The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-11
HER CRIMES ARE LEGION
A GEORGIA woMAN's NOTORIOUS
CAREER IN THE NORTH.
Eloped from Georgia With Yankee Off,
Ger Drugged Man and Married Him
Held a millionaire for Ransom-Now
Jailed

New YORK, September 6.-Mrs. An
pie Whittemore, one of the most notori-
Gus women in.the country, who could
well be designated the American Mana,
is again in trouble. She is variously
known as Whittemore, Walling or Wal
lingford, and has figured in half the
courts between the Atlantic and Pacific,
either as complainant or defendant, in
both civil and criminal actions. She has
been tried in New York for bigamy and
in Philadelphia for blackmall, while in
Boston she was interested in horse
stealing case. This time she is accused
of stealing a gold watch, and is in a cell
at police headquarters. Annie White
more began her career in New York in
1882, having come from Philadelphia
She was arrested November of that
year for improper conduct.
At that time she seemed to roll in
wealth. Her diamonds were the talk OF
the concert halls on the West side of the
city, and handsome and high-spirited
black horse she drove made her we'll
known figure in the park and on the
road. Many a man prominent in business
circles in those days considered himself
fortunate in being able to sit beside this
widow behind her fast flying stopper
During this period she was connected
with one or more brokers' houses in the
street, and she turned many dollars into
the Golfers of the firms that employed
p,,f Iof, fn
Wane. Her diamonds went to the pawn
shop, and her fast roadster was seized
and sold.
In 1884 the then mach reduced widow
met an engraver in good circumstances.
who was employed by one of the bank
note companies. He was already married
and was living with his wife in Brook
lyn, but that made no difference to the
unscrupulous Annie She made vigor-
Gus love to him, and, according to his
story, drugged him with liquor, and
while totally unconscious of his own
acts, took him before minister by whom
they were married Not long after that
the woman was arrested for drunkenness
on the Brooklyn bridge, and the fact of
her wedlock to man previously married
came to light. She was acquitted, but
her unlawful husband was sent to the
penitentiary.
Mrs. Whhtemore is the daughter of a
Southern planter, who owned an estate
in North Georgia, according to her own
statement, and ran away from home
when she was IA years old to marry q
Capt. Wallingford of the United States
army. Her life with the soldier was not
of the pleasantest, and from him she Sc
cured divorce In succeeding years
she Acknowledges that she had five or
six other husbands, from whom she was
separated by death or divorce. She
figured prominently in Washington
some years ago, where she was mem
Der of the lobby.
She also had claim against the gov
ernment for 100000 for damages
against her fathers estate, in which she
interested many men of national fame.
This claim was before Congress for sew
eral sessions, but was finally thrown out
as fraudulent. Mrs. Whittemore boasted
of many prominent people as being con-
pected with her by blood, and claimed
to be near relative of the late Presi
dent Andrew Johnson. She was also a
close friend of the late railroad presi-
dent, Tom Scott, and through his in
fuence she gained many ardent sup
porters for her claim against the gov
ernment.
One Of the last acts which made the
woman notorious in New York was the
confinement in her rooms of weak
minded man from Philadelphia. he
was a bookbinder by trade and had
amassed considerable fortune. She
made his acquaintance in Philadelphia,
and in some way induced him to New
York, so it is said. When she got him
here she proposed to keep him close
prisoner until she could get possession
of part of his fortune. He threw a
uote out of the window, however, and
attracted the attention of a citizen, who
informed the old mans relatives and be
was released. She was taken to the
Tombs police court this morning and
held for examination.