UNPLEASANT EPISODE
They were not talking about I and everything was calm. He sat down at a
table with Mr. Dave Terry. There was a glass of liquor
sitting on the
table. He looked at it, and it turned into a snake. Mr. Terry understood
his trouble at once and quickly took him away. As he did at times he took
Mr. Williams into his own room and kept him there till he was all right.
He had had the delirium tremens a time or two before he left Hamilton.
It was so bad that there were several friends staying with him a time or
two, as he remembered, Jim Livingston, Charlie Day, and I think he said,
Uncle Sam Williams. And one time it was mice that were eating him up. And
once a snake seemed to been biting him in the breast. It was very real. He
made up his mind not to drink.
Back at home, it was May, 1893, right after the cure, and they had a
May Pole dance at the court house. Some of the people were drinking. He
suddenly had an impulse to drink. He went out to get on his horse and got
away. Judge Green H. Goodson was staying at the Pierson Hotel and was
going to spend the night with him. When he went by and told him his
trouble, Judge Goodson told him to get in bed with him. He did and soon
went to sleep. That was the last time he ever had any trouble about
wanting whiskey.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979