The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-26
4 MARRYING NAN.
Charles Woodruff Doubled Brig.
ham Young's Record.
A WlDOWER FOR ONE HOUR.
He Took to Himself Fifty Wives
in Thirteen Years. Which
is an Average Of Four
aYear.

Charles Woodruff Of Chicago, is
man VINO has made marriage trade
Within the last thirteen years he ha
married fifty women, an average of fou
year With every one he got som,
money, and in this is the secret Of hi
wholesale ventures in matrimony Nov
Woodruff is IN prison at Buffalo. \. y
He married once TOO often.
Brigham Young, the high priest O
Mormonism, with all his facilities fo
plural marriage, had only twenty-si,
wives; he was tenderfoot in compari
son with Woodruff There probabl!
was never a more successful winner O
women that this man; probably no MAJ
who ever had more delicate, more
subtle affection of manner. To meet 4;
women and marry her in an hour is hi:
record for facility. To WOO and MARI!
half hundred women is his record o.
success.
When he was middle-aged and attrac
tive, dressing as he did in the height OF
fashion, it was his diversion to capt.
vate a woman, young or old, to tell hel
that he loved her as he had never loved
another, and to marry her IN few
hours, or perchance in a few days, onl!
to desert her.
Mr.. Woodruff is a student and phi.
losopher Of love, and this is the state
ment he makes Of the secret of his sue,
cess in winning women's hearts:
'Woman's weakness, not any accom-
plishment or appearance Of mine is
the cause of my success in winning
hearts. Women are frail things a,
best,
Take women when they get to be 70
and almost anyDody y can win them.
They want to be won. Under 80 it is
harder to win them, but sill it can be
done if a person is patient.
Tell them they are good looking. Of
course, ny school boy knows that is
the fir rudiment Of success with wo,
men.
There is another factor which ]
cannot describe. 1t might be called
mans ensemble. 1t is his made-up, his
appearance, his manner, his way OF
talking, his way Of looking-a man
eyes, you know, are what work hovoc
with womenif they are used right.
You cannot acquire these personalities.
They are born in man,
women differ some, too. For in.
stance. a simpleness of manner might
impress one, while another might be
captivated by mysterious, self know,
ing air. First, you want to study the
woman. | remember but one whom |
could not understand. I can usually
read them at glance This one OF
whom speak bafHed me, though. Nc
l didn't marry her.
':The man that married her was up tc
date. She wanted me to make millio n
oath-bound promises. and l wouldn't
do that for any one | might make g
few, but not many. One has to make
enough when he's married. | have
made study of emotions in women and
Of their tastes and likings, because !
found interest in the pursuit. "
Woodruff pushed his numerous court
ships with vigorous alacrity 1t seldom
took him over two days after he had
met woman for the first time to close
up the marriage bargain and lead her tc
the altar. 1t was in 1889 that Woodruff
achieved his especial notoriety. One
day he was descending in the elevator
of an Office building on Main street,
Buffalo, when woman, overcome by
the movement of the car, tainted and
fell against him. This was Mrs. S. A.
Sample, widow, with FIVE children.
Woodruff was gay looking and urbane in
speech. He scaptivated Mrs. Sample
even while he held her on the way down
in the elevator. He went out with her,
won her completely, and married her.
The entire proceeding had occupied just
an hour. He deserted her two days
later. Mrs. Sample is now living in
Aver, Mass, under her old name.
Mr.. Woodruff married, so far as de.
tectives have been able to learn, five
women in Buffalo. Its believed, how
ever, that he figured in at leasta dozen
weddings there. His greatest success
tookplace while he was stationed at the
United States hotel advertising fol
young women to 60 on the stage. In
answer to his advertisement a young
woman named Rowell called at his room
and was so pleased with him that she
took him to the home Of her aunt. Miss
Schmintzin, and introduced him to her
In two days Woodruff and Miss SchmiE
tzins were married.
After leaving Buffalo in 1890 or 1891
Woodruff travelled all over the country:
returning to Buffalo every few month:
for day visit He spent much Of
his time in St. Louis, where, the police
say, he has more wives than he has in
Buffalo. He also has wives in Chicago
Pittsburg, New York, San Francisco
Los. Angeles, City of Mexico. kansa:
City, Boston and Philadelphia.
In each Of these places. Judging from
the letters he has in his trunk. nc won
numerous hearts and uade some wives
He posed as a professor of message
treatment in New York. professor O.
elocution in St. Louis, and as a mining
engineer in Mexico and California.
In 1896 Woodruff went to Buffalo,
stayed two weeks. and married $ wo.
man named Loretta Dart, Of whom he
had never before heard. He and she
were married at Fort Erie. Woodruf
deserted her few days after the ccre'
mony aud the woman went TO live with
her parents, who are wealthy farmers
near Tamburg. this State. She live:
there now. She has been subpocnaed
as witness to appearagainst Woodruff
From her the polygamist secured s20l
at different times.
About three months ago Woodruff
went to Buffalo and put up at Pear
street boarding house. One Qav he mel