The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-08
UNITED AFTER: MANY YEARS.
4 Wedding Delayed Because the Groom
was vroneful!y Convicted OF Murder.

was Nrongful!y Convicted o. huro'r'
4 special dispatch from st. Joseph
(Alo.( says: \ wedding Of r:.ore interest
than is usually attached to events where
the parties are 50 little known occurred
to-day about four miles west OF st.
Joseph. The contracting parties are
". H Potter, living near Denver, Col,
and Mrs. Julia Crumn, who for few
years past has made her home with her
brother, Henry Withers, IN Doniphan
county, Kansas. Both the parties are
of middle age, and had not seen one
another for years until 6 few months ago.
When they were children they went to
school together in Carroll county, Ken
tucky, and when Potter vas q young man
of .weu:y-oae years and came West hc
was Eetrothcd to Julia WitGers, who
was the belle OF the neishbprhood.
Potter went first to Kansas, and then to
the mountains, returning to visit his CID
home twice in five years.
Ga the last visit it was agreed that the
marriage should take place III" following
spring, by which time be- hoped to have
enough money to make his home what
he thought it should be. He returned
West and was not heard from for years.
Some one who had known him IN the
mountains happened to pass through
his kentucky home AMI circulated TIE
story OF his death, founded upon runor
as il afterward appeared.
His sweetheart mourned him as dead,
and in two years welded . rival, with
whom she lived happily Cor aSont eight
wears. Her husband died in 1885, when
she came to Doniphan codnty to make
her home with her brother, haE1cg no
nearer relatives in kentucky. Her hus-
band LETT her considerable fortune, &n.t
as her forty years sat lightly upon LeE
she soon became the centre Of an admir-
ing circle of friends.
: few months ago Potter came through b
ST. Joseph, quite accidentally, oa hls
vay to Chicago. He met Withers at the
Union depot, ard, what is most sin
eular, the men knew each other. Expla-
nations followed, and Potter was driven
to the pleasant country home OF the
Withers family. He met his sweetheart
OF early days, and the old love, which
had not ceased to burn in their hearts
through long years, soon made ltsei!
felt. The courtship was commenced
where it had been broken eff, and the
two were married, leaving this evening
for Mr.. Po!ter's home, near Denver.
The strange part OF The story IS yet TO
come. Potter, while working IN tae
mines, had been accused Of numbering
his partner. Not being aole to establish
his innocence at the trial, he was con-
victed, and the sentence committed 10
imprisonment for life, several good
reasons appearing for this. Too proud
to inform his sweetheart or family OF his
disgrace, he did not write any letters
home about it. The story OF the crime
did not reach them. The murder was
committed in new claim which Potter
and his partner had just began to work
in New Mexico, and it was not known
here what part of the East he had come
FROM. After be had been IN prison
nearly five years a nan who was to te
hanged made confession clearly estab
fishing Po!ter's innocence. and re wa:
released. He went at once to Gaent,
Ky, bat found his intended bride was
another's. Without making himseli
known be lett the place and amassed g
considerable fortune by speculation.
He was on his way to Chicago to dispose
of some property when he accidentlg
met his old schoolmate, Henry Withers,
in St. joseph.