The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-02-12
Timetable ROgersviHe 81 JEFF
fersOn Railroad.
Powell Valleys Belle
SHERIFF. MAYS STATEMENT.
A husbands Confidence.
F rom the n. Y Herald

tOyour correspondent. as he re rene
his horses on the summit Of ChurcI
Mountain and pointed TO the front
We stopped at the hotel run b.
Sheriff Mays, and 1 at once sough
that functionary, for l had been in
for ned in Morristown that he knew
really more about the Rogers,Jack
son matter thao any man outside Of
the immediate ring. being Rogers
confidential friend. 1 found him not
only ready to talk it over with me
but full Of Information.
SHERIFF MAYS STATEMENT.
Stretching his legs up against the
fireplace he began his narrative by
saying, What 1 am going to tell
you about it is what l know to be
the truth, and what / am going TO
swear to in the Kentuckey trial next
May"
"When did yoa first know Of jack
sons intimacy with Mrs RogersF
I asked with view of getting him
started.
81 well, L never knew it until it came
out; but l was satisfied of it long be-
fore, perhaps year or six months,
Ed jackson was always a great
man after women. He spent pref ty
much his whole time galIantirlg
around them. lie used TO brag a
he4plabodt his ACCOMPLISHMENTS With
them, and frequently gave me the
names of white ladies that he said |
Ale had in his power, He said he
would carry notes for their husbands
toother women, and tnen tell them
about it. -. g.. .Fs.... ,.s.-s
p One day Henry Coin, negro boy.
told NE that Ed had told him he
was Intimate with Emma Rogers,
tie kept Dragging to Henry about
it, but Henry would not believe him.
At last he took Henry to places
where he could see for himself that
he was telling the truth. When
Henry toll me tackled Ed aboutit.
After awhile he confessed it to me
and | told him ne mast leave town
at once. He wouldn't do it.-that
however, but said he could manage
to get out. of it-that they couldn't
catch him"
HOW ROGERS DISCOVERED ELS. WFE's
PERFIDY.
lis it true that Rogers knew Oft
before the election ?"sggf-F -a
=" Why no! The way he found it
out, or suspected it, was this On
day he missed Ed from the
polls and went TO look him up. He
thought he might be down at his
Roger > house, as he had been
there. He went down there
and couldn't find either Ed or Emma.
He looked through a room or two
for his wife, and then went out into
the garden to see if he could find
Ed. When he came back in the
house Ed was in the front piazza and
his wife was just coming down STAIRS
He-asked her what she had been do.
ing, and she said she had been look
ing after the bedding. This was the
irst suspicious circumstance Jess
ever noticed. 1t was on election
day. On the Monday following he {
came to me and told me his wife had !
said / had been to see her, and ask ]
ed me what / went for. l told him
all about my visit, and he then ask
I'd me what | meant by if reports |
are true I then told him the whole 1
thing. T 1t struck him 'all in a heap '
and he said he must see Ed jackson {
and Coin at-onee. had noticed all {
day that something was Weighing
him down. learned sfterward that g
that morning he had heard that
Seett, a negro boy who stays at his /
house, had spread some sort of re- !
port about his wife. He took the /
10y into room, and the boy denied I
t. He then whipped him and went t
md saw, hisiwife. His wife told him t
LQout my visit, aud he came TO me il
light away. It was an hour before 4
le would get to the subject. but kept n
,eating about it. When he had Z
Ieard what l had to say he went
light straight away after it. l got
Jackson aud Henry il. room, aud i:
old him would take hinl to them il
+ he would promise me not to kill t
hem. lie promised, ard ] went In
With him. 1 told jackson to con il
ess is and not try to deny it. When t,
ie went in. however, he denied it. "
Jess of. He didn't know Il
THAT to think. Coin told him if be Il
7ould send for two Witnesses he a
,ould prove that Jackson had told L
! 10 others besides him, In a few "
linutes Jess went out Toward his h