The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-02
WOMAN NALKS IN SLEEP AND FALLS
 INTO DllP WELL
Mrs. R. E. Wiggins of Madi- son Victi moi Somnambu- lism = Has Miraculous
 Escape From Death

Albany, November 1.-Cspecial.) )--Arrs. R. E. Wiggins. prominent resident of Marion, east of here on the Southern railway, will probably recover from injuries she received when she fell into a 50-foot well at her home there this morning. owing 10 the fact that Mrs. Wiggins night gown nfla ted as she descended. her fall was broken, and she was also preserved from death by drowning Her sister Miss Fletcher. who has been a sufferer from rheuma tism heard Mrs. Wiggins leave the house at an early hour and followed her. She summoned neighbors and a boy was sent into the well with rope, which he attached to the near drowning woman. and she was pulled to the sur face. Mrs. Wiggins had been ill for some time and friends say she was probably in somnambulistic trance at the time Of the accident The family Is one of the most prominent in north Alabama, and was formerly wealthy.
 The death of W. P. Vines, which oc- cured last year in South Albany, 10 days prior to the death of his wife in q Memphis hospital, was due to an ac- cidental fall to the street and not to heart failure, as had been generally thought here, according to the decision of jury today in the circuit court. The jury awarded F. D. Whitman, as admin istrator of the estate of Mrs Cora Vines, 8 judgment for 5000, with interest in his suit against the Travellers Insurance company. The comDlaiOaut cnDteDded that MT. Vines dropped coat. ripped over it and fell to the street, dying from the concussion. as his head hit the pave ment. The insurance company contended that death was due to heart failure.
 An announcement was made here today ol the marriage of Robert T. Sheppard, secretary of the Albany board of com merce. and bookkeeper for the Tennessee Valley Printing company to Miss Willie Wade Bacon, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. 4. Bacon of Gadsden, which was sol cmnized at Athens on September G. The marriage was kept secret for nearly two months. and the announcement came as a surprise to the many friends here of the couple.
 J. W. West chief of police of Falk- vile. was fined s50 and costs in the
 
 catur this morning. He appealed to the law and equity court making bond in the sum of $50. This is another chapter in an incident that has caused some an- tagonism among the city officials of De- catur and Falkville. West was arrested after he had followed two automobilists to Decatur and had arrested them for al leged violation of the speeding laws While in Decatur it is charged that he employed two negroes to purchase liquor for him, and when they returned with the wet goods placed them under arrest. Beverly Mitchell, prominent groceryman. testified at the trial today that West came into his store with the blacks, and that when he went forward to wait upon the supposed customer that West threat ened him with a revolver. West is also a deputy sheriff of Morgan county.
 A whirlwind campaign to carry Morgan county for the educational amendment will be begun Friday, and will continue until Monday night, according to an- nouncement here today of County Su- perintendent J. C. Tidwell Mr Tidwell ar nounced that the following speakers would take the stump: A. c. Patterson, Prof. J. NJ Collier, Prof Ralph w. Cow artA Prof. J. T: Carter, Rev. l.. A. Nall. J. l.. Barnard, John w. Tominson, G. w. Peck. Dr. T. E. Brindley, Rev. w. H. Aldridge. Dr. Jesse A. Cook, Rev. R. L. Quinn. John J. Barber. R. W. Lester. St. John Smith, E. E. Weaver. A. G. Wheeler. Rev. Fletcher Turney, J. A. Riddle and w. T. Ransom.