Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-05-08
SEEKING a SEDUCEE.

SLEiAiNG n SEDCCE&.
4 Virginia Father On the Track
Of His Daughters Destroyer.
III His Frenzy He Makes Free Use Of
PiStol-IS arrested uua Thrust
into JalI-And the HaacG gets
Warning and Flies Atcay.
Yesterday, before Judge Clark, of
the City Court, Isaac Tickle, of Leba-
non, Virginia, was Rrraigned for as
sault and pleaded guilty. He was dis
charged upon payment of costs, The
facts III the case are as follows:
Mr.. Tickle is a respectable and es-
teemed citizen Of the village Of Leba-
non, Va, not a great way from Abb
inGdon. He has q daughter of UNI
usual attractions and accomplish
ments, who was the very apple of his
eye, and the pet of the village. Will
liam Ayres was young lawyer, who
had settled in the town, and was pos
seesed of lucrative practice la his
profession. He paid his attentions TO
Mics Tickle, and WAS ack Owledgcd
rs her lover, and recently Gs her hus-
band. Indeed the day Of marriage
was fixed aud had been postponed un-
til THURSDAY week, when
THE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MARRIED.
The lady made all her preparations
and wedding robes had been purCbas
cd. Thursday came, but Der intended
wac not 10 be found. he had inyste-
riOuely Disappeared from the village,
The Distressed girl rat patiently by
her window, watching, with q long
ing aud solitude not often seen and
that as remarkable. She expressed
an abiding faith in the Coustancy Of
her lover, aud framed for herself aud
friends every possible excuse for his
unaCCOuntsble "a b euce. Thursday
passed, aud the usouiGed heart found
no rest from it, torture Friday went
by without tidiugs from the absent
lover, and Saturday came without
hope and without promise. What
suffering and agony the fIail heart
bore and struggled to sup rers no ton
que or pen can venture to tell.
On Saturday the fearful truth press-
ed so for recognition that the poor
girl could no longer rCsist it. She be-
came satisfied that her dream of love
had endcd-her confidence had been
recklessly and ruinOusly betrayed
Then it was that, with a bursting
heart,
SHE MADE A REVELATION
to her mother of facts that ever appal
the stOutest heart aud fall like n kill
ing frost upon the feelings of every
parent. She revealed to that fond
mother how her daughters weakness
had been taken advantage of and her
virtue forever stolen from its Shrine
Her faithless, pretended lover, had
robbed her Of that precious jewel, and
she was no longer the pure woman
that the world and her own house
hold regarded her. She had yielded,
and had been lost. Already she was
nearing the time when she would be-
come mother. and when the ineVita-
bic truth could no longer he concealed.
Her mOtder in the supreme mortili-
cation and anguish Of her knowledge
did not dare to tell the awful truth to
her husband for several days. When
he did receive, in the bosom of his
family, the fearful truth, it was as
though q thunderbolt from clear sky
had decended upon him. He saw but
one way in which to attempt renee
dy for the further evils to flow from
the awful situation. Learning that
the seducer had gone to his mothers
house in Bristol, Tenn,
TICKLE WENT UPON HIS TRAIL.
At Bristol he learned that his man
had come on to Atlanta, where he had
n brother-in-law, and thither Tickle
followed him. He arrived in this city
on the State road train on Monday
evening and at once went about the
business i'm hand. He went across to
the Southern Express office, where
the brother-in-law of Ayres was en-
ployed. Finding him, Mr.. Tickle de-
manded to know of him where Ayre5
was. The reply he says was that
Ayres' whereabouts were unknown TO
him. This would not so down with
the crazed and desperate father. He
drew his pistol and placing against
the Agent was told that he must
either tell the truth or be killed,
The Agent Is said to have weakened
before this demonstration, and, rs "A
final an wer, remarked that Ayres
was at his (the Agent's) residence
MIR, Tickle at once prepared to secure
an officer and go after Ayers hut was
AT once arrested by the officers of the
police on a charge of assault preferred
10y the Agent.
PLEADING For THE RIGHT.
When taken in charge, he gave up
the work "a to himself, but begged
and entreuted the officers 10 take his
papers and 50 and arrest the Seducer'
None of the officers would do this, be-
lieving as they did that the warrants
from Virginia were not good here,
MIR. Tickle was taken before Judge
Butt and required to give bond for his
appearance before the city court. Be
ing an entire stranger in our midst
he could not give the bond, and there
Gore was committed TO jail.
In the mean time the agent hac