The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-24
ELIZA GATES SID STORY.

Ten wears ago Mr. Gates was prosper
Gus country merchant in a small village IN
Southern Pennsylvania, near the Maryland
stale line His wife had been dead some
yeaIs, and his family consisted of himself
and his daughter Eliza, then seventeen
years Of age. George Mills was clerk i'll
Gates's store. He was Virginian whose
family had been wealthy, but were ruimrG
by .he war. Mills was twenty five years of
age, of fine physique and fascinating man
ners. Between him and his employers
daughter warm Intimacy grew up, which
Gates was not long i'll giving him to under
stand could not be tolerated.
AuiZi S Iiuer was q we'll to-dO miller in
the same village He was one of the lead
ing men of the neighbuIhouG. although
but twenty five years old. He had for Il
wear been suing for the hand of Eliza Gates,
with the hearty appreciation of her father.
She howevcr, while respecting the young
miller highly, declined to accept his oicr
of marriage, and 1t was understood that
her feelings towards Young Mills were the
cause of the refusal Her father. however,
brought his authority t" bear III the matter.
aud i'll September. 1901, liner ana MISS
Gates were married.
About the 1st of DC ober of the same
wear the young wife, having returned with
her husband from an extended bridal tour
some days before, started. rs she sain, To
visit n sick schoolmate at Emmettsburg,
expecting to he absent two or three days
She took with her merely a hand-satchel.
containing change of cl"thes. Mr.
Gates's clerk was in the habit OF opening
the store about $50 in the morning, the
proprietor himself putting in an appearance
at The morning after Mrs. Timer had
stared for Emme ttsburg old Mr.. Gatcs
went to his store at The usual hour only 10
find the shutters still up and crowd oi
wondering customers standing about the
door. George Mills, the clerk, had not
been at his boarding house since the even
ing before, and inquiry ELECTED the tact
that he had driven out of the village about
10 a. clock on that evening.
The suspicion of both father and husband
proycd to be correct. Mills aud Mrs. liner
were traced as far as Wheeling, and from
there the strictest search revcaieu hnIh'hS
further as tu their Whereabouts There
was great excitement over The affair III tne
community where it occurred. OWING to TIE
standing of the parties. lhe runaway "ie
was the handSomes. and richest woman III
the village and always regad dcd as the most
retiring aud circumspect. liei husband,
heinp popular and favorite. bad the near
ty sympathy Of the people, bn' close, S'efh
Mr.. Gates was opcay blamed as the alnoS'
direct cause of the scaudalous sequel To MS
daughters : marriage. =
Three years alter TIE ulSappe"! a"oo va
his daughter Mr.. Gates died. lie was
worth some $4,000, which lie lett to his
s,n. n.in-law. AMI 5. Timer, attended With
tine provision that Timer must for two gears
after ibe death OF the testator make an e1
rnrt tn discover whether the daughter was
still living. where and under what circnn-
stances. If she was found and was desti-
tute or needy she was TO receive one year
interest on $4,000, a. per cent, when
amount was to be paid in instalments "i slo
a week, without notifying her whence It
came. Ir. at the end Of the year, she did
moi. without any bnt or solicitation on he
n,,t of the executors of the estate. who
were Myron Pool, a cousin oil the deceas.c'
aud Amzi s Timer. return to her native
nIace. repen.aut and willing To make all
! amends in her power for her SIN. then all
| navo,eurs - her out of the estate, so FAR rs
ihe " i'll of the testator desii ed or requited
II we're TO cease, and she was to have no
| legal claim thereafter upon the estate. II
| She was found ani was still III the c"nl'a-
NV of George Mills. no matter how o"s' !
| ,n,e her condition might be, no help was
70 he rendered her out.of the estate. Upon
| tho retrrn of the runaway within the re-
ou;red time. aud under The circumstances
! r.ued she was to be furnished wi b such
| !, Lone as the execu ors in their Judgment
| thought oper and fit for her, and iot her