Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-06
A SINGULAR
A Father of Seven Children Runs
Away with a Gfr of Sixteen Years
of Age.


A Father of Seven Children Runs
Away with a Girl of Sixteen Years
of Age.
1t may De safely said ct the present day
that no mar knows when his wife is safe,
and no woman knows when her husband
is faithful. Cases of husbands with love
ly and loving wives clipping with their
Reigbbor-s daughters not yet out of their
teens, oE-what is yet worse, because q
double injury-with their wives, are not
unfrequent occurrences. As inconstant
as women confessedly are, the rougher sex
are trying hard to rival them and dim the
brightness Of the softer sex in their in
constancy to martial vows.
But yesterday we heard the particulars
of one of these singular elopements, one
Of the phenomena of modern social life.
A man named Aaron Hawks, a citizen of
Danville, Pa, married a beautiful wife. a
line woman in all respects, who bore him
seven children as lovely as herself. They
grew up around him, and apparently ce-
mented the bonds which tied him to his
wife. Being one of those lucky persons
who somehow always fall upon good for
tune, he engaged ASA clerk with a rich
and benevolent mill owner in Danville.
What with his natural talents and his
winning ways he soon gained employers
good opinion, and, what is more to the
purpose, was made his partner. a
What more could Hawks desire? Had
he not a beautiful and lovely wife, seven
little eherubs, her image in beauty and
goodness, and a competence which soon
promised to be q fortune But the heart
of man IS tickle. Husbands now-a-days
know not what they want. They are
urged and governed by strange impulses.
which cannot be accounted for BY any ra-
rional principles of philos ophv. Great
events momentous to the after life. are de-
pendent upon trifling events. The mill
gets out OF repair.
Mr. Hawks was a fine musician, and oc-
cupied his leisure time in teaching the
daughter of hs neighbor, Aaron Gerniger
the Jpvial and weli-to-do host of a neigh
boring hotel, the rudiments of music. She
Is just past sixteen, blooming into woman
hood, and lovely and fascinating-as she
ought to be'tO win a husband from a beau
tItul wife. Together they dallied over the
piano. talking Of love songs and then Of
love. Time passed along, and intimacy
mad done its work. No instrument afford
ed Tor them strains so soothing and inspir-
ing rs the words OF love that flowed in
tender accents between them.
For her he was willing to forego everv-
thing-to do a~nything-to sacrifice home.
fortune, = beautiful wife and seven chill
dren. She yielded 10 his plan of clone
ment. She cared not for the scorn IF the
world, or the upbraidings of an injured
and ousted wife. Sne loved the ripe man
Of t~hirty-fve, and was determined to have
him for herself. On Saturday last they
started ont for a walk. Now, there is no
harm in a man of t~hirty-fve walking
with a me7e girl OF fifteen. What hight
have n~eighbors to say nay? Does his wi e
suspect anything? No, her heart is too
loyal TO show a want Of confidence in the
loyalty Of her husband. But, nevertbe-
less, they came not back. The next train
carried them westward on a runaway ho.,-
eymoon. The hesrt-hroken wife sned
with the intelligence to the police, and a
detective was sent on tina track of the
Runaway couple, who traced them 10 Ell
mira, where they tarried on Monday last.
There the pursuers heard of them start
ing for Toledo, where all trace of them is
for the present lost.
The above is from the Chicago Times of
Friday.