The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
A nORnON,s HONEYMOON
u tory of the Miles Bigasny Gaze at
salt Lake City-an Interview Wiih

i.tOry of the Miles fsigamy Gaze at
salt Lake Ciiy-an lnterSieSS Wiih
Miss Owens-lieT Story of the Mar.
Tiage.
Special Correspondence to The IDter-Ocssn.l
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 80 Miss
Owens was born in the city Of London, June
), 1855, and is therefore, % years OF sge.
She is very prepossessing in appearance;
has large dark eyes, dark h1ir, fine 6g-
ure, and uses good English. She was Feat
ly and styli-hly dressed. She has been lib
orally educated; was at school several
years in Holland, and, on the death Of her
uncle who adopted her, she became gov
erpe4s where she had been pupil.
Miles Ia thirteen months her senior.
They were children together, and lover.
from their earliest years. Ia $50 Miles
entered the merchants marine service iOr
three wears, and went 10 SEA in the ship
England. They were en-. aled, and core
ponded regularly till 1873, when the ship
was reported lost in Torres straits with
every soul on board. She went to Lloyd,
and found the reports were true, when she
OF course, gave him up a. dead. The truth,
however. was that he left the ship a month
or so before, in Australia, ard wss then
converted and made Mormon, and soon
alter came to Utah. In 1876, to her sur
prise, he appeared to her one day at
friends house where she was visiting, like
ONE RISEN FROM THE DEAD.
He was seedy and dirty, and had every
appearance of disreputable tramp. He
announced himself as a Mormon Elder.
During all this time she supposed he was
dead; she had several good chances OF mar
riage, but she felt she could never love any
other man as che had loved him, and de-
declined them all. He commenced rmme-
diately 10 preach MormonsD, and at last
converted her at The expense of sacrificing
relatives and friends.
The first eighteen months OF his mission
in England he saw little of her, but the las,
six months be was with her almost all the
timel
Her aunt and she in-isted upon their be-
ing married in England before lenving, but
he said he was under solemn vow not To
IN arry while on his mission, but would do
so Immediately on arriving in Utah.
Her aunt resisted this, and Miss Owens
yielded and went with him, with almost
curses, from her only near relative.
Tney started from London with the Nor
mon emigration, September l4Ih last, and
sailed on the steamer Wyoming, Williams
and Guion Line, for New York. The cap
tain, two Misses Williams, daughters OF the
owner, and a young Mr.. Guion were very
kind:.to her, and did all they could 10 pre-
vent her coming TO Utah with him. lie
was madly Jealous OF these attentions, and
one time threatened to throw her over
board, and TO jump over himself.
On their arrival at Castle Garden, he
took Miss Ovens, his stepmother, three
half brothers, and half sister TO The Ste
phen House, the ladies occupying one
rom, and Miles and the boys another.
While they were out one dsy he came to
her room and tried to seduce her, land
tell you there was something why ne did
not succeed, but ii was not his fault
Just before leay ing New York he told
her there were two girls in st. George
named Emily and Julia Spencer, sisters.
The elder, Emily, had got her mother 10
propose her to him, and, when he went to
ak her to be his wife, she told him her
sister Julia loved him too. He then
ASKED THEM BOTH,
and they accepted, but. sald he, l have
loved you so long and so much that
would give up ffIy OF them for you. You
are more to me than any woman in The
world.
They arrived here Oct 1, snd she went
10 Angus Cannons house, and Immediately
thereafter be became independent and
irested her with indifference, and on tie
next day told her he was going to marry
these two Spencer girls also, and that he
was going TO bring them up and introduce
them to her She to- him she would not
submit to it that she would go 10 John
Taylor that he was Just and good man,
and that he would not permit it, and that
she would have it settled. They finally all
went TO President Taylor's office, and she
pleaded with Taylor long and earnestly;
told him OF their having loved each other
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 il was the order in these things
that the Oldest must be the fret, and that
Emily must be first. she second, and Julia
third. Then she pied with Miles, but
he told Lei, while he loved her and did not
love the others, that he could not disobey
counsel or change the regular order of these
things, bat that in reality she would be
bis first wife, and so this poor, friendless,
girl, loving, trusting. and deceived, far
away from friends and among strangers.
yielded, and was married according to the
rites of the Mormon church, Oct "a She
said she remembered the oaths that she
took in the consummation Of this ordinance,
but she could never reveal them. She was
afraid God would punish her if she did,
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 9 o'clock in the morn
ing, and did no. get Though till $50 in the
afternoon. This evening
Mr. CANNON GAVE HER WEDDING RE-
CEPTIoN.
She had warned Miles not to bring
Emily Spencer there, as it was her recep-
ton, and she told him il he did there would
be trouble.
The company, comprising about twenty,
had arrived, and she came down from her |
rooms 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: won't you please |
get off the stool; want to play" Emily
simply squinted at her, and said nothing;
but Miles came across the room and said |
Emily, don't you move you are my wife;
don't you mind that woman" Miss Ovens
then
sLAPPED HER FACE
and the row commenced. Miles got be-
tween them, and Cannon got behind Miss
Owens and held her hands, and told her to
leave his house. She ran into the street,
where she met some apostles who were go
ing to take her home, when Miles and Can
non came and dragged her into the house.
They then tried TO calm her, and finally
got her to consent to play some quadrilles.
As she sat at the piano waiting for them to
form sets on the floor, she heard Miles ask
Emily to dance with him. She said she
would not play for that woman to dance,
md SO left the piano and Fan up TO her
room. This was about ten o'clock. At
,ne, when she was asleep. Miles came 10
her room. and by force spent the night with |