The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-08-01
SALVATION ARMY WAR.


| EX-Cap.aIn Skidmore Accuses Captain
| McFarlane oi Prevaricating.
The tempest occasioned at the Saliva
ton Army barracks on South Calhoun
street, Baltimore, several weeks ago by
the departure and marriage of Captain
Anna Skdmore to Ensign Dundas, which
| necesstated temporary suspension OF
hostilities against His Satanic Majesty,
is not yet over, and ever and anon are
| beard its musterugs. Shortly after the
romantic part OF the episode charges
were made against Staff Captain McFar
| lane that he had not acted toward his
subordinate i'll the army with true Chris
tiau spirit; that he had locked Captain
SkidmorG up i'll a room, used harsh Ian
guage and otherwise made her existence
unpleasant.
Staff Captain McFarlane then cam;
out in statement that he had always
treated Captain Skidmore with consider
alton; that size had violated IA Salvation
Army rule in getting married before the
period of p:Obation had elapsed and
against tine advice md consent of her
superior. and that she hid NOT been
locked up 1t ali, but that a door knob
was broken aud the lock could not be
opened, which WAS sorted into a ssory
OF Imprisonment IN room. He also
denied the assertion that he had forced
Captain Skidmore - leave the barracks
at | o'clOck at night and seek refuge at
the hCuse of an acquaintance. For get
| ting married Captain Skldmore was sus
pended.
Mrs. Aaua Dund IS, Formerly Captain
Skidmore, now writes from Frost burg
to friend, and accuses Captain McFar-
lane OF telling falsehnods. Sac asserts
that the latter did turn her out and
furthermore used harsh language, tell
ing her that she had the devil in her,
because she would not go back on the
ensign, and that she was not iii to be on
the public plltform.
Then, too" she writes, she locked
me up and he needn't say it was a
broken knob on the door, for he locked
it and put the key i'll his pocket. He
tells lie when he says 50 aud | can
prove it by Lieutenant Mccullough and
Miss Jennie McHeury. | did not get
married too soon aud diiu'5 brsak any
rule"
As to the rule on III lrriige, shs states
that most of tue female Off GERS get
married when they arc ready. But she
insists that she did not get married too
soon. She did not think of being we'd
ded so shortly after leaving Baltimore,
though it would have been all right if
she had. 1t had been settled in Captain
McFarlane's presence that the marriage
should take place on November 2 The
rule on marriage is also given in the
letter. 1t is Section 3, and is as follows $:
mo officer (unless headquarters de-
cides that the interest OF the services re-
quire otherwise) is allowed to marry
until he has given such proof Of his eff
cheney as captain as to justify the ex-
pectation that be will be a BILE to command
a corps with reasonable M sasure of
success, and not then until he has been
at least two years i'll the field as an Off
Ger. Female officer. Female officers
must give at least two years service be-
fore asking permission to marry"
Ex-Captain Skidmore says her hus-
band has been commissioned officer
about six years and she almost three,
and that therefore they had !. perfect
right to marry. She also asserts that a
telegram sent to her from Ensign Dundas
was opened in her absence by Captain
McFarlane, who held it from 3 to IL p.
NJ, and then told her he would not have
given it TO her at all, but he knew
Ensign Dundas would write to her about
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