Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-29
OF FULTON
BLUES SHOT IN TENT
BY ATLANTA WOMAN
'1f What She Told Me Is
Truer" Says H, C, Adams,
Husband of Spratling'S SIay-
or, "She Was Justified"

Edgar J. Spratling, captain of Com
pany F, Fifth regiment, and a we'll
known practiclng physician Of Atlanta,
was shot and killed at noon Friday at
Camp Harris by Mrs. H. c. Adams, OF SO
Lovejoy street, Atlanta.
Dispatches from Camp Harris state
that the woman approached him as he
sat at a table in front OF his tent, said,
as this Captain Spratling?" and, when
he nodded his head, leveled her revolver
and fired twice.
One bullet penetrated Captain Sprat-
ling's neck, another entered his mouth.
Ten minutes later ne was pronounced
dead.
Mrs. Adams was arrested by the
guard and turned over to the sheriff
of Bibb county. She is now jailed at
Macon. Since the shooting she has re-
fused to make any statement, and no
reason has been advanced for her deed
STORY OF SHOOTING.
The following account of the shoot
ing was furnished The journal in a spe-
cial dispatch from Camp Harris:
Mrs. Adams arrived at the camp at
1870 o'clock, getting off the train from
Atlanta at Creosote. the special station
for the camp.
She went first to brigade headquar-
tiers, where she asked for Captain
Spratling. Then she went to the hos
pital corps of the Fifth, right across
from Captain Spratling, and again ask
ed to be directed to his tent.
She was shown the tent which is
about fifty yards further along from
the hospital corps on officers row. At
both gadeaheadquarters- and at the
hospital corps, it was said that Mrs.
Adams asked what sort of looking man
Captain Spratling was.
ATTRACTED ATTENTION.
AS she walked afOng officers row
she attracted considerable attention.
from both officers and. men. A woman
of about thirty-five years of age, she
was dressed in white, and appeared to
be worried about something.
One soldier remarked, Looks like
she's trying to collect a bill"
Captain Spratling was seated az the
table in front of his tent as the woman
approached. Mess call had sounded and
the orderly had just placed the meal on
the table. Seated across from him was
his first officer, Lieutenant F. A. Kysor.
rs this Captain Spratling?' asked the
woman.
Spratllng answered "yes," and made a
movement to rise as II to give her
chair.
The woman drew the revolver-which
was in handbag she carried
and without saying word shot him
where he sat. firing twice. If he was not
killed instantly. he lived but a few min
utes and was never conscious enough 70
talk.
KYSOR SEXES WOMAN.
Lieutenant Kysor seized the woman.
She began crying. Take me away from
him! Take me away from him!'
Captain w. w. Dick of E company,
officer of the day, was in the next tcnt
when the shots were fired. At the re-
port, he rushed to Captain Spratling's
tent. He called the guard and Mrs.
Adams was arrested.
Mrs. Adams was taken over into
company street, where she became hys-
terical. Don't crowd me; give my
plenty of air,' she is quoted as Shrek
ing.
She refused to talk
II have nothing to say about this
matter" she replied to insistent ques
lions. Once she said, 81 don't know
a soul in the regiment"
Mrs. Adams was kept in camp but a
few minutes, only until the sheriff Of
Bibb county arrived and she was gwen
into his custody and taken to Macon.
The entire camp was inexpressillyI
shocked by the shooting. Besides the
great excitement over the tragedy, deep
grief was manifested on all sides, as the
dead man was universally popular mel
flag at brigade headquarters was placed
half INST.