The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1910-02-02

iSlatlve friend had been hrou8nhE
back to the Edwards BY his escort
given more liquor, and had been
carried to some room ii the buildsl
ing. but just where was unable
to learn. A last request ! made Of
Mr.. Percy was that he would use.
any influence be might possess
with his friends to prevent the
further debauching this man. and
this he promised to do.
Next morning the wife Of the
debauched legislator was sent q
message BY me through q mutual
friend to come to Jackson on the
| first train. as her husband was in q
condition that demanded her att
tention and presence. She came.
That evening got into commune
cation with the young mans father
and next day he came. having
meantime returned to Brookhavens s
When got back to jackson Thurs
day afternoon, | learned that when.
the wife came and inquired at the
Edwards for her husband the day
before she was told he was not.
there. She insisted that lie was
and that she must find him and
with the assistance of a policeman
finally did locate him in room
near the Percy headquarters; but.
was unable to persuade him in bis.
maudlin condition and under the In
tiuence of his new-found associates
to 60 home with her or to any
other part of the city.
When the father Of the young
man arrived next day, he discover
led on the hotel register that his
son and daughter in-law had been
registered in an unfamiliar hand
writing. initials omitted, as being
from Greenyille, Miss. and was
told afterward that they were
guests Of the Percy contingent. Z
having returned to jackson Thurs
day afternoon as stated above,
that evening the father came to
Police Justice Allen Thompson and
myself in the Edwards House lob
by, told US that his son acted as
though he had been drugged and
that neither he nor his wife could
persuade him to leave the hotel Or
go home or anywhere else, and re-
quested us to accompany him to
their room and see if we could pre-
vail on him to leave. On our ar
rival we were unable to accomplish
anything in the direction deslr-
ed. While we were there in the
private room Of the husband and
wife by invitation Of the father.
several friends Of Mr.. Percy came
boldly in, without request or invita-
tion from anyone, and two of them
acted so discourteously that they
we're admonished BY Justice Thomp-
son that they were intruders and
requested to retire. The stricken
and humiliated wife. who was in a.
delicate state of health, informed
us, while there, that her situation
and environment had been disagree
able and trying in the extreme
since her arrival at the hotel. and
that if she could not get her hus-
band to leave next day with her,
she would be compelled to leave.
without him. It seemed impossi
bic to make the poor fellow who
had been SO sorely debauched by
Liquor realize, esen family, his
own condition or that Of his wife;
but with reason dethroned as it
was, there was nothing to do but
leave him where he was or resort
force.
AS Justice Thompson and ! pass
led down the corridor, another leg
IisIator of the Percy contingent, who
had been observed coming out when
we first entered the room and
whose blood-shot eyes, unsteady
step and thick accents bespoke ex-
cessive indulgence il drink, ap-
preached me without being 10 any
way accused, and discIaimed all
responsibility for the condition il
which / had found my friend and
declared that he, too, was only act-
ing as one Of the good Samaritans.
About two hours later, the father.
of the young man, who had resoly-
led to spend the night watching at
! the bedside of his son. called me
as / was passing through the lobby
of the Edwards to mail letter,
land il desperate state Of mind
Uniformed me that he was utterly at
a loss to know what to do: that he
believed his son would die right
There before be could get him
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