sympathy.
The Atlanta newspapers of yester-
day carried one of the stories to
which reference is made; one OF those
news items the newspapers might be
pardoned for printing. because of the
thoroughly human interest and sob
features of it. Here is the item as
carried in the Atlanta Journal:
Three years ago Miss Julia Choate
Crumley, daughter of Rev. Lee Crum-
ley superintendent Of the Baptist
Orphans Home and one of the most
prominent ministers in Atlanta went
to Baltimore After three months
she returned and said her life had
been saved by DR. Alleyne Hensley,'
of Quebec Soon letters postmarked
Quebec came to Miss Crumley, with
boxes OF candy and flowers. She
said they were from the DOCTOR and
one day announced that they were
engaged. The wedding date was fixed
for November II and was so an
nounced in the Atlanta papers. Miss
Crumley selected her bridesmaids and
her flower girls. She was given
teas, parties and showers. She set
out for New York last week to com.
plete her trousseau.
''rhen suddenly she wired her fam
lily that DR. Alleync' was killed in a
wreck out west; that she was going
to Chicago to get his body Her
friends were filled with pity for her
shattered romance.
"Wednesday Miss Crumley arrived
in the city with casket The
funeral was set for Thursday after
noon. Wednesday night, surrounded
by her family, the girl was ques-
toned by DR.. Bates Block, a nerve
specialist. She broke down and con
fessed all
CDR. Alleyne Hensley' was alive
only in her imagination. Their court
ship was make-believe. She had writ
ten tho letters herself. The candy
and flowers she ordered sent to her-
self, and, the strangest revelation Of
all. the body she said was bought at
the public morgue in Chicago.
Members of the family told the
truth to mourners. The body tonight
is at an undertaking establishment
and efforts are being made to find
out who the unknown is. The box
is plain pine coffin. The head is
bruised and marked as If he had
indeed been in railroad wreck. The
girl is In hysterical condition.
AS we said before newspapers will
print these stories because they ap.
peal to vast percentage of the read
ing public and by the morbidly in
clined they appeal to the exclusion of
all other classes of news. But surely
some erred when this sad little trag-
edy of womans heart and a dis
eased mind found its way into the re-
porter's notebook Who has ever
been able to understand woman and
to interpret her wonderful yearning
to love and be loved, TO take her
place as wife and mother, in short to
fulfill that great place in some happy
home. which is and ought to be the
goal of every ambitious. normal wo-
man? but this little woman in At
lanta was abnormal; she was suffer
ing with some malady remotely and
absolutely beyond her power TO con.
troll and the sad features OF her case,
involving as it does her good father,
clergyman, should never have been
dragged from exclusion into the public
prints to afford amusement for the
morbid aud the idle!
How much more humane. how much
more real sympathy would have been
shown had the body of this imaginary
lover been inferred, in the tomb ar.
ranged for it and how much better
if it had carried the story of this
tragedy with it!