The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-07-01
NUMBER S.
ELOPES WITH HIS
SISTER-IN-LAW
Tallahatchie County Community Is
Shocked-Each of Runaways Writes
Letter to The Forsaken Wife

A touch of real ''high" life may be
ascribed to the Paul school house
neighborhood in the neighboring
county of Tallahatchie, fifteen miles
northwest of Grenada
Of course in these piping times
when so very many people are out de-
Oting themselves wholly to telling
other people what to do and what not
to do, it may seem to some just lit
tie less than remarkable that Romeos
are still singing under Juliets wind
Ows. Still more remarkable it may
seem that one man with a family of
six children, the oldest of which is
scarcely twelve years, should become
so infatuated with the sister of his
wife and mother of his children, that
he would think of leaving the wife,
whom he had promised to support
and love in sickness and in health
so long as they both should live, to
wander into forbidden paths with the
sister. Yet this is just exactly what
was done by Ernest Baker, two
weeks ago, or on June IA, when he
left his wife and children for other
parts with Miss Ollie Mullins, a sister
of his wife. Baker is a man about
35 years of age and the maid who
gave her consent to rob her very own
sister of her husband is about %
years old and quite a charming look
ing young woman. She is just one of
those members of the gentler sex that
would attract the attention f most
men and make even the Indifferent
more or less interested. Miss Mullin
is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Mulln, one of Tallahatchie county's
&.D1 Go
They are known for their probity of
living and for thinking and moving
along lines of Christian rectitude.
They are industrious, frugal and
worthy, and the cscapade of the
daughter is not only shocking to that
community but is matter of univer-
sal regret to all who know the family.
Baber has been operating store
near his home for sometime and it
seems that his sisterin-law had been
clerking for him. 1t is said that per-
haps relatives and interested friends
had intimated to the father that the
relations between Baker and the
sister-in-law and daughter We're not
just what thew should be, but when
the two guilty ones were approach
ed, they both manifested righteous
Indignation and even said that the
good wife and sister was prompted
to stir up matters through jealousy.
Thus it was that things rocked along
until the two felt that their perfidy
and infidelity could no longer be hid
at home and that if they expected to
keep company together they would
have to hike to other parts.
On the day of their departure, the
young woman was in Grenada and
told some friends that she was en-
route to Water Valley to make
visit. Baker later showed up on the
public square, and being known as
the girls brother-in-law, nothing was
thought of his taking her in his car
and driving away. =.
It is stated that both Baker and
the woman went south and that they
both wrote letters to the wife and
sister that were mailed at Canton,
Miss. Bakers letter to his wife is
said to have stated that he did not
love her. He gave her, it is stated,
certain instructions as to the busi-
ness and further said that the thing
for her to do was to get a divorce
and marry some man that could love
her. The sister, it seems, wrote a
somewhat similar letter giving in sub
stance as her excuse for what she
did that she loved ernest so much
that she could not longer live without
him."
So far, no trace has been heard of
them further than the letters, and
| it seems that nobody is concerned
enough about them to try to appre-
hend them. Of course it may be
surmised that the wife was so dazed
by what happened, that she has not
recovered herself enough to realize
the force and effect of the blow
which has been dealt her and her
children.
Just how many of the present day
thrilling stories which tell the tale Of
one man kissing another's wife or
the elopement Of one mans wife with
an affinity, these people read which
perhaps prompted their sin of course
| is matter Of speculation. Certain
! ly the affair and the thousands OF
adulterous "romances" throughout
the country are enough to make the
serious minded stop to see where We
"are at" and to try TO ferret out the
underlying causes or so much forget
fulness Of the proper moral standards.
| Mrs. s. E. Taylor is visiting in the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. Raybuln
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