The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-13
NORMAN ROMANCE.

irsIn the Panstieism ~ Mer Family
by Marriage ami are again Ia Texas,
In the year 1879 there lived near tho
town OF Richmond, Kentucky, faml-
ly by the name OF Steyene, consisting
OF father, mother, two sons aud daugh.
tiers. The youngest OF the daughters,
Hattie, was beautiful girl OF some
fifteen summers. Living near wac q
young and well'to.do farmer named
Lucien Robertson who occasionally
called ut tho house TO pass the evening,
and In the course OF time an Intimacy
sprang up between the two that ripen.
oil into love, and unknown 10 her
parents they were engaged. When
the family learned Of the fact
Robertson was forbidden atho
house, and their meetings after
wards were very seldom, yet they
were not daunted, but In their stolen
interviews vowed eternal love aud
fidelity TO one another. In the mean.
time her family moved with her TO
this state, settling in Tarrant county.
Her lover soon followed, purchasing
and putting into cultivation farm on
the Neuoes river, In Live Oak county.
Last fall when the Mormon fever
swept over some of the western ooun-
ties In the state, her father and all the
family, save herself, were converted
to the faith, and he determined TO sell
out and leave Tor Salt Lake city, which
he did. The girl, who IL represented
M being very intelligent, greatly
deplored the religion her fans
lily had adopted, and begged
her father TO allow her to re-
main in Texas aud teach school TO
make living for herself. This he
positively refused to do, and they left
last fall for Mormandom with u party
of converts that left Fort Worth. She
notified her lover by letter of the fact
and he soon followed, opening upa
store in Salt Lake City. Finding that
Robertson had followed in their wake,
the father and his two sons began
systematic persecution against him,
and nothing was too mean IN their
eyes to do against him. The girl, true
to her lover, defended the slurs and
slams that were hurled at him, and
she, too, In tura, was also
prosecuted by her fanatical father
and family in most cruel manner.
She was made to keep IN the house
days at n time, while her and her
alliances notes were intercepted. The
father's objection to young R0bserteon
WAS that he was a Gentle, and he
swore he should never wed his daugh-
ter. During this time her mother
died. Thinking the old man might
possibly be softened 10y the death OF
his wife, Robertson once more essayed
to gain his consent, hut was rudeIy
and indignantly repulsed, Her broth
ers threatened TO kill him II he was
ever caught making further overtures
to their sister. All this time the young
girl was undergoing most merciless
persecution, while III attempt was he
ing made to force her to adopt the Nor
mon faith. She managed TO commu-
nicate with her lover, however, now
and then, and finally wrote him that
she could not bear the torment and
persecution to which her family and
their brother Mormop's subjected her,
and begged him II, it were possible, to
aid her In making her escape. The
young man took a sensible view of the
case, and reported the matter to a
United States officer, who upon the
swearing out of an affidavit, released
the young girl, whom he found shut
up In dark room. The two repair
ed at once to u magistrate
where they were married, and
they lost no time in taking hasty
leave of the scene of their troubles,
and yesterday evening the happy pair
passed through this city en- route to
their farm on the Neuces. We learned
the particulars OF their rather romantic
life from friend of Robertson's who
rode down from Denison with them.
He is well acquainted with her two
brothers and is afraid they may yet
wreak vengeance on his friend.