The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-29
MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.
Adventures Of "a wife who Ran
Away from her HGusband-Ten
Years Of Su1lcrins-AsC mar
ricd 40 the Husband she
Deserted.

ELMIRA, Aug. l2.--Abnut tcu years
20 the wife of AMI >. Timer, "a pros
,erous miller of Winchester, Pa, cippcd
With "A Young man named George Mills,
clerk in a store of Uri Gates, father ot
Yrs. Timer. The match between Miss
Gates and Timer was made by her father
against his daughters wishes. She de-
sired to marry young Mills. She bad
been married less than month When
he elopement took place. The runa-
gavs were followed by the husband as
far as Wheeling, w. Va. There all
trace of them lost, and nothing was
heard of them afterward. In 1870,
Gates, the father of the runaway wife,
died. He made will leaving his prop
ertv. valued ut $40, 900 to Timer the
daughter having been his only child.
There was in the will provision that
if any news should be heard OF the /
within two years after her /
fathers death, and she was IN want, she /
was to receive the interest on TlO,Ouo |
for one year at seven per cent, ODE paid |
in installments of SO Il week. IT, at The /
end of a year after her being found, she
had not voluntarily returned home ana
begged her husbands forgiveness, no
further claim of hers on the estate was TO
he allowed. In the event of her being
with Mills, if found within the two years
she could have no claim against the es-
tate. If she returned repentant within
a wear. the executors of the will were to
provide her suitable home and allow
her SO week as long as she llVed.
The executors were AMI ;. Timer ana
Myron Pool, a cousin of the testater.
Timer made every effort to find some
trace of his long missing wife, but laillns
procured a divorc. from her in lSlZ ana
married again. His second wife died IN
1878. leaving him two children. Ga the
23d of July last letter addressed TO
Mr.. Gates, and postmarked LItchheId,
MINI. was handed Mr.. Pool, as one OF
the executors of the estate Of the deceas-
ed. 1t proved to be from the runaway
wife and daughter. 1t breathed spirIt
of repentance, and declared that the
writer was anxious, after ten years OF sun
ering to ask forgiveness OF those she had
wronged, and be permitted to come home
if only To be a servant. Pool went with
the letter to Mr.. Timer. The latter re-
solved to 90 at once to Litchheld. lie
was companied by Mr. Pool. On "ed,
nesday last Timer and the wife who had
deserted him ten years ago, ana whom ne
had found working rs seamstress IN
LitchfeId family, arrived IN Elmira'
where he has relatives. The story Oh Ms
wife's life since she left him satisfied nm
that. while she had compromised ooln
his and her honor, she was more slhheu
against than SHINING, and they were re-
married in St. Paul on the 4th INST.
The runaway wife's story is substantially
as follows:
/ She accompanied George Mills only as
/ far as Wheeling. There he left her To
90 to St. Louis. She then went TO IN
diana. She refused to become the com
panion of Mills until she could legally
: become his wife. He had 5000 He
He gave her 5000. She went 70
LAFAYETTE, Ind, where she obtained
divorce, through the agency OF divorce
LAWYER named Bowditch, beng IN the
Mace hut few months, Mills me anime
had cone to the plains, and brought up
in Central CITY, Col. She joined him
there. and they were married. MIil'
made considerable smoney by sup
TIving miners with stores, and they lived
contentedly together for year. linen
Mills fell into the habit Of gambling be
soulndered all his gains, and his Dusl-
ness passed into other hands. lhey IheH
went to Utah. Mills got position as
mining clerk at Corinue, and Tor llin'
pas steady in his habits. The lie OF
cIork was stirring enough for him, now
ever. and he finally resigned the posItioi
and went to Salt Lake City. There, II
comnany with a miner named OlDey' n
onened a faro bank. He began drink
ing. and abused his wife. 10 cap me cll
max of her misery Mills joined the MOT
mons. and added two more wives 10 III
, family. This indignity the unforlu haL :
|, woman who had lett her home and irieHd
Cor Mills. could not brook, and one night
lin 1871. she ran away from his house
and after months of hardship reache
, Denver. She was year and mar u u
that place, working in hotel. W nii
there she read the account of the killin
> of George Mills in Salt Lake CITY py ~
partner. Bill Olney, while quarreiIng j
q their gambling saloon.
2 Tn 1873 she engaged as writing MAJ
: TO an English lady who was travelin
] with a party in the Rocky Mountain
n She visited New Mexico, the spans
4 pax. and all the principal points Of u
terest thera5outs, with the party, return
inc 70 Denver in 1874. There she LEI
the marty. and started East. one wa
nrostrated with fever in st. LOUIS an
eli of her money was used up before Sn
no. Lille IN leave. She then engaged i
travelling companion to Mrs. an Al 'S
, Of New Jersey, who, with her husoanI 4
was going to Minnesota for her heal'u
Tbey travelled through that state UNI
J Senfember, 1876, when Mrs Van 1 All
r d;ad in the vicinity of Itaska lake. Ha'
inc some money she determined toretull
. 20 her old home. On the way from Tn
lakes to the railroad, some nifty mlel
= sbe was robbed by her guide, a hai
v breed Indian. She walked thirty niue
!. TO Brainerd, on the Mississippi, and ma
u been working as seamstress IN dlHereL
towns Whereabouts ever since. =:
health falling, she feared she would Oh
IN n strange land before she had toiu rs
storv TO her father and received ms 10
oiveuess, and she wrote the letIer 'ul
= 7esulted in so unexpected a sequel 10 I rs
l. ten years experience Mr. anu ~ ~
;, Timer left Elmira last evening on Ine
II return to their old home, apparently
4. benny "a If there had never peeh
Ladcvv IN their lives,