The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-02-12

When Jess came up to the stable af-
ter he had run Ed out of town he
said to me, Jim, l am going to take
En- home to her father this evening.
I'm not going to live with her any
more, but I'm going to maintain her
as long as she lives. She's been g
good wife to me a long time and she
shan't suffer- Even then he didn't
talk bitterly against her, and seemed
to think there was some explanation
of her connection with Ed. He
couldn't believe it was just natural.
He went away with her and their lit
tie boy in a buggy that evening. 1t
was twenty.one miles to her fathers
house. What passed between them
in that long ride l don't know. In
about a week he came back, and he
said he had looked into the matter
and was satisfied that his wife had
been drugged and deluded into the
commission of her crime, and that
he had determined TO stand by her.
He then brought her to Tazewell
and lived with her as he had always
done"
"What do you suppose changed
his mind?"
"Why, nothing on this earth but
love for his wife and confidence in |
her statement that she had been
trapped and drugged into the thing.
| never saw man love a woman so.
When he was out, before and after
arrest, he had but one idea, and that
was to be where he could get to see
Emma. There was some talk about
the CaywOods forcing him to live
with her. Anybody who knows Jess
Rogers will know that is a lie. He
ain the man TO be forced into any
thing. And then know the Cay
woods never tried him. They left | I
him to act as he pleased. Public ,
opinion didn't force him, for his {
friends were all against it at first, l a,
among the rest. 1t has hurt him {
with a great many. 1t wasn't money !
hat forced him, because he is about c
he most prosperous man in the :
county, and he will get nothing from |
Ter. 1t was nothing but love for
he woman, and his friends have
bout all made up with him on it.
IF course he knows more about the
,ase than anybody else, and he is a o
,ool, level headed man. He don't
ARE a cent what the people say I
lbout him. He just does what he a
links right and holds his head up
All who have seen them since this G
hing say they ars quiet and happy.
lie told me, the week it happened,
he would destroy herself if he \
brew her off" t
THE ATTEMPT AT ARREST. E
The most careful inquiry shows no a
ign of any serious attempt to cap =
ure the outlawed men. A party of t
tx men came down from Kentucky :,
nee, but only stayed in the valley
lay and made no sort of search. A
,arty offour came from Barbursville
'ut did not enter the valley at all. i
'wo horse drovers called at Cay il
FOODS one night and wanted to see :
he men with a view of getting a t
of some sort. The Glib =
on and White matter, to which allu- p
ion has been made, was very much =
Dan Gibson, a very f
rave man, is a neighbor of Rogers. y
White is a mere boy. They never f,
1ade any search for the men, and q q
ever thought of arresting them IN $,
il they heard on court day that they e
rere in town. Then Gibson went 8;
nd tried to arrest Caywoods as
etailed above. Upon being notified
hey were already under arrest they
bandoned the matter and have not 4
bought Of it since. They say they D
ever spent an hour in searching for =
.ogers and Caywood. 1t would
ave been impossible for even fifty VI
len to have taken these men from d
le midst of their friends and rela- m
yes in Powelrs Valley. The case d
set for trial at Williamsburg, in az
lay next. Rogers has employed :.
early every lawyer in and around ts
le town. L
THE FEELING IN TAzEwELL. Of
As to the feeling in Tazewell, it fu
difficult to diagnose it. The feel ye
g is clearly against the reconcilia- 70 70
on of Rogers with his wife. The q
en- generally "cannot understand Of
. aud the women denounce it bit. NJ
rly. His friends sustain him mi
armly, and many others say that
ey suppose he has testimony on
e subject that the public knows
,thfng of. He will bring his wife =
The hotel next week to live. She pr
u meet with cool reception, but a.
says he will live it down, bu