Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
Aliseellaneous Reaain9.
A DARING WOMAN b1rDIT.
Fought Sherif7s Posse and Burned the
Home of Her Enemies.

| Bloody Tangipahoa parish, the home
of the feudists, and the blacklist spo
in Louisiana, is on the hunt for wo'
man bandit who has been robbint
homes and holding up pedestrians II
| lonely lanes and roads in that rura
] neighborhood. She is rounding out 6
career of crime which began when she
shot a neighbor's noisy dog and retail
| lated by shooting and wounding the
| neighbor when he protested. She has
shot two men, burned down the house
of a neighbor whose daughter refused
her sons attentions, given battle TO 3
sheriff's posse until wounded and cap
tured, served a term in prison and
vengeance on society.
Il am branded convict" she says
Il am one of the victims of society.
shall have my revenge"
So she goes up and down the roads
of Bloody Tangipahoa" robbing and
terrorizing so effectively that the VIC
tins fear to identify her.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Georgia Wren
was liberated from the states prison
where she had served two years or
conviction Of arson. She had beer
given an easy place as cook in the An
COLA convict farm, not far from the
borderland of Tangipahoa parish. I'm
mediately on liberation she procured a
revolver and a bowie knife and started
for her old home ard her revenge
She has been ION the road" since, COM
mitting any depredations that came
within her range.
Unreuuited love is at the bottom OF
her strange choice of vengeance. The
1S-year- old son Of Mrs. Wren became
captivated by the rustic charms oi
Mary Wyly, the daughter Of neigh
Dor in the cabin settlement. The bu'
collie affair was running smoothly
enough until suspicion of numerous
petty robberies fell upon Mrs. Wrer
and her son. The WHY'S were among
those who believed the imputations
and they began to discourage the at
tentions of young Wren to theil
daughter.
Nothing, however, came of the sus-
picions until the dog-killing episode
and the wounding of the animals mas
ter by the woman. The parish settle
ment ostracized the Wrens and the SOL
was forbidden the house of the WHY'S
No arrest followed, however, for the
wounded man probably sanely con.
cluded that the aim of the woman
| might be better on the next occasion
should he give further stimulation tr
her ire.
1t is the habit of the place and peo-
ple. Petty chickering's are settled ir
personal encounters; trifling enmities
are answered by the shot in the darf
! or the bullet from ambush Feuds arc
more frequent than crops, and the
| hand of private vengeance thrusts it.
| self into every phase of life. Thus is
Mrs. Wren rather a product of the en-
vironment.
This she demonstrated in answer t'
the WHY'S demand that her son remair
away from their home and theil
| daughter. One night not long after.
ward fire broke out in the Wyly cabir
and it was consumed. A torch hat
been applied from the exterior.
In this case the law was invoked
| Mrs. Wren resisted, with the result
that a sheriff and three deputies were
sent out for her. Armed with a re.
volver she gave the men battle, firing
three ineffective shots even after bal
from an officers rife had cut a cash II
her neck More frightened at the blood
! than the law, she surrendered, wa:
tried and sent to prison for two years
Her son was found guilty of completely
and given a term half as long.
When she surrendered she cursed
the officers for shooting at a woman
and vowed her revenge on them ant
those who had caused her arrest
Prior to this affair she had shot ant
wounded another man besides thu
owner of the noisy dog, which caused
her first resort to firearms.
| The neighborhood in which this wo
man bandit now operates is inhabited
almost entirely by the poor and th'
"hauls" she makes are in proportion
small, yet she goes about her worl
with all the color and dash the Jamese!
knew. Armed with two big revolver
| and her knife, clad in a wide sombrer'
of straw, a kimomo waist. and a rougl
skirt, she looks a land pirate. She il
tall and powerful, with a coarse, mas
culine face and a voice in conformity.
Yet she is not without a leaven o
consideration. Those who shelter he
she does not rob and she has evel
been known to return the fruits of he
holdups when poverty was pleaded
Her chief aim appears to be vengeanc
| on those who have excited her ange
and a general vendetta against an or
ganization of human beings that pun
ish wrongs Neighbors who accused
her of robberies, the WHY'S, who sen
her to prison, the officers who arrest
ed her, and all her sundry enemies ar
uneasy of the result.
On leaving the prison farm she walk
ed to the nearest railroad station, an,
then down the track a few miles to
little farmhouse. 1t was growing darl
and she asked for supper. Her Cow
boy" costume excited a little curiosity
and even fear, among the women foil
at the farm, who eyed her nervousl!
as she ate supper. Upon finishing sh
drew her revolver and demanded:
Give me what money there is in tn
house. and be quick about it,"
This command was quickly obeyeG
The woman had only few dollars
which was handed over, the eldest say
ing:
This is the last Of my only bale o
cotton: l was saving it to buy coffee.
am a widow, and these two girls ar
my daughters.