Wayne County NcArchives News.....W. W. Thomas - Bigamist 1889
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The Daily News 1889
22 Feb 1889

A Shocking Scandel

Miss Sallie Tolbert, of Black's, S.C., the Victim of a North Carolina Bigamist

Augusta, Feb. 20 - Last Friday night a young couple arrived at the Augusta 
Hotel and registered as "Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Thomas, foreman Western Union 
Telegraph Company." Mr. Thomas has been employed by the Telegraph Company to 
build a line on the Three C's Road, and he came to Augusta to make a 
settlement with Superintendent Brenner. Mr. Thomas remained with his wife at 
the hotel until yesterday, when he was visited by Proprietor Doolittle with a 
request for his board. He then took his wife to a private boarding house and 
told her to remain there until Friday, that he was going off for a few days.

Last night, after Thomas left the boarding house, his wife sent for a 
gentleman whom she knew at Black's, S.C., her former home. The gentleman 
visited the lady, and she informed him of the suspicious acts of her husband, 
whom she had run away with and married last Sunday a week ago, at Grover, 
N.C., the Rev. T.M. Mullinax performing the ceremony. 

The kind hearted gentleman then informed the lady of the character of the 
boarding house she was in, and had her removed back to the hotel. In the 
meantime, it was found out that Thomas had another wife and one or two 
children living at Goldsboro, N.C.

The unfortunate young girl is Miss Sallie Tolbert, and is of a good family at 
Black's, S.C. She is quite pretty and feels mortified at her marriage to such 
a man, and she returned home this afternoon, having been enabled to do so 
through the courtesy of two Augusta gentlemen.

Thomas is supposed to have left Augusta this morning to join a circus. He is 
an ordinary looking man, and while here pawned his annual pass over the Three 
C's Road to a barkeeper for one dollar's worth of drinks. Efforts are being 
made to have him arrested, and if caught, he will be prosecuted for bigamy.

The Daily News
18 Mar 1889

Thomas Kills Himself

W.W. Thomas, the telegraph lineman who married Miss Sallie Tolbert, of Grover, 
and deserted her in Augusta, committed suicide in Birmingham, Ala., by 
shooting himself, last Friday. He was a bigamist, his first wife, with several 
children, living in Goldsboro. Thomas was a member of the surveying corps of 
the Great Western Air Line road, between Charlotte and Albemarle, in Stanly 
County. Remorse for his past conduct led to his suicide.


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