St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-19
Dakota Capital Society Await
ing Further Developments
With Eager Interest.
Mrs. Witherbee Threatens to
Give Publicity to Several
Local Scandals.
The Lady's Costly WARDROBE
The Various Attitudes of
the Judge.
Special to the Globe


BISMARCK, Jan. 1S.-The spacious
mansion recently rented for one year by
the MackeyWitherbee combination, of
late sensational nOtoriety, presents a
sorry picture to-day. The magnificent
silver set, costing $3.50, bought from
Tiffany, is no longer reflected in the
French plate mirrors that rested in the
highly polished oak sidebOard. The
dulcet tones of the overstrung grand
S1,4OO piano no longer resOund through
the spacious parlorS, and the mellifiu-
Gus song OF the soulful sopranos
is hushed. Great snOwbanks block
the walks to the house. and
the whole aspect is low one
OF desolation and desertion. The
entire effects are packed for shipment.
and the pair are quietly ensconced at
the Sheridan house in separate apart
tlentS, Whlle an eager public awaits
further developments. The few female
friends who, after the first revelations.
seemed charitably disposed, and who
were captured by the seeming peni-
tence and held by the assumption of in
Jured innocence, have given Way before
the Vlndictive attitude now assumed by
Mrs. Witherbee. and she now remains
IN her room. administered to solely by
ner maid and consOled by none save the
faithful Judge. During her stay here
she has obtained from friendly and Cos
slpy ladies, she claims, a few bits OF
rare local scandal, and declares her in
tentlOn of giving
UNREsERvED PUBLICITY
10 these In return for the harsh treat
ment she has received. Since her re-
tlrement to the hotel to several ladies
who have visited her she has proudly ex-
hibited her wardrobe, of which her lin
tied stay had prevented the previous
disclosure : magnificent and costly
dresses, which only unlimited means
and cultured taste could procure: and
even to the more delicate and less ap-5
parent portions Of her personal apparel
there extends luxuriance which Eana
might have enVied. The versatile Judge.
In his various attitudes as companion,
admlrer, counselor and friend, and also
as 'urcle," has made many very credf-
table explanations of the seeming en-
barrassing statements detailed in the
dispatches. On one point alone has he
remained silent, and that is of finances,
lie says that Borden, the philanthropist,
paid for Mrs. Witherbee,s musical tut.
ton for one year, after which she.
obtained situations in the different
s., 200 to 81 500 per annum. Out of this
she supported herself and her foster
parents for over six years, and at her
marriage had 81 800 in the Elgin bank.
and tve weeks after marriage gave her
husband $4,000, and has ever since lived
in luxury. This would at least suggest
a very economical living on the part of
herself and the Dunlaps for the six
years: One thing Is positively certain
| that the ubiquitous Thomas jefferson
Mackey, originally of South Carolina,
and Marie Antoinette McCarthy-Dun-
| -Wltherbee, of South Bend, Elgin.
| New York, Washington, Chicago, Texas
and Dakota, are exceptionally bright,
| Intelligent and cultivated people, and
| innately refined; and whether or not
the romance of their two lives is
FLAVORED WITH INDIsCRETION
| or marred by unwarranted or unlawful
dictatiOn of fallible human desire.
they are people who could by virtue of
| their accomplishments adorn any So
ciety. The judge says his sister in New
York adopted Mrs. Witherbee two
| years ago, hence he is her uncle. In
the light of subsequent revelations
| some of her speeches months ago are
| very ridiculous. For instance, to several
| ladies she once spoke feelingly of
| Grandma Mackey, which dear old lady
was probably sweetly sleeping beneath
| the bluebells of Scotland, or in the
quiet shades of a Southern cemetery,
long before Marie's papa went to the
war. Judge Mackey was the attorney
for General Hazen in the celebrated
| court-martial trial, and is the author of
the codes regulating such trials adopted
several years ago by congress. He was
| the attorney who in 1877 secured the
! seat for Senator Rutlpr tha nraSant
senator from South Carolina. To him
was intrusted the delivery of the cele-
brated compact to President-elect
Hayes, by which the Hampton govern
ment of South Carolina was recognized.
Though he is tiresOme in conversation,
being tedious and slow in his delivery,
he is elegant in manners, of wonderful
resources, and the choicest of English
words are always at his command.