Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-10
Love GONE MAD
IN WADE:~NOTT
MURDER CASE
Two Homes Wrecked AS
Result Of Emotions
Let Run Riot
By ZOE BECKLEY.

And they presume to call 1t love"
this force that it's charged drove
a woman and two men to commit
murder, break young wife's heart,
destroy two homes and laugh at
parenthood
Poor love! No wonder Cupid
covers behind the witness chair and
weeps fer very shame. =
Mary Seery, intelligent and edu-
Gated, loved and married Elwood
Wade, of good family but SO limit
cd mentally that she could not in
whole week teach him that seven
times are So.
He is tall, well built, with nice
hair and rosy skin, prominent blue
eyes, good teeth and nose uncom-
monty rctrousse. And Mary loved
and married him. She was 10; he
18. She did not learn of his litter
acy till afterward They have two
babies, 4 and years.
Becomes infatuated.
Wade became infatuated with a
woman of 81, Ethel, wife Of George
Mott. Mrs. Mott 'loved" the Wade
youth. They defed the conventions,
as the woman testified upon the
witoess stand.
y murder of the husband was
decided upon-the man who had al
so been "ioved" by the woman and
was the father of her two children,
13 and II years.
Mott was killed, the weapons used
being a revolver, d butcher knife, a
club. a hatchet and an iron pipe.
j e. Johnson, charged with
denies guilt.
AmaAAY Y,ade has made a confession and
Sanity protests his Glove" for
Mrs. Mott.
Alenists employed in his defense
are pleading love made him mad
with desire to zee Mrs. Mott from
her husbands mistreatment.
Exhibition of His Love.
Wade gave a spectacular exhibi-
tion of this love by suddenly seiz-
ing Mrs. Mott in the courtroom and
kissing her.
a few hours later this fervent low
er sneered and grimaced at Mrs.
Mott when she testified, laying full
blame for the uncommonly hideous
crime upon him, striving wildly to
save herself.
Panic gripped the crowd when
Wade leaned over as he was passing
Mrs. Mott, wife of the murdered
man and kissed her full upon the
lips.
With a scream, Mrs. Mott leaped
to her feet just as Deputy Sheriff
Frank Pasanella landed with his fist
on young Wade's jaw.
Wades pretty young wife, sitting
a few feet from Mrs. Mott, the Goth
er woman in the case," screamed,
threw her hands to her face and then
with moan, tainted into the arms
of Wade's mother
Wade smiled as the deputy sher-
if rushed through the prisoners pen
to the basement of the Courthouse
when it appeared that the crowd was
going to seize him.
Mrs. Mott, who also is held on a !
charge of first degree murder in
connection with her husbands death,
went into Mysteries following Wade's |
kiss
"Take her out" yelled the crowd. |
Two deputy sheriffs lifted her in |
their arms and rushed her from the |
room.
Is This Love?
Is all this, then, also love?
A false and poisoned love! A |
love such as later on is likely to rear
its head where a girl of Mary's years
and caliber allows herself to wed
lad against whopa all her finer emo
tions must have arrayed themselves. !
/ looked at Mary Seery Wade in !
the courtroom-a comely, slender !
girl of "a, Of the type we call mice"
ard well brought up"
And ] felt that she would like to
warn young girls that love must
have both clements in it, the per
sonal and the mental.
'Whcn / wrote to Elwood in our
Sweetheart days." she said from the
ssiiix xess chair, 81 wondered he never |
3 cred Years later found out |
hgScould scarcely read. His mother
used to help him.
"When we drove out together, we
never discussed current events. He
talked mostly about horses and of |
the milk business in which he work
cd. tried she added pathetically, |
'sto be interested in the things ne
was
"After we married / saw he had
trouble making out bills. Evenings
! tried to teach him simple figuring.
It took him week to learn that if
q quart of milk cost 8 cents, bot
tic each day for week would come
to 63 cents. And then he forgot it
right away.
Gle took no interest in me after
a short time. And he never cared
for the children"
Yet she loved him, and was faith