Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-02
NAsKEY'S NUMEROUS WIVES.

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Two Young Women Claim Aged Ju-
rist as Husband.
HIS WHEREABOUTS NOT KNOWN
MRS MACKEY,- IN NEW YORK
BROCHURES WARRANT CHARGING
pBsERTIoN, WHILE HE WEEDS
MISS PoRTERFIELD, MEMBER OF
A WE'LL KNOWN FAMILY OF
CHARLES TOWN, WEST VIRGIN.
IA-TAKEN TO HARLEM POLICE
COURT UPON HIS RETURN AMI
THEM DESERTS BOTH WIVES.
New York, August 1.-Ex-Judge
Thomas jefferson Mackey, gay in spite
of his being within one year OF the
ellotted span of life, has brought mis-
cry into the lives of two young women
and both are crying for vengeance and
his punishment for alleged bigamy. HIS
present whereabouts are unknown.
He was last heard from in Pittsburg,
Pa.
Ex-Judge Mackey Is native OF
Charleston, S c.. and his father was
prominent as a iurist in that section.
He was born in 1925, was graduated
from a Sou thern college, studied law
with his father, and was admitted 10
the bar in Charleston in 1851. His
eloquence and profound knowledge OF
the law soon raised him to the front
rank as a jurist, and he was in 1883
appointed a Supreme Court Judge.
About this time he was married 10
Southern woman, whose name, 1t is
said, was Rosina Scott. Her beauty
and accomplishments made her IA
vorite in society, and for many years
her domestic life was happy Their
children were Bedford Mackey, who
was appointed United States Consul
to a city in Brazil, and was brought
into notoriety by killing an editor of
a newspaper in theater, who had
publicly insulted him; Argyle Mackey,
a physician of Washington, D. c., who
committed suicide in Baltimore about
two years ago; Thomas j., Jr., and
Crandall.
Judge Mackey, after his retirement
from the bench, continued the prac-
tice of law in Columbia and Wash
ington, and frequently argued import
ant cases before the full bench of the
United States Supreme Court. He was
one of the lawyers who defended Gen.
Hazen in the famous trial by court
martial.
FIRST WIFE SECURES DIVORCE.
After ex-Judge Mackey was estab-
lished in Washington rumors reached
the ears Of Mrs. Mackey. She had an
investigation made, and the result was
that she secured divorce On June %,
1889, on the statutory ground. He then
came to this city and opened law
office in Chambers street, near Broad
way Most of the money Mackey had
made in the law business he lost, it is
said, specializing in stocks. He added
to his income by contributing to mag
azines, and published several volumes
on legal topics The former Judge has
several old friends living here, and he
frequently visited their homes. On
one of these visits he met Miss Saran
Lenore Curtis, the daughter OF ex-
Judge Curtis, wealthy man, who lives
at Stamford, Conn. Miss Curtis had
just been graduated from a college IN
New England and had peculiar ideas
concerning matrimony. She did not
believe in love as the foundation OF
wedlock, and held that marriages
founded upon intellectual sympathy
were the only ones which would result
in lifelong happiness.
SECOND MATRIMONIAL VENTURE,
Miss Curtis met ex-Judge Mackey
several times and discussed this sub
ject with him. He agreed with all
that she said, and after an acquaint-
, ance of few months, proposed mar
riage He was then siXty-oIe, at his
hast birthday, and she was only twenty.
Her parents reluctantly gave their
consent to the union, and the ex-judge
and the ex-judge's pretty daughter
were married en- May 5, 1891, at St.
PauTs Methodist Episcopal church. 30S
East Fifty-fifth street, by the Rev.
George H. McGrew. Ex-Judge Curtis
gave his daughter $1,000 for a wedding
present Mrs. Mackey had supposed
her husband was wealthy enough to
give her home as good as the one she
, gave up, but che soon found out that
he was practically pennilesS He de-
lcided to go to Europe On the honey
moon and spent the $1,000 in the old
country. When they returned they
went to housekeeping at 36S est 10th
street. The ex-judge was for a time
devoted to his wife. Mrs. Mackey had
a little fortune of her own, and her
husband borrowed money from her