Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-09-14
ROMANCE IN TIE WEST

Ttf nissPrEARANcr of NE PAtIoN IRON tArAYsI1r ISD
ENPLAISEB-HE EL0Pys WiTn M FIRST low
An from the Office Of the LAFAYETTE Courier gives
the following facts ia regard the recent di-appear
ance from that city Of one OF ~ prominent citizens
The remarkable disappearance OF Mr. Patton a leading
hardware dealer oil this City has been the subject Of
tended comment in these columns aud wherever Mr T.
was known has excited the hvelies apprehenSons A. 10
li= fate.
On the sfh day ofast month he left this city osteDs
by upon short Our of recreation accompanied by his
little son, child scarce five years of age lie took as
vas supposed hat small amount Of y-barcly suf
hcent To deiray hS expenses To Chicago aud return but
one change of linen and strange o saw was urgent In
pressing upon his wife TO accompany him She declined
to 60 however aud expressing his regret h took hiS
departure. His return by the train confidently
expected 10y his family and friends Their agonling ss.
pensc, a. days aud weeks eapse may Ice imagined
The seeming purity Of his private life his position a
leading member of the Methodist church. the seeming
felicity of his domestic relations-cyery circumstance In
fact, combined to preclude any solution of his absence
save upon the supposition that he had with foul
play We panied to say that subsequent deyciope-
mens, the result of thorough investigation into IN the
circumstances attending his disappearance revealed the
fact that he has rOped with Miss Adeue Potts Young
lady who formerly resided Dayton IN this county
aud to whom he at time engaged IL seems that
they had been children together became lovers and
were to have been married a certain day A brother
residing Crtwfordsvile opposed the match and i'm.
tercepted their correspondence misunderstanding and
an estrangemcut ensucd Atths iuncturc he commcnc.
ed paying his attentions to highly respectable Young
lady OF this city, and pqued by the seeming coldncs Of
reference Of the brother the intercepted letters and the
consequent Misunderstanding aud arrangement were
subsequently explained and the story gocs Mr. Pat
ton was heard 60 lament his advsed haste in the most
unmeasured terms, protesting his undyng love for
Miss Potts and begging the privilege Of retaining Dor.
ton Of their correspondence a souvenir of the mast
Since this period, which was some time IN February
1882, Miss Potts has resided in Illinois and Wisconsin
with the exception Of few weeks which .he spent on
visit to this city 10 1880 During this VISIT Mr. r. paid
her some attention, but nothing occurred 10 occasion
any remark II Is revealed however that A rcgu.
lar correspondence has been kept up with her since HI,
marriage. A brothern-law, with whom she resided =,
Jancsyille, Wisconsin, discovered the correspondence
about eighteen months since aud made an unsuccrsf
effort TO have " discontinued
NJ. Patton, have before stated len this CITY nj,
Monday afternoon, August S arriving n Chicago alou,
o'clock the evening of the same dsv Tntl, tbe
despatch to Miss Potts, at Jsnssviile, follows:
CHICAGO, August "a "
Meet me At Beloit HARDING"
The despatch reached Miss Potts at an carly bo and
informing her friends thsi she was expected 10 ON te
ss bridesmaid at the Wedding of friend Al Belo thst
day, len for y. BY the 6rt train Patton had ptreJ
her, aud had engaged at the hotel resisetipg
himself aud child A. J. w Harding and son aud inform
ns te sndord That he was expecting The arrival 1T h,
wife. They occupied The samc room that ni,bt
The next day she returned 10 Jancsyille ami i,Cr,
ug her friends that she going on short ,ii, 40
Nchnoud county, packed her cntre-WariroI,, and k0
the same evening Patton doubtes Joined her again AZ
some Of the way stations between Iaposviie - p.tt
Here a trace of the guilty couple i Lost n h b -
era supPosion that they went 70 New York snd ssisd
for California " w" '''''
Mics fo,t' !, kooWn to have had a considerable .sr
ol money snd t Il not probable that Mg Patton s AZ
short OF funds a. was At 6rst supposei
hrs. Patton, whose case exe,ts, A.. -, -.
yhpsthy n the fntife community has 6lcd her anrlr
ton for divorce and shmony on he ground al III IL.
and abandonment ~ "''"e''