Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — Teaches Four Years by False Pretense [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Teaches Four Years by False Pretense

PHILADELPHIA.— Mrs. Mary K. Irwin has been teaching for four years in the Martin school of this city without a certificate aad without having graduated from the high school as she claimed. Her maiden name was Mary B. Green. She desired to teach but had no certificate and was not qualified to pass an examination. She planned to get a teacher’s position and study aa she taught until she made herself competent. This she had practically accomplished. All these years she was posing as Carrie E. Green, who graduated from the high school In the class As 1888 and taught until 1891, when she mar-

ried and moved away. She ia said to be dead. Sixteen years after the real Mias Green had left the school to marry, her Impersonator applied for a (dace and said her certificate had been destroyed. The real Miss Green had made a good record as a teacher and her impersonator was employed without question, \ A family quarrel caused her secret to become public. A brother in-law* in a spirit of revenge, notified the school board that Mrs; Irwin was not the former Carrie E. Green. Members of the class of *BB-were called as witnesses and they told Mrs. Irwin she had never been in their class, bat she persisted they were wrong. Then & class picture was produced. In a state of collapse, frequently fainting,, lira. Irwin Insisted throughout the hearing that she was telling; the truth hut tbs evidence against her was too strong and aha was discharged. ■