The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-15
JUNEAU WOMAN'S
 ADM|RER SHOOTS HER AND HIMSELF
Mrs. Georgia Stanton, Del- bert Roper Principals in
 Double Shooting. QUARREL OVER VISITOR Woman Fatally Wounded After Entertaining Another
 Until Late Hour.

SlIkA A<ANS AOoAs
 Mrs. Georgia. Stanton, 20, lies ear death, with a rife bullet wound through her right lung and her as- fighting chance to live from a self inflicted wound in his left chest, as the result of a jealous quarrel in Roper's cabin on lower Ninth Street shortly after four o'clock this morn ing. Roper first shot Mrs. Stanton and then turned the rife upon himself
 Roper'D one expressed hope, as he lies at St. Ann's Hospital today is that the victim of his jealous rage will live. He las expressed no anxiety as to his own fate, apparently indifferent to the fact that whether she lives or dies he will be placed under arrest charged with either murder or attempted murder unless he too dies.
 T took her in when she was sick and had no shelter over her head and gave her and her boy home, {" he told Chief of Police Keegan this morning. When she had a man visitor in her part of my cabin last night until one o'clock this morning lost my temper. We were sitting in the kitchen quarreling and l reached up, took my rifle off the wall, shot her and then shot myself"
 Mrs Stanton said this morning that she went into the kitchen of the house which is a double one occupied by Roper and herself and boy and they sat down to have lunch. She said Roper started re- troaching her and threatened to throw her out. You would not throw me out in the cold and the snow would you, l asked him." she sGid, and then he became enraged and shot me"
 Tells of Tragedy
 The first information of the affair came shortly after four o'clock this morning when PatrOlman Al. For sythe answered a hurry up call from the tide flats and going to Roper's cabin found him badly wounded. Roper pointed out the spots in the room where the bullets had hit and then told of the tragedy. He ex pressed regret when Forsythe took his rife away as he said he had hoped to finish the job on himself.
 Mrs. Stanton was found at the home of George Baggan. After being hit she ran out of the house and toward Baggans, which was about a block away. She fell on the way and her little four year old son who was following her ran to Baggan'sI and pounding on the door told them that his mother was dying. They took her in.
 In the meantime Dr. l.. o. SloaneI had also answered the call as well 2s Chief Keegan and Eddie Haller with his automobile. Dr. SloaneI administrated first aid treatment after which Mrs. stanton was taken to St. Ann's Hospital first. Roper " dS ldhtll lHtit i iltlio lit6I.
 One Chance in Four.
 Dr. H. C. DeEighne had also been sumoned and was waiting at St Ann's Hospital for the patients. He said today that Mrs Stanton had about one chance in four to recover According to Dr. DeVigl.ne the bull let entered Mrs Stantons upper right arm near the shoulder and raGsing through her right breast and right lung came out in the middle of her back. The wound is a fearful one. according to the doctor, but she did not lose consciousness at ant time today. She seemed to be strong but complications that might cause death are feared.
 Roper evidently sat in chair, Gcording to Dr. DeVighne, and plac- ing the muzzle of the gun almost directly over his heart reached down and pulled the trigger The bullet defected slightly and tore out the wall of the chest but missed the heart. The bullet kept on going. coming out almost under his left