Pike County GaArchives News.....Child Kidnaped November 28, 1913
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Pike County Journal November 28, 1913
Ten or twelve years ago, Will Tab Kendrick, one of Pike's best citizens, 
living three miles north of Zebulon, gave his daughter in marriage to one C. 
H. Cauthen, who finally moved to Birmingham, Ala., where they lived until some 
time ago, when marital relations between the couple became estranged an 
separation followed.  By a court decree the only child was given to its 
mother.  This was not to Cauthen's liking, so a few weeks ago he came to Pike 
county whence his wife had returned, and with force of arms and malice 
aforethought took the child and left without knowledge or consent of its 
mother and natural guardian.  He was spirited to Vaughan, on the Carrollton 
branch of the Central of Georgia railway in an effort to retrace his course to 
Birmingham.  But alas, he reckoned without his host, to wit: Sheriff Slade, 
like the sly fox that he is in ferreting out prisoners and crime, had the 
constabulary at Carrollton posted, who politely took the gentlemen in and 
entertained him until the sheriff of Pike escorted him back to the place of 
his evil conduct and gave him lodgement in Hotel Pike until some friends gave 
bond for him, much to his personal gratification.
The sequel: The child was happily restored to its mother, amid rejoicing and 
thanksgiving.

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