Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-08
SALLIg STRINGER'S STRANGE STORY.
She Says she and her Quondam WIFE,
Mary Brinkman, Have Been Psrss'

Mary Brinkmsn, Have Been Psrss-
cuted.
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PARKERsBuRG, W. Va, April I-For
some time it has been rumored about town
that two young people living together on
Eleventh street as Miss Ssllie Stringer
and Miss Mary Brinkman were not what
they pretended TO be. Instead Of being a
woman, it was said that Sallie Stringer
was man, and that there was . sensa-
tional story there.
The woman came here several months
ago aud secured situations with prominent
families, but later on went TO house-keep-
ing on Eleventh street. They were always
seen together, were cultivated and intelli-
gent and had the respect Of their ac-
quaintances.
Some time since q telephone message
called a city officer to their residence,
when he was told the following strange
story, which, for some reason, the officers
kept to themselves. When Officer Stsrkey
called one Of the women told him the fol-
lowing story: She said that they were
AFRAID THEY WOULD BE KILLED,
as they had been threatened By Rev.
Bauer, Catholic priest OF this city. She
said that Rev Bauer had threatened TO
have them stoned II they did not leave the
community, and then she told the following
story: Miss Brinkman was nurse some
time ago in ST. Augustiue's Convent at
Columbus, O., and while there Miss Sallie
Stringer, who was music teacher Of To
ronto, o., was patient. An operation on
the head Of Miss Stringer was performed
which she claimed deprived her
of her mental faculties. Mean
while she was told that she was a
man and that she had been intimate with
Miss Brinkman and must marry her.
Under hallucination she claims she was
put out OF the convent or hospital In COM
pany with the other woman and that a
license was gotten and they were married
by justice, near Toronto, Ohio. After
this queer marriage the women say they
were driven away by threats OF violence
and went TO Steubenville, where an uncle
of Miss Stringer found them and took them
back 10 her home in Toronto.
THBY WE'RE AGAIN DRIVEN OFF
and went from place 10 place, but wore
bounded away. From Wheeling, w. Va,
they went to Grafton, w. Va, where they
say they were threatened and sought pro-
lection Of the officers but did not receive
IT, From there they came here, 10 meet
with the same fate.
The motive for the alleged persecution
was only inferred, the women alleging
that they would tell all II further persecu-
ted They were not living here as man
and wife out as women.
The officers informed the correspondent
tonight that tho women had scarcely told
their story before Rev. Bauer came 10 the
Chief and some of the officers and wanted
the women driven out of town. When
asked for his reason they say that he said
that the one claiming 70 be Miss Stringer
was not woman, but was man.
CHIEF HEAToN SENT FOR PHYSICIAN,
who went TO the home OF the women and
satisfied himself that they were what they
claimed to be. Upon this information the
Chief told the priest that he had been mis-
taken and must let them alone.
When Marshal Baker, of Toronto, ar
rived he wanted only Miss StrinRer, but
she claimed TO be too sick 70 travel. When
Miss Brinkman learned Of his presence
both women became hysterioal and eX-
pressed great fear Of further persecution,
but finally both agreed 20 20 back with the
officer, which they did this afternoon,
leaving their household goods and prop
erty.
Before leaving, the women, who have
been urged TO tell the whole story, said
that IL they were bounded any more, as
they claim to have been, they would tell
story which
WOULD SHOCK THE COMMUNITY.
The Ohio officer, / am informed by the
police, says that the women were actually
bounded away from Toronto by two
priests. He also endorses tho story OF
their queer marriage, and says he has seen
the certificate.