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DEATH IN SIX MONTHS FOR MRS. BARRON PREDICTED LAST MARCH BY HER SISTER
Accused Illegally Married Atlanta Girl While Student Here, Newest Charge
IK. HOOK
DECLARES SHE
EDIIESMIME
Sobs Out Her Dread of Brother-
in-Law as She Fondles Little
Niece.
ACCUSING FATHER IS GRIM
Determined to Pursue Case to
End, but Melts When He Talks
of His Daughter.
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
MILNER, OX, Oct 11.—The mys
terious death of Mrs. Sallle Lou Bar- |
ron. whose young husband. Dr. Carey
A Barron, is in jail in McDonough
accused of poisoning her, came as
the tragic climax to a warning front
her sister, Mrs. G. W. Maddox, ac
cording to Mrs. Maddox’s statement
to-day.
Mrs. Maddox, the wife of a promi
nent Milner cotton dealer, says she
told her younger sister in the latter <
part of March that she would be dead ,
In six months If she went back to her |
husband. Mrs. Barron and her hus
band had been separated since Janu- I
ary 25. He deserted her, it is said, |
for another woman.
It was but little more than six I
nths later that the elder sister's ‘
prediction of death came true.
Four Children Motherless.
"I just felt that Dr. Barron would ;
kill my poor sister,” sobbed Mrs. '
Maddox, as she sat on the front '
porch of her home, half a mile from
Milner, her arm around pretty Dor- I
othy Barron, the 2-year-old daughter 1
of the dead woman.
There are three other little children
left motherless by the strange death
of the former Milner girl. They are
being cared for by Dr. J. M. F. Bar
ron. father of the accused husband,
whose home at Liberty Hill, Pike
1 aunty, is but five miles distant from
the home of W. R. S. Mann, a pros
perous farmer and the accusing fa
ther of the dead woman.
Mrs Maddox, like all members of
'he Mann family, thinks Dr. Barron
too', the life of his young wife, and
-• she related the story of her fruit
less efforts to keen her sister from
!:■ eg hack to the man who once, she
- ns. had spurned her fOVe for that of
atotlgr woman, cried out for venge
ance.,
If i Ftallfe Lou had onljc listened
to me, she would be alive MS' V .” she
cried; “hut she lo'.'Cfl that Inhuman
husband antihrJW'Milrl file no heed.
It was not I alone,- but farther and all
of the family feared that man. My
heart sank when I saw that Sallie
I,on had yielded to his words of per
suasion and was going again into his
clutches. When I told her she would
not he alive in six months, she mere
ly laughed at me.
“‘Oh, sister, I’m not afraid of him:
he won’t hurt me,’ she replied. She
told me that he loved her and de
clared she loved him better than any- I
thing in the world. Os course, there
was nothing else for me to do. She j
and Dr. Barron left here and moved
to McDonough.
Counted the Months.
"I just watched the time and count
ed the months. When the sixth
month had passed, 1 remembered my
warning, and still felt that something
awful would happen. I just couldn’t
get away from that dread. When I
heard Wednesday a week ago that
sister had been taken suddenly ill, a
lump came into my throat.
“I believed that this was the be
ginning of the end and hastened to
her side. I was not surprised at her
death. That man poisoned my sister
as sure as the world, and he should
nay the penalty. TH never rest until j
fustice has been done for this crime.
He had my sister fooled: that’s all
If he loved her as he made her be
lieve. why did he rush out the very
next day after her funeral and mar
ry another woman? Could anything
be more heartless? Ob. It doesn't
even seem human! But this only
makes It all plain He killed my sis
ter that he might live with this other
woman. But this will never be—his
sin has found him out."
Mrs. Maddox, after thus dramati- I
rally denouncing her brother-in-law |
fIR a wife-slayer, sorrowfully related •
the incidents attending the last hours
of Mrs. Barron, circumstances that
strengthen the belief of the family '
that she was murdered by some quick
and terrible poison.
Mrs. Maddox arrived in McDon
ough Friday morning after Mas. Bar
ron was stricken suddenly ill Wed
nesday night. Mrs. Maddox declares
Dr. Barron’s conduct was so strange
as to attract not only her notice, hut
others’. She mentioned as one of the
strongest circumstances showing Dr
Barron's lack nf love for his wife the
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C. A. BARRON as she looked some wars ago, the young wife who was poisoned, her relatives say, by her husband, a phy
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last March, she says, that her brother-in-law would kill her sister within six months of her return to him, caused by his elope
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fact that early hnday afternoon he
left the house with the expressed pur
pose of obtaining a hypodermic nee
dle to relieve the intense suffering of
his wife, and never returned until 7
o’clock that night He failed to bring
the needle, she says, and made no
explanation ot his long absence, al
though asked.
Mrs. Maddox and her father, Mr.
Mann, both said they since have been
informed that Dr. Barron was auto
moblllng with Miss Cora Wheeler, the
young woman he married the day
following the funeral. During tills re
ported auto ride, the young wife drop
ped into a stupor from which she
never aroused.
Woman Suffered Agonies.
’’When I reached the bedside of
my sister, she was suffering agonies,
and continued to suffer until she be
came ifnconsclous,” said Mrs. Mad
dox. . •
"Dr. Barron pretended to be minis
tering to her, and said she was suf
fering with uraemic poisoning. But
during the whole time I was there, I
saw him give her only one dose of
medicine. He professed that she
couldn’t retain medicine, but she kept
this one dose. Dr. Barron had his
office in a room across the hall from
my sister’s room, and he prepared the
dose of medicine In there and brought
it into the room in a glass.
“I didn’t see it and don't know
what it looked like. But sister didn’t
want to take it. As she swallowed
it. her face twitched, and she said,
‘Carrie, this will 1. 11.’ Then she seem
ed in greater pain than usual, she
said the medicine hurt her so much.
She complained so much of a ter
rific pain in her chest. She would
apply her hand to this spot. She said
to her sister, 'I believe I have a ball
of fire in me here I believe it’s go
ing to burn me up.’ She said she had
a pain in her side, but it was the aw
ful burning sensation in her chest
that caused her to suffer so much.
Complained of Medicine.
“She told me the dose of medicine
Dr. Barron gave her made the pain
burn and sting worse. She never gave
me any intimation that she suspected
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Dr. Barron was poisoning her, but If
she had such a thought she never
would have expressed it, she loved
him so madly. If she actually had
known he was sending her to the
grave, she would not have uttered one
word that would have harmed him.”
Mrs. Maddox here asserted that
Dr. Barron was administering chlo
roform to his wife when the end
came. ' He professed that he was do
ing this to relieve the apparent pain
ful struggles of the dying woman and
make her death peaceful, she said.
“On the death of his wife,” Mrs.
Maddox said, "Dr. Barron cried a lit
tle. He didn’t appear very much con-
Mrs. Barron 9 s Father Is
Bitter in Denunciation
Mr. Mann, a stalwart farmer, with
a strong countenance that bespeaks
determination, is even more bitter
than Mrs. Maddox against Dr. Barron.
"There is not a doubt in my mind
that this man robbed me of tn./
daughter, and I’ll spare no pains and
leave no stone unturned to have htn
punished," he said. "But I also feel
there Is punishment provided by law
that Is adequate in such a heartless
and diabolical scheme as this.
"If necessary, I’ll snend the rest of
my life in the one effort to see jus
tice done. I feel that the interest, of
every mother and every daughter in
this land demands the crime be
avenged."
Note Hasty Marriage.
Mr. Mann said Dr. Barron's hasty
marriage and the manner in which he
hastened from his wife’s grave con
vinced him that something was
wrong. The body ha no sooner been
lowered Into the earth, he said, than
Dr. Barron leaped into a waiting au
tomobile and drove n pidly from the
scene. His investigation, he said,
showed the young husband drove
Monday direct to McDonough from
the Libert” Hill burial ground, a dis
tance of 30 miles, and spent the night
In that vicinity.
The next afternoon he married M'ss
Wheeler.
He was arrested Friday on a war
rant taken out by Mr. Mann and
charging murder. In order that the
probe might be thorough. Mr. Mann
communicated with Coroner W. H
Whalley, of Pike County, who lives
near Concord, and asked that the
body be exhumed, which was done
Friday afternoon.
Tears welled In the big fanner’s
eyes as he spoke >f Sallie Lou being
"such a good girl."
Calls Her Good Wife.
“She was the best kind of a wife,
and never gave her husband cause to
complain," he said. “She had given
him four pretty, bright little children
and had clung to him even when he
showed his Infamy last January by
eloping with another woman aF Gog
gans Station Dr. Barron and my
daughter were living there then. I
took her back home In January, after
he fled, and she went back to him in
the latter part of March, after he had
confessed and promised to do better
if she only would live with him
again.”
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all put on.
"Dr. Barron called In a Dr. Smith,
of McDonough, twice during his
wife's Illness,” said Mrs. Maddox,
“but Dr. Smith took no hand In the
case.”
Dr. Smith later. It is reported, told
Mrs. Barron's father that although
he made no examination himself, he
was not satisfied with Dr. Barron's
diagnosis.
“Dr. Smith simply left it all up to
Dr. Barron.” said Mrs. Maddox.
Had No Suspicion.
’’Of course, he didn't suspect that
Dr. Barron was poisoning his own
wife. Dr. Smith made no examina
tion and gave no medicine. Dr. Bar
ron’s father also visited sister, but be
thought his son was handling the case
all right. I heard Dr. Smith men
tion several different medicines and
ask Dr. Barron it he had given them.
Dr. Barron said he had, but I never
saw him give but one dose of me 11-
clne.”
and had been married to Dr. Barron
ten years. Dr. Barron was reared in
Pike' County, the present home of his
father, who is a prominent physician
of this section. He and his wife had
been living in McDonough only since
the reconciliation last March. Three
of the children are Pearl, aged »;
Debia, S years old, and Spencer, aged
I years. Little Spencer is an invalid.
Dorothy, aged 2 years, is the little
girl being cared for by Mrs. Maddox.
Columbus Wrought
Up Over 3 Contests
Waterworks Bonds. Commission
Government and Regular City
Elections Impending.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 11. —At present
Columbus is in a turmoil over the
waterworks bond election to be held
October 18. hut that will not end poli
tics here for the year.
On December 10 the people of the
city will pass on the question of
adopting a commission form of gov
ernment, and it is expected that the
commission government campaign
will be thrown open on Monday fol
lowing the bond election.
Another campaign to be launched
along with the con.mission govern
ment will he that of candidates for
Mayor and Aidermen. i'nder tne city
charter an election must be held De
cember 13 for the purpose of nom
inating a Mayor and eight Aidermen,
and as there will only be three days
between the commission government
election and that of Mayor and Ai
dermen. In the event the commission
government does not carry, it would
not leave sufficient time in w'hich a
campaign could be waged for the
city officials.
Among those mentioned for Mayor
are Aidermen Charles W. Mizell, of
the Eighth Ward, a prominent mer
chant of the city, who has been in
Council for six years, and Aiderman
Robert Reid, of the Fifth Ward, who
is completing his second term as Ai
derman. Mr. Reid la a druggist.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1913.
Smith Seeks Recess
For Currency Study
Georgia Leader Believes Time Should Be Given
Senators on Money Law.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—The Sen
ate having: asserted its Independence
and shown that currency legislation
will be enacted only when the bill
is made as nearly perfect as pos
sible, a recess or probable adjourn
ment may now be taken.
President Wilson, it is said, being
convinced that his currency program
can not be carried out at the extra
session will not oppose a recess or
adjournment even to December 1.
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
spent *the day sounding his colleagues.
He takes the view that Senators
ought to have all the time between
now and November 15 or even De
cember 1 to study the currency ques
tion so that, on equal footing with the
members of the committee, they will
be able Intelligently to discuss the
subject when it comes before them.
He said to-day that ha found the
sentiment almost unanimously in fa
vor of that position. The House has
been urging adjournment ever since
the tariff bill was passed.
Quorum Not Expected.
It is expected that after the con
ference report upon the urgent de
ficiency appropriation bill is agreed to
in both houses Monday there will not
be a quorum of either house in Wash
ington.
The Senate program is: If on
Thursday when it will meet following
Monday’s session, an unanimous con
sent agreement can not be reached
that between now and November 15
or December 1, no business at all shall
be transacted, a joint resolution pro
viding for an adjournment will be
submitted to the Senate.
Notwithstanding the unanimous
consent agreement to go on with tin
seamen’s bill, the leaders think all
legislation would be held in abey
ance until currency comes to the
front.
The resolution for the recess nr ad
journment probably will be adopted.
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Detectives Search for Girl Doctor; Is
Said to Have Alarried While Student
New sensations came to-night in
the Barron poison mystery when of
ficers began an investigation of per
sistent reports that Dr. C. A. Barron,
held in the McDonough jail as the
accused slayer of his pretty young
wife, committed bigamy four years
ago bv marrying an Atlanta girl
while he was attending the Georgia
Eclectic Medical College here.
The name of the girl has not been
learned, but assiduous efforts are
being made to find her and procure
her evidence against the young doc
tor.
It Ls expected Atlanta detectives
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poison mystery
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gripped
the State with
interest.
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but the currency committee will con
tinue'consideration of the bill. The
House people want an adjournment,
so they can draw mileage A recess
would not give it to them. The ad
journment plan, therefore, meets with
favor. From several sources it was
learned to-day that the President is
reconciled to whatever policy the
Senate leaders may adopt.
A delegation of Illinois country
bankers before the committee to-day
denounced as untrue the statements
made by ('hairman Owen that the
bankers were in a conspiracy to delay
or defeat currency legislation. This
condemnation was brought out by
Senator O’Gorman when B. F. Har
ris, of Champaign, was on the stand.
Conspiracy Is Denied,
Senator O’Gorman offered to him
the statements made by Senator
Owen on the floor of the Senate
Thursday, charging that the meeting
of the bankers at Boston was for the
purpose of forcing the bankers’views
into the hill or defeating it, and asked
Mr. Harris if he knew of any con
spiracy of such purpose.
"I can not find language strong
enough to express my resentment of
su< h statements,” replied Mr Harris.
‘There is,” he added, “absolutely no
ground for such a charge, and the
claim of a conspiracy is untrue.”
The witness admitted that he did
not like the bill, particularly the com
pulsory features relative to stock sub
si r.ptions in the regional reserve
banks.
The hearing was brief, the commit
tee adjourning with the morning ses
sion until Monday. The following Il
linois bankers were In attendance:
S. B. Montgomery, of Quincy; J. S.
Aisthorpe. of Cairo; George Wood
ruff, of Juliet: B. F. Harris, of Cham
paign; Arthur K Cox, of Xenia; H.
B. Sexton, of East St. Louis, and J
M. Crebs, of Carmi.
will be asked to take up the investi
gation and thoroughly probe Dr. Bar
ron’s career while he was here as a
medical student.
Dr. Barron's wife, whose myste
rious death a week agp has placed
him behind prison bars, accused as
a murderer, remained with her peo
ple at her home near Milner. Ga..
while her husband fitted himself tn
the Eclectic College to practice med
icine. It was during this time that
he is reported to have met a beau-
Jewish Alliance
Plans New Branch
Department for Debate, Oratory and
Other Literary Training
To Be Organized.
Plane are on foot to establish a
literary department of the Jewish
Educatiopal Alliance. There will be
a meeting of those Interested at 8
o’clock Monday night In the rooms
of the Alliance. with Leonard
J Grossman presiding.
The project will extend to the
young men of the community an
opportunity to receive trining in
debate, oratory and other Instruction
of a literary nature. Victor H. Krieg
shaber, president of the Alliance, and
H. Joseph Hyman, superintendent,
have indorsed the movement.
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tiful young Atlanta girl, and, repre
senting himself as a single man, to
have wooed and won her. The mar
riage is supposed to have taken place
in Atlanta.
After his graduation from the med
ical college four years ago. Dr. Bar
ron is said to have left his Atlanta
wife.
Dr. Barron’s relatives refuse to be
lieve this story of bigamy, and In
sist that he never has been married
but once.
Not to Seem Hasty,
Court for 22 Years
Begin Wooing at 20, Marry at 42
When They Are Sure Thay
Love Each Other.
SAN DIEGO. CAL.. Oct. 11— After
a courtship of 22 years, Isaac McCoy,
a prominent Pythian, married Miss
Clara Durham to-day. Both are 4i.
"We did not want to appear hasty,"
said the bride. "We wanted to be
sure we really loved ecah other. We
thought hurried marriages a mistake.'
HARDIN 'LEAVES - SERVhCE
OF CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
Mark A. Hardin, for several years
city passenger agent of the Central
of Georgia Railroad, hae tendered hia
resignation to accept the position of
soliciting freight agent for the Cum
berland Gap Dispatch.
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