Montgomery-Robertson County TN Archives News....."Big Jane Sheridan" June 11, 1858
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Clarksville Chronicle June 11, 1858
Clarksville Chronicle, Friday, June 11, 1858 (from Library of Congress, loc.gov)

We understand that Jane SHERIDAN, alias Big Jane, who towers as tall (if not so
chaste) as Diana among her nymphs, and who is charged with murdering a man by
the name of WALLER, was surrendered to the Sheriff by her bail last week. She
made a most desperate resistance to the four officers who went down to take
her-and we are told she whipped out three of them in a fair fight; but overcome
at last by weather, fatigue and whiskey, she was compelled to yield to her
fourth assailant. She fought like a tiger. Brass hoops, fancy silk, and other
things used to adorn and beautify the fair sex, were totally disregarded by her
and her beseigers, their value held as naught, and by the time the skirmish was
ended she was not quite so good looking as she was before it commenced. A week
of quiet repose in the jail has restored her in a great measure and she now
calmly awaits the decision of her fate by a jury of Robertson County. Oh! woman,
when…but the weather is too hot to moralize.

Clarksville Chronicle, Friday, June 25, 1858 (same source as above)

Jane BRUMBAUGH, alias Big Jane, the woman who some months ago killed a man named
WALLER, in the upper part of town, was tried last week at Springfield, in
Robertson county, and was acquitted! Not only acquitted, but the verdict was
received, we are told, with acclamation by the people, who showed every sign of
gratification that the murderess was again free to ply her infamous calling and
again to perhaps shed blood…more…The Attorney General, Gen. Jas. M. QUARLES…did
his whole duty…to convict and punish the offender…but his labor was lost...

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