The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-08-28

Il 10 would Dc too lonesome n lA@ c04n-
Try. that she would never get 70 town
To see anybody; that be would leave
her out there BY herself; that he told
her no. that he would never come TO
town without her. but she stil OBJ
jected to going out near the mines
witness said that he had no sus-
picion OF anything real wrong, until
the negro girl told him that his wife
had told her not to tell him anything;
then it was that he accused his wife
OF being untrue to him; but by the
word untrue" he did not mean any
thing criminal; he meant that she
had been keeping things from him,
and disregarding his wishes and his
warnings. and disloyal in that way.
When she had suggested and he had
consented for her to go to Nashville,
1t was not, he said, with view to
a separation; the thought, he said, that
to get away from the influence of her
present environments would be best
for her. and that she would return
all right.
After the scene when he had told
her about the negro girls story, and
accused her of being untrue. and had
found the bottle of brandy. his wife
said things cannot always go on this
way" and ne said no, and coming
home again early one afternoon and
finding Long in their room again, he
lasked her if he stayed there all the
time" and she answered no, and an
angry quarrel followed because Of her
GOODNESS and indifference, and her
final suggestion that "she would not
he dictated to-" and that things could
mot last as they were." and he finally
left the house. He was wild and did
mot know where he was going, and
was crying. He went short distance
and returned to the house and had
more words with his wife, and then
left and went to the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Frierson. Mr.. Frierson is
his first cousin and intimate friend,
land Mrs. Frierson was like mother
to him. He told them what had trans
lpired. Didn't want to tell his mother.
The next day he told his brother Jack,
and his brother told his mother.
| A day or two later witness said he
wrote a note to the Long home, ask
ling for some of the clothing he had
left there. The messenger came
hack saying there was nobody at
home. He then telephoned and Spot
ILong 1.-THE deceased) answered the
phone. He told Long what he want
led. Long said nobody was at home.
HE then told Long he was coming
| there to get the articles he wanted,
and Long told him to come on. When
he got there he found no one in the
house except Long. But directly the
nurse came in with the baby, and he
: played five or ten minutes with the
lbabv. He asked Long If his wife had
told her father that they had sepa-
rated. Long said she had not. He
1.-THE witness) then telephoned the
father, who told him to tell his daugh-
ter to come at once to Columbia.
+ Witness replied to the father that ne
would get the daughter to the phone,
and he asked Long to go and find her
and tell he. her father wanted to talk
with her. Long went out Of the front
door, as if he was going to a neigh
boris for her, but he was gone but
little while, and it developed that his
wife was hiding in servants room
in the back yard and came from there
to the phone. When asked why she
ran out of the house when she saw
him coming, she replied, because |
do not want to be under the same
roof with you" She would not come
to the phone, witness said, until he
had put down the receiver and left
the phone; then she went to the phone
to talk with her father. While she
was talking witness noticed that Long
had come back in the front door and
to the rear of the hall and was stand
ing right at his back. Witness said
he turned to Long and upbraided him
as a liar, and told him he would
burst his brains out if he did not leave
there Long started to- resent the
words, when his wife, said the wit
ness, said: Don't talk Wash" and
turning to him said, there's the door,
now take it." He left the place then,
and has had no futher conversation
with his wife since.
| After this, about the frst of Feb
ruary, witness asked Harry Harlan
what was being said. Harlan told
him that everybody was talking. That
"Spot" Long said that CRANBERRY had