The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-01
,ARR1ED HIM THROUGH FEAR.
mad Won Els Bride by Force of Arms,
But Gould Not Keep Her.

But Gould Not Keep Her.
From the Nev York Herald.
DISTINCTION, July ga strange story
voung woman who was forced into
.~riaye by a Jealous lover came to light
lD.tordav in a divorce suit in a local court.
decree of the court Mrs. Charles E.
"a - was freed from a distasteful union
.;tb her Young husband and allowed TO re-
W." her maiden name Of Mary Stuart
Mckinney.
len employed until recently as clerk
~ the census office, and is the only support
50 a widowed mother. She was one of che
a., clerks appointed in the census bureau
NO she was thrown in contact with
CborIas Z. Reed, fellow clerk, who as
s,,mad sort of proprietary right over her,
ssooortinp her home regularly from the Office
cd otherwise showing his interest in her.
Strangely enough the young lady had no
-,sririo1 that Reed was head over ears in
80 with her until he made a proposal of
roo~riage. She was greatly surprised, but
ar1rnntiv and firmly told the young man
% sba did not love him. She then for
boda him paying her any further alton
ton.
outwardly, and insisted that In time she
would learn to love him and would marry
Miss Mckinney resigned her position in
tba cs1sus office While calling at the office
m Nov. % she met Reed He took her to
ona side-Miss Mckinney doing everything
"a bar mower to avoid scene-and told her
Le had a revolver in his pocket, and that
sba must marry him that day or he would
iii her. She says she was sure it was no
id,a threat. He SAID they would be married
I,
acknowledge his rights as her husband, and
that he only wanted the ceremony gone
through with to prevent her marrying any
one else.
Fearing harm at his bands she reluctantly
consented. He told her to go home and
meet him within an hour at Twenty-second
street and Pennsylvania avenue. On &C
count of his threats she met him. Mean
while Reed had gone to Justice of the
Peace O'Neal'S office and enlisted his sym
pathY, telling him that he wanted the mar
rage kept a secret, as both he and the
young LADY were in government employ.
so THEY WE'RE MARRIED.
The Justice served the license for him and
arranged to have it kept out of the evening
papers. The couple went in street car to
The Justices Office and thence the trio went
10 the residence of Rev. DR.. Asburv R.
Reilly, pastor of the Grace Methodist EpiS-
copal church, where the marriage cere-
mouy was performed.
Reed kept his promise to his involuntary
bride. After the ceremony he took her to
street car and she went home. She told
her mother nothing of what had happened,
fearing the effect on the latter's already
delicate health.
The next day the announcement of the is
suance of a marriage license to Charles Ed
ward Reed and Mary Stuart Mckinney APP
peared in the daily papers Reed wrote to
the girl who was legally his wife, that as
the secret of their marriage had been di-
vulged in spite of his efforts to prevent it,
she ought to acknowledge him as her hus-
band and live with him. She refused abso-
Iutely
Subsequently he importuned her to grant
him an interview, and she steadfastly re-
fused to even see him. The fact of the mar
rage was then revealed to Mrs. Mckinney,
who said it must be announced at once.
Read had seemed to realize the injustice
done the girl he loved, for two days after
The marriage he signed the following state
ment, which he gave TO her:
ACKNOWLEDGED THE THREATS.
81 will state that l forced Mary 8. Nc
Kinney by threats to marry me, on the
condition that it should be kept secret. The
marriage license has been published in the
papers, therefore make this statement"
On the other side of this paper the wife
bad wrote; 81 promise not to use this paper
N any way to inJure c. e. Reed.
MARY S. MCKINNEY
Even this paper the girl signed with her
maiden name. When last April the girl
lied bill ia the equity court, praying for
an annulment of the marriage, the husband
made no fight, and yesterday Judge Hagner
granted decree, dissolving the marriage
and giving the girl the right to resume her
maiden name.
She is very well known in Washington,
having been teacher in the high school
short while. until i'll health compelled her to
resign.