The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-03-28

lt Was Edward n. Barney.
Yesterdays Herald contained an ar.
ticle detailing the elopement Of Dayton
named Miss Ida Merkle, his marriage to
her at that place and the couples i'm.
mediate flight to southern climes. The
Dayton man, now bigamist, who gave
the assumed name Of Guillermo E.
varne, was Edward N. Barney, who has
wife and two children living at 14l
Terrence street, East End. Miss Mer-
kle, It is presumed, was deceived into
believing Barney an unmarried man.
They had been acquainted and seeming
~ infatuated with each other for two
months, during which time Miss Merkle
was visiting friends here in North Day.
ton. In the meantime she had secured
q position In the Cash Register Works.
Barney was foreman in the car shops,
sort OF fellow. He drew his months
wages at the. shops and secured about
$4O0 through an attorney, which was
due him from an estate, before making
the elopement. His father was noted
civil engineer and for number Of years
was engaged in railroad enterprises in
0OuIu AnCAiCdS WucIc u0 uIcus uIEs
Barney, the deserted wife, was Miss
Isom, an estimable young lady Of excel.
lent name and family, and she certainly
has the sympathy Of all who know her
and about the circumstances. The des.
tinstion OF the runaway was doubtless
South America.-Dayton Daily Herald.
As will be seen in the above, this is the
marriage that we spoke Of last week in
rather light manner. It was reported
on very good authority before the News.
HERALD was published last week that
varne, as he called himself, was a mar
ried man and sailing under an alias. We
were impressed at the time that the true
state Of affairs should be made public, but
were deferred from doing 30 on account Of
tho deluded brides former good standing
in this community and out of respect fol
the mother. More than one or two oi
Miss Ida Merkle's friends had strong
suspicious that there was something
questionable in the haste manifested by
the would.be Spaniard. The haste il
very plain to any observer now. Misi
Ida Merkle cannot be excused in her de.
termination and folly in allowing her
self to so hastily become the wife of 6
comparative stranger, even taking the
! view that she was perfectly ignorant O.
the true relations of the man she mar
ried. But the censure will become (
matter Of charging crime should tn,
view be taken that she was cognizant o
the fact of his being a married man
But it is not desire to discuss the foil.
of the deluded girl that prompts thi
comment. That has passed into the past
It is matter OF history now. The ques
ton now to be impressed on those VIII
read ALPHABETICALLY young women
is what lesson is to be gained from tn
,, reading of such an article as this? d
not allow your mind to become poison
ed with the sensational features of Id
Mefkle marrying man who was con
parative stranger, even to her, nea
the hour Of midnight, searching afte
the Probate Judge with lighted car
die, so to speak, insisting upon the in
mediate attendance of minister, rusl
! ing off on the first train that would carr
them away. What for? To repent .
:. leisure. The folly of the girl was at th
start in giving her affection to man
whom she knew nothing. If she W,
guilty of crime it was when she learne
the true relations OF the man she ma
ried and in choosing rather to sacrifi,
= her life and character than to sacrif,
her feelings. Young women cannot
too careful in the formation of their a
quaintances and in accepting the mo
) important relation in social life-that
= the state of marriage. They should
doubly sure that the man on who
: they bestow their affections is no q
70 venturer, but man that will be wort
;, as we'll a. true. The case above me
toned, which took place in Hillsbol
= has its lesson and it should be heedt