The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-31
MACkEY'S WIVES,
One of the Old Rascals Victims
Talks.
WON HER BY PERSISTENCE.

Wronged Woman Relates Her
Sad Story and Then Flies
With Him to New
Jersey.
The following excellent story which
appeared in the New York World Of
Wednesday. containing an interview
with the Judge as to how he proposes
to get out Of his matrimonial tanglcs
involving charge of bigamy. and an
interview with his beautiful, but now
sad bride No. ,. in which she tells how
she came to marry the aged rascal. will
be read with deep interest by the pco-
pie of this section.
1t was II clock Thursday forenoon
and Judge Thomas Jefferson Mackey.
the aged gallant who has devoted his
life to captivating fair women, was
still sleeping in the first parlor. back
in the furnished room house Of Mrs.
Daisy Catharine, near the northwest
corner of Twenty-third street and Scv-
enth avenue.
The folding doors parted. \ tall
girl clad in u white flowing robe. 4 god
dess in face and figure, extending a
partially barred arm to steady herself,
appeared in the frame Her voice trem-
bled when she spoke. When told that
World reporter wished to see him the
judge replied from the interior, in a
we'll modulated voice:
Tell him I can't see him. must
have my breakfast first. 1t may not be
reporter at all, but some one who has
come to arrest me.
what is it, Mr.. Mackey? What IS
the trouble?' inquired the girl, in
frightened tones.
When he emerged the judge Wore
Prince Albert suit with checked trous-
ers. He does not show his 90 years
The hair, bushy eyebrows, clipped mus
tache and goatee are yellowish grey.
1T is false that l have kept my wife
prisoner" he said, dramatically.
katharine, come out mere and deny
it. When his wife refused to come
the Judge tore his hair. The landlady's
daughter induced him to be quiet. Il
have come to this city to have my mar
riage to Mrs. Sarah Lenore (Curtis)
Mackey annulled within 60 days, con-
tinued the Judge in jury tones.
''These newspapers which have re-
ferre0 to me as a fugitive from Justice
shall answer in a court OF law. On the
date of my marriage with Miss Curtis
she was the lawful wife of another.
This action, of course, should have
preceded my marriage to Miss Porter
field, and l so intended, but the pecu-
liar circumstances that surrounded me
had the effect of temporarily clouding
my judgment. and my devotion to her
led me to run the terrible risk of incur
ring prosecution for the alleged crime
of bigamy.
Il shall prove by competent testl-
mony of credible witnesses that not
withstanding my marriage OF 1891, the
same not being lawful marital con-
tract, was legally free to marry Miss
Porterfeld on July 19.
In my trunk I have letter in
which Mrs. Curtis Mackey confesses
that she had husband living when |
married her. I had intended to wait
four months before marrying Miss Por-
terfeld, in order that l might have this
first marriage made null, but Miss Por-
terfeld's relatives wished the marriage
to take place.
This child led pure, noble life,
and all our relations had been honora-
bic, such as should be those Of lover
and his sweetheart. Katharine, tell
the gentleman if you did not know l
had been married before. and if you
have been kept prisoner here.
';Yes, / knew there was woman
who called herself the wife of Judge
Mackey when married him, an
swered the girl timidly. 1t isn't true
that l have been kept prisoner here. :
Every action and word Of the young
woman was controlled By the spell cast
by the judges fierce glances. When he
is with her this cavalier of an ancient
South Carolina. family, with a trail Of
intrigues running through his career:
rules her.
This Philadelphia landlady, contiu-
ued the girl, needing nod from her
lord, fixed up all this stuff about me.
because she saw me smoking one tiny
cigarette by the window.
YOUNG wIFE,S SAD STORY.
Mrs. Katharine S. Porterield Mack
ey has perfect figure. She is tall but
not awkward. The complexion is olive,
the face an oval, the eyebrows are deli
cately traced in black, the eyes are
large and dark, the nose is straight, the
upper lip wide, but becoming. Her
features harmonize The hair is brown
and straight. and not frcttcd with curl
ing form.
The game was becoming too hot for
the Judge. He is in mortal fear lest
Col. Geo. a. Porter6eld, cashier Of the
bank of Charleston, ". Va, shall have
him prosecuted for bigamy He rushed
away from the West Twenty-third street
house when he believed the reporter
had gone, telling his wife he would
send directions as to the destination OF
their belongings and a CAB for her.
The street door had no more than
closed upon the judge, when his lovely
wife sent for the World reporter.
"Oh, how l have longcd, since VIC
came in this house last Friday, for some
one to whom I could confde my sor,
row.. begar. this tall, sad-eyed girl
First, read this letter from my faith.
er.
The epistle, in little blue envelope.
bore dozen postmarks and cancclla
tons. My father does not know where
| am. His letters follow me around,
she explained.
This is the communication, dated al
Charlestown, W. V: