Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-18
a CAROLINA ROMANCE.
Hrs. WOOdJOFd CrG'CfOrd's COWrtship,
Marriage, DjCOrce, and ReDa0rri00e.
Philadelphia Press.


CHARLOTTE, S. c., Dec. 30.-The marriage
or rather remarriage last night of Mr.. Will
liam Legg, prosperous planter, and Mrs.
Woodford Crawford, after separation of
many years, recalls one of the most cele-
brated scandals of upper South Carolina.
Legg a hot-headed southern youth, i'm
petuous and restless in temper, came
to Charlotte fifteen years ago from Ten
nessee, where he was born and educated. He
was of good family, man of talent, and
he grew rich out of plantation which he
titled and partly owned. Mrs. Woodford
Crawford had been belle and was still
beautiful widow with good jointure,
two children aged six and 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 hus
band, Crawford, and her own family, the
Leggetts. She was eight years the senior
of the young planter Legg, whom she mar
ried after very brief acquaintance. The
gossips said that the belle and the planter
were very much in love with each other.
In eight years Mrs. Crawford's daughter
Natalie, the child of her first marriage, had
grown to charming maidenhood, and the
son, who was year younger, into bold
and promising youth, full of chivalric SEN
timents and generous impulses. At this
time it was observed that Mr.. Legg dis
played deep love for his stepdaughter,
in whom his wife's youthful beauty was re-
newed. A terrible and, as it has since
proved, an utterly unfounded scandal,
Which was whispered through the village,
distorted the relations of the two into what
seemed crime, and the result was that
young Crawford, young boy hardly able
to hold his weapon to his shoulder, way
laid his stepfather at night, and poured
a charge of bird shot into his back. Legg
was very painfully but not seriously
wounded, and the neighborhood became SO
aroused both for and against the popular
planter that Charles Crawford was placed
under bond for assault with intent to kill,
and the planter fled.
Scandal drove Legg from Charlotte, and
he hurried away from GreenYille, S. c.,
| taking Natalie with him, out of harms way
and out of the reach of evil report. Mrs.
Legg refused to go with her husband, as he
begged her to do both for his sake and their
child's. She had lost faith in him.
! In the meantime the trial of Charles
| d
ecutor being a friend of Mr.. Legg's who
witnessed the attempted assassination.
The prisoners defense, the honor of his
sister at stake, was aided by his mother,
who pleaded in his behalf. The famous
Judge Mackey presided at the trial. The
verdict was acquittal, and it is said that
Judge Mackey was led, off the bench, of
course, to once or twice express admir-
alton rather than condemnation for the act
of the boy.
The father disappeared, but has been
for the last three years living it is known
in Darlington County, South Carolina. A
divorce had of course been obtained be-
tween Mrs. Legg and her husband, and she
has since been living with her children.
The boy Crawford, who so impulsively at
tackled his stepfather, was sent some time
ago as a student to Davidson college, in
this county, where he died oftyphoid fever.
Miss Crawford, now grown into hand
| some and modest woman, has steadily
| pleaded with her.mother for months past
| IN behalf of the absent father, by whom
| she was sent back to her mother year
ago. Six months ago it became known
| that the children of Mrs. Crawford's union
with Legg were in the habit Of visiting
their father in Darlington, and the neigh
bors began to predict a reconciliation and
remarriage.
This prediction was contaminated on
Thursday night at the residence of the
bride in Chester county. The officiating
! clergyman was the Rev. Robert Perry, a
well known minister of the Presbyterian
church in South Carolina.
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