The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-02-18
4 LITTLE ROMANCE
Develops in q Virginia Eoonshiner's
Case at Court.
JOHN D. GAULGLEy SENTENCED


Has Brother" Appears and Wants
;ntie!p Serve Johns Sentence.
Tie ..Er0thcr'' Proves TO
be Johns Wife.
Into the Sombrc, proSaic routine Of
legal business in the United States
district coart at Roraoke, Va, Friday
nlornin. crept rs pretty a bit OF ro-
nance us was ever discovered outside
the pages of i modern Twentieth
century novel. The old saying. ti'at
fact is stranger than fiction, WIS
demonstrated in the most remarkable
manner possible. and yet there were
few in the crowded court room VINO
realized, outside of q few officials, that
the love of Il woman for a man had
tempered the hard Of justice IN one
particular case, and that there had
been disclosed tender story Of devo-
ton and self-sacriice that has few
parallels in the history of grim court
procedure.
.Arraigned before the bar, were two
prisoners charged with common Of
tense against the United States reye-
nue. laws, viz, retaining moonshlne
whiskcy without license. Their
names were respectively John d. and
NJ. NJ. Gaultiey. They were arrested
on a joint warrant served on them in
the mountains of TaZewell county.
On being arraigned in court they
were the cynosurc Of all eyes. so great
was the contrast in their physical ap.
pearance. John D. Gaultley, the tall.
er of the two, is a man Of fine proper
tions. typical rugged mountaineer,
standing six feet five, weighing 2S5
pounds, and clad in the picturesque
rough dress suggestive Of the soil it
self. His massive throat was guilt
less of a collar save one formed by the
thick woolen shirt he wore, and from
his heavy, mud-bespattered boots to
his ruddy looking face, be was uni
que figure. BY his side, stood a
smaller figure, as straight as shingle,
but so much more diminutive in fact,
as to arouse the Immediate interest Of
all present. This was NJ. NJ. Gaultley.
presumably brother of the man who
lowered nearby.
The younger prisoner was dressed in
the same rough garb as the man above
described, even to the coarse woolen
shirt, big-legged trousers and red
topped boots. Bet there was some
thing in the bearing Of the younger
of the two-perhaps it was the frail-
ness Of the figure. or perhaps it may
have been the plaintiye, frightened
look turned towards the begowned
judge-that riveted the attention Of
all present on the smaller prisoner
apparently about five feet three inches
and weighing 125 pounds. Both prl-
souers, at the instigation Of counsel,
pleaded guilty to the charge against
them. Judge Henry Clay Mcdowell,
in measured tones sentenced the larger
Of the two, John D., to serve six
months in Jail, and pay fine Of Slo0.
y look Of sympathy flashed from the
younger prisoner, whose black eyes
and comely face still held the atten-
tion OF all. Something in the manner
of the latter had aroused the sympa-
thy OF the prosecuting attorneys, who,
amid a breathlesS silence. ,urned to
the grave Judge and asked that nolle
PROSE- be entered against the smaller
prisoner, on account of apparent
youthfulness. The judge assented. .and
after giving the prisoner severe lee
ture, ordered that the papers for a
for.llal dismissal be prepared. The
prisoner turned to the judge: and in a
pleading manner, asked to be allowed
to serve portion Of Brother Johns
sentence. This, the judge denied, and
ordered the prisoner removed. The
prisoner again begged the court to be
allowed to go to jail with Brother
john" and again the judge refused.
On being taken to their cells, the
Gaultleys were visited by the jailer,
his intention being to release the
smaller prisoner on an order from the
court. Something in the behavior of
NJ. II. Gaultley, however, aroused the
suspicion of the wise keeper OF the
bastile, and the awkward manner in
which some of the garments were ar
ranged, as we'll as a feminine air,
caused the jailer to put forth some in
quiries. So suspicious had the jailer
grown that he ordered an inyestIga-
ton, which quickly revealed the fact
that NJ. NJ. Gaultley was fully devel-
oped woman. Then it was that the
young moonshiner stated that she was
the sister of John D. Gaultley. After
further questioning, however, she
broke down. and amid womanish tears
she told her story-that she was the
big mans wife, and not his sister
certainly not his brother, as the reve-
nue. officers had supposed; Of how she
had, more than year ago, adopted
male attire, so as to be able to assist
her husband in his work: OF the war
rant being sworn on them, when her
husband alone was guilty Of the crime.
Asked why she had sought punish
ment when she had been eNonerated
by the court, the woman declared her
only object was to be by her husbands
side, and to work out with him, the
sentence imposed by the court.
The Gaultleys moved to Tazewell
this State, from Allegheny
county, \. c.: a year ago, and have
passed as brothers ever since coming
to Virginia. Mrs. Gaultley was re-
leased and will be furnished with pet
ticoats before leaving for her noun
tain home. The case will no doubt,
call to mind some of the experiences
Of Little" Bill Howard of the Dark
Corner Of Greenyille county.-Colum-