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(>ia Sentinel, RY THURSDAY AT HARLEM GEORGIA. ?OND-CLASS MATTER AT THE HUE IN HARLEM. GA. AY FEB. 4, 1886. 5 Husband ? ait. Ovsr I D.‘id Maa’s R< mains- Mrs. Pierce, the Wife of the Rich Texan. Killed in the Georgia Pacific Accident, in • Atlanta and Identifies the jj oc |y—A Lady From Texas Also Claims the Remains. Constitution: Mr. Walter R. Brown has just be; n retained in a big law suit which promises some extremely livelwaml sensational developments. Toe legal tight in which Mr. Brown will soon lie engaged will be a kind of a triangular battle. Two women are now seeking to establish that they were both the i lawful wife of the same man at the ; same time, and both are trying to recover damages against a railroad forlthe death of the man, they claim as busband. The man who has stirred up this legal strife was J. AV. Pierce, the Texas stock dealers who trailed. HIH A C ‘ R LOAD OF TEX .S PONIES. for the while mare, Gypsy, and was afteward killed in the terrible collision on the Georgia Pacific road at the seventeen mile tank. The story is full of thrilling sensa tional points. Several weeks bcfoie the never-to be for-gotten collision between the Georgia Pacific and the East Ten nessee trains at the seventeen mile tank a long, lean, lank stock dealer came to Atlanta with several car loads of ponies, and putting them up at W. O. Jones’s stable, gave his j name as J. W. Pierce, and claimed Los Angelos, Tex., ns his home. Pierce proved himself a sharp I shrewd trader; and disposed of his | ponies to a good advantage, lie was also a genial companion, and mad* many friends in Atlanta. He talked i of Texas and about Texas until every- 1 body who heard him <' BECAM?: TH‘>It.)U<iHI.Y INOCULATED with the T xas fever He spoke of his three ranches and his stock on them, and said that Gipsy would be a fortir eto him. Pierce created the impression that he was worth con mderable money. When Pierce left Atlanta on the '■ ‘ill-fated train an Lour or two before the accident, he parted with ids Atlan ta friends saying that he would be back in a few weeks with more ponies. But that night he was killed and the next dav Lis body was brought into Atlanta. It was taken to Swifts place, win re it remained for a week awaiting the arrival of Pieices son, who had been notified by telegraph of the old man's death '1 he son, however, failed to come lor the body, and at the end of the week the re mains were laid to rent in \\ estview cemetery. Yesterday the body . and then againjx"' ' - IS 1118 NAME. days after Pierce’s death , Mr. Walter B. Brown received a letter from Congressman Peelle, of I dianapolis, Indiana, In i.k k.tt. r , Congressman Peelle said that he had , reason to believ that J. W. Pierce J the Texas stockman, who wss kided in the collision, was J. Pit i ce M eaver, of Indiana, ami that if such was the ; case, Mrs. Weaver, bis wife, a resident | of Indianapolis, would like to know | it. Mr. Brown made a careful invest.-, cation of the matter and in doing so gathered an accurate description o Pierce. He then forwarded Ins] information to Indianapolis, and in a few days received an answer, saying that Mrs. Weaver identified lierce as her husband. Mr. Brown was then retained as Mrs- Weaversat tornev, and was instructed to piocre. against the railroads in a suit, for | damage, and to recover what monej ( the man had when be <i‘< • 7 ’ j same time Mrs. M eaver ; TOOK OUT LETTEBB OF ADMISICTBATION , on Weaver or Pierce’s estate, an a : correspondence between her and Mr. I Brown ensued. In the course of tha correspondence Mrs. Weaver informed Mr. Brown that she had not seen her husband but once in two or three years, because be had been in Texas. The disclosure of Pierce’s dual name created somewhat of a surprise among his Atlanta friends However, the double name aet was soon ex plained. About the Mine time that Mr. Brown heard from Indianapolis. Messrs. Gartrell and Larsen received a letter from Mrs. J. W. Pierce in Texas, in which she claimed to be the wife of the dead man. This letter, I like the one Mr. Brown received, j contained statements which convinc ed everv one who read them that | tl.e writer knew the dead man well Mrs Pierce instructed the attorneys ! with whom she was corresponding, to sue the road on which Mr. Pierce was killed, and they are now doing so. TWO WOMEN FOR IT. Thus two women are asking the same railroad for pay for the death of the same mau. Mr. Brown, in the course of his j correspondence with Mrs. Weaver, 1 suggested that she had better come to Atlanta, and yesterday the lady reached the city.' She was accom panied by E. Hedges, an Indianapolis undertaker who knew \\ eaver or Pityce for years Soon after reaching Atlanta Mrs Weaver and Mr. Hedges culled upon Mr Brown, and after a consultation it was decided to go to Westview, take up th* body and remove all doubt by looking at the 1 dead man. In the afternoon Mrs | Weaver, Mr. Hedges, Mr Brown and Chief Connolly went out to the ceme tery. On the way out Mrs. Weaver told her companions a most sensation al story. HER STORY TOLD. “James Pierce Weaver and I,” she s id, “were married in Chicago on the 25th of Feburaty, 1866. The Rev. J. P Gulliver, pastor of tn* new Congregational church, performed th* ceremony, and we then went back to Indianapolis. My husband was an undertaker and did well. About 1882 he sold out everything and with SB,OOO iu money started to Texas to buy n ranch. I sewed the momy in bis clothes before h* left and I knew what he bad. He said he’d get a good ranch and send for me. Well, after be was gone awhile I heard from him in Fort Worth. He wrote me that he was going to buy a hotel, and afterwards that he had changed his mind and would buy a ranch Well, after he bad been gone quite awhile I heard that he was runing the hotel in Fort Worth, and that he was living with a woman and going under the mime of J. W. Pierce, I went to Fort Worth and found this to be true, and 1 prosecuted him. He WAS FINED SI,OOO, and I went back home. Afterward he wrote me that he had broken awav from the woman and that he would buy a ranch and send for me. He instructed me to direct his letters to J W. Pierce, and I did so. I have heard from him regularly and have all the letters. I would know him anywhere. He has dark hair turning’ gray, and it curls slightly. ! Then a cartain mark is bis toes. Ou both feet the toes turn back like thev were cramped with a shoe, and it amounts almost to a deformity.’’ W hen the party rea died the ceiut tery the grave was opened, but be fore the collin was taken out Mr. Hedges STOOD BESIDE THE GRAVE ami asked some one to take off ♦' plate over the glass. The >•' f removed and the tie" ~ an d revealed. Mr. II- ’ "“‘‘V. , Pi-roe Weaver. I have: Lin too long to be mistaken Ibe coffin was taken out and laid | on the ground, the hd was removed and then Mis- Pierce left the carnage , it looked at the face. ‘•Yes lint's Jim Pierre .Veaver, my husband,” she said. “Now remove the sock and see the tots. The s .cks were botli taken oft a d the peculiarity described by Mrs. W eaver were found. Otuer marks < n tl e body described by the lady weie ound juit as she said they woul A be J and then the body was again buried and the party returned to town. SHE is WELL BECOMMENDID. j Mrs Weaver is a preposessing loo' - ing ladv, and brings with her the strongest Lind of letters from the Mavorof ludianapo.u, ti eJJu n e the’Supreme Court and other ullimls. . She will remain in the city a ew days and then take her husbands bo< y back to Indianapolis where she will have it intered. Mrs. Weaver has instructed Mr. Brown to bring suit against the railroads. She wi 11 als goto Texas and take charge of her husbands property in that state 01 K'jirt another Ihw suit* When Pierce's body was brought jbaek to Atlanta wa< found on him The Texas claims, ts have wiit ’ ten to Mr. W. 0 Jones who has the . ...onev for it, but Mr. Brown Las re- Xl Mr-J-nes to hold the money. ! The suit thus launched on the sea of law will be a I mg but tedious one. I F ‘ent of sort^ with hcadjebe stmnach ~atf»!i,*lc . odjo y Ula W | H glve relief, j btrona a Sanative, r , aD <i ,tfur. \ f pv.’ do"*** r?. ’ ,rr ' E, G BOGEBS, FURNITURE, Nos 547, 549 and 541 Broad St., Augusta, Ca. My Stock i* alwav* full, is carefully selected from th* be«t fsetorie* »• sold for just what it it is. I allow no misrepicarntali.-mi ami »b.p MM tlv what you buy. I don’t promise to give away or sell goods fit l< I him tb*» cost, but do propose to sell as low as any hou“* in th* Stair It will <•••*! nothing to examine my stock. „ . . , UNDERTAKING. - 1“ tll >’ li»« I always keep ou had a full st.. k fn-wi the lowest price wood coflins to the finest metallic cii-r Trh -isph older* promptly shipped. Orders from country trad* tilled promptly awl sitishc tion guaranteed. J. R. KIDWELL, 1,026 Bioad St., Augusta, Ga. Steam Bread Bakery AND Candy Manufactory STICK CANDY 9 cents per pound, wholesale. Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes every day. Give us a call. Augusti, Gibson & Landers?! Io E- E Avgusta, G. asd S. Railroad, I Augusta, Ga., Oct. 10, ’BS. ( In effect Sunday, October 11, 1885, at 5 p. ni: SUNDAYS—PASSENGERS ONLY. No. 1 A. M. I No. 1 K. X Leave Avera 6.30 | Leave Augusta.. .8 00 “ Stapleton .. .6.53 I “ Wisteria. 8:27 “ Pope 7.08 | “ Adventure.B.34 “ Matthews. . 7.231 “ Gracewood. 842 Smith 7.31 I “ Richmond .8:52 “ Keys 7:46 I “ Hephzibah.9:l2 “ Burke 8:02 | “ Bath 9.24 “ Bath 8:17 | “ Burke 9.4* “ Hephzibah. .8.32 I “ Keys. 9.55 u Richmond. .8.53 “ Smith 10.10 “ Gracewood. .9.03 | “ Mathews..lo.l7 “ Adventure. . 9.11 I “ Pope 10 32 “ Westeria 9:18 | “ Stapleton. 10.47 Arrive Augusta 9 45' Arrive Avera 11.09 No. 3 r. x. | No. 4 I‘. x. Leavve Avera.. 3.40 | Leave Augusta 3.00 “ Stapleton. .4.03 i “ Westeria.. 3:27 ■, Pope 4.18 j “ Adventure .3.24 “ Matthews. .4:34 | “ Gracewood..3:42 “ Smith 4.41 I “ Richmond. .3:52 “ Kevs 3:56 | “ Hephzibah.4:l2 “ Burke 5:11 | “ Bath 4:24 “ Hephzibah. 5:381 “ Keas 4:55 “ Richmond. .5:58 | “ Smith 5:10 “ Gracewood.6:oß | “ Matthews 5:18 “ Adventure..6:l6 | “ Pope 5:33 “ Westeria 6:23 | " Stapleton 5:47 Arrive Augusta.. .6:soArrive Avera 6:10 Except Sundays—Passengers and Freight. No. 1 A. x. I No. 2 A. M. Leave Avera 5.23 , Lv.Augusta... 6:23 “ Stapleton. .5:45 ( “ Westeria.. .7:12 “ Pope 6:00 1 “ Adventure. 7:20 •• Matthews 6:151 “ Gracewnod 7.36 “ Smith 6:23 | “ Richmond. 7:48 “ Kevs 6.35 | “ Hephzibah. 808 “ Burke. . 6.50 | “ Bath 823 “ Bath ...7:051 “ Burke .8 56 “ Hephzibah . 7:17 | “ Keys 920 “ Richmond...7:37 | " Smith 938 “ Gracewood .7:47 I “ Matthews * “ Adventuie .7 55 | “ Pope “ Westeria. . .8:03 | “ S«- ' Airive Augusta 8:30 Arriv- , , N "- : ! r .?! .ern .5 27 .. „ ,o “ Richmond .5 52 404 .. H-)>hzibah 612 JJurke 4 31) “ Bath •• Bath 454 “ Burke 6 39 “ Hephzibah 518 “ hey. 634 “ Ricf.moud 5 53| “ 77 » Gracewood.6 05 | “ Matthews. ,7 17 .< Adventure 617 | “ ' 1 „'' f 47 • ■ Westeria. ..«29f “ Stapleton. .1 47 Arrive Augusta.7 03,Arrive Avera . " A ' RIL MITCHELL, President.- ; THIS PAPER I Newspsper Advertising Bureau' 2° X | where advertising Ml £ Ilf VfIRK OPEN FIRE QTnVrQ VENTILATORS lu, £y- PATENTED. 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