The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-14
Two WIVES AFTER HIM.
James SutherIand's Chances of
Peace Are Very slim.

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Peace Are Very slim.
lanes Sutherland is well known in Sa-
vannah. He is a Scotchman, fine gar
dener. and ambitious of a plurality of
wives June It, 1885, he married Miss Jes-
sic Jeffreys. The ceremony was perform
a5 bv Rev. Roderick Henderson, May, so,
1890 he married Miss Agnes Robertson, in
Alabama.
sutherland was arrested for drunken
ness Saturday night and was discharged
bv the recorder Monday morning His
touching the bottle is not an unusual oc-
currence, Mrs. Sutherland the First says,
but it is possible that this particular
drunk may have been an effort to drown
a condition of conjugal infelicity.
Just after Sutherland had left the bar
racks, Mrs. Sutherland No l put in an
appearance, accompanied by Mr.. Archi-
bald McAll;ster, and demanded that her
husband be held, as she wanted to take
out a warrant for him. She was inform
ed of the state of affairs, and went to
Justice Chas. Collman's court and swore
out a warrant on a charge of bigamy.
The Mrs. Sutherland with the prior
claim, said that her former lord was a
man to whom none could deny the admis-
sion that better man than he to provide
for a wife, could not be found when he
was sober. Her life with him was not of
the calm and blissful type that Lives
happily ever after" when the courtship
has eliminated at the altar. Her treat
ment at his hands was all that she could
have wished, she said when he
was himself, but there was the rub, for
he was more often in d delightfully."- in
toxicated condition and, when getting in
late at night, he would handy epithets
that she was not by any means proud to
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break the crockery, and once, to cap the
climax of everything else mean that he
had done, she said he drove her from her
bed with her five days old baby and oc-
cupied it himself with a a drunken negro
friend neither of the men regarding it
necessary to pull off their shoes or
clothes.
This she recited as a specimen of the
woes she had to bear for two years. when,
as she calmly said, she caught Sutherland
out one Saturday night and gave him a
horse whipping. This fagellation effec-
tually killed any lurking germs of love
and the separation, that received no YER
dict of divorce, Immediately followed.
Some time after that Sutherland went
to Scotland. When he returned, Agnes
Robertson had forsaken her native heath
to accompany him. In Alabama they were
married and Agnes became though I'M
known to herself, Mrs. James Suther-
land the second.
She preserved her marriage certificate
and treasured it as one of her dearest pos
sessions She had been told by Suther-
land that his first wife was divorced and
that boy the only offspring of his first
marriage, was in Baltimore in a home for
children. He even, she is said to have
claimed, got $25 from her to defray the
child's funeral expenses when he died.
If this is true, it was a colossal lie, for
the only boy that blessed the first union
now rests, says Mrs. Sutherland the first,
in Laurel Grove cemetery.
Savannah held the two wives and the
one husband for a long while before the
clash, but day or two ago it came. Mrs.
Agnes was looking over Mrs. Jessie's hus-
bands effects and found a bill for a
physicians services that gave her a pref
ty strong idea that she ought not to be-
leve everything she was told. Acting on
the clue, she went to Mrs. Jessies uncle
and an explanation followed.
Mrs. Jessie says that Mrs. Agnes Suth-
erland is averse to talking about the case,
but this can not be said of her, for she
talks freely and says many things, among
them, that she has a pretty severe tenn
per and that she wants God to help him
if she runs across Sutherland before the
law takes him in charge
Mrs. Sutherland, the second, does not
talk much about the case. She dashed
her marriage certificate to the floor before
Constable O'Neil when the full sense Of
Sutherland's treatment daWned upon her,
breaking the glass of the frame and then
tearing up the document.
sutherland has not been found thou Oh
the officers furnished with the two war;
rants are looking for him.