The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-06-24
Astonishing Story of Dr.. Mary
Walker,

Baltimore American.
The notorious DR. Mary Walker
has recently capped the climax OF
all her earlier exploits by trying to
force two young men of high pro
fessional and social standing at the
National Capital to marry against
their wishes. The following are
the facts as they are said to have
occurred. DR.. Mary Walker has
for some months been visiting DIR.
Starr Parsons, dentist at 204 Della
ware avenue, Capitol Hill, and tax
ing him a great many profitable pa
tients. She took a great interest
in him, and spoke of him as the
model young man of Washington,
and a great ''catch" for the ladies.
At last she brought her niece, Miss
Vesta Coates, of Oswego, N. Y, to
him for dental repairs, having
prefaced the visit by high praises
of the young lady, whom she repre-
sented as ravishlngly beautiful and
enormously wealthy. Then she
told Miss Vesta that the doctor
was smitten with her. DIR. Mary
then went to DIR. Starr Parsons
bosom friend, Mr.. Crypt Palmoni,
a young lawyer Of Washington, who
has recently adopted the stage, and
scraped up an acquaintance. She
represented to him her scheme of
marrying the twain. Her only ar
gument was that DR.. Parsons was a
very nice young man, and Miss
Goats was an extremely nice young
lady, and she wanted Mr.. Palmoni's
cooperation. She visited him re-
peatedly and got thoroughly &C
quaiuted, and she finally succeeded
in making Miss Goats believe that
DR.. Parsons was really interested in
her. In a recent conference, it is
stated, DR.. Mary, turning aside to
her niece, said: ''Now, Vesta, you
must write to the Doctor" Miss
Coates was very much embarrassed,
and DR.. Parsons came to the rescue
by saying something pertinent, but
calculated to turn the conversation.
But DR.. Mary kept to the subject
persistently, and asked Palmoui and
Parsons to go to the depot to see
Miss Coates of. They excused
when DIR. Mary said
at is very strange you cannot &C
company your intended" Then,
witnesses state, the young lady
burst into tears, and there was a
scene. Soon after this Palmoni |
look sick and was confined to his |
house, DR.. Mary was on hand |
every day and all day nursing him.
At last. it is alleged, she insisted on
staying at her post all night. Pal
noni objected, and told the SER
yant Is the next time she came not to |
admit her. Being barred out next
lay, she went to the Rev. DR..
Charles d. Andrews, rector of
Christ church, to which Palmoni be-
ongs. DR.. Andrews, knowing the
refused to see her.
Then she went to police headquar-
ers to have Palmoni's attendants
Irrested. Failing in this, she APP
)lied for a writ of habeas corpus to
lave Palmoni removed from the
are of one physician and placed
lndef another, claiming him as her
patient and her intended husband.
She kept writing sweet letters to
lim in red ink, but, receiving no re-
'ponse, three days after she went to
MS residence, 30S A street, with
arge two-horse carriage, accompa-
1ied by four able-bodied men and
TWO female nurses, and demanded |
his person. He was well enough |
then to look out over the balcony |
and tell her he could not come. She
then grew angry, and, brandishing |
4 heavy cane In the air, said if he
did not come, he was a dead man.
PalmOni then, it is said, sent down |
a delegation and persuaded her to
drop the "suit" and never recogs
nize him, upon penalty Of publish
ing all her letters