The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-19

Recently q omanc was consummated
away up in the ~Adrioudacks which, 10
tangled plot and novel details, claims
fabulous Christmas tales tina are Just
now being printed. The story Is told
by a man who uni TO GloversvIlle
from Ssgeville. Hamilton county. Fred
Roderick, a young man of % or 26
years. OF burly frame. but with a certain
manly charm IN his rough ways. the
son of a popular old guide up at Indian
lake, has beer confined in the Hamilton
county Jail at Sageulle, for the past our
or five months, awaiting trial on the
charge Of stealing a pair Of horses from
a farmer OF that county. Every sunday
afternoon the Rev. Arthur Chambers, the
pastor OF the Methodist church in the
village, in company with a dozen or tif-
| cen members of his congregation, holds II
prayer-neeting and song meeting in the
Jail.
For two gears it has been the habit of
Miss Agnes Austin, the young and by no
means uncomeiy daughter Of the village
apothecary, to join the missionary band,
and her sweet voice is credited with hsv-
ing influenced many a tough-hearted pris-
! oner Il experience conversion. The first
Sunday after Roderick's arrest she became
acquainted with him during the meeting,
noticed without exciting remark that she
was oftener IN a side corridor doing lndl-
vluual work with Prisoner Roderck, as
the chaplain and his band thOugl I, than
at her customary post in the choir labor
ing for the general salvation. After a
month or so, by permission of the Sheriff,
she made SPECIAL and irregular week day
visits with the prisoner, assuring the Jail
attendants that her heather was fast fall
ing under the influence. Finally she be-
gan to neglect her Sunday work, but her
weekday visits became more frequent
This led to some little whispering among
her deserted co-workers, but no general
Suspicion was aroused.
rome five or six weeks ago hoierick
confessed conviction at a Sunday meeting,
/ giving at the same time hearty praise and
credit to the eVangelIzing efforts of Miss
Austin, BIT this only bred envy in the
several breasts of her deserted cO-workers,
and tongue after tongue began to wac
until at every tireslde in the community it
was the chief topic discussed With the
post-ofnce loafers Aggie Austin's name
was in an opprobrious sense connected
with that of Fred. R)derlck and all sorts
Of reckless talk was INDUCED in. Mr..
Austin valnly forbade his daughter from
continuing her visits to the Jail, The
father then called on the sheriff, and in
this way was more successful, for the
visits were ut once interdicted.
Two weeks ago Agnes disappeared from
her home, and nothing WAS heard of her
whereabouts until last Friday, when a
constable Game riding into Slgeville with
Agnes behind him. she was taken before
The magistrate and sent to jail on the
charge of stealing ono of the very horses
Tor the theft Of which her lover was suf-
fering confinement. The constable said
that she stole the horse in br Dad daylight,
and when pursued made but a feeble at
tempt tn escape. Her story is that Fred
tod her to 80 TO his fathers camp and
await his arrival, which would be as soon
as an opportunity for escape presented
itself. After waiting for Ill at the camp
Tor more thau a week, abe says, she be-
came desperate. and, resolving to JON
him in the jail, she ran away from the
camp with the deliberate intention Of COM
mltting some crime tina wou d place her
DJ ntf lONCI , stut. heI SLehllTg Tue edUlc
horse that Fred had once stolen, she as
serts, was a simple accident. Miss Aus
TINS bail was fixed at $500, hut she re-
fused to accept bondsmen and resume
her Liberty. On Friday morning Roder-
lck sent for the sheriff and informed
nm that he wished to wed Agnes Aus
tin, who, when brought before the sheriff,
declared a similar desire. The girl being
10 years old, and, therefore, of the legal
age, Tie sheriff deemed it his duty to
comply with their wishes, and lhe c)m-
uniting magistrate, Jarvis, was sum-
moned. At 8 O'Clock In the afternoon,
IN the corridor OF the jail, with the
sheriff and Two deputies as Witnesses,
the fclon lovers were made one. The
District Attorney unpoetically declares
that this most remarkable of Hymen's
consultations will not hinder hun from
prosecuting the BRIDE and groom on the
separate indictments. He promises, how
ever, to try and bring both cases up al
The same term Of court and thus allow the
pair to make their bridal journey together.
10 their future mountain home FL Clinton
prison.