The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-08-23
! DISTRESSING SENSATION.
rory THAT Is STRANGER THAN
FICTION
X ural Districts of ( Oweta

story Of dlstreSslngly sensational
,.a.ores concerning some well-known
aaonIe in Coweta county, has just devel-
f.od here as the sequel of charge of
illicit distilling.
THE case is stranger than fiction.
i is a Tragedy of errors, the victim
1rivpn TO the point of insanity by the
,;.c,ace which she has innocently in
anryed--being a woman of most excellent
character
The moral is one of universal applica-
ton
Last week country preacher named
John Music was brought to Atlanta un.
der arrest.
With his son, John Music, jr., he was
charged with distilling, AMI carried be-
fore Federal Commissioner Haley and
mt on trial. Thee turned out to be
nothing in Music seniors case, but Mu-
sic innior was bound over to answer to a
higher court.
There was nothing in the commitment
worthy of remark, but it was the sequel
and the result of one of the most pic
nresquely outrageous incidents in the
history of crime.
Near the banks of the Chattahoochee
river in Coweta county, eight or ten
miles from Newman, the countryside,
lived J. W. Splewel, a young married
man. with his wife, a modest and highly
respectable woman of good country fam
lily.
They were tenants of large plantation,
which. unlike most of the big farms in
this section, was occupied exclusively by
white choppers. On the same planta-
lion and within 800 yards of their house
lived the Music family.
One afternoon the younger Music and
anumber of bachelor friends-wild bows
in the settlement-wered discussing tour
of dissipation in,ended for that night.
In the neighborhood there were said to
be Phrynes and Jezebels whose dwelling
was about four miles distant, and visit
was planned to that abode of vice.
Sprewell, the young husband heard the
conversation and devilish curiosity as
sailed and overcame him. He said he
had never seen such women as they de-
Scribed, and asked to be allowed to join
the party that he might ascertain what
such cattle looked like.
He was cheerfully received as mem
Der of the gang.
But before joining the intended COM
radeS it became necessary to deceive his
wife.
Plans were laid with that view and
everything agreed upon.
At the usual hour that night he retir-
ed, but not to sleep. After a reasonable
time he told Mrs. Sprewell that he had
forgotten to look after his fish traps and
felt compelled to get up and go to the
river to rectify his error. Accordingly,
he dressed and fastened away not to the
river, but to the rendezvous where the
young men were to meet him.
John Music, for some reason, failed to
Join the expedition.
As Sprewell quilted his dwelling he
was watched from ambush by an eager
pair of eyes, to which, under the moon
light, his movements were plainly visi-
ble
Time elapsed. Time enough for the
lying husband to get far out of hearing
time for him to have looked after his
lSh traps and returned to the slumbering
wife.
Then stealthy figure with feet that
gave no sound glided around the corner
OF the house and cautiously approached
The unlocked door,
For long time all was silent. Then
loud shreks rent the night and half
dressed man rushed frantlcally from the
house.
tie had not been recognized in the
uaTk Interior, but so soon as he gained
'ne bright moonlight he was known.
The shrieks redoubled, for the heart
oloken woman now realized how terri
Oe was the wrong to which she had been
SUBJECTED. Wild and painting, she rushed
'U'o The night and hurried down the road
inward The river to find the nan in
whose protecting care she had right to
trust.
Ne vas several miles away with the
PArynes and Jezebels.
but the good neighbors heard her
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