Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-06
AN ELOPEMENT SENSATION.


Our neighboring town of Dallas, n. c., ha
first-class sensation, the deno,ement OF whicl
has Just transpired at Conyers, Ga. j. o. II
Nutall, who at one time published a sort O
newspaper in Charlotte, but who more recent.
was known at Kings Mountain Station as s
repairer of watches, deserted his wife and fou
children, and elOped with Miss Rawling
daughter of minister of the Northern M. E
Church, stationed at Dallas. The guilty one:
were discovered at Conyers, Ga, and the Er
an.iner of that place gives the following ac
count of the affair: -, - . -..t.-
For the qualification of the enquiring pub
lie, we give few facts as related by Mrs
Rawling, the mother of the young lady who
it is alleged, was married to Mr.. FOntaine
both of whom came to Conyers several weeks
ago, the alleged husband engaging in the jew
elry BUSINESS.
Mrs. Rawling says: "Mr. Fontaine, alias
Nutall, who has nice wife and four children
ut home, was made to leave his boarding house,
in Dallas, n. c., because he failed to pay his
board He then applied to her to rent some
rooms for his family, which she did He en-
gagged in business at Kings Mountain, visit
ing his wife regularly every Saturday night,
and seemed to get aloIg as agreeably as two
people could Nutall was OrganiSt in a church
at Dallas, and became intimate with Miss
Rawling, her daughter, at choir meetings, and
she became enciente byhim during the latter
part of 1879, or the firsl part of 1880, during
which time his family lived in her Mrs. Raw
ling's house. He corespOnded with Miss
Rawling, while at Kings Mountain, rs r. H.
Fontaine, many times delivering his own let
ters, and praising Fontline to Mrs. and Miss
Rawling, telling them what fine, nice fel-
low he was, ETC., seemingly, to be very much
interested in Miss Kate Rawlings welfare,
saving, 'she ought to marry FOntaine by all
MEANS Mrs. Nutall suSpiciOned that some
thing was the matter With Miss Rawling, who
denied all until she cpuld hide it no longer,
when her father, whois presiding elder of a
Methodist district conference, in North Caro-
lima, carried his daughter to al extreme part
of the State, leaving her in care of a friend.
Fontaine, alias Nutall says he followed them,
unbeknown to her father, on the same train,
and eloped with Miss Rawling. This was in
June or July last Nntall says himself they
travelled together thrpugh Tennessee, Ohio
and Illinois, assuming different names, think
ing some of the Rawliig family were in pur-
suit, and says he knew he would be killed if
they caught him for stealing his wife, and
that he didn't want an! trouble about it,
Mrs. Rawling says she never knew any bet
ter after she learned that her daughter had
run away, and seeing anOtice of her marriage,
but that she had really married Mr.. Fon-
taine, until she cameltO COnyers to see her
daughter and Son-in-lav, when behold the So
called H. R. Fontaine was the vertable j. o. H.
Nutall in disguse-his red hair and whiskers
dyed black as a crow Wearing Spectacles and
walking lame with care.
Mrs Rawling was almost heart broken at
this state Of affairs, and persuaded her daugll-
ter to 60 home with he'. which she agreed to
do, but the father made her leave the child,
saying he had stolen his wife, and if she car
ried the child her parents would persuade her
to quit him. Miss Rawling had been gone
but few days, when those whom the child
was left with, were growing suspicious that
something was wrong, and the baby was given
to first one and then another, all thinking
probably the father might leave and somebody
would have the baby left on their hands. FL
nally the child was given to negro woman,
and some one wrote to the mother the cOndi-
tion of her child, etc.
The Rev. Mr.. Rawling agreed for his daugll-
ter to come for her babe, and he would take
her home if she would promise him, from that
day, she would let Nutall 60, and have nothing
more to do with him. She promised that she
would and Mrs. Rawling and her daughter
came for the baby last week. They remained
here several days Mrs. Rawling sat up every
night, with Nutall and her daughter, during
their stay here. She says Nutall will not go
home with them, Notwithstanding they all
left together on last Sunday for North Carroll
Ia.
1t is the opinion of those who are acquainted
with the actions and conduct of Miss Raw
ling and Nutall towards each other. while
here, up to the time of their departure, that
she will eventually live with Nutall, and not
go to her father. Miss Rawling acknowl-
edged that they were never married, and that
Nutall had nice devoted wife and four chill
dren, who are now with Mrs. Nutall's father,
highly respectable physician, at Wadesboro,
NC.
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