Butts County GaArchives News.....Arrested for Bigamy April  1887
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Middle Ga Argus

Arrested for Bigamy


On Tuesday night of last week, J. A. Dugger, the leading blacksmith in the 
carriage factory of J. r. Carmichael & Co. was arrested on the charge of bigamy.
It seems that Dugger was married in 1868 to a lady in Tenn. And subsequently 
deserted her and came to Georgia where he married another woman in Green 
County.  His last wife, however died about two months ago at her old home near 
Greensboro.  His former wife heard of his whereabouts and marriage and wrote 
Sheriff Beauchamp to make the arrest and she would forward the necessary 
papers.  When arrested, Dugger stoutly denied ever having been married but to 
the lady who lived with him here as his wife and who recently died as above 
stated.

On Wednesday he was carried before J. F. Carmichael, Ordinary, on a writ of 
habeas corpus and released.  He protested his innocence and said he knew the 
woman but that she was a lewd character and only wanted to put him into trouble.

The next morning Dugger left and has not been heard of since.  On Sunday his 
first wife came to Jackson with all the necessary papers to prove him guilty as 
charged, but as he had left for parts unknown nothing could be done and she 
returned to Tennessee.

The following certificate of his marriage to the woman who had him arrested was 
handed to us by sheriff Beauchamp on which the arrest was based.

Office of County Court Clerk, Taylorsville, Johnson county Tennessee, J. A. 
Eggers clerk.  April 19,1881

I, Wm. P. Sharp, deputy clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid, do 
hereby certify that the records of this county show that Joel Dugger and Sarah 
A. Holiway were married in the county by A. Cable, justice of the peace for 
said county on the 3rd day of February, 1868.  Given under my hand and seal of 
office in Taylorsville 19th day of April 1881.  Wm P. Sharp, Dept. Clerk County 
Court.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of April 1887


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