The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-21
A MORMON STORY.
History of the Miles Bigamy Case at Sail
Lake City.
SALT LAKE Cry, UTAH, Oct. 20.

SALT LAKE Cry, UTAH, Oct. 90.
The all.absoTbiug excitement is the
trial Of John Horne Miles for bigamy,
noted in my correspondence OF yesterday,
and still being prosecuted before United
States Commissioners Sprague.
Thinking the many readers of the
Inter- Occdn might desire truthful and
full account Of the case called upon
Miss Owens at the residence Of U. S.
Marshal Shaughnessey, in company with
District Attorney Van Zile, and was
very courteously received.
! was particular to write down all that
was said, with Miss Ovens permission,
which was very modestly told, and it is
briefly as follows: Her full name is
Caroline Teresa Horne Maile Owens.
Her fathers name was Maile, her moth
er's name WAS Horne, and Owens was
the name of an uncle who adopted her
on the death Of her father and mother.
who died when she was almost an infant.
Miss Owens was born in the city of
London, June 6, 1866, and in, therefore,
twenty-three years of age. She is very
dark eyes, dark ha,r, a fine figure, AID
uses good English. She was neatly and
stylishly dressed was at school several
years in Holland, and, on the death of
her uncle who adopted her, she became
Il gOverness where she had been pupil.
Miles is thirteen months her senior.
They were children together, and lovers
from their earliest years. In 1870 Miles
entered the merchants marine service
for three years, and went to sea in the
ship England. They were engaged, and
corresponded regularly till 1873, when
the ship WIS reported lost in Torres
Straits with every soul on board. She
went to Lloyds and found the reports
were true, and she, of course, gave him up
as dead. The truth, however, was that
he left the ship n month or so before, in
Australia, and was then. converted and
made q Mormon, and soon after came to
Utah. In 1876, to her surprise, he ap-
peared to her one day Mt friends house
where she was visiting, like one risen
from the dead.
He was seedy and dirty, aud had every
appearance of disreputable tramp. F :
announced himself as Mormon Elder.
During NIL this time she supposed him
dead, she had several good chances of
marriage, but she felt she could never
love any other man as she had loved him.
and declined them all lie commenced
Immediately ~ preacL M. rmonisui, and
ut last converted her, at the expense Of
sacrificing relatives and friends.
The first eighteen months of his mis-
sion in England he saw little cf her, but
the last six months he WAS with her al
most all the time.
Her aunt and she insisted upon their
being married iii England before leaving,
but lie said he WAS under n solemn vow
not to marry while on his mission, but
, woDld do SO Immediately on arriving in
, Utah.
i. Her aunt resisted this, and Miss Owens
: yielded and went with him. with almost
!, curses, from her only near relative
t They started from London with the
Mormon emigration, September II last,
and sailed OH the steamer Wyoming for
II New York. The Captain, two Misses
:, Williams, daughters Of the owner, and a
:. young Mr.. Guion were very kind TO her
: and did all they could to prevent her
o coming TO Utah with him, He vas
i madly jealous of these attentions, and
C one time threatened to throw her over
!, board, and to jump over himself
$ Before leaving New York he told her
. there were two girls in st. George named
, Emily and j. lin Spencer sisters. The
l elder, Emily, had got her 'ther to pro-
pose her to him, and when he went to
ask her to be his wife she told him her
sister Julia loved him too. He then
asked them both and they accepted, but,
said he, have loved you so long and so
much that | would give up fifty of them
for you. You are more to me than any
woman iii ii,e world
They arrived here October 4, and she
went to Angus Cannon's house, and inn
mediately thereafter he became inde-
pendent, and treated her with indiffer-
ence, and on the next day informed her
he was going to marry these two Spen-
Ger girls also, and that he was going to
bring them up and introduce them to her.
She told him she would not submit to it !;
that she would go to John Taylor; that
he was just and good man, and that he
would not permit it, and T. at she would
have it settled. They finally all four
went tn President Taylors Office, and she
pleaded with Taylor long and earnestly; /;
told him of their having loved each 9th
er SO long, their long engagement, the
wrong he had done, the sacrifices she
had made for him of relatives and friends.
but he coolly told her it was the order In
those things that the oldest must be first
and that Emily must he first, she second.
and Julia third. Then she pleaded with
a1iles, but he told her while he loved her
and did not love the others, that he could
not disooey counsel or change the regular
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would be his first wife, and so this moor.
frlendless girl, loving, trusting, and de.
ceived, far away from friends and among
strangers, yielded, and was married ac.
cording to the rite: of the Mormon
Church. October "a. She said she re-.
membered the oaths that she took in
the consummation Of this ordinance. hut
she could never reveal them. She was
afraid tiod would nnn;sh .:cr e s22ie dii, iiii
after having taken them, but she said the
last oath she took, through the veil, was
perfectly awful. She went into the En-
dowment House at 8 O'Clock in the morn
irg, and did not get through till $50 in
the afternoon. That evening Mr. Can
non gave her a wedding reception. 1E
She had warned Miles not to bring
Emily Spencer there, az it wss her re-.
ception, and she told him if he did there
would be trouble
The company, comprising about
twenty, had arrived, and she came down
from her room UP stairs, and entered the
parlor to find Emily Spencer seated on
the music stool in. the center of the
room. She went up to her and said :.
Wont you please get off that stool +? I
want to play" Emily simply souinted
Mt her, and said nothing; but Miles came
across the room, aud said: 'iEmily.
don't You move; you are my wife don't
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