The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-11-08
A Curious Dem este ElsiolR.

| The illal Of HelIy Sttvens ana Chris
| tian kindtner for arson in the Mexican
/ County. Pa, Court. just concluded. de-
yeloped one of the most extraordinary sto-
rieS OF complicated domestic ties on rer
cord. Henry Stevens III 1865 was the ulate
of an Atlantic steamer. On volate to
this country in the fall of that ), ear he fell
in love with IA Young German gill. i. ST. er
age passenger, whose name was Famine
| Bdumann The girl recprocated the Of :
licer's affect ion. and on landing IN New
| York they we've ts7arritd, The hl de was
on her way TO join relatives in Bradford.
Pa. then an unknown lumber village, -
Stevens quit the service of the steamship
company and Joined his fort unes with
those of his bride.
/ h OF long afterward the Bradfo RI gion
began 10 attract the attention IF oil ope.
rat0rs. and S.eys,s AID his " ife opened a
boarding hopse. They we're still keeping
boarders in 1875. when das:iing German
named Cbrstian Kin timer became au in.
mate Of the house. lie fell in love with
his landlady. She was induced by him to
| believe that she WAS hot happy With her
husband and she obtained divorce from
| Stevens. The latter seems to have legar-
ded this proeft ding with rem al kabe com.
| placence. for he did tot leave the house
Mrs. Stevens married f<indt,.er, but on
the wedding night for some ieason deser.
ted him and returned TO the GUARDIANSHIP,
Of her first husband. In short time she
procured a divorce from Kindtner and re-
nl lrred Stevens. Kindtner did not let
th4 sudden ending of Lis honeymoon and
the utter Reputation and legal separation
OF bis bride worry him apparently. for he
continued to board with the Steyenses.
Last winter Henry keggan, a well -to-do
land scape gardner. of bradford, adyertis-
ed for wife. His advertisement was read
10y MIS-. Hannah Young, comedy middle.
aged widow CT Indianapolis. She replied
to it. and the iesnlt was that she came to
Bradford aud ndTried Gardener Reagan.
The widow Young had q sepegteen.year-
old son named Robert. lie was good
looking boy, large for his age. The Keg-
gans family and the Stevens family became
neighbors. Mrs. Stevens, although Learly
fifty years of age. fell in love with the boy
Robert oUpg. Her charms at the same
time infatuated isGhsrt, Again Mrs. Ste
vens had recourse TO thu diyoree court,
and. as the divorce laws of Pennsylvania
accomm9 date themselves to circumstap-
ces, she was speedily released from the
bonds that had made her for the second
time, Henry Stevens wife. She then
married ISoheTt Young and established
her youthful spouse 81 The head of her
boarding house. Stevens accepted tle sit
uation with commendable stoicism, ana
took lis place with KiDdtner. the other de-
tbr lned husband, as boarder lii tIe |
house. Things ran smoothly until last
summer, when Mrs. Young took her boy
husband and her effects, and with lis
mother aita stepfather removed to another
part Of the city. where the combination
opened public house known as Ddrple
Park This left FIX husbands Stevens and
Kindtner out in the cold, and they Lro- !
tie ,ted loudly. but without avail. A few 4
wee Is { go he E ,ge Park IIouae. together |
with all he hulh lgs Connected with it,, |
was destroyed by fire. The fife was plain |
Iy of ineendiary origin, and Mrs Young,
charging her late husbands, Stevens and |
Kindtner. with wing fired the building, |
had then arrested. They were indicted |
and their trial came off at the last term of |
court. The evidence against them was
insufficient to convict them, but during
the ial this curious domestic history was
mad known.