“I love her too much to give her up, and I want someone to bring her to see me,” said Gus Dutton, white mill operative of Rockingham, while talking to the reporter this morning when visited in jail here, where he was placed Friday charged with assaulting his wife and her alleged lover, Curtis Cameron, as the result of an attack he made on the pair before daybreak Friday.
“I saw them coming under a street light. He had his left arm around her and when they stopped and he hugged her tight and kissed her and she kissed him, I couldn’t stand it any longer. I proceeded to work on them,” he said. And it is in evidence that he did “work on them,” for it required 28 stitches in the man and 15 in the woman to sew up the wounds made with a razor broken in the fight, which took place in East Lumberton.
According to Dutton’s story, he had been preparing a place in Rockingham for his wife, who had promised to go there and live with him because he could not get along with her mother here. A few days ago he sent for her and she sent him word that she was not going, and for him to stay away. He claims that he was also told that if he would watch her he could find out who her lover was, and this was done with the above result.
Dutton is a man about 40 years old, and can neither read nor write. He insists that he loves his wife and wants her to come live with him, ‘spiten her actions. After the assault, which he admits, Dutton started back to Rockingham, but says he stopped at Lowe and re-considered and offered to pay someone to bring him back to the sheriff. No one would bring him, so he sent word, and deputies went for him. A date for a hearing has not been announced.
From the front page of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Jan. 11, 1926
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