The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-05-16
GONE TO PARTS
NOW UNKNOWN
Many Debts and a Wife and
Two Children Are Left
Behind.
WOMAN IS ALSO MISSING
Mrs. Jacob Williams Leaves Her
Two Children Asleep in Bed
and Disappears, and it is Alleg-
ed That She Has Gone Away
With the Towns Former Chief
of Police.

Lewis Shuts, the gay policeman of
Newport is missing, and so is Mrs.
Jacob Williams, the wife of an employe
of the Champion Lumber Company,
and practically every merchant and
many of his friends are mourning his
loss, for it is said that it would take
something like $1,000 to put Lewis even
with the world.
Lewis becamea policeman when the
Board and Aldermen organized last
year. He thought much of himself,
and his uniform soon became the envy
of all. Not content TO pelng a mere walk
ing policeman, he rode about town on
a spirited steed, nothing but high
stopper being good enough for him, and
all the time the town was paying him
salary Of $40 per week. Lewis looked
good to Lewis, and it is said that he
sometimes feared that some fair dam
sci would make eyes at him, but he
continued to deport himself fairly well,
aud managed to hold his job. Nothing
had ever been SAID against him; he was
obliging and his credit good.
About two months ago he began to
touch his friends. Each friend thought
he was the only one who was loaning
Lewis money and half dozen or more
are on his various notes, the notes
figuring up several hundred dollars.
He had been riding good horses before,
but now he began to ride better ones,
all of which cost the liveryman some
thing to their hire is still unpaid.
He evidently did not mean to slight
anyone for not only did he get practi-
cally all of his intimate friends hooked
up on notes, but he began to scatter
his accounts, and it develops that few
merchants were missed.
Mrs. Williams, who had been living
at Crestmont with her husband, came
here to take up her residence, several
weeks ago, boarding on Church street.
She was accompanied by two children,
boy of about nine and a girl of a..
Another son, ,aged l7,remained at work
with his father at Crestmont. 1t is
alleged that Mrs. Williams and Shuts
became acquainted, and some assert
that it is definitely known that they
had speaking acquaintance at least.
On Thursday evening Shuts appear
ed before Mayor Greer and stated that
he had bad cold and asked to get of
for u short rest. He was relieved and
Geo. Samples named as Temporary
policeman. On the same evening, Mrs.
Williams and her two children paid q
social call on some friends and she
made an endeavor to have her children
spend the night at that place. The
children, however, insisted on going
back to their home, ,and about O'Clock
went to bed. This was the last they
saw of their mother, for when they
awoke the next morning she had gone
it being apparent that she packed up
her belongings. Whether she and
Lewis left on the same train has not
developed.
The next morning, Mrs. Shuts who
had spent the night alone with her two
children, one eight years and the other
one year, made inquiry as to the where
abouts of her husband. Then the
gossips began to whisper and it was
found that she did not know any
thing about his vacation plans, and as
both Shuts and the Williams woman
were missing 1t was generally presumed
that an elopement had taking place.
While these gossips were busy, the
merchants and friends began to COM
pare notes and while each thought he
was the only one eextending credit,it was
found that practically every one had