The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-10
Two Young Women Claim Him
as a Husband.
WHILE HE HAS SKIPPED OFF.
Mrs. Mackey. in New York, Pro-
duces a Warrant Charging De-
sertion, While He Weds
Miss PorterfieId, OF
Charleston, w. Va.
Charleston, w. Va.

Spltc Ills NClGIl OF years. nc loIio"-
ing New York dispatch to the Washing
ton Post gives an account Of his many
matrimonial ventures. the Introductory
sketch Of Mackeys career in South
Carolina being as invcracious as Mack
ey himself could have made it:
Ex-Judge Thomas Jefferson Nackcy,
gay in spite of his being within one
year of the allotted span Of life: has
brought misery into the lives Of two
young women. and both are crying for
vengeance and his punishmentfor alleged
bigamy. His present whereabouts are
unknown. He was last heard from in
Pittsburg. Pa.
After Judge Nackey left South Caro-
lima and established himself in Wash
ington rumors reached Mrs. llackey.
the wife the Judge lived with in South
Carolina She had an investigation
made. and the result was that she Sc
cured divorce on June %. 1889, on
the statutory ground. He then went to
New York and opened law Office in
Chambers street, near Broadway. Most
Of the money Alackey had made in the
law business he lost, it is said, specula-
ting in stocks. He added to his income
by contributing to magazines, and pub
lishcd several volumes on legal topics.
The former judge has several old friend
living in New York. and he frequently
visited their homes. On one OF these
visits he met Miss Sarah Lenore Curtis.
the daughter OF cx-Judge Curtis, 4
wealthy man. Sno lives at Stanford,
Conn. Miss Curtis had Just been grad
uated from a college IN New England,
and had peculiar ideas concerning mat
rimony. She did not believe in love as
the foundation Of wedlock, am held
that marriages founded upon inteilcc-
tual sympathy were the only ones which
would result in lifelong happiness.
Miss Curtis met ex-Judge Mackey
several times and discussed this subject
with him. He agreed with all that she
said and after an acquaintance Of few
months, proposed marriage He was
then sixty-one. at his last birthday, and
She was only twenty. Her parents re-
luctantly gave their consent to the
union, and the cx-judge and the ex-
judges pretty daughter were married on
May 3, 1891. at st. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal church, sos East Fiftyfth
street, by the Rev. George II. McGrew.
Ex-Judge Curtis gave his daughter
$1,000 for a wedding present. Mrs.
Alackey had supposed her husband was
wealthy enough to give her home as
good as the one she gave up, but she
soon found that he wos practically pen
niless. He decided to 90 to Europe on
the honeymoon trip, and spent the
81, 200 in the old country. When they
returned they went to housekeeping at
36S West 10th street. The eX-judge
was for time devoted to his wife.
Mrs. Mackey had little of her own.
and her husband borrowed money from
her regularly. He soon began to absent
himself from home, and has been away
for weeks at a time the last two years.
He told his wife that he was attending to
important legal cases which would bring
him large fees.
On June S Mackey told his wife that
he was going to Washington to attend
to an important case and would be abb
sent for a long time. During her alb
sence he packed up all his clothing and
she says he also drew about $1,000 Of
her money. She heard nothing from
him and could not get any trace OF him
in Washington. Acting upon the ad-
vice Of her father and Lawyer John B.
Fiske. OF % Wal! street. she obtained a
warrant for the arrest Of her husband
on the charge Of abandonment from
Justice Mott, in the Harlem police
court. \ detective was detailed to
serve the warrant
The ex-judge, though in scclusion,
was not idle. Last spring. while in
Washington. he met Miss Katherine
Porterield, Il beautiful young woman.
She was living temporarily with Mrs.
Loring, who keeps fashionable board
ing house. Mackey made love to Miss
Porterfcld. He told ner he had been
widower for years. and before he re-
turned to his home in New York she had
promised to marry him, if her parents
consented. The ex-judge saw Col.
George \. Portcricld, cashier of the
! Bank Of Charlestowa. ". Va. the
father of the tiance, and obtained his
consent to the marriage. On july IL
Mackey and Miss Portertield were mar
ried in Colonel Porterfcld's home by
the Rev. 4. c. Hopkins. In the even
ing the cx-judgc and his bride started
for Washington. lie told Colonel Por-
tcrield that there was woman in New
York who would attempt to blackmail
him if the marriage became known at
that time. The ex-judgc and his wife
spent two days in Washington and then
he took her to Pa;nticld. y. j. On
Saturday. July %. he called upon Mrs.
Macllcy No. l at her home. She tried
to communicate with the detective who
had the warrant. but was unable to do
so. Mackcy said tha; he had been kept
away by urgent business. but he agreed
to meet his wife Il; her home the mex!
day.
The ex-judgc came at the appointed
time and was arrested He was taken
to the Harlem police court and was held
for avauination ON the charge of aban-