The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-19
LUREO HER TO SHAME
Home Broken by So-CaIIed
Min ster of God.
Mrs, HarriII Ltf, Husband and Children, Claim
ing She Vas Led Away by The Holiness
Preachers Scphistries.
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Especial to News and Observer
Henrietta. ~ c., June 1S.-The where
abouts of Mrs Jennie Harrill, wife Oh
George A. Harrill. who disappeared from
the home of her father, Mr.. David Bryant
near Cannon's Camp Grounds, s. O.. leas-
| ing three small children. few weeks ago.
while her husband was on visit TO MS
parents in Henrietta, is no longer a mys-
terry. She has been located by her hus-
band in Chattanooga, Tenn, with John r
Byars. a Holiness preacher who persuaded
her away from her home. husband and
children. When found she was working
in a hosiery factory, and Byars was work
ing in a box factory both staying at the
same boarding house. few weeks ago
Mr.. Harrill, his wife and three children
got ready to come to Henrietta to visit
his parents. Just as they were ready to
start Mrs Harrill became suddenly i'll or
pretended to be, but insisted on her hus-
bands going and taking the children. Mr.
Harrill consented taking the two largest
children That night she disappeared from
her parents home, leaving her baby and
a note to her mother on the pillow, say.
ing that her husband had not treated her
right, and she was going out into tie
world to make a living for herself. She
took her trunk and SIS of her husband S
money with her. When Mr.. Harrill was
notified of her unfaithful act. he at once
suspected Byars, as having persuaded her
away las he had boarded for several
months with them and was finally sent
away from their home by Mr.. Harrill. be-
cause of attentions to his wife
Then letter from Mrs Harrill inquiring
after her children, gave the husband a
clue to her whereabouts. He went to
Chattanooga and located her at a hotel
there. At the sight of her husband. the
unfaithful wife fell upon his neck and
sobbed bitterly. and begged him to forgive
her. When Byars learned of Mr. Harrill S
presence in the city, he left Chattanooga.
Mrs Harrill said she was led by Byars to
believe that her husband did not treat her
right, and that he was unfaithful to her.
Byars used his Bible to prove that accord
| ing to the scriptures she would he justi-
fable in forsaking her husband, and that
according thereto, she was virtually ri
vorced from him. because of his unfaith-
fulness and was perfectly free to go off
with him and marry at their will He al
ways used his Bible to press his case and
prove his points.
She said that when they reached
Georgia, Byars inquired about divorce for
her. but was told that she could not get
one there under two years They then
went to Tennessee and were confronted by
the same difficulty. They had heard that
the laws of Alabama were much more
lenient, and they intended to go to that
State IN few days, secure divorce for
her. and then marry. She claimed that
on their rounds they occupied separate
rooms and had not been criminally init
mate She fully repented of her unfaith-
fitness, and begged to be reinstated as
wife and mother, and plead with him to
let her return with him. but he would
not.
He left her at Del Rio, Tenn, and fol-
lowed Byars back to Spartanburg, S. c..
and had him put in Jail for carrying a
pistol, and in default of peace bond of
800. j. P. Byars is man of medium
build, about 2s vars of age and very neat
III appearance. He is a cousin of Ms
Harrill He claims that he is a licensed
minister OF the Wesleyan Methodist
church.
Mr. Harrill has just returned from tho
painful and unhappy pursuit with his
| three children to Henrietta, where he will
make his home with his parents for the
present