The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-26
WRONGED HUSBAND GAME
SAME OLD BADGER GAME WORK.
ED Az HENDERSONVILLE
But Victim Had Cut a Wisdom Tooth
and Had Husband and Wife Ar
rested.

Hendersonyille, n. c., August IL.
-Flourishlng a deadly six shooter
and wildly excited, Baxter Mitchell,
OF Hendersonville, broke into a
room in the Swannanoa hotel, Ashe-
Vile, occupied by his wife, Mabel,
and stranger, also OF Henderson
vile, and demanded thousand dol
lars from each of the alleged guilty
pair as the price of his silence.
The woman paid him $500 in cur
rency, the man gave him two checks,
one for 5000, another Tor $395, and
five dollars in currency. The alleged
injured husband then left the room,
soon followed by the stranger, who
could still see the glistening barrel
of that big revolver.
Such, in brief, is the story of a
badger game" successfully worked
on visitor in Hendersonville by
Baxter Mitchell and his wife, Mabel,
who also have been spending the
summer here and who have register
ed at some of the most prominent
houses in town.
The stranger Immediately left for
his home in South Carolina. Return
ing to Hendersonville yesterday on
the one o'clock train, he had two
warrants sworn out. One charged
Baxter Mitchell with assault with a
deadly weapon, the other charged
Mitchell and his wife with unlawful
ly and wilfully conspiring and agree
ing to defraud and extort from said
plaintiff certain checks and securities
amounting to $685."
As Mitchell and his wife stepped
from the five o'clock train from
Asheville yesterday evening they
were placed under arrest by Sheriff
Blackwell and Deputy Otis Powers.
They were Immediately taken to
Squire Dermid's Office. Both parties
were represented by counsel, and af-
ter a long consultation the case was
compromised, the checks returned to
the plaintiff and were burned by
Squire Dermid in his Office.
Mitchell was accused by the plain
tiff of enticing him to his room in the
Swannanoa hotel in Asheville, last
Friday night, under pretense of buy
ing some stock. He soon left the
room, it is said. Mrs. Mitchell enter
ed and in a. few minutes the husband
returned waving pistol in the air
and demanding a thousand dollars
from each of the alleged guilty pair.
The woman, in tears} gave him
$500 in currency. The stranger paid
in two checks, dated Saturday,
drawn on a South Carolina bank. He
Immediately left for his home town,
returned here with his attorney yes
terday, and Mitchell and his wife
were brought to Squire Dermid's Of
fee, where the above alleged facts
were brought to light.
Mrs. Mitchell is an exceedingly
striking and beautiful woman. With
her husband she has been in Hen
dersonville for several weeks, where
the same game it is rumored, was
tried on another man in one of the
hotels here.
i The plaintiff in the case, who has
been in town for about a month, al
leges they followed him to Asheville
last Friday, where he had gone on
business and Mitchell, meeting him
on the street there invited him to his
room on the pretext of talking busi-
ness.
He had but five dollars on his per-
son when Mitchell broke into the
room and demanded a thousand dol
lars from him. He gave him two
checks, dating them Saturday, and
five dollars in cash.
At the trial yesterday he withdrew
the warrant, the checks were return
ed and burned and he paid the costs,
amounting to s4.75, after which Mr..
and Mrs. Mitchell left the court house
together.