Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-29
CRIME AND nc AvERsEa,
oussf Story Of q Tennessee Hor.,
Drover.
Married 10 "A Blooming widOwl
Shot by Her Sen, Is Divorced,
aud Alter Many Years in Again
Married 20 HOr.

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The marriage, or rather the remark
age, Thursday night last, in Chester
county, s. e., Of William Legg and
Mrs. Crawford, once before Mrs Lege,
under coverture Of her spouse OF
Tuesday night recalls the circumstance
OF one OF the most celebrated scandals
Of upper South Carolina.
William Legg, a horse drover and
adventurer from Tennessee but withal
a man Of insinuating address, was wont
fifteen years ago to visit Chester in the
pursuit Of his avocation. There he
met Mrs Crawford, a then comely
widow with a good jointure, two chill
dren, aged six aud seven, and the
prestige Of connection with some Of
the Oldest and best families of that
part OF the Palmetto State, both
through her first husband, Crawford,
and her own family, the Leggetts.
The union Of the blooming young
widow and the Tennessee horse drovei
was a happy one for several years, until
the daughter Of Mrs. Crawford, by hel
irst marriage, was grown into a charm
ing m~aidenhood and the son into a bolG
and promising youth, full oil chivalriC
sentiment and generous impulses
Mis-. Legg also became the mother O.
two more children by her second hus.
band At this time it was observed
that the father, Mr.. Legg, displayed
an e%xtravagant fondness for his bud
ding step daughter, and again. anC
but a little while, the young CIR
exhibited unmistakable Indication
Of becoming a mother. OF cours,
a terrible uproar and scandal wa
raised, and the result was that younj
Crawford, a boy hardly old enough t
hold his weapon to his shoulder, sho
the stepEather, making a sever,
wound in the leg. Legg and thl
young girl then fed, and were hotl,
pursued by young VIM Leggett,
brother Of Mrs. Crawford, aud other
Of her family, the hot headed youn.
Crawford being himself placed unde
bond for the attack upon the ayiu
,~teplather. The latter was appre
hended with the young girl in Green
vile, South Carolina, before they wer
oyertaken by the pursuers.
Young Crawford was tried for hi
attack on the stepfather, and tn
famous Judge Mackey presided at ah
trial. The verdict was acquittal, an
it is said that Judge Maekey was lee
of the bench of course, to once 0
twice express admiration rather tina
condemnation for the act of the boz
The father disappeared, but ha
been for the last three years living,
is known, in Darlington county, Sout
Carolina. A divorce had, Of course
been obtained between Mrs. Legg an
her husband, and she has been sine
living with her children, including th
daughter, Miss Crawford, in Cheste
county.
, The boy Crawford, who so impu.
sively attacked his s~tepfather, wa
sent some time ago as a student [
Davidson College, in this count,
where 10 died, as will be we'll remen
bered here, of typhoid fever. Nil
Crawford is said to have grown into
handsome and modest wont nhood.
Six months ago it became know
that the children OF Mrs Crawford
union with Legg we're in the habit
visiting their father in Darlington an
the neighbors began to predict a n
Cancellation and marriage.
This prediction was consummatC
on Thursday night, at the residence
the bride, in Chester county. I'll
officiating clergyman was the Re.
Robert Perry, a we'll known Presb.
terian minister of the Presbyteria
church in South Carolina.