The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-11


God himself wrote the marriage con
tract ana then he sealed u With Nv
ing words OF IRE. Here IS ths-niss
ing link in this record. This dis
turbance between he and his wife be
gan right in Columbia when s~wife
was disappointed because she was not
invited to his mothers. Now what
OF this home? Mrs. Long is a pure,
true. good woman and the last woman
in the world 70 allow any improper
conduct in her home But If she had
seen anything she ought to have
stopped, and did not, that fact would
today overwhelm her and she finds
consolation in her great grief in what
she did for this couple while they
were in her home"
Mr.. Hughes then took up the testi-
mony of Mrs. Long and reviewed II
at length, showing the close proximi-
" of the Long boys room TO that OF
Mr.. CRANBERRY. There were hours and
times when there were no ones in
these rooms but these two persons,
but that is not all. The door between
the rooms where Mrs. Long and her
sons slept and Mrs. CRANBERRY slept,
he said, was open at night and light
was kept burning in the room. Mrs.
Longs bed was opposite the door OF
Mrs Granbery's room. The only way
in which this conduct can be excused
is that Mrs. Long was ignorant otthe
character of her son. On one oc-
casion Mrs. Frierson visited this home
and found the young wife and Long
together, all of which goes to show
the freedom and lack of restraint in
this home.
4 do not say" said Mr.. Hughes,
that there was any intentional
wrong on the part OF this married
woman or any criminal conduct, but
| do say that these facts when
brought to the attention of her hus-
band was sufficient to arouse his sus-
picions. When these things were told
to. defendant he did not think them
true; out he said tell me all so that
| can tell my wife and save her from
the tongue of gossip and slander. He
goes to his wife again and cautions
her if she don't keep this young man
out of her room there will be talk,
but she answers: will not be die
tated to; if you want to keep him
out of this room you keep him out
But this would have provoked Islander
and would have beenNa reflection on
his wife. This boy would have talked
if this husband had gone to him and
told him to stay out of the wifes
room. Mrs. Long says he never
caught them in the room together.
How will you reconcile this with what
transpired there on the night of the
separation"
Addressing a member of the jury
Mr.. Hughes called him by name and !
asked if more was needed than this
to show that the husband acted prop
erly. He said that the husband had
a right to control the associates
of his wife; he has a right to say who
should enter the portals of his wife's
room; to stand there and keep out
intruders with shotgun.
Continuing, Mr.. Hughes said: I'VE
are not relying on the unwritten law,
but upon the law that God Almighty
has written into the heart OF every
man. May a man enter his home and
steal the treasure of his wife's honor
and he have no power to lift his hand
or resent it? If / do, am / to be
swung upon the gibbet or be cast into
a dungeon? The law gives man no
compensation for robbing his wife of
her virtue except money compensa'
tion. What compensation is that?
No law for it! Yes, there is written
law for it. Back on Mt Sinais top
God declared Thou shalt not commit
adultery" Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbors wife, All through the
book of life there is condemnation
of this crime. But the Courts say
these are questions to be submitted
to the jury and it is for them to, de-
eide. Not a case is to be found in
Tennessee where a man has been
punished for killing the man who des-
ecrated his home or dishonored his |
wife This is to the honor of the
Courts and the Juries of our State
Mr.. Hughes then detailed the testi-
mony of the witnesses as to what took |
place on the night of the separation
Coming down to the night of the I
separation, when witness charged that
deceased spent most Of his time in