Year: 1878

were married. The fourth
night after we were married
he was out until about three
o'clock im the morning. |
questioned him, of course, us


to where he had been and he
would not tell me. 1t wor-
ried me a great deal and |
commenced trying 20 find
out where he was on that
nirht. [ soon found on: from
two girls that he was at Il
party at Powler's that night,
and that they got him to
drinking, that he and Siss
went off together and stayed


out until about two o'clock. .


| went to him with what [
had heard, and he then told
me he would tell me the


whole story. He then told


me that before he married
me he had been living with
Siss Conort ; but that he, of
course, never intended to
marry her. just "a few days


before we were to be mar
rird she met him and told him


he could not marry me, but
that he shculd marry her.


He refused to agree to this,
and she then told him that


she was going to becoule Il


mother, and if he didn't mar
ry her she would go into O.
pen court and have him ar
rested for bastardy. He was
very much worried by this,
but quieted her somehow or
other and left her. He had
no further trouble with her


until the fourth day after We


were married. She met him
that morning and told him
he must cCme to her house


that night to "a sort OF party


they were going to have. He
said he would not come, and
she told him if he didn't
there would be the biggest
exposure ever seen in the


mountains and IL law suit to
boot. He then became afraid
that she wonld do what she
threatened and agreed togo
\ RECKLESS WOMBN's wnEs.
When he reached the house
that night she took possess
sion OF him, and got him to
drinking, He got excited


and half tight, and she then
took him off to her room,


where she KEEP him until two
o'clock. He then came home


to me. He then came home
to ne. You can imagine


what my feelings were when


he told me this story. | then
| heard of various threats that
she had made. She SAID that
if Bob Southern had married


me eve should never live in


peace togcthcr.' She abused


me all over the country, and


started IA story of my having


been seen IN the big swamp


with man late ia the day.


This story was a lie, and was
proved to be one. | finally


became afraid to live III the
same neighborhood with hor.


| was afraid she would burn
my house down or insult me


at church or in some other
public place; ; and then [ was
afraid ofthe influence that


she had over my husband. l
knew he was afraid of her,
and if she. had taken him a


way from me the first week


of our marriage she might do
so again. There were many
terrible things she said Of me,
and my husband and myself
finally determined to move
out of the neighborhood just
to get rid of her desperate


prosecutions. We did so,go-
ing about fifteen miles,
(This, in the mountainous
country, is an almost impos-
sible distance We lived
there quietly and happily to-


gethev for some time. L at
! last discovered that | was
soon going to become a moth
er. This fact made me very


nervous and excitable. and as
| was threatened with epilep
sy, Bob advised me to let him
take me to my mothers, where


| could get hel treatmentand
advice. / agreed, and we
therefore returned into the


neighborhood in which Siss
Fowler lived. The first thing


| heard when | reached home


vaS that there was 0oinU t0