Heflin has resided in this city with his…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

Heflin has resided in this city with his wife and five children for the past two years. His life here has been one continual round of drunken debauchery and violence. At different times he has beaten and abused his wife, driv- ing her away from home at the dead of night to take temporary shelter with some of the neighbors. He has frequently threatened to kill her. His spells of violence have occurred so often and were of such a brutal nature as to have long since become the talk of the town. He has several times been under arrest, each time his wife begging for him, under the empty promise that he would drink no more, but after each time he became more violent than before.