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Subject: Re: [GAJEFFER] Re: Jefferson Co. GA Historical Society
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:22:54 -0600
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Whether this is your Sarah and William Clark I am posting it to you anyway.
It was taken from the Augusta Chronicle.

THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE

DATED APRIL 20, 1883



A SENSATION IN WATERBURY



A SCANDAL REGARDING THE MAYOR AND MRS. CLARK-MR. CLARK WHIPPED



WATERBURY, CONN, APRIL 17-THIS CITY WAS TREATED TO A SENSATION TODAY.
GREENE KENDRICK IS THE MAYOR OF WATERBURY, AND ONE OF IT'S MOST PROMINENT
CITIZENS. HE IS A LEADING DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN, AS WAS HIS FATHER BEFORE
HIM. THE MAYOR'S NAME HAS BEEN CONNECTED WITH THAT OF MRS. SARAH CLARK, THE
WIFE OF WM. CLARK, A RESPECTABLE MECHANIC. MRS. CLARK IS A TALL, HANDSOME,
SPLENDIDLY FORMED WOMAN. THE TOWN HAS TALKED IN WHISPERING OF THE INTIMACY
THAT IT IS ALLEGED HAS EXISTED BETWEEN THESE TWO, AND STORIES ARE AFLOAT OF
PLEASANT DRIVES AND QUIET LITTLE DINNERS IN NEW HAVEN AND NEIGHBORING
CITIES. MR. CLARK WAS THE LAST PERSON TO HEAR OF THESE THINGS, BUT THE
DEVELOPMENTS INDICATE THAT HE HAS AT LAST ENTERTAINED SOME SUSPICIOUS. JUST
AT NOON TODAY, WHEN THOUSAND OF SHOP HANDS CROWDED THE STREETS, THEY WERE
STARTLED BY CRIES OF MURDER ISSUING FROM THE IRVING BLOCK, IN WHICH THE
CLARKE'S HAVE ROOMS. THE ENTRANCE TO THE BUILDING WAS SOON SURROUNDED BY AN
EXCITED MOB. THE CRIES INCREASED IN VOLUME, AND FINALLY THE CURIOSITY OF
THE CROWD OVER CAME ITS PRUDENCE, AND UP THE STAIRS RUSHED A HUNDRED MEN AND
WOMEN. IN THE LEAD WERE POLICEMEN. WHEN THE DOOR WAS OPENED BY THE OFFICER
MR. CLARK WAS FOUND GROPING HIS WAY ABOUT THE ROOM ENDEAVOGING TO ENCAPS
FROM HIS WIFE, WHO HAVING BLINDED HIM WITH RED PEPPER, WAS NEW, IT IS
ALLEGED, BEATING HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH A POLICEMEN'S CLUB. BLOOD WAS
FLOWING FROM SEVERAL SCALP WOUNDS. THE OFFICER TOOK MR. CLARK THROUGH THE
CROWD TO THE POLICE STATION. HIS WIFE CHARGED HIM WITH BREAKING INTO HER
ROOM. HE HAD SCARCELY PLACED HIS FOOT INSIDE THE DOOR OF THE STATION WHEN
HE DEMANDED THAT MAYOR KENDRICK BE AT ONCE SUMMONED. THE OFFICER REPLIED
THAT THE MAYOR WAS AT DINNER. "I DON'T CARE" SAID CLARK, "WHETHER HE IS OR
IS NOT. YOU GO TO HIM AND SAY THAT UNLESS HE COMES HERE RIGHT AWAY AND GETS
ME OUT OF THIS TROUBLE I'LL MAKE IT VERY HARD HIM THAT HE CANT STAY IN THIS
CITY. WHEN MAYOR KENDRICK HEARD THIS STORY FROM THE MESSENGER WHO HURRIED
TO HIS HOME IT IS SAID HE GRABBED HIS HAT QUICKLY AND SOON COVERED THE
DISTANCE BETWEEN HIS HOME AND THE SITUATION. HE HAD PAST THE CURIOUS CROWD
AT THE DOOR, HURRIED OVER TO WHERE CLARK SAT IN THE CORNER, HOLDING A TOWEL
TO HIS HEAD. THE CONVERSATION WAS SHORT. CLARK WAS RELEASED AND WALKED OUT
IN COMPANY WITH MAYOR KENDRICK. THE CROWD DREW BACK AND SMILED. THE
SCANDLE IS THE TALK OF THE TOWN TONIGHT. AND SEVERAL REASONS ARE GIVEN BY
THE GOSSIP'S FOR THE RAPTURE BETWEEN CLARK AND HIS WIFE. THE MOST PLAUSIBLE
ONE IS THAT HE HAD ANGERED HER BY ACCUSING HER OF INFIDELITY AND URGING HER
TO REFORM. CLARK WAS LIBERATED ON BONDS FURNISHED BY MAYOR KENDRICK. THE
POLICE AUTHORITIES SAY TONIGHT THE "CASE WILL BE DROPPED"


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