Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-12

man A. S. Wright, and is now locked UP
in the Manchester police station
The accused will be tried before Mayor
Maurice this morning.
MIR. SOUTHARD TALKS.
When seen IN Jail yesterday Mr.
Southland said: YES they accuse me of
stealing 81, but didn't do it. I reached
over the little closet under the stairway
and found the little purse there with ~
in it. My wife said, Give me that purse.
said Not until you give me that letter
from George Pulliam, of Danville. va.
He is keeper of the almshouse of Danville.
The letter I asked for was directed TO
Maggie Lovelace. my wife's dauShter-ln-
law I am confident that the letter is
from Gillian. My wife said she dldn
have the letter. If that is true, then she
burnt it up. In regard to my wife III MIS-
souri, I received letter from James
Lavear. of Carthage. saying that she was
dead She was Miss Jane Lovice. of that
place. before her marriage to me.
Mrs Southland, who charges her hus-
band with bigamy, was also seen. by re-
porter yesterday. She told of the trouble
She had been having with her husband,
and said that the had threatened to XII
her with a Ratchet
I'VE were married in Danvlle about
twelve months ago" said Mrs. Southland.
l.
purgatory We have lived in NIanches
ter only two months. Mr. Southland has
done very little work during that time,
and my children have been i'll with the
fever I have two sons and a little
daughter by my first husband. Mr..
Southland has charged me with receiving
4 letter from Mr.. Gillian. of Danville
The letter was addressed to my daugh-
tcr-in-law and I had nothing to do with
ii. My husbands name is Burrel Gillian
Southland. He told me that his first wife
was killed in street-car wreck in ST.
Louis. Mo. Since we have been marrieo
he has been receiving letters from her.
have seen the letters. and told him that
] thought that God had sent curse
on us because it was not intended that
we should live together. He tried to beat
me, and treated my little grand-daugh-
ter, Maggie Loveace in an inhuman
manner. He said that if my daughter-in-
law had to live at my home he would
leave My. brother died of fever, and left
this little child and his wife. I could not
see them thrown in the streets.
STORY OF MARRIAGE.
1t was after Mr. Southards arrival from
the West that he went to the home OF
Mrs. 3. #. Cochrane. who was formerly
Miss Bette Lovelace, of Henry county.
Sh-. WHERE ne DOdIueu IOl ScNtl dl illohIlo.
He finally married Mrs. Cochrane. she
having told him that her husband. Mr..
Cochrane. had been killed by falling from
a building in Greensboro. n. c. She was
also the wife OF Charles Lovelace. of
Wise county. Va. who is alleged to have
obtained divorce from her.
Southland said that Cochrane was
drinking man, and that his wife was re-
sponsible for the statement that her first
b1ISh u-IjI in, Mt
Gated condition
COPY OF THE LETTER.
The following is a copy Of letter from
one of the women whom Mrs. Southland
says is the first wife of her husband:
"St. Louis, Mo-, May ?, 1900.
Mr.. 3. G. Southard
Dear Sir ours of the 21st to hand,
will say that I have never had a lire
from you since before I wrote to Maggie,
but that is all right. I wrote to you
from Harrisonrew, ILL.,, and told you Just
how I felt, and l feel that way yet. l
now know that it was not love, but
blind infatuation l had for you. Now the
man that is the father OF my children is
the only one that will ever get any atten-
ton from me, be he drunkard or what
ever, he never asked me to sell my soul
for money 1 hate the memory of the
time I spent with you, and if you want
W ne HeICllul 10 me uOn ever CNlQh OF
me again. I will try to forget you and
one thing you must do if you ever come
West, and that is let me alone. I will be
on my own soil. and remember I am
more independent than 1 ever was be-
fore. / lived with the other man half a
lifetime. and took great deal more from
him than I will ever take from anyone.
Don't think hard of me dropping your
name because YOU dropped it when you
wanted to undermine me with your mail.
/ am not going to be on Chestnut street
at all. You need not think care whether
I ever sec or hear from you again or not
You or no other man shall use me for
a purpose. l see through your scheme
and only suggested your trying to get
damage from that party just to see how
loving you would get.
L am educated fool. but I see
through more than you think 1 do. But
let's be done with the wranglng. don't
want anything more to do with you.
was at your mercy all winter. but no
more. AS for as my being the cause of
your owing Mike. will say this much
if you had given me the money you
gave your LynchbIrg lady I would not
have had to force YOU to give me the
money that Mike stood good for and an
other thing. Mike only staked his mule
anG not his farm. l know a thing or
two. I will stake my life that I get in
trouble. But my hands will not be tied
before my friends show their color. I
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