The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-01-31
A STRANGE AFFAIB:
SOUTH CAROLINA GIRL TRIED
TO MARRY ANOTHER GIRL.
Gays Her Real Kame is Pauline Web
ster, Daughter Of late Noah
Webster, of Cafney.
ster, DaugI

a S0uth CarOl1na Wcman, f2uln'
Web ter, has been arrested at Kan
sas City, No, on the charge OF mas
Queradipg as man and fraudulentlJ
procuring marriage license anc
marrying another woman In thai
city.
The case is singular and much in
terest attaches to it's outcome. The
license to marry was secured By the
Webster woman in the name OF John
Allaine Whitman and 1t Is on th:
charge OF perjury that the woman Is
now to be prosecuted. The story Of
the marriage is told in the following
ext1ac; from a Kansas City paper:
II am woman, but have dressed
as man for three years." said John
Allaine Whitman, when questioned
in the presence CT Chief Hayes this
morning. u have worked as a man
ard lived as one. I married this girl
when she said that she could uot live
without me. My real name is P.ul-
inc Webster
II loved him and thought that With
bis money and my little savings we
would buy a restaurant and make a
good living" said Marietta Jelley In
her home at Shelf cid. "We we're
married Friday morning. I can not
believe he-she-is woman. It Is
too awful. thank God though, that
I did not leave Kansas City with
him, or her, or-oh,. DON'T know
what to say. BE wanted me for my
money. little that it was"
John AIlaine Whitman, OF Pauline
Webster is probably five feet four
inches in height and weighs about l30
Douncs. She has strong features, sal
lo8 complexion, brown hair, blue grey
eyes that never look long at any one
or anything. Her hair Is cut short
and 1t is stringy and neglected.
Size wears a cheap dark suit and
light melton ovsrcoat. She wears NO.
mans shoes. She smokes a pipe OF ci
gars and coeHs tobacco. She talks
good English and in an interview last
ing nearly an hour she used not one
ungrammat!cal sentence and no slang.
She was per;tc:ly calu and apparent
ly unconcerned or ignorant OF the Sc
riousness Ct the offence which she has
committed. Her voice is unpleasant,
being soft and feminine one moment,
and breaking hoarss in the next. She
says she is twenty-one years old, but
appears much older.
Il was born at Gafley City, S. c.,
said this strange prisoner. MY
fa5ter's nama was Noah Webster. He
was big Mason. When he died,
eight years ago, he left some money
20 ms and my two brothers j. E
Webster and J. r. Webster. die
aot think I was getting my share,
and so after quarrelling with my
brothers, | LETT home and started out
TO earn my own living. I have been
educated, but do not care to say
where. My mother died when I was
a child.
worked In hotels and reStauranGS
until about three years ago, when,
one day in Dallas, Texas, while was
In the Kiuball Hotel, l
heard that cook was wanted by a
thestrical compaIy that travelled In a
private car. The owner OF an en-
oloyment agency told me If I was a
nan could get $50 a month. That
gave me an idea. I went away anc
bought myself a cheap suit, cut off
my hair and the next day went back
to the agency and was hired for the
theatrical company. The employ
ment agent did not recognize me In
my new rig. I talked little to any
one. I took 10 one into my conf
dence."