Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-21
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Bride No. 8 Tells How She
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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 a
charge Of bigamy, as a scoundrel who
deserves 20 years in the penitentiary,
Miss Georgia Hightower, of No. !
Haygood avenue, who was wife No. 8
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,
]. w Hightower. located two OF Will
liams' other wives.
ut was not hard to trap him." said
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 while until found papa
In q good humor, and he believed ev-
erything ! 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 lid
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 ne
about II. admitted it, of course, and
then he said he was not satisfied with
williams and asked me to help him
And out whether he was all right. He
said he had heard that Williams had
several wives. agreed to the plan,
and while I 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.
Il only saw Williams once after
ran away and married him, and that
ives for few minutes one night
when he came to call on me. Papa
had already located one of the mans
williams around. l never did live
with him. l told him he would have
to stay away from the house, and
that l couldn't meet him, because
wa. 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 1t was time to have Williams
arrested"
Miss Hightower declares that she
Ia not going to stop after having
ira pped Williams and put him in Jail.
I'm going to do all i can to send
Men like that ought TO get twenty
years, and I would like nothing bet
ter than to be judge so could give it
TO him. Four years. which l under
stand 10 the limit in Georgia for
bigamist, Is not long enough for
man who tricks women into marry
Ing him.
I'm glad trapped him; maybe 1t
will keep some other girls out OF trou-
DE- III all women, When they nnG
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 bigamists in the world"
Mrs. Ruth Dunn Williams, wife No
z. 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
tbs 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 II they let him out he
viii ruin the lives of other girls. I
would like 10 see him sentenced to
prison for life"
williams 10 held in the Tower on
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. Mics
Hightower and wife No. I. In Florida.
williams. has other wives In various
sections of the country. and efforts
are beings made 20 locate them.