The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-22
A TRUANT WIFE
Returns After Many Years OF Suheb'
ing and Repentance.
Three Death Notices Which End a
History Of Disliked Marriage,
Elopement, Divorce and
Reconciliation.

The following, which was taken
from the New York Times, Is inter-
esting and romantic, whether the
account be true or false. The part
of the story which has reference to
this city is probably imaginary. Dill.
igent inquiry among the sporting
fraternity of the town, among them
several who were here during the
period mentioned by the woman
Timer, fails to find anyone who
knew or ever heard of the man
Mills, or of his alleged partner in
gaming houses, Olney. Nor do the
police know of the men, as they
most certainly would under such
circumstances as are alleged.
Honesdale, Dec. 9.-Among the
death notices in local paper of a
southern county in this state on
Friday last appeared the following:
TINER-On the 5th inst, of pneu-
| monia, A. 8. TIMER, aged Al years.
TINER-On the h inst, Of scarlet
fever ETA ", only child of a. 8. and
Eliza G. Timer, az yesrs.
TINER-On the Oh inst, ELIZA g..
| TIMER, wife of the late A. 8. Timer.
Sixteen years ago AMI S. Timer
was a well-to-do miller In village
in Southern Pennsylvania, near the
State line. Uri Gates was pros
porous merchant in the same wills
lage. He was a widower with one
child, daughter, named Eliza.
George Mill was clerk in Gates
store. He was a handsome young
Southerner, and claimed to be a
member of q family who had been
ruined by the war. Miss Gates fell
in love with him, and he professed to
reciprOcate the attachment. MIR.
Gates, however, did not approve of
this intimacy and refused to consent
to the marriage of his daughter with
his clerk. Miller Timer had been a
sutton for the girls hand for a year
or more, and the father favored his
suit. Miss Gates persisted in heI
refusal to accept his hand, although
she acknowledged that she was
proud of his offer and held him in
the highest regard. Her father al
last relented his parental authority,
and Timer and Miss Gates were mar
| ried in 1867. On their wedding tour
they stopped some days
with relatives of the bridegroom in
this city, from whom these
particulars are obtained. They re-
turned in October. A few days
afterward Mrs. Timer received a
letter which she said informed heI
of the dangerous illness of young
schoolmate of hers in a nelg b boring
town, who was anxious to see her.
| She said she would visit the school.
mate, and left home ostensibly fol
that purpose. The next morning
Mr.. Gates went to his store at the
usual hour. He found it closed. II
had always been opened by his CLERK
at o'clock. Inquiry was made al
young Mills's clearinghouse. HI
he'd not been there since he ate hi;
supper the night before. No trace
of him could be found in the vii.
lage. 1t was not suspected for two
days that disappearance was in any
way connected with the absence o
Mrs. Timer. Then the husband be
came suspicious. He went to tht
town where his wife said she wa
going TO visit her sick schoolmate
She had not been there. A coupl
answering the description Of Mill
and Mrs. Timer were traced as ia
as Wheeling, West Va, and ther,
all trace Of them WAC Ioot
In 1870 old Mr.. Gates died, leaving
an estate valued at $4,000 Thi!
be bequeathed to his sOn-in-law
His runaway daughter was not for
gotten in his will. One provision
t in it directed the deserted HUSBAND
to devote two years to searching TO
his unfalthful wife. If she wa
/ found apart from George Mills, il
+ needy circumstances, she was to b
paid S700 in equal weekly install
ments, but must not be informed o
, its source. If she was in tn
company of Mills, the estat
was not to be used in her aid, n
matter how destitute her circum
stances might be. If she was NO
in the company Of Mills, and re
turned voluntarily and repentant t
her native place before the end o
one year after she was found, sh
was t. be provided with suitabl
home and paid $40 a week out {
the estate; otherwise all payment
to her we're to cease and she wa
prohibited from making any clair
upon the estate.
Mr.. Timer searched for his wife il
all parts of the country until 1877
without success. Then he prOcure
a divorce from her and marie
again. His second wife died in 1877;
leaving two children, who wer
twins. Old Mr.. Gates had named a
executors of his estate his cousin
nj. A. Pool, and his son>in- la
Timer. In the summer of 1877 MI
Pool, as one of the executors, wa
given letter at the village post
Office, addressed in wOman's hand
and post marked at Lichfield. MINI
The letter was opened. 1t was from
Gates's renaway- daughter. Sh,
begged to be permitted to return
home to her father. II reclted
touching story of wretchedness an,
suffering, and declared that, Will