Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-13
ELIZA TIMERS Two loves
a PATHETIC STORY-HUSBAND
FIFE IND CHILD IN ONE GRAVE.
A Hard-Hearted Father Forces His
Daughter to Marry Against Her Will
The Unhappy Outcome with Sequel of
Happy Marriage at st. Paul.

Happy Marriage at st. Paul.
Honesdale, Pa, Correspondence N. Y. Sun,
Dec 81
local paper in one Of the lower coun-
ties of this state, in its issue of Friday,
contains the announcements of the deaths
on the 5th inst. of A. S. Timer, eyed forty
one years, and Eta V. Timer, aged five
years; and the death on the 9Th inst. of
Eliza G. Timer, aged thirty-three years.
Beyond tie statement that these were
father. mother and child, the paper makes
noreferencs to them, although there is re-
markable story connected with the family,
Mr.. Timer was a miller. Seventeen
years ago he married Eliza Gates, the
handsome daughter Of Uri Gates, a pros
porous merchant. The two families lived
in the same village, near the Maryland
line. Miss Gates, married young Timer
under the order Of her father. She loved
George Mills, a clerk in her fathers store
"a handsome young Virginian-but old
Mr.. Gates was stern man, and desired
the well-to-do miller to be his son-in-law.
Mr.. Timer had relatives in this county, and
brought his bride On a visit to them dur
ing their bridal trip. One week after their
return home Mrs. Timer eloped with Geo.
Mills. The runaway pair were followed as
far as Wheeling, but there al traces of
them was lost.
This was in October, 1867. In 1870 old
Mr.. Gates died. He had been severely
blamed for his course in forcing his
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left an estate worth $4,000, and it was
bequeathed to his son-in-Iaw Timer 1t
was provided in the will, however, that
Timer should search for two years for the
missing daughter and wife. If her where
ebouts were discovered and she was living
with George Mills, she was not to receive
any aid from the estate, no matter how
needy she might be. II she was apart
from Mills she was to receive 800 for one
year, in weekly installments, but not to
know whence the money came. II at the
end of that year she, without any hint,
or solicitation on the part of either of
the executors of the will, who were Timer
and II. A. Pool, returned home repentant
and desirous Of making amends for her
sin by q life of humility, she was to be
provided with suitable home, and to re-
ceive so week out of the estate during
her lifetime. If she did not return under
these circumstances and conditions she
was to be forever debarred from any claim
on the estate. Timer sought for his wife
in all parts of the country, but found no
trace of either her or Mills, and came to
the belief that they had left the country.
In 1873 he obtained a divorce from his
wife and soon afterward married again.
His secend wife died in 1875.
In 1877 letter came to the village post
Office, addressed to Uri Gates. 1t was
handed to Executor Pool, who
opened it. It was dated at
Litchfeld, Minn., and was from the long
missing wife and daughter. She wrote
that she had suffered long and terribly;
that she was desirous of returning repent
ant to her father and receiving his fo--
giyensss; and that, while she knew che had
sinned deeply, she had not been the guilty
person that they no doubt believed her to
be. This letter Mr.. Pool showed to Timer,
and the two resolved to go to Litchfeld
and hear the unfortunate woman's story.
Mr.. Pool visited her first. She was work
ing as a seamstress in private family
under her maiden name. She was greatly
grieYed to hear that her father had died
before she could receive his forgiveness,
y
she really was. To Mr.. Pool she told her
story.
The elopement was arranged between
her and Mills with the idea that she was
| to proceed to Indiana and procure q di-
vorce, when they were to be merried. This
she did at Lafayette. She met Mills st
| Central City, Col, where they were mar
ried by minister named Whitehead.
They lived happily in Central City for
year. Mills made money supplying
miners, but finally got to gambling. He
| lost all the money he had made, and began
! to neglect his wife and treat her cruelty.
! He gave up his business in Central City,
! place of which she had great horror.
There he opened gambling house. This
was broken up by the authorities
within a year. Then he
opened low resort for dissolute
characters, whom he often compelled his
wife to serve with liquor. Iu 1874 Mills
brought woma to their home and told
his wife that he had joined the Mormons
and that this woman was another wife.
Shortly afterward he brought another
woman there. They lived riotously, and
| finally one night the woman who had given
up everything for Mills fled from his
| house in disguise. She succeeded in reach
! ing Denver on New Years day, 1872.
There she hired out as dining room girl
in the City hotel, where she remained a
year and half. Then she went as lady's
maid with party of English tourists, and
Travelled with them until the spring of
1874. Then she resolved to return home.
| At st. Louis she was taken ill
with fever and lay i'll three months.
Her savings had been exhausted, and she
engaged to go to Minnesota as a travelling
companion to an invalid lady. She was
with her until 1876, when the invalid died
near Lake Itasks. Left alone and in bad
health in that isolated region, she resolved
to make her way east and to her fathers
home. Between Itaska and Brainerd juno
ton she was robbed by her guide, and left
almost penniless to make her say to
Brainerd alone and on foot for thirty miles.
She was compelled to go out to service
again. and finding that her health was
growing more feeble, she made her final
resolve to write to her father and obtain,
If possible, his permission to return home.
This story was repeated to Mr.. Timer.
He at once sought an interview with his
truant wife. The result was her entire fol-
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