Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-07


sense, would be pronounced matured
beauty. She is native OF Mississippi,
and commenced her matrimonial expert
ence as the wife OF man named Trigg.
| After his death she captured and mar
ried General Gideon ]. Pillow, the Con-
| federate commander, who stood sponsor
for Fort Pillow, the place where 1t is
charged that General Forrest was re-
spopsible for the slaughter OF the ne
groes during the sanguinary struggle.
Since General Pillows death his widow
lived in dignifed seclusion and blame
less life until Colonel King came upon
the scene and their names became asso-
eiated in rumors of scandal and In joint
defiance Of the prophecies and public
opinion.
At that time Colonel King had invest
ed a good deal of money in the purchase
of farming lands in Arkansas and Ten
nessee, the management Of which he
had intrusted TO Lee Thornton, ayoung
lawyer. This man Thornton introduced
Colonel King to his Delilah OF sorrow,
Mary E. Pillow, who wanted to intruSt
some business to him. There is deep
suspicion that this Introduction had
been pre-arranged, and that Thornton
was merely used as q means OF giving
giving Mrs. Pillow a chance Of forming
the acquaintance of and throwing her
siren influence around Colonel Clay. Be
this as it may was the beginning or an
acquaintance which passed through va
rious stages of passion, intrigue, viola
rtvpFuraA hnunn ffaa a.
tired and death, and which has developed
into one of the most startling criminal
episodes that ever stirred the State and
amazed the country.
With Mrs. Pillows advent upon the
scene CSlOnel King became a changed
man, and IL is claimed that their love
for each other sprang iI..N existence and
was made manifest at their INST meet
ing. In one moment the love and es-
TEEN in which he had held his wife and
family were swept away. To him the
siren widow came as new revelation,
and every instinct Of honor, manhood
and self-respect withered In the hot
breath of Illicit love which ragged within
him.
They Immediately combined their In
terests in the Arkansas property, and In
other ways showed that their lives were
identical. He installed the new mis-
tress of his heart in a handsome man
sion in Memphis, where he had hitherto
lived in peace with his own family. For
her sake he deserted wife and children,
after treating them with a harShness
and cruelty as new as 1t was shameless,
and he even went so far as TO endeavor
to obtain a divorce from the woman
who had been so true wife TO him and
such n tender mother to his children.
There is hardly doubt that the sep
Gration was brought about by financial
iealousies of each other. Colonel
Kings infatuation was not so great
but that he saw, or thought he saw,
that the woman was more anxious
about getting solid grip on his prop
erty than she was of preserving his
affection; while she probably felt that
in deciding his property to her, with a
string to it in the shape of solemn
promise not to file the deed for record
until after his death, he was only hold
ing the word of promise to her ear and
meant to break IL to her hopes when
ever it suited him 10 become tired OF
her. Anyhow, that was the rock upon
which they split, and when Colonel
King knew that she had violated her
promise and made his generosity mat
ter o. record, war was declared and the
mutual admiration came TO an abrupt