Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-18
A UTAH ROMANCE.
A Story of Love. shipwreck. Insanity and
Final Marriage.


A Story of Love. shipwreck. Insanity and
Final Marriage.
Ogden special to the Rocky Mntntain
News: One OF the most romantic scenes
Of real life that ever found way to the pub.
lie gaze eliminated in this city to-day. 1t
began over the sea seven Or eightyears ago,
and two lovers were yesterday united after
so many years separation, during which
time each had passed through the vicissi-
tudes OF ocean shipwreck. The young lady
had fallen from grace and the young man
had been an inmate Of the asylum for the
insane. The story told your correspond
emit to-day wal briefly this:
In the little town Of Holmsted, Sweden,
Abel Nilsson and Emma Swanson were
children together and when but IL years
old they became b~ethrothed. Abel went to
sea. A shipWreck on an iceberg in the
North seas resulted in Wilson's rescue and
final landing on the shores OF America by
q ~life.saying crew. He worked his way to
his mothers home in Ogden, Utah, where
ne WTOUo lib oWcOUu01Et Al Otu 0WCuOus UCh-
ing her OF his narrow escape and that soon
he would send for her to join him in Amer
lea. Meanwhile the strange drama was
having another scene added, more
dramatic than the first. Wilson's long alb.
since caused Emma's parents to suppose
him dead. Against her will she was urged
to accept the attentions OF another. This
new relation ripened into love, and, under
promise of marriage, this young man, who,
by the way, wal q friend and schoolmate
OF Wilson's, led her from the path OF virtue
and she became q mother. He wanted to
make her his wife, but, like the wife oil
Enoch Arden, she wanted him to wait yet
another year, until some certain proof OF
Abel's death was had. About this time q
letter from Ogden reached her, telling OF
her first love being alive and well and still
true to his VOWS. She wrote and confessed
all to Nilsson, bewailing the foolish act that
had bIighted her whole life, and asking him
to forgive and forget her. 1t was q sad
blow to ore who had already suffered so
much that his mind was beginning to
weaken. But love conquered, and strug-
Cling from thecl4tsh OF hatred and jealousy
toward her sedncer, he penned Q sWeetly
~sorrowful letter OF forgiveness to her and
inclosed money and asked her to come and
bring the baby With her, It was his minds
last struggle, for no soon became a raying
maniac and wal sent to the Provo asy-
lum. She received the letter, and, over
joyed at the kindness, made arrangements
for q speedy departure. Cruel fate de-
creed that she should take passage in the
Inflated Denmark, the vessel that went
down in mid .ocean last April, and che was
one of the many landed ip Philadelphia
friendless and pennil"ss. 1t was a long way
to Utah, the land of the Mormons, but she
bravely struggled with hunger and priva.
ton until she stood a trembling but happy
wanderer before the door OF his mother's
home. But @ few moments and her
troubles would end, and she would be
clasped in the arms Of her first and only
love and her fondest hopes be realized.
But alas for tho uncertainty OF human
life. She was doomed instead 20 listen to
account OF her lovers arrangement, and
to suffer the rsmerse OF his own folly. This
was last April, and since that tilpe she has
increasingly labored for his release. The
courts were petitioned and judges aid in
voked and physicians certificates obtained,
until at last success crowned her efforts.
aud to-day the ponderous doors OF the
asylum swung open and Abel Nilsson walked
from the shadow OF melancholy into the
sunshine of his leng-lost love, his
mind fully restored, his widest dreams
and to-day the law made them
man and vile. their many friends wishing
that no shipwrecks will befall them during
their voyage on the sea OF natrimonyi