The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-28
4MY GOD! I'm A RUINED MAN.
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LIS so 1 told her on Thursday 1 womb %
Friday. She would sometimes get very
nervous and would get up very early in
The mornings, which WAS something I'M
7,sual for her. One morning 1 saw her
reep out the window and then go outside
and meet Rawls. They talked for a while
and then she came back / asked her after
a while if she had seen Rawls lately, and
she said she had seen him two days ago.
and later she said, by the way, she had
seen him that morning.
Il got somewhat worried and determined
/ would go and ask Joe about the night
I went out to ThunderbOlt. 1 found that
Rawls had told him TO go 20 bed about
o'clock that night and that he afterward
heard Rawls and my wife talking very low
down in the parlor and then at the door,
hut he could not hear what they said.
That was my lodge night, but instead of
going to the lodge L stopped in Brough-
ton street lane. 1 saw Rawls come up to
the stOop and talk with my wife a minute
then she went inside. Shortly afterward
he followed her and put on the night latch.
1 started across the street when my wife
opened the window up stairs and saw me-
When l went inside 1 met Rawls standing
by the staircase and asked him what he
was doing there. He said he was Just
passing and saw Mrs. Davis and thought
he would stop. He was very much con-
fused and my wife was rather frightened
when she came down.
'Rawls,' l said, L though you were
friend of mine He said he was. I'll be
plain with YOU said TO him. L don't be-
lieve your visits are meant for any good
Well, he said, If had been.here far any
wrong / would have shot you down. l
said it was pretty tough that man could
not come in his own house without being
attacked. Both declared that there was
nothing wrong about his visit, and told
him not to speak to my wife any more
and not to come around my house again.
He said he would not.
Il have reason to believe he wrote her
note and tried to see her the next day.
That night 1 met him in front of Kol-
shorn's place. He spoke to me and said
owed him an apology. told
him perhaps did, but didn't want him
to speak to my wife again. He assured me
that there had been no wrong intentions
whatever, but said he would do as i asked
That was Saturday. Sunday my wife was
after me to go to EllabeH again. 1 said
I'd go Tuesday night. Tuesday morning
when she went to market l saw her and
Rawls talking on the street and watched
them. March 10 1 went to Ellabell and
told my three sons to watch and see what
went on. l learned that two colored
women had been seen talking with my
wife and later with Rawls
when l got back the next day and
most to my house l saw Rawls standing
there conversing with my wife. 1 was
thunderstruck. Rawls asked a question,
which 1 answered as 1 felt, and went on
into the house. L asked my wife what in
the name of God she meant, and begged
her not to have anything more to say to
Rawls.
March 10 she got up very early again
and went downstairs. l looked out and
saw Rawls throwing kisses to her from
across the street. Then 1 was positive
that he was after my wife and l said MY
God, I'm a ruined man"
Davis then told of a chewed up note he
had found, the pieces of which he ex-
hibited TO the jury. He related some sim
liar incidents. March p and p. he said,
w. J. Britt had followed his wife on her
way to market and saw her talking with
Rawls at Broughton and Montgomery
Streets. March % she didn't go to mar
get ,sRawls PASSED the mousse and threw
kisses at her, he said. After March %
he did not see Rawls at the house any
more, as the latter, he said, suspected
that he was watching. April !, Davis
said, he was sitting in the parlor win
dow with the blinds closed. His wife
was sitting near the other window. He
saw Rawls pass and throw kisses at her.
His wife then told him she had not seen
Rawls since the day he returned from
EllabeH.
Davis said he consulted some of his
quiet for time. Il haven't got the lam
guage, he said, to express my feelings.
couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, couldn't
work. My business was going to ruin,
and my wife was so nervous
that she couldn't attend TO her
household affairs. decided TO
have Rawls arrested But on consulting
a lawyer l was told l should give my wife
the benefit of every doubt, and that 1
should go to Rawls and tell him if he cid
not discontinue his attentions it would be
at his own risk. This did.
1.-THE night of April was my lodge
night My wife asked me if 1 would be
kept late, and I said 1 thought 1 would.
thought there was something up. l got
in a vacant yard next to my house where
could see into my dining room. she
was writing, but heard a noise, stopped
and went to the front door. went IN anu
found a note burning up l saved a part
of it and there it is. When l heard her
coming 1 hid. She began to write again
went in and said, Let me see that let-
ter She started to run, but l caught
her, when she said she would cry muir
der, If did not let her go. l believe she
did cry out She attempted to swal-
low the note and l tried to stop
her, but she succeeded in swallow
ing something. She also secured the en-
Velope and swallowed that. She ran up
stairs and made an attempt to jump out
a window, out L CduBAL anu ASl4
her. and while awaiting some
assistance she threw something away
which 1 believed was the letter. She in
sisted she had swallowed it and l said she
must take something to make her throw
it up, which she said she would do. We
tried mustard but that didn't do, so l sent
for DIR. Norton He gave her something and
she threw UP some pieces of a note which
gathered up and while l stepped out OF
the room she threw them in the fireplace
She was very nervous and as she went
down stairs 1 followed her. She said she
was dying and fell sprawling on the floor
thought at first she was dead. DR.. Nor
ton was called in and after restoring her
he was told what she had done about the
letter. She said the letter was to her sister
and that she wouldn't show 1t to me be-
cause had been watching her. ! told her
It was to Rawls, and 1 afterwards found
It and there it is to Rawls.
Or Norton talked to her about the mat
ter and she agreed to write letter telling
Rawls not to come near her again, but
there was not a scrap of paper in the
house. We quarreled and ar
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