The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-02-19


HE M OR r /
as bad as the last She viii have some more spell
but none so bad as that. She win rapidly get well
She must not be uneasy and ask questions. Sh
has had her worst sp- lis.
Tell that lady the sore throat is ali right.
knowed that. The white bliBters don't mattel
They for the best. She viii get better fast, afte
this spell.
Here she seems to have lost hope. 4
letter says
Tell the lady didn't think could cure her, bu
now know I viii, for I have never failed. If
doant cure her q am poor viii give her anything
she asks. She won't have more hard spells.
Here is demand for money
Tell the lady am Christian and think it M
! duty to cure her, but couldn't come over as
hadn't no money.
The hint seems to have been sufficient.
A letter of later date says
Tell the lady thank her tor her present. will
cure her certain and the other thing too. Thank
her.
The succeeding letters acknowledge
frequent presents.
These extracts might be continued in
definitely and to show hundred differ
ent phases of evasion or answer A
most pitiable record they makei! No
one can conceive of what they are ex-
eept by a careful study of them.
Little wonder that Rogers said, CATER
l had read these letters, l knew why
she ran to get them when 1 attacked her.
She knew they were the cause of the
thing and she thought they would ex
cuse it."
ROGERS RESUMES HIS TALK.
After the letters had been laid aside
Rogers resumed
''Of course, after it had happened, never
thought of living with my wife again. took her
down the valley and left her with her father.
then secured these letters and commenced exam
lining them. They were so strange that determ-
ined to talk to my wife about them. went and
did so. The long and the short of it is made up
my mind to take her back to my bosom. OF course
I am more interested in being right about it than
the world can be- and 1 am inst aure"-here he
rose and stood looking down me-''that she was
irresponsible and unbalanced when she did this
thing, and that she is at heart and purpose pure
woman, 1 that God Almighty reigns in
heaven. know it, sir know it. 1 have had
her ever since she child, and 1 know her
bents and dispositions better than anybody can
know them. Besides, 1 am man enough to ac-
knowledge to myself that whatever she may have
done am to blame for it. She good a |
wife as ever lived until went astray. unbal- |
anced her life and broke down her happiness, and |
1 almost destroyed her reason. As question of /
naked justice between me and her and our God I |
sinned against her just as much as she could have
5inned against me, and s1nned first. OF course
society don't think of it this way. In the eyes Of
society her sin is much more horrible than Lime.
not dealing with society, l am dealing with
he woman loVe-with my wife. And I propose
o protect her, If the world don't associate with
Ter it shall never show Ler lack Of respect. Any
nan who knows me viii never dare to throw any
hing up TO me, and 1 hope stranger will try it.
IN fully determined on linking my life with hers
S long as we both live. can't say that my life is
I'LL happy This thing rises up nearly all the
me, but I manage to generally hide it from the
,orId, and always cram it back into my heart
hen she's about ] see the cloud is gradually be-
lg lifted of her face, ana that is C4nfOFt 10 ne.
he is getting stronger and more even all the time.
he shah never lack for sympathy attention
.oney as long as I Hye-nor for love either.
we her, sir; love her just much as 1 ever
id. have never had but two people to ask me
go back to her: one of them was my mother.
hats very strange, amt it? Well, my own
other, who knows me better than almost any
Ddy, came to and begged me to take her back.
here amt many women could have got that ap
al from their husbands mother. The other per- |
n Billy CaywoOd, Ems uncle. He has al I
lys been my friend, and lie and asked me h
take her back. He said he had watched her, and =
was satisfied she would kill herself if 1 deserted
r. Threaten me d? Well, believe if you knew
you wouldn't ask that There amt enough
al on this earth to have forced Jess Rogers to
e with woman he didn't believe to be pure and
at his lol didn't lead him to. Tire teR me |
}, sir the pressure with me has all been the
ler side l took my wife because believed she
d not wronged me wantonly, and because be-
we'd was about as much to blame she was if "
I more 50 because loved her, and know she u
res me. There's cause enough for ue If it g
MT suit the world, why then can't help it. The 81
rid amt interested"
WILL NEVER BE ARRESTED. y
- should like to have you tell me IL
'out your arrest?" st
8 Arrest never was arrested, and I never g
j be. 1 should like to see anybody take me ana re
Caywoods out of this valley if we didn't want d
go. There was nobody wanted to try it. be- CT
We one party of Kentuckians did come down here N
look after us, but they only stayed night CO
d, lei tell you, that came mighty near being n
long for them. We should not have done any n
ng, but I hear since our friends were getting
ght restless. There never has been day since
warrants were issued that we weren't deter
ned to go up and stand our trial. We own too =,
lch property to be skipping about and lodging :,
? Law or to leave the county either. We didn't r
mt to 60 while the excitement was so high, and -
didn't go. By the time the Circuit Court came #
1und 1 thought we were ready to go to trial in Il
ntucky, especially l had some cases in the I,
rcuit Court that wanted to attend to- One of p
em was the damage suit in this case, So 1 sent a
I'd to Jim Mays that me and Billy would come p
and we went You've heard about that thing 81
Gibson? Well, he never dreamed of doing it G
hour before he tried it. He is my neighbOr. 1 N
d seen him dozen times slncQ the reward was 81
cred. 1 would have trusted him quick as my G.
II brother. He drinking he wouldn't Il
We tried it. He came very near being killed. AS a
the crowd going with US to Kentucky, Billy and
rode hOne two days ahead of them alone, and
met Gibson. The crowd came on ana met US ia
: valley. We never left home at all. in
Jewell often, rode on the train to Knoxville
vent next to Kansas to get out of a trade 1 had
Lde before this thing came On. 1 didn't know
W things would work, and didn't want to be =
d down with investments out there. There was
attempt to arrest US. tell you we knew what
Try stranger in the Valley wanted long before he
into it, and he was watched day and night if
owing wasn't clear"
THE DEFENCE OUTLINED.
I" What defence will you mako to the !,
ling of Ed Jackson?" j.
: Why, l never killed him, 1 tell you these s
nds are innocent of human blood 1 never saw "
n killed. None of our party killed him. We did
TT with him from Lebanon, but he escaped from
before we reached the mountain. never saw
n again. Why, that was all lie about Parson ~
ice having seen my four men torture q negro