Cherokee County GaArchives News.....Sylvester Sams Arrested  February 5, 1886
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The Cherokee Advance  5 Feb 1886 P 3 February 5, 1886
Sheriffs Gramling and Curtis had great difficulty in carrying to prison 
Sylvester Sams, on last Monday evening, whom they had arrested on a warrant for 
vagrancy sworn out by J.M. McAfee.  Sams was bitten by a rattlesnake about two 
years ago, and since has been afflicted with something similar to St. Vitus 
dance, and unable to be still for even a moment at a time, except probably when 
he was sleeping.  During the past six months he has grown worse, and though a 
large, stout, healthy man in every other respect, was, most likely unable to 
work, and refused to do anything in support of himself and family, consisting 
of a wife and two children.  At times he was irritable and would do violence to 
his family, and on Monday, it is said, beat his wife considerably, and it was 
this that mainly caused his arrest for vagrancy.  In his present physical and 
mental condition he has the sympathies of all.  He ought, we think, be sent to 
the asylum, or to some good hospital, where proper medical aid could be given 
him, and in all probability he could be cured. 


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