The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-13
CALHOUN HELD FOR ROBBERY His Wife Carried Home by Relatives. STRANGE CASE WAS UP Calhoun Had Wronged Two
 Negroes. After Accusing Them of Attempting to Assault His Wife, They ssy
 He Tosbea Them,
 with Gun.

Marrying in haste to repent at leis- ure is the sad fate of,little Mrs. Henry Calhoun, formerly Miss Sallis Eubanks. of Butler. Ga, wife. of the man arrest ed Sept. at McGehees Switch under very peculiar circumstances. Calhoun was offered . preliminary hearing be- fore Justice of the Peace M. H Screws yesterday morning, but waived the ex- animation and was renanded to jail. still on the charge of highway robbery. there being no one there to go on his bond, which was fixed at $i.ooo.
 Calhoun, on Sept. 8. spread a report to the effect that his wife had been assaulted by two negroes in the sta tion at McGehee's switch, and held Arthur Woody and James Motion. ne- groes there until the arrival of the county officers. But the story told by the negroes convinced the deputies that there was something wrongs they having accused Calhoun of holidng them up while in the station and rob- ping them. On tue face of things. the officers arrested all parties and brought them to Montgomery. When they reached the city Calhoun told the county authorities his wife had been assaulted in the station at McGehee's while he was out. and he had held the negroes there, when he returned. un- til help arrived. The negroes said they HdQ ptCn payAh6 AAo 0SbGafSh1a VI Calhoun or his wife, until. without warning, Calhoun covered them with a pistol and made them hand over their money, and then held them in station and called for the officers.
 Mrs. Caihoun's story does not agree with that of her husband. She said the negroes had seemed to follow them on their way from Montgomery to McGehee's, but had made no at- tempt to do either herself or husband harm. For lack of evidence, the case was. continued from the time of the arrests until today, and those inter- ested were very much surprised when the attorney representing Calhoun waived the examination before the Justice of the Peace, Calhoun being re- manded to jail.
 Mrs. caihoun's brother, T. H. Eu- banks of Atlanta, was present in court this morning and when the case was sent on to the grand Jury, took his sister home with him. Ee said he had done all in his power to djssuads her from marrying Calhoun. but since she had gotten in such fix he would take care of her.. 2
 2 Mrs. Calhoun told Jailer Pettus when she was arrested. she had met Cal houn while he was at work In peach orchard in Georgia, and after three weeks had married him, although the marriage was strongly4opposed by her relatives From the. time they were married, She says, until the arrest, she had been knocking about Georgia and Alabama with him, living In a haphazzard way, and she had gotten very tired of it; she was about ready to give up and go to her home in But Ter. Ga, when the arrest took place.
 Calhoun had nothing to say about the matter, but seems to have g0ften NH.... k..s u-.. lNkA "A the time of his arrest. He was very drunk when first brought to jail. and the day following, either played men, tai arrangement or had some trouble as a result of his drinking. He did not seem to recognize anyone and kept drinking very much watered med icine to get himself in a better frame of mind and reduce the seeming ab- normal proportion of his head.
 Mrs Calhoun has several friends in Montgomery. who testify to her good character, and who have been taking care of her while she was here.
 The negro men arrested in the case bear good regulations. and for this some days ago under a nominal bond to appear at the trial as witnesses. The general opinion is that Calhoun held them up and counted on having them roughly handled as the result of the charge he brought against them, but the fact that his wife did not bear out his supposed scheme. turned the tables on him.