The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-19
REAPlNC THE HARVEST
OF Oats HE HAD SOWN
Rev. A. r. Woodson Person Who Was
Connected in Scandal With
Mrs. Bowman.
HUSBAND Followed HER

If certain person, processing to
be minister, had chosen as his text
a portion of James SIT and had
practiced what he preached, this
story would not have been written,
neither would the facts related here
in have occurred. But he did not,
hence the story.
All of the details, necessarily, can
not be given, but by application of
the imagination of the average person
the occurrence in detail can easily be
pictured. 1t is, too, story that is
given only in the interest of public
good.
1t seems that a woman from some
other city came here Saturday and
registered at a local hotel A pastor
of church in the same city was here
also. Likewise the husband of the
woman and one Of the deacons of the
church unknown to the two, were here,
suspicion having been aroused. Late
Saturday night the husband caught
the preacher in the room occupied by
his wife. When a pistol appeared,
the preacher ran down the hall, yell
ing "don't shoot" Wearing only his
pajamas the parson fled down the hall
and secreted himself behind a chair
that had been placed in a corner and
awaited the coming of the expected
leaden missile, at the same time i'm
ploring "don't shoot"
BY this time other guests had
caught the infuriated husband, who
evidently "was not on murder bent"
and urged calmness. He was persuad-
Fed to go out and get a cup of coffee
and while he was gone the parson
hurriedly donned his daytime attire
and left-where, it is not known The
husband was counselled to return
home with his wife and this he de
cided to do
Their names are OH record, at least
the names that they gave, but for
fear they may have been assumed
and publication might cause embar-
rassment to persons not intended,
they are not given herewith. IL is
furthermore not believed that they
registered from their home address,
so the city is not given.
Complete verication has been made
regarding the participants in the dis
tressing affair in local hotel on Sat
urday night, February 90, a general
account of which was given in the
Daily News of last Monday morning.
The names then given were not used
until it could be ascertained positively
that they were correct, the desire be-
ing not to embarrass and innocent
persons.
The woman in the case was Mrs.
G. G. Bowman, of Carthage, while the
preacher mentioned was A. r. Wood
son, of Allegheny county. 1t is learned
that many innocent persons have been
connected by gossipers during the
past week and in one small town, it
IS learned, virtually every resident
was made party in the affair by
gossip, the report being enlarged each
time it was repeated.
Mr.. Bowman only recently removed
his family from Allegheny to Car
thage, suspecting something was
wrong. A letter from Woodson to
Mrs. Bowman, asking her to meet him
in Greensboro was found by the hus-
band and he followed her to this city,
with the result as stated previously. |
The above articles are taken from
the Greensboro, N. c., Daily News of
February "a and March 2. Rev. Wood
son is well remembered in Manning
as he was pastor of the local Presby-
terian church for several years.
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