Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-21
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Bride No. 8 Tells How She
Trapped Man Said TO Have
Wed Several Women.

Denouncing A. w. Williams, the
Grand Jury by Recorder Broyles on a
charge of bigamy, as a scoundrel who
deserves 80 years in the penitentiary,
Miss Georgia Hightower, of No. l
Haygood avenue, who was wife No. 3
in Williams matrimonial adventures
Wednesday morning told how she
trapped the man she supposed was
her husband and kept him in igno-
rance of her plans while her father,
J. w. Hightower, located two of Will
liams' other wives.
at was not hard to trap him." said
Miss Hightower, 'I just kept him
thinking that my father did not know
anything about our marriage and
told him we would have to keep 1t
secret for a while until found papa
in a god humor and he believed ev-
erything I said.
I'VE ran away a week ago Sunday
and were married, and right after the
ceremony / went back home. We
agreed to keep the wedding secret
for month or two because papa did
not like him very we'll and objected
very much when we spoke OF getting
married.
Helps to Expose Husband.
"A few days later papa found out
that I was married, and he asked me
about it. I admitted 1t, Of course, and
then he said he was not satisfied with
Williams and asked me to help him
find out whether he was all right. He
said he had heard that Williams had
several wives. l agreed to the plan,
and while l kept Williams In ignor-
ance Of what we were doing, papa
tried to find some Of the other women
he had heard that Williams had mar
ried.
Il only saw Williams once after
ran away and married him, and that
was for a few minutes one night
when he came to call on me- Papa
had already located one of the mans
wives, and 1 couldn't stand to have
Williams around. I never did live
with him. l told him he would have
to stay away from the house, and
that 1 couldn't meet him, because l
was afraid Of what papa would say
He said he would, and after that
merely called him up every day In
order to KEEP track of whehe he was,
while papa tried to find all of his
wives. We finally located Mrs. Ruth
Dunn Williams and heard about the
other wife in Florida, and then we
thought it was time to have Williams
Miss Hightower declares that she
Is not going to stop after having
trapped Williams and put him in jail.
Glad She Trapped Him.
I'm going to do all / can to send
him to the penitentiary," she said.
Men like that ought to get twenty
years, and l would like nothing bet
ter than to be judge 80 l could give it
to him. Four years, which l under
stand is the limit in Georgia for
bigamist, is not long enough for
man who tricks women into marry
ing him.
I'm glad l trapped him; maybe 1t
will KEEP some other girl out of trou-
BILE. II all women, when they find
out that the man they married has
tricke them, would prosecute him in
stead Of flying to him and weeping
on his shoulder, there wouldn't be
30 many bigamists in the world"
Mrs. Ruth Dunn Williams. wife Nc.
2, whose dramatic denunciation of
Williams in Judge Broyles' courtroom
late Tuesday Afternoon thrilled large
crowd, declared Wednesday morning
that she will aid Miss Hightower In
the prosecution Of the man they both
had married them.
Second Wife Bitter.
He deserves the longest sentence
he can get" she said. He ruined
my life, and II they let him out he
will ruin the lives Of other girls. r
would like to Sc him sentenced TO
prison for life"
bond OF $4,000, but expects TO obtain
his release some time to-day. Police
are investigating the rumors that be-
sides Mrs. Ruth Dunn Williams, Miss
Hightower and wife No. /, in Florida,
sections OF the country, and efforts
n 20 To