Taylor-Muscogee County GaArchives News.....Wiggins' Assailant in Jail, His Wife Under Bond May 14 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 September 4, 2003, 9:17 am Schley County News WIGGINS' ASSAILANT IN JAIL, HIS WIFE UNDER BOND Smith the would be murderer of Charlie Wiggins, at Butler on last Saturday night, was captured at Columbus, his home, on last Monday. After being placed under arrest, Smith confessed to the crime and was at once carried back to Butler where he is now held in jail to await his trial upon the charge of assault with intent to murder. All, perhaps, have heard how Wiggins was brutally assaulted in his own home on last Saturday night after he had returned from(on the?) night train from Columbus where he had gone to meet his wife and children who had been spending some time in Columbus. They didn't come on that train however, but instead the man Smith did come to Butler and at once proceeded to the Wiggins home and concealed himself for the purpose of murdering Wiggins, it being by the merest providence that he failed to accomplish his purpose, Wiggins escaping only (by) the "skin of his teeth," after having been shot and beaten into a near state of insensibility. It has since developed that Wiggins' own wife was at the bottom of this, (one of) the most dastardly crimes that has ever occured in this section of the state. Wiggins had $3000 life insurance, payable to his wife, who had fastened her affections upon the man Smith. His wife and Smith had planned that he (Smith) go to Butler and murder Wiggins, and and shortly after his funeral and $3000 was collected, a wedding would take place---the Gods interfered. The woman is now at Columbus, out under bond. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb