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

1 IMAM L would suspect DaD6 3 IN IN.
arms. Things went along this way un
til election day. Then 1 saw something
that made me little suspicious. jus
asked En-, as l passed out, if any mar
had ever been to see her. She said nont
but Jim Mays. She said he had made
some sort of advances to her. l went tC
see him about it, and had a passion II
my heart. That was the first time tha
ever heard of any man doing or say
ing one thing out of the way to my wife
When went to see Mays he told me the
whole thing about Ed Jackson. can't
begin to tell you what felt or what
thought-then. went from one to the
other trying to get the truth of it for an
hour or two, and then l went to my
wife and asked her if what heard was
true. She turned pale as death and said
it was. She never denied it an instant.
As soon as she had confessed she stag
gered toward the stove, and putting her
hand in the stove pulled out a bundle of
letters and said, "Jess, read them !" l
never said word to her. l went out of
the house to the stable. That was where
l shot at Ed Jackson. / shot all my
barrels ont and ran to the house, just
twenty steps off, for more cartridges.
My wife met me at the door, with the
cartridges IN her hand She said, 'Jess,
he will kill you r' l hurried back to
the street.
THE WAYS OF AN ADULTERER.
81 want to stop here" said Rogers, his
voice hardening and growing tense,
''and tell you how that man accomplish
cd the ruin of my wife. AS told you,
| she was unbalanced and made miserable
by nay gallanting that other woman.
Ed Jackson knew all about my cOnnec-
ton with the other woman, and he be-
gan to talk to my wife about it. He
told her lies about it, making it worse
than it was. Every time he thought
would see the woman he would tell my
wife, and have her posted where she
could see me meet her. After getting
her nearly crazy about it he told her he
could break it up In this way he got
into her confidence and secrets. After
pretending that he had tried to break it
up he told her that he had a drug he
could give me that would make me hate |
the woman. She begged him to use it
on me, and he said he would. You |
must remember she was a simple cOun-
try girl, that married before she had
been to school any and that had no ideas
except what she got from hearing the
folks talk. Of course the
drugs didn't affect me, if he ever used
any. About this time my wife, worn
out and broken down, was taken to her
bed with some sort of wasting sickness.
This negro saw his cherries Tipening,
md told her that the woman | had been
intimate with had poisoned her. He
described how the poisoning had been
lone. This, of course, upset my wife
worse than ever. After she had suffer !
d long time and thought she was dy- Z
ng a slow death he told her there was !
woman in Kentucky who could break
he spell of poisoning, who could break :
p my going with other women and /
lake me love her. En- begged him to h
ct this woman to do it. He then gave L
IN letter to him, signed by this wo- !.
ian, giving the plan by which the 4
ledicine must be made and taken, and \
} on. A part of this schedule was that o
ne must submit to his nursing her. h
lex, jealous, half crazy, without eduea. =
on or counsel, she yielded step by step /,
ntil at last she was gone. These let d
RS will show you how he worked. "
anti talk about it.
THE HISTORY OF THE LETTERS.
Interrupting the narrative of Mr..
ogers to introduce these letters, l
lust premise by saying that they are alb fl
,lutely avouched. When Rogers con- t,
'onted his wife and she confessed, she Ii
,ent to the stove and handed him q t.
undle of old letters. These letters he q,
anded to Sheriff Mays just before the IL
looting occurred. While they were in II
lays hands, and within half hour af- tt
er they had been put there, they were L
cad by four men, of whom at least two n
re Rogers open enemies. They have "
sstified to me that the letters were what "
icy had read within half hour after d
icy had been discovered and put in =
lays hands by Rogers. The details of tt
le letters are too horrible to put in "
rint. give extracts from some of
lem now lying before me to show how -
ley hedged the woman about. h
Emma Rogers had doubtless been pro- o
used that she would be curod by the o
st of MAY. A letter under date of May Il
says :,
Tell the lady we are treating that did wrong in "
ming the time would cure her, or I am not al Il
wed to name time. As 1 broke the spell 1 could 7
omise May, but it will not be long. felt so sor-
for her, promised. She mustn't ask again II
lat time. She is doing better than thought she h
uld. ii
And here is threat or two, induced n
)parently by a determination on the e.
lrt of Emma to break from the lustful g
radon -
Say to the last lady have that if she quits now
e vii die. I didn't think could cure her, she
Is so badly tricked, but now 1 know can If she K
dn't have one true friend she would be under
E ground now. If she quits she viii die sure HI
Tel the lady IT she wants to die and let that 9TH h
woman get her husband she can quit. That is st
lat they want If she will go she VIII soon u
well and happy. If she quits she will die. h
am tired Of that lady you wrote me about. I P
int want to take her case, it was SO bad. But H
a Christian, and it my duty to save her. al
getting tired and will quit, it she does not do m
lat tell her H
Tell that last lady if she will quit she must do it in
ldua1y. If she quits student it will kill her. tn
e can divide the doses and take one week. If 70
: quits this way 1 think it can soon wind up. L
That lady must do the thugs tell her willingly fo
they wont do any good If she don't do what al
ell her must quit. th
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