The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-08-25
SATURDAY, AUG. a5. 1877.
Ten Years OF Punishment.

W OF the pr1nclpaf actors IN IL, VINO
have since Wednesday last been visit
ing relatives in this city, the occasion
being their second bridal tour together.
Ami S. Timer, ten years ago, at %
years Of age, was a miller and q leading
man in one Of the Pennsylvania our
ties bordering m Maryland. Uri
Gates, an elderly widower, vas a well-to-
do country merchant Of the same com
munity. His household consisted only
of himself and his daughter Eliza, aged
Ia handsome and accomplished
young lady, as accomplishments go in
quiet rural vicinages. AMI Tinerh lad
loved the storekeeper's pretty daughter
before she had entered her teens. Old
Mr.. Gates wa pleased with the pros
pect Of his daughter becoming the wife
Of the prosperous young miller, but she
was not. George Mills, a handsome,
swarthy young Virginian, clerk in
Gates store, was the sutton whom Miss
Gates favored, and he pressed it with
no little warmth and audacity. The
father put a stop to the attentions Of
the clerk, however, and brought such
influences to bear on the young and
motherless girl that she consented to
marry the miller. They were married
in September, 1867, and were gone
three weeks on their bridal tour.
In the early part of October OF the
same year, Mrs. Timer went to visit q
sick friend in a neighboring village.
George Mills, the clerk in Gates store,
was missing from the village the next
day. Suspicion was not aroused, how
ever, that his disappearance was in any
way connected with the departure Of
Mrs. Timer until the time set for her
return had passed. Then it was dis
covered that she had not been to see
her sick friend at all. She and Mills
were traced together as far rs Wheeling,
and there the trail was lost. Not until
a few weeks ago vas anything ever
heard of either of the runaways by
those whom they had deserted. Old
Mr.. Gates assumed outwardly n most
vindictive spirit against his unfortunate
daughter, but when his will was read
in 1870, a few days after his death, it
was seen that he still had hope that she
:. might be reclaimed, and that he had
provided for such an event. He was
worth 800, 900, and he left the amount
to his son-in-law under the following
conditions: For two years after the
death of the testator Timer was to
make frequent efforts to find out
whether the missing wife and daughter
was still alive. The sum of $1,000
was set apart to be expended in these
efforts. II she were found alive and
separate from George Mills, in destitute
or comfortable circumstances, she was
to be paid 500 in weekly installments
for n year by the executor of the
estate. Whence the money came she
was not to know. If before the year
was up she voluntarily returned to her
native place and humbly begged her
husband to forgive her, she was to be
furnished with a suitable home and be
paid $40 a week a long as she lived.
II, at the end of the year she had not
thus returned, these payments to her, as
obligatory upon the estate, must for
ever cease; and if at the time tidings of
her were received she was living with
George Mills, or was not without other
than fapn1n nnnnnaninnohin than
whether she was destitute or not, the
executors of the estate were forever
forbidden to pay any thing to her out
Of the estate. The executors were Mr..
Timer and Myron Pool, Il relative of the
deceased.
Timer carried out to the letter the
provision of the will calling for n two
years search for his faithless wife, but
all his efforts failed. In 1872 he APP
piled for and was granted a divorce
from her on the ground of desertion.
He married again, and in 1875 he was
left a widower with two children.
About a month ago Myron Pool was
handed a letter by the village Post
master, addressed to the deceased, and
post-marked Litchfeld, MINI. 1t
proved to be a letter from the long
absent wife and daughter, Eliza. She
wanted, so she wrote, to return home,
and be forgiven before she died. She
had suffered terribly for her wicked act
Of ten years ago, but she said that she
was not the abandoned creature that
she vas nc doubt believed to be. She
was willing to return and be nothing
more than a servant in her fathers
house If she could be forgiven. Mr..
Pool handed the letter to Mr.. Timer
without delay, and the latter gentleman
declared his intention to start at once
for Litchfeld. Mr.. Pool accompanied
9 him. They found Eliza working as a
seamstress in Litchfeld under her
maiden name. After the emotions
created by the appearance of her FORM
er husband and the news of her fathers
death had subsidized, she related her
bitter experience. Her narrative was
such that the deeply-wronged husband