Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-16
MRS. KENT MASON.
An Adventures, Under Many Aliases
Deceiying the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
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A woman with many aliases, is travelling
about the country representing herself as
an agent of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and speaker to fill the ap-
pointments of the union, who is pronounced
by Miss Willard to be a fraud. She has
travelled under the name of Mrs. Kent
Mason, Mrs. Clayt ton, Mrs. Bowers, and has
represented herself at times as the niece of
President Garfield. She has even taken
that name upon herself and travelled upon
it. The first heard of this adventures was
from Mrs. G. I'll. Miller, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, who wrote to Mrs. Helen L. Hood,
of this city, saying that Mrs. Kent Mason
had been there, and by producing what ap-
peared to be good testimonials imposed
upon the ladies of the union. She had
represented that she was from New York,
and an agent of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. She was re-
ceived by the ladies, and spoke in several
of the churches under the auspices of the
Minneapolis Union. After she left there
they found that she was fraud, and that
she had not long before been written up as
such in the National Advocate, the tenn
perance organ. Mrs. Miller warned Miss
Hood against the woman, and the Signal
published her as IN adventures. She was
next heard of in st. Louis, and while there
two ladies prominently connected with the
W. G. L. U. received kilograms from Chi
cago signed by Miss Frances E. Willard and
Miss Annie Mason, her private secretary,
indorsing Mrs. Mason and asking the pray
ers of st. Louis ladies for her work. Upon
the Strength of these Mrs. Mason spoke i'll
several churches, and it was not until after
/ she left St. Louis that it was learned the
i kilograms were fraudulent, and Miss Viii
| lard and her secretary had not beer. in Chi
cago for three months.
Mrs. j. E. Irish, president of the Union
at Madison, Wis, also wrote to Miss Hood
that the ladies there had been imposed upon,
and again was she written up as an adven-
! turess.
She was next heard from at Peoria, Nov.
| %. While there the Signal came with the
warning against the woman, and the ladies
asked her for an explanation. She denied
| that she was the woman spoken of.
| Yesterday Miss Hood received Letter
from Quincy saying that Mrs. Mason wat
there, and had spoken under the auspices
of their Uuion. She represented that she
came from st. Louis, where she occupied
the pulpits of several prominent ministers
She spoke in Quincy Sunday evening in ont
of the churches, and on the Saturday even
ing before she had been seen at minstre
show with notorious man of the town.
She is described as fne-looking woman
of between thirty-five and forty years O
age, dresses well, and travels in grand style
having her maid with her most CT the time
She is good speaker, but she is a grand
fraud. Miss Hood has written to all tn
vice presidents of the union of Illinois
| warning them AGAINST the adyenturess
LATER.
KEoKUK, Dec. 13.-Mrs. Kent Mason
claiming to be the distinguished temper
ance lecturer, was arrested tonight, for OBJ
tanning $l37 worth of dry goods under falls