Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-20
W. L. Terrell, Former Varsity
Athlete, Defended in AIimOny
Case by Father.
PLAINTIFF WITH BABE
SOBS OUT HER CHARGE
Woman Given $40 Monthly Ali
mOny, But Legality of Mar
rage Not Passed Upon.

w. L. Terrell, former University of
Georgia athlete, now a civil engineer,
in a remarkable alimony suit in the SUI
perior court to-day denounced as an
adventures who had wrecked his life a
young woman who, claiming to be his
wife, gave her name as Mrs. Myrtle
Walker Terrell, and sat before him,
weeping, with a baby in her arms.
w H. Terrell, well known Atlanta
lawyer. pleaded his sons cause, and did
not spare the woman,
Mrs. Terrell, on the stand, told a
story Of how she eloped with Terrell
to Lake City, Fla. was married to him
there. and later gave birth to the child
that bears the Terrell name.
His father is a lawyer, and I sup
pose ! will have to suffer" she ex-
claimed u would not mind it il it
were not for my little girl They have
ruined me, and now they would curse
this child by saying it has no father
that this sweet little thing is just a
| child of sin.
Protests She Is Married.
81 am married to him" she vehe-
mently protested. Every one in At
lanta who remembers Myrtle Walker
remembers it, We were sweethearts
for six years, and he induced me to
elope with him to Lake City, Fla, when
he had been denied my house by my
parents We left here in November,
1910, by separate routes, and met and
were married at Lake City, November
so We lived together until he tired of
me. after our child was born, and he
sent me to Atlanta, saying he would
follow. He never came back until he
had to. and l have been getting along
as best ! could.
81 have never been anything but a
faithful wife. living that our child
might never be ashamed of it's mother"
Young Terrell one-time star of the
Atlanta High school football team, and
later Georgia athlete, told a different
story
many other young men make. wen:
away from home with woman was
going to Florida on a surveying corps
No one knew me there; I was young
had good position and thought
could do as | pleased
Left Woman Behind.
But the world is a wise one After
five weeks the people began to sus-
pect something and an older man with
the party told me to quit it before
got into serious trouble The survey
ing party went some considerable dis
lance from Lake City then, and / did
not take her with me.
lone day, two or three months later.
in./N about four or five months after
g. first went 20 Lake City ! came to
u Ike City one night l looked Myrtle
up$ As / approached the door / heard
the plaintive sobs of an infant II
was hers and had been born that day.
since then che has prosecuted me.
Time and again l have sent her money.
have offered to make any rea sonable
sacrifice that the child might have a
name. but she has insisted on coming
m court. IL mas cost me dearly. ! nave
good education, but l can't get
good position. My friends, except
very few. are not so warm az they
were formerly.
Has Lost Sweetheart
And my sweetheart the girl / have
loved since I vas little fellow. won't
have anything 10 do with me ! reckon,
but I wouldn't stand for it if she
would"
Mr. Terrell the father. said his son
was the victim Of blackmail. but that
he would stand by him, as he had done,
to the last ditch.
He was arguing the case coolly and
deliberately. but often when the plain
tiG's attorney was arguing, his head
would fall on the table in front of him
and the broad shoulders would move
with an emotion that could not be
hidden.
Mrs Terrell was given a verdict Of
aimony Of $50 month, $40 to be paid
on the first day of tho month and the
remaining $40 on the 18th day Both
sides agreed and the court was relieved