, 1886-06-20
Able LAFLIN.
A Former Well Known Cheyenne
Woman Takes Her Own Life.
The Place of Her Birth the Theater
ofthe Sad Ending.

The career of the woman whose name
so sadly heads this article was Il glittering
romance. She came to Cheyenne in
1868, in company with her husband,
James Latin. The husband was a well
known New York gambler, and he
opened a place in a building on Sixteenth
street, between Ferguson and Eddy, on
the site OF the present Masonic hall.
Abbie was a beautiful blonde, v%oluptuous
in form, gay in disposition, ard with a
Joyous zest for life's pleasures,
She soon became the rage, and no
gathering was considered perfect without
the crown of the fair Abbie's presence
Flattered and feted, her life in Cheyenne
was arose colored dream of two years in
duration. At the end of hat period she
followed the wandering footsteps Of her
gambler husband, and Cheyenne knew
her favorite no more.
Abbie Latin, nee Dean. first saw the
light in Leominster, Mass, but at a tender
age she took up her residence with Shep-
ard Wilder, now one of Leominster' old
est and most respected citizens. Bearing
the name of Abbie Dean Wilder, she
blushed into womanhood, and the fame OF
her destinations filled her little world.
Those who had fostered the bud into the
blossom were her distant relatives, and to
them she was the object of an idolatrous
affection.
There one day arrived in Leominster a
handsome young fellow, who registered at
the hotel as James Latin. The new ar
rival had plenty of money and spent it
freely. 1t soo1 transpired that he was
one Of the best known gamblers of New
York City, and the proprietor of one Of
Gotham's most famous hells. His good
looks and his lavish expenditure Of money
won him a firm footing in Leominster
society, and he soon met Abbie Dean
Wilder. Mutual attraction soon ripened
into love, and the belle of the country
own and the dashing gambler of New
York were married, and the pair, leaving
the quiet scenes of their betrothal.
plunged deep in the gaitics and dissipa-
tions of the American metropolis. The
Lafiins made several visits to Abbie' old
home, and in every instance the com
panions of her girlhood were driven hall
wild with envy and admiration of the
magnificent attire and flashing Jewels OF
the gamblers wife.
From New York The pair came West,
and her ensued the two years of her
triumph in Cheyenne. After wandering
all over the continent, the pair were sew
cred by death, Latin dying about eight
years ago. He left Abbie considerable
money. and she took up her residence in
San Francisco. Her life here was a re-
newal, or rather a continuance of the old
time triumphs. However, the money
dwindled away, and when, thrown from a
horse, she was seriously injured, very little
of her fortune was left. Paralysis set in,
and she was bodily as well as financially
helpless.
She managed to reach her old Leomins-
ter home, and made an appeal for aid to
the man who had cherished her as a child,
and given more than a fathers love to her
youth, but the heart OF the I'D man Was
set as flint against the gamblers wife, and
the appeal was in vain. She now deter
mined on self destruction, and carried Of
her resolve, dying by her own hand amid
the scenes which had witnessed the limo
cent Joys of her childhood, and the iniat-
uated love of her youth.