Washington County MsArchives News.....Finale of the Lanier-Love Affair November 2, 1881
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The Huntsville Weekly Democrat (AL) November 2, 1881
Finale of the Lanier-Love Affair.
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  The following telegram to the New Orleans Democrat gives the results of the 
trial of JOHN F. LANIER for killing D. L. LOVE:
   GREENVILLE, MISS., Oct. 25, 1881, 4 p. m. – Lanier, who killed D. L. Love 
here, last Friday, was examined before Judge Valliant, Mayor of Greenville, to-
day, and acquitted. – Mayor Valliant is one of our most highly respected 
citizens, and his decision is endorsed by the entire community.  The details 
of the assault by Love on the wife of Lanier are utterly unfit for 
publication.  It appeared at the trial that Love was an unsuccessful suitor, 
and persecuted the lady before her marriage, and, after that event, sought the 
revenge of blasting her character.  In thus discharging the prisoner, who was 
defended by Percy & Yerger, of Greensville, and Milton Humes, of Huntsville, 
Mayor Valliant said: “I have been a practicing lawyer for more than twenty 
years, and I have never seen or read of such a case as this – there is no law 
to fit the defendant in a case like this.  If any one, in a position like that 
occupied by him, had sued for damage, she would simply have been laughed at.  
It is therefore my opinion that he did just what I or any other man of honor 
would do, and I, therefore, discharge the prisoner, and bid him go hence 
without delay.”  This opinion was received with shouts of applause. 
   Capt. Milton Humes, Dr. Harris, W. M. Holding, Wm. R. Rison, and Wm. F. 
Baldridge, who went to Greenville – the first as attorneys, the rest as 
witnesses for Lanier, returned with him, his father Burwell C. Lanier, Sr., 
and brother, B. C. Lanier, Jr. on Friday last.  They have given us many 
details of the sad affair, which we deem unnecessary for publication.  All of 
them are warm in their expressions of gratitude to the noble citizens, male 
and female, of Greenville, for their cordial sympathy and generous 
hospitality.  The following from the Aberdeen Examiner expresses the general 
sentiment of people everywhere, so far as we ascertain it from the public 
journals:
   “Public sympathy throughout this State is with Mr. Lanier, and even Love’s 
warmest friends expected and justified the deed.”

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