Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-20
SEDUCTIVE SMILES.
They Lead a Young Wtn8l to BOin and
Young Man 10 Prison.
An Eastern Wedding Sadly Intertered
with by An Iowa Sheriff.

A young lady Of prepossessing appear
snce, CT fine family, and of excellent
previous reputation is now stopping with
her friends here, and has a sad story to
relate of how she became the vicim OF
seductive smiles. According to her state
ments she was three or four years ago
living in Hastings Eand there became
acaualnt ed with a gay and festive travel.
ing man named @. A, Randall, who
seemed as much csptiva.ed by her as she
was by him. His visits to her soon be.
came those of a lover, and Of the betroth,
ed, and yielding to his opportunities, she
became unto him n wife in fact without
the sanction Of the law to warrant her in
claiming that title. During the period
of his absence from her long let.els
passed between them, but after q time,
when Of all other times he should have
been true to her, and to hi, pledges, she
rays he not only slipped away from her,
but managed to get hold of and destroy q
goodly number of the love letters which
were proof of his intimacy.
She hunted In vain for some trace OF
his whereabouts. and almost heart broken
with still greater trouble and disgrace
rapidly drawing near, she KEPT up her
search until she learned that he was in
in Denver, aud being assured by the
postmark of a post, al card written by hin
to another party, she hurried off for that
city, feeling certain that she would lind
him there, and that he would, when
again In her presence, yield to his honest
impulses and make her his wife. Arriving
In Denver she searched the city In vain,
and without any clue of him. Far from
friends and home, her meaus became ex.
hsusted, and in her delicate condition of
health she despairingly appealed to the
authorities for help. She was placed In
the poor house, and thers gave birth to a
child. A Sister, living In the northern
part OF this safe, receiving a letter from
her, contrasting her shame and describing
her sufferings, hurried to Denver and
brought her and her child back, and since
then a search has been kept up for the
young man whom che charged with her
ruin.
A short time ago it was learned that he
wss travel ng for an easteru house, and
was making his home In Springfield,
| Mass , md Sheriff Farrell, of Mills coun.
ty, getting the necessary reputation pa
pers, went after him. On arriving there
he learned that the young man was en-
gagged to marry an ettimable young.wldoW
of that place, and that the ceremony
would have already been performed, had
not the widow been taken i'll, necessit At.
Ing a postponement of the wedding fol
three weeks. Just before the wedding
day Sheriff Farrell arrived and surprised
the young a by placing him under ar
rest aud bringing him back to Iowa, lodg
ing him at last in the Mills county jail
the grand jury having found an indict
ment against him. He soon furnished
the needed bonds, and was released from
jail, to appear at the next term of th,
district curt, which opens there Marcl
2. Then 1t will appear what defense h
will make to the serious charge, an
whether the young lady can c%orroborat'
her claim that he is the CAUSE of her dis
grace and suffering.