Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-21
TWO WIVES join
To CONVICT
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Bride No. 3 Tells How She
Trapped Man Said to Have
Wed Several Women,

Denouncing A. w. Williams. the
youth who was bound over to the
| Grand Jury by Recorder Broyles on
charge of bigamy, as scoundrel VINO
deserves 20 years in the penitentiary,
Miss Georgia Hightower, of No. !
Haygood avenue, who was wife No.
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.
1T was not hard to trap him" sad
| Miss Hightower, II just kept him
thinking that my father did not know
anything about our marriage ard
told him we would have to keep 1t
secret for a while until found papa
in good humor, and he believed ev-
erything l 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 a month or two, because papa I'D
not like him very well and objected
very much when we spoke OF getting
| married
Helps to Expose Husband.
"A few days later papa found out
| that ! was married, and he asked me
! about It, ] admitted it, 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. ! agreed to the plan,
and while | kept Williams in igno-
rance of what we were doing, papa
| tried TO find some of the other women
he had heard that Williams had mar
ried.
II 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
I had already located one OF the mans
| wives, and | couldn't stand to have
| Williams around I never did live
with him | told him he would have
to stay away from the house. and
| that | couldn't meet him, because |
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 where 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
arrested"
Miss Hightower declares that she
| is not going to stop after having
trapped Williams and put him in Jail
I'm going to do all can to send
| him to the penitentiary," she said
1 10 that ought 10 twenty
| years, and ! would Ike nothing bet
| ter than to be judge so | could give it
| to him Four years, which | under
stand is the limit in Georgia for a
| bigamist. is not long enough for x
man who tricks women into marry
| ing him.
| I'm glad trapped him; maybe 1t
will keep some other girls out of troG-
BILE. II all women, when they find
out that the man they married has
| tricked them, would prosecute him in
stead of flying to him and weeping
on his shoulder, there wouldn't be
SO many higamists in the world"
Mrs. Ruth Dunn Williams, wife No.
IL. whose dramatic denunciation of
Williams in Judge Broyles' courtroom
late Tuesday afternoon thrilled a large
crowd. declared Wednesday morning
| that she will aid Miss Hightower In
the prosecution of the man they both
| thought had married them.
Second Wife Bitter.
| "He deserves the longest sentence
he can get" she said. He ruined
my life. and IL they let him out he
will ruin the lives of other girls
would like to see him sentenced to
prison for life"
| williams is held in the Tower on
bond of $500. 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,
| Williams has other wives in various
| sections of the country, and efforts
are being made to locate them.