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red;LE.Benoan'19;met toom«col-15.'OSSallex-pro*andr laces-theudeest*toientlifelOV-eedbeJohn Cromartie Searching for Runaway Wife, Fires at His Father-In-Law, Wounding His Spouse and in Return Is Wounded.Joe Gilley, an old negro living on the Georgia line, came down to Mon-ticello Wednesday to have his son-in-law arrested. But it seems the offense was committeed on the Georgia side of the like.Gilley says that his daughter, Addie, who some time ago ran away * and married John Cromartie, £ot tired of her life with him and went back home. Next morning Cromartie came to the house with a shot gun and asked for Ms wife. Gilley told him that she was in the house, but told him also that no one there had anything to do with persuading her, that she did not ask them when she left and did not ask them when she came back. But said that he knew of no law to force a woman to live with a man she didn't want to.Cromartie saf.d he was going to take her back that morning, or kill1 her, whe he was warned not to go into the house. In the meantime Gilley's wife had handed him the
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Thomasville Daily Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Sat, Mar 06, 1920
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