Quote from The Field and Fireside
"D. C. Sutton has been delivered up by his bondsmen to the sheriff of this county and is now in jail at this place."
[Source]: D. C. Sutton (untitled item), The Field and Fireside (Marietta, Cobb, Georgia) 1877-18??, 25 July 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053962/1878-07-25/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_566x817_from_197,5012_to_942,6087/
(accessed 23 January 2022).
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D. C. Sutton Back in Jail in Marietta
"The Marietta Journal says D. C. Sutton, 'the alleged bigamist,' who married Miss Young, of this place, and having a wife and several children in Chattooga county, and who was out on a bond of $1,000, was delivered up by his bondsman (his father-in-law) last Monday, and lodged in jail in Marietta, to await trial in November."
[Reference]: D. C. Sutton in Columbus Daily Enquirer-Sun (Columbus, , Georgia) 1877-1886, 27 July 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn84024798/1878-07-27/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_592x817_from_37,4054_to_660,4914/
(accessed 22 January 2022).
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From the above stories, it appears that D. C. Sutton jumped bond or had his bail revoked and was re-arrested. When Nina (Young) Sutton first located him, he was in Walker County. From there, he and his first wife and family moved to Summerville. He ran ads as a lawyer in Summerville. In his reply to the bigamy charge in Cobb County, his defense was "mistaken identity." Perhaps he wanted her to think that D. C. Sutton of Walker County and D.C. Sutton of Summerville, Chattooga County, were two different people; or perhaps he was promoting his law business as a way to shore up his prominence in Summerville to better fight the charge in Cobb County.
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